Here is a nice little video giving us some really interesting insight into Season 2 of Heroes. The video is a short watch and definitley worth it. Every little snippet that we continue to hear about Season 2 makes me want that coutndown ticker to keep moving down! Only a few more months!

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Hot off her stint as Heroes “illusionist” Candice, Missy Peregrym has joined The CW’s upcoming (and thus far well-received) series Reaper, replacing Nikki Reed as the pretty coworker of Bret Harrison’s bounty hunter for the devil.

Source: TVGuide.com

Last season, they saved the world. Now the stars of Heroes will get to see the world. At a press conference held Thursday in Los Angeles, executive producer/creator Tim Kring announced that the cast of the sci-fi hit will embark on a “Heroes World Tour” to promote the Season 1 DVD release on August 28.

“The show has been licensed in 150 territories,” said Kring. “Clearly, Heroes has struck a chord around the world. From the beginning, the central message has been the idea that people could come together to do great things. This tour is the embodiment of those ideals.”

So far, the week-long global trek includes personal appearances in Tokyo, Hong Kong, New York City, Munich, Paris, London and Singapore, with more dates to come. “The Brady Bunch went to the Grand Canyon, so this is pretty cool for us,” joked series star Greg Grunberg.

Kring also revealed a few hints about Season 2, which resumed production on Monday. “Last season, we set up the idea that there was another generation that had ideas of their own,” he said, referring to the conspiracy between Angela Petrelli, Linderman, Kaito Nakamura and Charles Deveaux. “This season, what we’re going to talk about is the sins of the parents being visited upon the children.”

Other plot twists include solving Season 1’s “explosive” finale, Hiro’s time travel to feudal Japan, and the surviving heroes’ struggles to resume their regular lives. “How do you stay on the farm after you’ve gone out and had these amazing adventures?” asked Kring. “A lot of these stories are resetting at the beginning. We’re coming back to the touchstone of what it’s like to try and live normal lives, as opposed to the first season where the plot got so cranked up, that idea sort of fell by the wayside.” —Dana Meltzer Zepeda

Source: TVGuide.com

As Heroes readies itself for its next season, NBC has been adding cast members slowly, generally one at a time. Dania Ramirez, of The Sopranos fame, was added to the cast on June 1, and Nicholas D’Agosto landed the coveted role of Claire Bennet’s (Hayden Panettiere) boyfriend earlier this week.

Today, the floodgates opened as six new actors were confirmed to have joined the hit NBC superhero drama, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

Leading the way is David Anders, who is best known for playing Julian Sark on Alias. Anders will take the role of Takezo Kensei, the samurai warrior who was a boyhood idol of Hiro Nakamura’s and once owned the sword that Hiro hunted down for much of season one.

In addition, Eriko Tamura, a Japanese pop star and actress, will play the role of a Japanese princess, veteran actor Barry Shabaka Henley (Detective Strummer in Close to Home) will suit up as a New York cop, Holt McCallany (Detective John Hagen in CSI: Miami) will play the leader of an Irish gang, and Lyndsy Fonseca (”Daughter” in How I Met Your Mother) and Dianna Agron (Jenny Budosh in Veronica Mars) will portray a pair of Californian cheerleaders who befriend Claire.

It is currently unclear which actors will be regulars and which will just be involved in multi-episode arcs. It is also assumed that the actors will play roles in Heroes rather than the six-episode spin-off Heroes: Origins, though NBC was unable to confirm that.

Source: TV.com

These rumors/spoilers come from Fangasm.com and are a roundup of all there spoilers for the upcoming season of Heroes. Some of these I think most people already believed with the finale, but some of which I am still scratching my head.

• Of the Heroes Origins episodes, writer Jeph Loeb told IFMagazine that some characters introduced in those episodes may not even live to join the frey! Can we assume we might finally learn the source of some of Sylar’s powers?
• Ever notice how cockroaches appear whenever Sylar is in trouble. Seems the bugs might be the minions of the thousand year old super evil dude Kane who joins Heroes this season. The part is rumored to be played by David Anders of Alias fame. Kane has a keen interest in young Sylar. Rescue bugs. Who knew!?
• Nathan Lives! Adrian Pasdar confirmed multiple times while traveling with Masi Oka that Nathan will be back next season.
• Ando will return. Hiro will spend a little time in the past to refine his skills under his personal Hero’s tutelage, but when he returns he will definitely return to Japan to rescue his buddy Ando from the cubicle jungles.
• Hiro will find a love interest in feudal Japan, and may bring her back to the future with untold consequences. The part of Hiro’s damsel in distress may be played by none other than the recently crowned Miss Universe Riyo Mori.
• As long as you have a character like Hiro, death is most certainly not the end for you on Heroes. On that note, expect to see more Isaac, Simone, and Simone’s dad in season two as Peter (now equipped with time tripping abilities) journeys into the past to unravel the mystery left hanging by the season one finale.
• Nick D’Agosto (Rocket Science) will be joining the cast as Claire’s boyfriend, and yes he is super powered.

According to the Hollywood Reporter, “Nick D’Agosto, whose TV credits include bits on Supernatural, Without a Trace and House, but who most recently popped up as Jan’s secretary administrative assistant, Hunter, in The Office’s season finale, has landed the recurring role of West, a new boyfriend of Claire’s.

It should be interesting to see who else is added to the already stellar Heroes lineup!

As I was surfing around the net I came across an interesting interview on TV.com where they interviewed George Takei who plays Hiro’s father. Here is a small snippet:

Do you see any other similarities between Star Trek and Heroes?

George Takei: There are. First of all, Star Trek personified diversity. Gene Roddenberry used to tell us that the Starship Enterprise was a metaphor for Starship Earth, and the strength of both starships lay in its diversity, coming together and working in concert.

Well, on Heroes, you have that same theme: diversity of people from certainly the US but also Haiti and Japan and India endowed with powers of one kind or another working sometimes together, sometimes in opposition to each other, for good or for evil. So there’s that similarity there in the stories.

And they both whet the imagination of the viewers, so they start creating their stories as well. I span the two generations, one of the ’60s and another one that’s 21st century, and in different ways and shapes and forms, they reflect similar values.

TV.com: You mentioned diversity earlier, and you play the father of Heroes‘ time-traveling Hiro Nakamura. Did you ever imagine that one of the most popular characters on American television would speak most of his lines in Japanese?

George Takei: Isn’t that amazing? Again, this is a commentary on the global nature and the diverse nature of our audience. People used to go to foreign language films and read subtitles, but they were the elite. You know, the intelligentsia, [the cinemas] that used to go to foreign films. But here now on primetime network television, you have whole scenes playing out in Japanese with English subtitles. I think in my own professional career lifetime, I’ve spanned quite a few changes, and I think it’s all for the better.

For the rest of the interview head over to TV.com

In some really exciting news, the second season of Heroes is going be get underway next week and that means there is time to start introducing some new characters.

According to ComingSoon.net, the new characters to the show include “a pretty and kind elementary school teacher; a hippie-ish high school chemistry teacher; a Kinko’s store manager; a small-time Irish mobster; and a California high school girl who isn’t especially athletic.”

Can you say Save the Small-Time Irish Mobster Save the World? Season 2 is only a few months away!

For those who missed the Season 1 finale of Heroes, here is your chance to check out the preview for Season 2. There are so many different aspects that the next season can bring that you could spend hours going over it. For now just enjoy the preview, and get prepared for some series insight into the preview and what possibly could come.

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