"I want to first extend my deepest gratitude and heartfelt appreciation to the legion of enthusiastic fans who have watched ‘Heroes’ on TV, online,  DVR, DVD and mobile over the last four seasons.

Every week more than 45 million TV viewers around the world, as well as millions of social and digital media-based fans, have made ‘Heroes’ one of the five most-watched shows across traditional and digital media screens in the history of television.

For NBC, I certainly understand the challenge of creating a business model around a show which arrived precisely as the audience was finding new ways to watch traditional content on multiple screens.

I personally have had 12 great years with my friends at NBC, and with ‘Heroes,’ they provided me a rare opportunity to put a message of hope, interconnectivity and global consciousness into the world.  For that I am grateful and look forward to finalizing our discussion about a number of ways to keep the ‘Heroes’ universe alive for its fans."

The word "miraculous" scarcely describes the survival of a Santa Maria, California police officer who wrapped his Ford Police Interceptor around a tree Sunday morning. It's what the local Police Chief calls the "worst accident he's seen in 35 years."

Sunday was a busy day for the members of the Santa Maria Police Department, starting with a police chase that resulted in a stolen car crashing into a first grade classroom of a local school. But that's not where this amazing crash happened.

Hours later, Officer Damon Badnell was responding to an officer involved in a foot pursuit of a burglary suspect when he lost control of his vehicle on a slippery road. The momentum wrapped the vehicle around the tree, nearly bisecting the Ford Crown Victoria.

Officer Badnell, who recently was awarded for stopping the most drunk drivers, has a few broken bones but doctors are hopeful about his recovery.

What would cause Superman to drink like this??

Have you considered the fact that both his parents are dead, he's the last of his kind because his home planet exploded, his dual identity forces him to live a lie everyday of his life, and finally, the fact that his super-strength makes it near impossible to get laid without killing someone.

So give the guy a break! He's practically a god and he chooses to save people! He could run the show or basically enslave humanity if wanted to..so yeah…is this news??

Waiting for Superman, takes an even wider look at how we in America educate our children.

Or, more specifically, how we've generally failed to educate our children.

Equal parts sickening, fascinating, and inspiring, Waiting for Superman (the title refers to a child's dream of being rescued) takes firm aim at our national education system and asks a few simple but angry questions. Like, for example, how can one of the richest and most privileged countries in the world fail so resoundingly at educating its youngest generations? How long must our system fracture before someone comes up with a plan that actually works? Why do so many politicians promise education reforms … but practically never follow through? And, perhaps most importantly, what can a dedicated parent actually DO to help ensure their kids a legitimate and high-quality education?

Guggenheim makes his points by introducing us to all sorts of people who are directly affected by our floundering education system — and for the most part, it's just not pretty. We meet Washington D.C. Education Chief Michelle Rhee, who has some revolutionary new ideas on how to keep teachers happy and inspired … but the teachers' union doesn't like them. We get to know a small handful of great kids, all of whom seem smart and sweet and dedicated … oh, but there simply isn't enough room for those kids at the (relatively) local charter school.

And then there are the chalkboard heroes: the average hard-working educators who are sincerely and passionately dedicated to educating our young … who are constantly short on resources, egregiously underpaid, and unacceptably under-appreciated. One interview subject, a teacher named Canada, is so effortlessly inspiring and simply noble that he may inspire your own kids to become an educator. The only place a man like this can make a difference is in a charter school, which (obviously) has a rather high enrollment list, and therefore its pupils must be chosen by lottery.

Imagine being the low-income parent who must entrust her child's secondary education to a bunch of bouncing lottery balls. A country that spends billions on weapons but comparatively little on the education of our future leaders … well, you do the math. And Guggenheim captures it all: the overworked and well-intentioned teachers, the beleaguered bureaucrats, the desperate parents, and the confused kids. Waiting for Superman works well enough as a basic primer on how our education system got so damn broken in the first place, but it also offers some ideas and hopes for the future of American education.

Full of refreshingly honest insights and some powerfully upsetting statistics, the film seems angry and critical, but never hopeless. We'd like to think that every kid in America has his own fair shot at a strong education … but we know they don't. Not really. Movies like Waiting for Superman would like to change that.

He is one Daniel Shaw, a highly skilled CIA agent and expert on the Ring — and a guy that Chuck-Sarah 'shippers aren't likely to take a shine to, at least not in the early going.

Brandon Routh, who will play Shaw over multiple episodes this season, understands. "I'm keenly aware of that," the "Superman Returns" star says. "Being a fan of the show, I know the dynamics. Stepping in I was like, 'Man, people aren't gonna like me.' But you know what, it's OK — that's good. I will come off kind of as a little bit of a jerk to some people, I suppose, although I'm mostly pretty much business." 

Do you ever hear anything about another Superman movie?

"You get better news probably on the Internet these days than you can out of me. I think they're still dealing with the legal issues, the rights of the character. You'll know as soon as I do, I'm sure. "

If we don't teach our children these things, who will?

I feel just like this guy (the narrator). I've always wondered as a kid why there were no real "superheroes" out there in the real world. Sure pulling off being a Superman would be near impossible, but what about Batman or Iron Man? All it would take is alotta money, a costume, a mask, and some serious skills and/or ambition. You think someone could really pull it off or should the lines of fantasy and fiction not be crossed?

Let us know what you think.