Click here for a fun article on the actors who portray the Petrilli Brothers.

Here's a teaser:

Brothers In Flight

Adrian Pasdar and Milo Ventimiglia ... align their profiles to point out how much alike they look. Not surprisingly, they play brothers in the new NBC hit series, "Heroes," which airs Mondays at 9 p.m.

from TV.COM article.

HEROES star set for Vegas thriller
By Colin Mahan - TV.com
January 2, 2007

Masi Oka, who plays time- and space-bending Hiro Nakamura in NBC's hit HEROES, has joined the cast of 21, a swindle drama set in Las Vegas.

The film "21" is based on the book Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six M.I.T. Students Who Took Vegas for Millions. The book was based on the true story of a group of brilliant college students who won millions of dollars in Las Vegas after learning the illegal art of card counting.

Robert Luketic, who was originally slated to helm the big-screen adaptation of Dallas, will direct 21. The movie will begin production in February in Las Vegas and Boston, home of M.I.T.

Oka was recently nominated for a Golden Globe for his role in Heroes. Before landing the part, the self-described computer geek spent several years working for George Lucas' famed Industrial Light and Magic, where he worked on special effects for films "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest" and "Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith".

Heroes future (spoilery)

Tim Kring, creator of NBC's hit SF series Heroes talk about about the season one finale

link (spoiler warning)

Here's a enthusiastic article on Masa Oki. There's much that's spoilery so I extracted the non-spoilery portion and pasted it below. The full article assumes you've seen up to Ep 1.13.

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Super Hiro: Japanese nerd is hit of ‘Heroes’
Masi Oka's brilliantly crafted time-twister was robbed of Golden Globe

By Helen A.S. Popkin
Jan 22, 2007

A heinous crime took place on Jan. 15 in Beverly Hills. Masi Oka, who plays the adorable and earnest Hiro Nakamura on NBC’s new hit “Heroes,” did not take home a Golden Globe. Instead, the award for “Actor in a Supporting Role — Series, Mini-Series or Television Movie” went to Jeremy Irons for his portrayal of an aging Robert Dudley in the HBO mini-series, “Elizabeth I.”

Up against such a weighty adversary, Oka and his brilliantly crafted Hiro never stood a chance. Awards generally default to the hoity-toity intellectual choice. Heaven forfend the audience doesn’t think the judges are all smart and stuff.

Meanwhile, on the other side of the cable box, here’s Hiro, a Japanese pop-culture obsessed nerd stereotype who can bend the space-time continuum. The heck with the British accent and Elizabethan bio pick. We’ve seen that plenty and we’re bored. But Hiro — here’s a guy we can all relate to.

Sure, at first glance, Hiro is as two-dimensional as the comic books he adores. But imbued with Oka’s razor wit and understated pathos..., Hiro becomes something more. He’s every viewer who feels like a geek and longs for a greater calling. It’s why, in only half a season, Hiro is now one of the most popular characters on primetime TV.

Hiro is so central to “Heroes,” it’s hard to believe that show creator Tim Kring added the character almost as an afterthought. It was Kring’s wife who saw that the pilot script lacked someone actually happy to have superpowers. For most of the other "Heroes," these amazing new abilities are a burden.

As Oka plays him now, Hiro is the embodiment of “kawaii,” the Japanese aesthetic of “cute,” usually reserved for females and Sanrio products. Many online fans declare Hiro a heartthrob — but you have to wonder if they’d feel so enamored if he was the IT guy fixing their computers. Flirting with the sexless Asian stereotype, Hiro would be offensive if not for Oka’s deft portrayal.

Masi Oka is so cool, he should get an award just for being Masi Oka. The digital effects artist-cum-actor still works several days a week for George Lucas’ Industrial Light and Magic, where he crafted special effects for such box-office hits as the Star Wars prequels, “The Perfect Storm,” and “Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest.” The 32-year-old Japanese-born actor also is a delight on the talk-show circuit, making jokes about traveling back in time to warn himself about a certain girl, and demurely answering questions about his 180 I.Q. He is the geek to Hiro’s nerd.

It’s hard to imagine any other actor bringing Hiro to life. Even Oka says that as soon as he saw the script, he knew the part was his. Oka moved to the United States at six, but visited Japan frequently while growing up. Translating his scripts from English to colloquial Japanese, Oka occasionally adlibs Hiro’s broken English for fun.

Though the Golden Globes blew it, there are still the Emmys in September. Maybe this time Oka will get his much-deserved reward.

Helen A.S. Popkin is a freelance writer in New York City.
© 2007 MSNBC Interactive

I can't believe how quickly Wikipedia keeps up with things.

Here's the article on the show with links to other articles on the characters (check out the extensive one on Hiro), actors, etc. WARNING: Lotsa spoilage in those articles.

Fireworks Due For Heroes' H.R.G. (minor spoilers)

article

are you a hero?

quiz

i am like: matt parkman: thinking is an electro-chemical process generating waves of energy. like an antennae, you are attuned to the thought patterns that hover in space all around us. :blink: :unsure: :ponder: :lol:

Heroes Changes In Season 2 (minor spoiler)

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Larter Reveals Heroes Secrets spoiler warning

more Heroes Secrets Unveiled

Heroes Finale Details Leaked : spoiler

Heroes' Creators Look At Year Two

article

Masi Oka, who plays the time-traveling Hiro in NBC's Heroes talk about the season finale

link

NBC's Heroes comes to DVD and HD DVD when the entire first season of the hit series debuts in stores Aug. 28 from Universal Studios Home Entertainment. :)

Dania Ramirez (X-Men: The Last Stand) will become a regular on NBC's hit SF drama Heroes when the show returns for a second season in the fall, according to The Hollywood Reporter

The beeb have (kind of) launched their own Heroes mini site, or at least, marked it's place for when it does appear.

HEROES ON THE BEEB

They've learned the art of pre-publicity well.

Our wee auntie is all growed up now :lol: :lol:

The extras-packed season-one DVD set of NBC's Heroes will hit stores on Aug. 28, Universal Studios Home Entertainment and Universal Studios Digital Platforms announced. :)

Or if we want to wait for the R2 release, we only need to wait till New Years Eve <_<

PLAY CLICKY THING

Damn them for not releasing it before the beeb will have finished showing it <_< <_<

Ah well, a trip to playusa will be required in August then :lol:

i suppose if the DVD was released before the serie was shown on terrestrial, the channel that bought the rights would lost half of the audience (or worse :lol: ), kind of a waste of money for them :unsure:

Nick D'Agosto has landed a major recurring role on NBC's hit SF drama Heroes for next season, according to The Hollywood Reporter, the character will have a very cool superpower.

Heroes Adds Six new cast members

season two

sci fi wire

Dianna Agron and Dominic Keating have booked recurring roles on the next season of NBC's hit SF series Heroes, Variety reported.

Agron will play a cheerleader, Keating an Irish mobster. ....

Someone from Enterprise gets work ! :o :ph43r:

Casting spoiler. :blush:

Can any season 2 casting spoilers be labeled as such, cheers.

Masi Oka, who plays time-traveling hero Hiro Nakamura on NBC's Heroes, talk about season two plot spoiler

Ali Larter, who plays the dual-personality Jessica/Niki on NBC's hit Heroes, talk about her season two character arc spoilery

Dana Davis (The Nine) has joined NBC's Heroes as a regular, Variety reported.

Hayden Panettiere, who plays indestructible cheerleader Claire Bennet on NBC's Heroes, talk about the upcoming second season link

TrekMovie.com reported that original Star Trek star Nichelle Nichols (Lt. Uhura) will join her former Trek castmate George Takei as a guest star on NBC's hit series Heroes in a recurring role in the upcoming second season.

Bratz: The Movie star Janel Parrish has landed a three-episode arc on the hit NBC series Heroes, playing May, the head cheerleader at the new school that Claire (Hayden Panettietre) attends, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

Former Veronica Mars star Kristen Bell is joining the cast of NBC's Heroes for a multi-episode arc, Variety reported

Cast members of NBC's hit Heroes will travel to eight countries in eight days to promote the series in a "Heroes World Tour" sponsored by NBC, the first global-marketing initiative of its kind, the companies announced.

Twelve cast members of the Emmy Award-nominated drama will travel beginning Aug. 26 to promote the launch of the Heroes season-one DVD and HD DVD sets on Aug. 28 and the upcoming second-season premiere on NBC at 9 p.m. on Sept. 24.


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A mock documentary, Takezo Kensei: Sword Saint, which gives the fictional backstory of a historical character on NBC's Heroes, has begun streaming on the Yamagato Fellowship Web site, a fake site set up to promote the hit show

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Reluctant Heroes try to save world

BBC (minor spoiler for the end of season one)

new character information

More Heroes Will Appear

article

Not exactly a cast member........but did anyone else notice that the episode 'Run' (1x15) was directed by Roxann Dawson (B'Elanna Torres on Voyager)........
I know the show is full of Trekkies, but thats going a bit far :rolleyes: :lol: