No Heroics: SciFi Wire review

There is a review of the No Heroics pilot Tom filmed in April on SciFi Wire.

This remake of the British comedy takes place in a world where some people are superheroes and follows four of these folk who have D-list superpowers. There's Crossfade (Eliza Coupe), who has short-term invisibility; Slamazon (Arielle Kebbel), who has superstrength and romance issues; Brainstorm (Tom Riley), a British bloke who can read minds; and Chillout (Paul Campbell), who can freeze small stuff and make duck-shaped ice cubes. The four superfriends hang out at The Watchtower, a bar filled with superheroes, with the likes of Horseforce (Josh Gad), who can summon horses, and A-list superhero Infinitum (Freddie Prinze Jr.), who has an ego larger than his super abilities. Created by Jeff Greenstein and Drew Pearce. ...

No Heroics: Drew Pearce interview

There is an interview on Chinashopmag.com with No Heroics creator Drew Pearce. He discusses the US pilot that Tom did, but has no real good news...but some hope. Read the interview on the website. ...

No Heroics: interview with Drew Pearce

Website io9.com carries a very interesting article about No Heroics being passed by ABC, and interviews Drew Pearce on the subject. Read the full interview on the website.

So why didn't ABC pick up the pilot after ordering it in the first place?

Pearce says it was just a matter of timing: I don't actually think anything went wrong as such. I will say that it's probably not the best year to do a massive, cool, edgy, expensive single-camera genre-based network-comedy without huge starpower on a major American network. Kind of obvious, but true. ...

No Heroics: ABC passes?

There has been a lot of rumour and speculation in the last week online, about whether ABC would pick up the No Heroics pilot for a series. Very sadly, according to Nikki Finke on  Deadline Hollywood Daily, it seems that they wont.

ABC has officially passed on these ABC TV Studios pilots: CANNED, BEST THING EVER (formerly The New 20) with Eric McCormack, NO HEROICS, PULLING.