Thanks to our friend at TV Guide, Michael Ausiello, we can confirm the return of a past character:
Sources have confirmed that Jessalyn Gilsig is reprising her role as Claire's white-trash mom for five episodes next season. We enjoyed her stint as Tami's sister last year on Friday Night Lights.
Think this means a reunion between Claire's mother and father (Nathan) is in the works?
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Our thanks to Kristin from E! Online for this disturbing Heroes spoiler...
Sylar slices open the head of the person you may consider the show's biggest star! That happens within the first two episodes and we also learn exactly what he does once Sy-baby pops the lid on our heroic pals, so let's just say that there is plenty to look forward to early on in season three.
Let's get one thing straight, before we hear what Brea Grant has to say about her new character on Heroes: she'll be named Daphne, as opposed to previous reports that linked her to a character named Joy.
With that out of the way, here's what else Grant told The Associated Press about her role in the upcoming season:
"I'm stealing a secret that's been kept in Hiro's family for a long time that he's just now found... He stops time right as I grab it, but in that second it took him to grab it, I almost make it out of the office."
Masi Oka chimed in about the character he'll be facing off against:
"Her character is supposed to be Hiro's Joker. Batman has The Joker. Hiro has Daphne. This is the season where Hiro finally finds his arch nemesis, and it happens to be this Speedster. I kind of equate it more to Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner, except Daphne says more than meep-meep.'"
As previously reported, a new character named Joy will join Heroes next season. She'll be known as "The Speedster," likely due to how fast this new villain will run.
Well, that's nice and all - but the actress that plays her wasn't fast enough to avoid detection by our staff!
Brea Grant - who portrayed Landry's girlfriend for a couple of episodes of Friday Night Lights last year - is coming on board to play Joy. Here's a photo of the young actress:
In previous Heroes spoilers, we posted the fact that a new character named Joy was coming to the show in season three.
Now, Kristin from E! has come out with more information on this Joy:
Look for a new villain named Joy. Her power is superspeedshe's lightning-fast, like the Flash. Hiro meets her in a museum. He asks her if she has powers and if she is trying to steal some art.
She convinces him she's on the up-and-up...and then makes off with a bunch of paintings. She's described as a nymph-like character with the speed of a cheetah on, er, speed.
TV Guide recently chatted with Heroes Executive Producer and Director, Allan Arkush. The man behind the scenes for the show talked about the upcoming third season, set to premiere on September 15.
Villains will take center stage in the upcoming chapter, aptly titled "Villains."
"It will be really clear who these villains are," said Arkush. "These are not necessarily characters you've met already. Obviously, there's going to be a lot of Sylar."
Will there be a mix of heroes and villains, though?
"One of the things that strikes me as so interesting about the [episode "Company Man"] was when H.R.G. says, 'I'm very comfortable in the morally grey area,'" says Arkush. "Think about that. Just like when Nathan and Linderman were going to destroy New York for reasons they thought were correct. And who on the show seems to be able to make very hard decisions and has grown as a character? One of those people is Angela (Petrelli)."
Overall, Arkush promises, "one of the things that we're going to explore is the very nature of these powers where they come from, who has them, what the different aspects are of how they each got their powers and how it affects them.
That's going to be a major storyline this year the actual genetic essence of the power."
As previously announced, the third season of Heroes will debut on September 22 with a two-hour premiere.
Here are the titles for the season's first four episodes:
Any thoughts on these titles or what they might mean?
Here are a couple brief Heres spoilers for season three: Look for a pair of new characters to join the series.
Remember: the third season premieres on September 15 with a three-hour special!
The third season of Heroes will premiere on September 22. But that isn't the only piece of major news recently released by NBC co-chairman Ben Silverman.
"We consciously chose to rest [Heroes] this spring so that [creator] Tim Kring and his team could get ahead of the creative and build up to a massive eventa three-hour Heroes night," Silverman said during the network's upfront presentation to advertisers in New York on April 2.
"On Monday, Sept. 15, we'll kick off with a Heroes clip show to try to bring back the audience and [then air] a massive two-hour Heroes film."
How excited are we for this?!?
Our good friend at TV Guide, Michael Ausiello, recently posted a mysterious response to a question about Heroes Season Three.
Someone may be moving in on Mohinder's narrator turf. Tim Kring is said to be seeking an Australian Aboriginal actor in his fifties to appear in multiple episodes as a storyteller with great wisdom and a soft, soothing voice.
Do you think something happens to Mohinder? Would you like to see a different narrator for a bit? Write in. Let us know.
