Season Four

NBC had plans to renew Heroes for a fourth season, as Heroes is one of NBC's best performers in the 18-49 demographic, and has strong international appeal. On May 4, 2009, NBC comfirmed that Heroes has been renewed for a fourth season, with an order of 18-20 episodes.

Volume 5: Redemption

As seen in the prelude in the finale of the fourth volume, Redemption begins six weeks after Fugitives. The prelude features Tracy, played by Ali Larter, who now has the ability to take a liquid form and is hunting down and killing former agents of "Building 26". Meanwhile, Sylar (who has been compelled to believe he is Nathan by Matt Parkman) is feeling increasingly distant. The prelude concludes with Nathan/Sylar being mesmerized by a clock in his office which is running one minute and a half fast. After seeing Nathan/Sylar correcting the clock, Angela appears worried over the hybrid creation.

Production News

It has been reported that Season four will compirse of 18-20 episodes rather than 25 episodes from Season 3. Heroes producers Jeph Loeb and Jesse Alexander were fired over 'creative differences' on 3rd Nov '08 by NBC during final production of Volume 4: fugitives. On April 28 2009, writer/director/producer Greg Beeman was fired by NBC.