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Is Heroes doomed?  The once-flagship series' ratings have dropped, and its fans have slammed the show's meandery plots and confusing character arcs in recent seasons. But NBC executive Angela Bromstad said no decision has been made on the show's fifth season and added that the network will hear a pitch from creator Tim Kring before making one.

Last episode was not filmed as series finale

With so little action, two episodes aren’t necessarily better than one

Two-hour event garnered minimal interest on light TV night

Not surprisingly, 'Lost,' 'True Blood' also on list

'Heroes' proves conclusively that the 'Jay Leno Show' is not NBC’s biggest mistake this season.

Feel like illegally downloading a Heroes episode? Apparently you (well, we're not accusing you personally, but that guy over there) and 6.58 million other people do on a regular basis, more than actually watch the series live. Yes, shockingly, in 2009 NBC's Heroes and Showtime's serial-killing Dexter actually suffered more pirated downloads than they had actual viewers, according to TorrentFreak.com.

Actor still in the dark on if this is the final season

But the infamous villain has a surprising confession at the end ...

Just after the fall television season started, we begin agonizing over the fates some of our favorite shows. Considering that at one time NBC's Heroes garnered more than 16 million viewers, the CW's Smallville more than 8 million, and Fox's Fringe more than 13 million, this year's numbers were startling and terrible, not to mention being at an all-time low! What happened? Could all our sci-fi shows end up canceled like Fox's Dollhouse? How can we have so many of our shows be in trouble and on the bubble? What about the DVR ratings? Sure, we've got ABC's V and FlashForward to carry on, but Lost is in its last season. Could this be the end of sci-fi as we know it on network TV?

Heroes takes a 1-month break to continue with all-new episode on January 4, 2010. As reported previously, Heroes will continue on January 4 with a special 2-hours episode ‘Upon This Rock’, and on January 11 it will be moved to the new time slot (Mondays 8-9 p.m. ET).

'Heroes' managed to kill off a character this week, Too bad he was already dead