Recap-Four Months Later......

An apology: I have not been abble to get to a computer in the last few days, but here it is, the recap of the first show of Season 2.-Enjoy!

The suspense has been building for months following the Heroes Season 1 finale. There have been a lot of spoilers, and we know there are going to be a lot more heroes this season. Now it’s time to start answering some of the questions we were left with following last year’s cliffhanger ending. Let’s kick off another live Heroes blog, as we get into the second half of a jam-packed night here at dingoRUE.

Dr. Suresh starts off in a classroom discussing what he’s learned. Someone greets him after the lecture, and he’s there to offer him a job. The guy making the offer says he’s the only one who doesn’t think Suresh is nuts.

Next, two people (Alejandro and Maya, wanted for murder) are running from the cops. They hide in a building to escape. They’re attempting to escape to America. He’s optimistic, but she’s concerned.

Then Claire heads to her new school in California. She’s got a new last name, Butler, and is informed by her father (Noah) that she has to be entirely unextraordinary, not standing out in any way, including cheerleading. She says it would be easier if she had her own car, and coincidentally enough, he hands over the keys.

Shortly after that, she’s running through the parking lot and a guy, Wes, who she will meet up with later in class, has to brake quickly to avoid her.

Hiro, meanwhile, has dropped into a field in 1600s Japan, clearly a battlefield with a battle about to begin. Shortly thereafter, there’s an eclipse. Arrows are headed directly for him, but he stops time just before being hit. He happens to run into his hero, Takezo Kensei.

Parkman’s on the job in a hostage situation (turns out to just be a training exercise). Through his mind reading ability, he’s able to determine who’s actually the hostage and who’s the criminal, and he shoots the right one. He’s allowed to return back to the force.

In class, Claire gets an evil look from a girl who’s sure to hate her. She then is greeted by Wes, as she’s sticking her hand in the flame of a burner. Then the teacher begins speaking and asks a question about Charles Darwin. Claire knows the answer, which Wes picks up on, but she doesn’t raise her hand because her father told her not to do so.

Parkman picks up Molly (the human tracking system) after school, where her teacher stops him to tell him she’s been having nightmares, and she says his “situation” isn’t the most stable. She takes out some drawings Molly did that keep getting worse.

Ando and Hiro’s father are discussing Hiro’s disappearance, and a photo falls out of a newspaper. Hiro’s father reveals it means he’ll be dead within 24 hours.

Nathan’s a complete mess (though still believes his brother is alive), and his mother’s not happy about him not following the plan. He tells her she’s evil and kicks her out. She then gets a photo with the same marking as the one Hiro’s father got.

Hiro finds out that Takezo, his hero and the guy whose sword he stole, is actually a white guy. Takezo says that’s his name there but nobody’s called him a hero before.

Claire’s father now works in a normal 9-5 job with a boss on an ego trip who thinks he’s more important than he actually is.

Dr. Suresh meets with the guy who ran into him earlier, who has a theory that he can decide who lives and who dies. He’s got the funds to assist Suresh in the research and isn’t concerned about money because he can make gold.

When Parkman asks Molly about her dreams, she turns from sweet little girl into demonchild, letting him know he’s not going to get an answer from her.

The guys who are transporting Alejandro and Maya get into a disagreement with Alejandro because one of them wants Maya up front with him. He beats up Alejandro, leaves him, and takes off with Maya.

In gym class, the head cheerleader is picking on a girl. Claire steps up and offers to do a backtuck off the tower to get them to stop picking on the other girl. She climbs the tower but says she can’t do it. She does it after everyone leaves and injures herself, which obviously isn’t a problem. However, Wes walks in, he knows what she did, and he knows she’s special.

At night, Parkman sees Molly struggling while she’s sleeping. He uses his abilities to try to figure out what’s wrong. She’s wakes up but is afraid to tell him anything out of fear he’ll get killed.

Claire’s father gets sick of his boss and uses his powers on him to frighten him into leaving him alone and stop going on ridiculous power trips.

Takezo reveals he’s an Englishman. He then reveals he’s fighting for money, since he can’t spend honor. Hiro’s completely disillusioned by his hero. Otsu village is pillaged and burned by bandits, and Hiro believes he broke history, breaking the future as well. Hiro tries to convince Takezo he must rescue the swordsmith and make his daughter fall in love with him, thereby fulfilling his destiny and becoming a hero. This is greeted with a punch in the face. Hiro’s got his work cut out for him, as Takezo mostly just wants to get drunk.

Claire pretends her first day was uneventful. Her father responds exactly the same. He then gets a phone call from Suresh, who reveals the whole thing with him earlier was just a setup and that they’re working together to bring the company down.

Alejandro returns to the van to realize what he feared. The truck has been burned, everyone’s dead, and Maya’s sitting on the side of it crying.

Claire calls Nathan. She’s afraid she can’t not be who she really is. He’s of no help and hangs up. From outside her window, Wes is watching her… flying through the sky.

A hooded man comes to get Hiro’s father. He charges him off the building and kills him. Ando shows up a split second too late.

Three men in Ireland are searching a building for some iPods. They don’t find what they’re looking for but do find something everyone else has been looking for: Peter Petrelli, with a case of amnesia.

To be continued…

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live blog of Heroes Season 2 episode 2, which airs Monday at 9/8c on NBC

ABC clicking its heels with "Dancing" premiere, Heroes Holds Steady

Tue Sep 25, 2007 10:38pm EDT

By Paul J. Gough

NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - After a near-summerlong hiatus from the top of the ratings heap, ABC waltzed back into the lead with Monday's return of "Dancing With the Stars," while NBC's "Heroes" was on track to win in adults 18-49.

ABC was the only Big Four network to show premiere-night increases in viewership and the coveted demographic thanks to "Dancing" (21.2 million viewers, 5.8 rating/15 share in adults 18-49) from 8-9:30 p.m., according to Nielsen Media Research. "Dancing" was up from last fall (20.2 million, 5.7/15) but down from the spring (21.8 million, 6.4/16).

It likely was beaten in adults 18-49 by "Heroes," which averaged 14.1 million viewers and a 6.5/15 in the preliminary estimates. But because a new Nielsen rule will allow "Heroes" to add incremental viewing from Saturday's replay, Monday night's rating won't be reported until next Tuesday. "Heroes" was even in viewership compared with last year's season premiere but was up in adults 18-49 from the series premiere's 5.9/14.

As for the rest of NBC's lineup, the jury's still out. The heavily hyped "Chuck" (9.2 million, 3.6/9) came in second place at 8 p.m., not exactly overwhelming but giving NBC hope that it would build on its audience and gain eyeballs ahead of "Heroes." It came out ahead of CBS' "How I Met Your Mother" (8.1 million, 3.2/9) and the series premiere of the network's "The Big Bang Theory" (9.5 million, 3.7/9). "Mother" was down in adults 18-49 compared with last season's premiere (3.8/10), while "Big Bang" built on its lead-in and performed slightly above "The Class" (3.6/10) when it premiered last season at 8:30 p.m. Fox's "Prison Break" (7.5 million, 3.3/9) was about even with last week.

CBS' comedic centerpiece "Two and a Half Men" (13.6 million, 4.8/11) was down only slightly from last year's season premiere (5.0/12), when it didn't have to compete against "Dancing." CBS' "Rules of Engagement" (12.2 million, 4.5/10) was up compared with its time-period premiere, though it was off its season premiere. Fox dropped sharply at 9 p.m. with the second episode of "K-Ville" (6.1 million, 2.3/5).

It's no surprise that the return of CBS' "CSI: Miami" (15.1 million, 4.6/12) prevailed against the last hour of ABC's "The Bachelor" (9.2 million, 3.5/9) as well as NBC's premiere of "Journeyman" (9.2 million, 3.5/9). But "CSI: Miami" was down sharply from last season's premiere of 17.6 million viewers and a 5.8/15. It fell to its third-smallest total audience for an original episode since the show debuted in 2002 and the smallest adults 18-49 rating for an original in the show's history.

http://www.reuters.com/article/televisionNews/idUSN2543953920070926

"Journeyman" was unable to persuade "Heroes' " viewers to stick around, with viewership declining by more than a million viewers from 10-10:30 p.m.

ABC (15.2 million, 4.6/12) led all networks, with CBS (12.2 million, 4.3/11) taking second place depending on the demo. NBC's (9.2 million, 3.6/9) ratings were without "Heroes," and Fox (6.8 million, 2.7/7) came in fourth, followed by the CW (1.7 million, 0.7/2).

Reuters/Hollywood Reporter

The Lowdown on Mr. KABC

As many of you know, Marc Germain, aka Mr. KABC, literally the only thing left on that once-mighty station worth listening to, left the station last week.

His friend and occasional co-host April Winchell posted on her blog/website this piece. She says better than I can what pieces of sh*t are running things at Disney/Cumulus.

I've received upwards of 900 emails in the last week about the sudden
departure of Mr. K.
For his part, Mr. K is being very generous and high-minded in his public
reaction to the situation. And that doesn't surprise me. He has a lot of
class.

Fortunately, I don't. Fuck the high road.

Telling the truth is a powerful, freeing thing. In fact, it's my
insistence on exposing boneheadedness and assholery that has made me what I am
today: an unemployable pariah.
But that's neither here nor there.

The point is, I want to give you my perspective on Mr. K, and this sorry
situation. And I even have a glorious happy ending for you, so don't get bored
and go looking for porn.
What it comes down to is this. I know Mr. K well,
and I can truthfully say that everything he ever did at KABC was done with the
best interests of the station in mind. You have no idea how rare that is.

I've known a lot of gasbags in talk radio, and Mr. K is one of maybe two
people I've ever met who refused to put his own ego above the welfare of the
station and the show.

In this way, he was a dream employee. A complete team player who attended
every goofball event and pointless, life draining meeting without complaint. A
professional who put up with ridiculous hindrances like computers that didn't
work properly (making it impossible to use the internet during the show),
equipment that was falling apart, headphones that didn't work and on and on and
on. Never did I ever see him pull a diva act, when he clearly would have been
within his right.

His efforts made him a huge hit with advertisers, and paid off handsomely
for his employers. And just when he was number one in his time slot and had
accomplished everything a station could ask for, they started fucking with
him.
What most people don't know is that KABC in

Los Angeles is pretty much controlled by KABC in New York. No matter
how successful their local programming may become, New York can simply come in
and change it all around. Yes, KABC is New York's bitch.And someone in New York
has a boner for Mark Levin.

I don't know why, and neither do you. No one does, because it is the
lowest rated show on earth. Agriculture reports get better numbers.

No one is listening. No one. It is death. The Mark Levin show is the
sound of death, but not as fun.

It's not the fact that it's a right wing perspective that alienates me.
I'm not taking issue with that. Honestly, my politics are right down the middle
in many ways, so I'm not reflexively turned off by a conservative voice.

It's just that it's the same old shit. The ultra theatrical party line
rhetoric, only spewed out by someone far less engaging than the usual suspects,
which is really almost inconceivable. This guy makes Sean Hannity look like
Garrison Keillor.

He's just another second string O'Reilly-Rush-Coulter wannabe, with
nothing to add, no new angle or fresh approach. He's simply yelling at his
listeners, like he sees the big kids doing. It is not new, is it not good, it is
not listenable.

And to thank Mr. KABC for all his hard work, and for building such a big
audience starting at 9:00 every weeknight, someone in New York moved his show
down to 10:00, and gave that first hour to Mark Levin.

Obviously, the idea was to leech on all those people tuning in at 9:00 to
hear Mr. KABC. They would be tricked into hearing Mark Levin (there's a vote of
confidence), and they would keep coming back.

It didn't work. No one came back. The show sank to the very bottom of the
schedule.

I really thought this spectacular failure would be enough to get KABC to
reverse itself, and allow Mr. KABC back to his rightful time slot. But when his
contract expired in January, ABC New York had a surprise: They wanted to take
away another hour for Mark Levin, as well as a few other things Mr. K had earned
through hard work. Yes, at a time when they should have been negotiating to keep
him, they made it impossible for him to stay.

And this, my friends, is how talk radio works. No matter how hard you
work, how well you perform, no matter how much you promote on your own, no
matter how many listeners and advertisers you bring in, originality and
creativity will always be sacrificed for consistency. Which is to say that most
talk radio stations would rather have a full menu of shit than feature even one
plate of something fresh.
It reminds me of a joke my dad used to tell years
ago.

A bunch of cowboys are sitting around the chuckwagon, waiting for
their dinner after a hard day of roping and riding.
Suddenly the camp cook
appears, with a somber expression.
"Boys, I'm afraid I have some good news
and bad news."
The cowboys look at each other expectantly. Finally one cowboy
says, "All right Cookie, let's hear the bad news first."
"Well," says Cookie,
"We're all out of food. From now on, we'll all be eating horse shit."
The
cowboys are dumbfounded.
"Damn", says the cowboy. "So what's the good
news?"
"The good news is," says Cookie, "there's a lot of it."

* * *

Now the happy ending I promised you.
Mr. K is very close to a new
show. I am extremely excited and I can't wait to hear what lucky station is
going to get him. Hopefully he'll be ready to make an announcement shortly. In
the meantime, go over to his web site
and sign up for an update. As soon as he has news, you'll be the first to
hear it.

http://www.aprilwinchell.com/

Saul Spins the Format Wheel Again

K-Mozart FM Radio Station Switches To 'Go Country 105'

LOS ANGELES -- Southern California will lose its only commercial classical FM radio station Monday when K-Mozart switches formats to "Go Country 105," station officials announced today.

Saul Levine, president of Mt. Wilson FM Broadcasters and one of the few individuals in the nation to own a multimillion-dollar full-service FM radio station in a major market, will make the switch from classical to country on the station at 105.1.

The University of Southern California's KUSC is the only other classical FM station that covers Southern California, but that station is nonprofit.

There has not been a full-service Southern California radio station programming country music since FM station KZLA switched away from that format last year.

Levine scheduled a news conference for 11 a.m. Monday at the Museum of Television & Radio in Beverly Hills.

The current KMZT, referred to as K-Mozart, years ago had a jazz format as KKGO. Levine said the new country format station "will be reinvented as KKGO 'Go Country 105."'

"The previous 105.1 classical format (K-Mozart) will remain on the station in its second HD channel, and be simulcast on 1260 AM," according to the station.

High-definition radio, or HD, is a relatively new development in American radio that provides enhanced sound and additional channels for individual radio stations. However, HD radios are more expensive than other radios and so far they are owned by few listeners.

Levine's AM station at 1260, also called KKGO, covers much of the Los Angeles area and has been through a number of formats since he purchased the station that was years ago known as KGIL.

It was not immediately known if the FM 105.1 station will have its call letters officially changed back to KKGO or retain the current KMZT call letters.

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