Spare a thought for Heroes fans as the renewed/cancelled notices start to appear. This one has been particularly difficult to call due to the flip-flopping of Angela Bromstad and her ilk, the excellent DVD sales and the fact that Heroes has in the region of 80 trillian downloads a second. Some pointed directly to the live figures and stated that cancellation would be based solely on those, others argued that NBC’s own ratings system (TAMI) had the show looking healthily engorged with viewers.

Meanwhile the poor Heroes fans sit patiently in limbo, like kids whose arguing parents keep changing their minds over the divorce. You can forgive them for being unable to mount a serious rescue campaign – when Chuck was threatened last year its fans went out and bought Subway sandwiches to please the sponsors. What are Heroes fans meant to do? Go and buy a few Nissan Cubes?

The stars of the show haven’t exactly been clamouring for fan help either. Thomas Dekker’s video rant about T:SCC’s demise may have been embarrassing and only slightly erotic, but at least he tried. Where are Hayden and Milo? Where is Masi Oka? The response to possible cancellation doesn’t seem to have roused them from their sun loungers to make a call to arms. In fact you’d be forgiven to think that Heroes was cancelled seconds after the season 4 finale for all its stars seem to care. Only Greg Grunberg has been rallying the troops on Twitter, and for the most part it has been the much loved crew (James Clarke, Wendi Lynn Avignone) who have been standing shoulder to shoulder with the fans.

NBC are set to make an announcement on Sunday, with the idea of a two hour movie to finish off the series if there is no pick-up. In the meantime you can call NBC and let them know that you want Heroes to be renewed, you could even  promise to buy a Nissan Cube

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