How To Bring Back Heroes

I was just thinking about ways to get this show back on the air when it hit me: another station picks up this show. It's been done before - most recently with TNT's Southland (originally an NBC show). Going through the lineup of channels I think I found the perfect taker...

Syfy.

Think about it. It's a joke of a station without any flagship series. It's actually a mockery of a station, broadcasting such gems as Mega Python and Mega Python vs. Gatoroid. If they can air this complete junk you mean to tell me bringing back Heroes is out of the question? Let's look into how exactly this would work:

Start Over With All New Cast

Tim Kring's original vision for the series was to have a new cast every season. Well, this is the perfect way. Get all new people in and start over. Now, you still have to keep it in the same universe - you still have to make reference to the old characters. Someone would need to say "I hear there's a guy who can control space and time" or "There's rumors of more like us - one person can never feel pain and never get hurt". But all in all its new characters taking on a new storyline. No Sylar, no Peters - no one who aquires power and eventually gets too powerful for the show. Maybe as a treat during sweeps you bring back a character from the old series. Maybe someone needs to go to Angela for advice. Maybe someone needs the help of Parkman. But these would be few and far between.

Second Time's A Charm

Let's face it - this show made a lot of mistakes towards the end. We now know you can't have people who can control time and space, can't have people who aquired everyone else's power till they are mega gods, can't have characters who keep coming back just cuz they're hot and can't have Indian doctors who never seem to have a purpose on the show. Imagine if the writers could have a second chance to do this show right? I'm sure this 2nd time around they'd really stick to their "new characters every season" rule. They'd kill people off and make them stay dead. Without the pressure of getting ratings they could have a little more wiggle room in terms of storylines. The show would be better a 2nd time around with the writers knowing what does and doesn't work.

Cheaper Budget For Powers

Despite low ratings what also did in the original series was its massive cost to produce the show. The reason why reality tv is so popular is these are really rock bottom cheap to put together. But a show where someone flys or someone makes light shoot out of a cello - yeah, you have to pay people to make that stuff look good. This being Syfy you could have a cheaper budget where you have more Puppet Master or Parkman type powers (someone makes a face and its implied they're controlling your body or mind). Even if you wanted to have special effects it could be cheasy. Have you actually seen what a Mega Python or Gatoroid looks like on Syfy?

In any case production value could be cheaper and it'd give Syfy a show it could build around that fits in with its theme. We're not asking them to bring back The Golden Girls - we're talking about a show about people with powers on a station dedicated to science fiction that has nothing else to show.