Fans who are anxiously awaiting the return ofHeroes Rebornwere given some good news today, as NBC announced that the show will kick off with a two-hour premiere on Monday, September 24. As a result, theSeason 3premiere ofThe Blacklistwill be pushed one week to Monday, October 1 at 9 PM ET. Following the two-hour premiere ofHeroes Rebornwill be the series premiere ofThe Player, starringWesley Snipes, at 10 M ET.
NBC also announced thatHeroes Rebornwill air its two-hour premiere at the Toronto Film Festival next month. The premiere will be part of thefilm festival’s new Primetime program, which will screen six differentTV showsfrom around the world, withHeroes Rebornset to be the only major broadcast series that will be showcased. Other programs includeJason Reitman’s Hulu seriesCasual, the Argentinian seriesCromo,Netflix’sKeith Richards: Under the Influence, theSeason 2premiere of the hit French seriesThe ReturnedandBaltasar Kormákur’s Icelandic seriesTrapped.
From creator/executive producerTim Kring, who imagined NBC’s original critically-acclaimed 2006Heroesseries, comesHeroes Reborn, an epic 13-episodeevent seriesthat chronicles the lives of ordinary people who discover they possess extraordinary abilities. The series stars Jack Coleman,Zachary Levi,Robbie Kay, Kiki Sukezane,Ryan Guzman, Gatlin Green, Henry Zebrowski,Judith Shekoni, Danika Yarosh and Rya Kihlstedt. With the September premiere getting closer, hopefully we’ll hear more about the series soon.
Aside from Jack Coleman, who returns as H.R.G., other stars from the original series are coming back, such asGreg Grunberg(Matt Parkman),Masi Oka(Hiro Nakamura),Jimmy Jean-Louis(The Haitian), andSendhil Ramamurthy(Mohinder Suresh). The series takes place five years after the events of the originalHeroes, and the trailer that debuted atComic-Conalso revealed two more returning cast member, Cristine Rose as Angela Petrelli and Noah Gray-Cabey as Michah.
The trailer revealed thatZachary Levi’s character is actually hunting down people with these incredible abilities, with the end teasing a mysterious woman trying to “control” a total eclipse. Fans of the original show know that the main characters gained their powers during a similar eclipse, so that dynamic will be kept intact inHeroes Reborn. Stay tuned for more details as we get closer to the September 24 premiere on NBC.
