WizardUniverse has posted up a great interview with the producers of the two best dramas on TV…’Lost’s Damon Lindelof and ‘Heroes’ Tim Kring.  The two producers worked together on ‘Crossing Jordan’ before Lindelof went off to do ‘Lost’. 

From the article:

KRING: There is no way a show like “Heroes” could’ve come along if “Lost” had not come along before it, not only for what it did in teaching the audience how to absorb a giant show like this, but especially what it did in teaching the networks how to do a show like this.

LINDELOF: That’s very kind of you to say. And also, I feel like another part of the genesis of “Heroes” and “Lost” is that Tim and I are both interested in the same kind of stories. I’m sort of more a comic/fantasy/sci-fi geek than he is, but at the same time both of us spin on this axis of destiny, spiritual questions and “What is our place on the Earth?”[…]People started comparing the shows right out of the gate, for the obvious reasons. The “Heroes” pilot says, “This means something.” It wasn’t posing big mysteries, but the characters were saying, “What does this mean? What is my place in all of this?” They weren’t saying, “How did I get my powers?” They were saying, “Why did I get my powers?” Philosophically, both shows started feeling the same, and they had big, sprawling casts. There were mysteries and exciting serialized cliffhangers and unexpected twists. “Heroes” was incredibly daring, and never, I think, in a derivative way. One thing I’ve never heard anyone say to my face, or even read, is that “Heroes” is a “Lost” rip-off. Tim was able to watch “Lost”—as a fan of it, he had seen two seasons of the show as he was writing the “Heroes” pilot—and he was able to make certain decisions about what he liked and what he didn’t like.

They do a great job of pointing out the similarities in both of the shows.  Head on over and read the full interview.