I’ve already cleared my calendar.

Yesterday, co-chairman of NBC Entertainment Ben Silverman announced that Heroes will return to air on Monday, September 15 by taking over the entire night’s prime time programming. It begins at 8/7c with everyone’s favorite, the hour-long clip show recap. It’s then followed by “a massive two-hour Heroes film”. I like the idea of calling it a film, since I find Heroes far more engaging than many of the films that are being put out today…but that’s a different post.

Silverman also cleared up the fate of one of the things I was heavily anticipating: Heroes Origins. “We were taxing our creative team to do too much around that. We wanted 35 Heroes [episodes] and 12 Heroes: Origins, each of which was supposed to be a mini-movie and backdoor pilot. We reached far and challenged our people, and we decided it was better to focus on keeping the Heroes mothership as strong as possible.” I guess I can understand that, but man, I was looking forward to see what Kevin Smith and Eli Roth had in store for us.

When we left off, Nathan Petrelli had just been felled by an assassin’s bullet, Takezo Kensei had been buried alive, and Sylar had just regained his powers. Following Volume 1: Genesis and Volume 2: Generations, Volume 3 is titled “Villains”.