Heroes’ Season Finale Beats Jay Leno’s Ratings… Barely.

hoagy “ failed to see a bounce ” for its narration ’s flood tide , says Variety . The show find 4.4 million TV audience , hardly beating the 4.3 million who tuned into Jay Leno ’s almost - final 10 PM show . But Cuban sandwich still might get a fifth season .

Various TV blogsare pointing outthat the show does well overseas , and sells a mess of DVD . Plus there ’s a of the essence component : The show now has 77 episodes , and one more time of year would bring it up to the magic number of 100 episodes , allow it to hunt in syndication forever and a day . ( Although the counter - literary argument is that Heroes is so serialized that it wo n’t work all that well in syndication , which depends on people being able-bodied to pick up a random installment and understand what ’s give out on . )

Also , NBC President of Primetime Entertainment Angela Bromstadtold newsman at the Television Critics Association press tourthat “ Heroes is a show that we obviously really fuck , ” and it was doing well in the 8 postmortem slot . ( It moved to 9 post-mortem after Chuck come back . ) She add together that the meshing would make its decisions after seeing young pilots . Also , when Comcast announced it was corrupt NBC / Universal , CEO Brian Roberts “ gave a verbal shout - out ” to Heroes on the investor group discussion call .

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TV By The Numbers , a couple workweek ago , was a turn more glooming :

Heroes has had its ratings ups and down this season , but lately , they ’ve been all down . Since the novel year it ’s had adult 18 - 49 evaluation of 2.2 , 2.1 , 1.8 and 1.9 ( prelim ) . It ’s go to take some really first-rate world power to get its ratings back enough to save it from being canceled , and its only make a few instalment left this time of year to do it .

Suffice to say , the show ’s ratings ( 2.0 for the last episode ) did n’t really break up up .

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