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In a shameless bid to lure eyeballs to next Monday’s Heroes, NBC has just released a promo pic of Hayden Panettiere “experimenting” with co-star Madeline Zima. In an equally shameless bid to increase traffic to my blog, I’ve attaching said pic after the jump.
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This absolutely SCREAMS ratings stunt.
I”m disappointed, but not shocked.
I completely agree.
I miss the first season of this show so much. It won’t ever be what it used to.
Called it.
Hot.
Sorry, as much as I love this kind of thing, it’s still not enough to get me to tune back in.
I think the show has gotten better this season. Last season I watched because I felt obligated, but this season I’ve been looking forward to it.
Is Madeline Zima formerly the littlest girl on The Nanny, starring Fran Drescher? Oh, my! Not so little any more. And no, it’s not enough to get me to watch Zeroes any more.
Yup, that’s her. Grace Sheffield!
Watch her in Californication. She’s far from The Nanny now.
No kidding–she’s had so many nude scenes in Californication that I feel a little skeevy because I remember her as the littlest Sheffield.
If they really wanted ratings, they’d resurrect Elle and have her be the one to be locking lips with Claire.
LOL, so true! It always irks me when a show pulls ‘omg gay!’ ratings stunts like this, but at least they had chemistry. A Claire-Sylar-Elle love triangle would’ve rocked and even been believable!
It’s so sad, I’ve completely fallen out of love with this show. I just stopped caring about these characters.
Damn! didn’t realize she was grace until you said it. She does have the same facial expressions she had during the nanny, and that was like 15 years ago!!
It’s obviously a desperate stunt since they not only focused on it in next week’s trailer, but they’ve also had this picture posted at as many websites as possible.
Ratings stunt.
not another “gay now” tv character. hollywood has been invaded by hack writers.
I’m so tired of this stunt.
It’s totally not gonna tune me in and it’s an obvious ratings stunt but all I can say is…. nice.
Hmm. Boring. Maybe if she’d experiment with giving head to some guy I’d actually tune in to check it out.
eww!
Ditto! D=
Sooo disappointed… one expects this kind of a stunt from GG! Seriously someone in the Dollhouse commentary said it best, “We are all waiting for the flash of Heroes brilliance that we all saw in the first season, and we should all just let go.” Well that was total paraphrasing, but nevertheless this is so freaking lame. BTW I hate that GG is having a threesome.
I love the GG threesome, mostly cause it’s so the point of the show to be trashy, ridiculous, and fun. For the Heroes I used to watch though, this is completely out of character.
I totally agree. We tune in to GG for things like this. Not Heroes.
PS. Can’t wait for the 3some or the Chuck kiss!
The promo for next week shows Gretchen trying to kiss Claire and Claire mostly resisting it. This pic seems to contradict that.
Shameless. Awful. Terrible. What channel is it on?
lol!
Last night’s show was the last for me.I’ve watched it from the beginning but am tired of wasting my time waiting for it to get better.It has just gotten so boring and watered down with way too many characters and pointless storylines.Goodbye Heroes.
Can this show just die already!?
Hey Fonz, I got the boat all warmed up, you sure you wanna try and jump those sharks?
If you recall many felt it was the Marissa & 13 from House relationship that was the JTS moment for the OC.
So disappointing. It has gone from a great drama with a sci-fi touch, to a full on cheesy very cancellable soap. Euthanize this show and give me a full season of Day One.
God, pull this show off the air already.
I dont think its a stunt, I like Heroes and what they choose to do, I’ve liked all the episodes
Heroes just took a 500mph down south… Goodbye Heroes, you will be “messed”… XD
I’m no prude, but Madeline Zima has been so into the nude sex scenes in “Californication” that she’s obviously turning into a major skank. And now this.
I’m a little disappointed in Hayden Panettiere, too. Does she really want to go down that path, too?
Probably since she suggested the lesbian thing.
Heroes is much improved this year; I enjoy watching again. The kiss explains a lot about how Zima’s character has been acting.
I’ll agree that Gretchen seemed to be giving Claire “the look” – but it would have been more interesting if Gretchen were a spy for the bad guys, or something else threatening. But now, we get the standard girl-on-girl titillation. Pun intended.
Don’t worry, she’ll probably be revealed to be a spy as well at some point.
Ugg I hate stunt lesbian kisses. I have liked Gretchen so far though and I’ve even found Heroes pretty decent this year so far (much better than I expected it to be!) so we’ll see how it plays out.
I hate when they use gay as a gratuitous stunt. In the past few years most of the networks have made gays serious and not just for a ratings grab so it’s better than before for sure but this still pisses me off.
This viewer is back now.
what is this, 1993?
is this still supposed to be shocking?
oh HEROES< like a two dollar whore on a Monday night….so desperate