Heroes creator Tim Kring is “hopeful” the show will soon be back on the small screen.

After four years on TV screens, NBC announced in May that the fourth season, which concluded in February, was the last.

Producers have been in negotiations to end the show, which starred Hayden Panettiere, with a short mini-series or movie and Kring reveals it’s looking quite likely.

He tells TV Guide magazine, “There’s certainly talk about (a mini-series) right now and I am very hopeful. I strongly believe that the Heroes universe is a very big and very potent brand. It is for the fans that we feel that (the show) should continue.

“NBC has expressed an interest in finding a way to wrap it up in a way that honors the fans and the show, and I’m very interested in pursuing that.”

Hayden Panettiere looked the cat’s whiskers as she paraded around on the beach in a Hello Kitty bikini.

The 20-year-old happily flaunted her tanned and toned figure in the two-piece during a recent visit to Malibu beach.
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Heroes star Hayden Panettiere has signed on to join the cast of the new Scream movie.

Julia Roberts’ niece Emma has already joined the team in Dimension’s reboot of the horror franchise.

Roberts and Panettiere will soon film Scream 4 alongside Rory Culkin and original cast members Neve Campbell, David Arquette and Courteney Cox.

Hayden Panettiere debuted a dramatically cropped cut at an Earth Day celebration yesterday in Los Angeles. And while the petite beauty, is no stranger to changing up her color, this sophisticated new hairstyle is a dramatic departure from the longer tresses she’s known for.

Is love (back) in the air for Hayden Panettiere  and millionaire Harry Morton?

According to reports, the ‘Heroes’ beauty – who is now sporting a new brunette look – is once again romantically involved with the businessman after being spotted together at Teddy’s in Los Angeles on Monday night.

The pair were rumored to be dating last July and things look to be hotting up again, if eyewitnesses are to be believed.

CW will join the scalpel bandwagon with ‘HMS,’ an hour-long drama centering around a group of Harvard medical students.

Hayden Panettiere, best known for playing Claire Bennet on NBC’s ‘Heroes,’ will expand her resume. She’ll try her hand at producing for the first time and, along with the show’s writer, Amy Holden Jones of ‘Mystic Pizza’ fame, Hayden will be credited as co-producer.

Jones first created ‘HMS’ for the WB back in 2004, but her script was recently passed along after the CW begin searching for their own hospital drama. ‘HMS’ will put a younger twist on ‘Grey’s Anatomy,’

Hayden Panettiere hosted a Benefit for The Whaleman Foundation held at Beso In Hollywood, California last night. The Heroes actress, who looks like she borrowed Claire Bear’s hair, donated her bracelet for an auction with all the proceeds going to this wonderful charity.

Also in attendance were Entourage star Kevin Connolly, fellow animal activist Darryl Hannah, former DWTS hunk Gilles Marini, and Jamaican sensation Sean Paul.

The Whaleman Foundation is an oceanic research, conservation and production organization dedicated to preserving and protecting dolphins, whales, and their ocean habitat.

All eyes were on Hayden Panettiere at Sunday night’s sixth annual Hollywood Style Awards, hosted by Sebastian at the Hammer Museum in Westwood.

The “Heroes” hottie was picking up a Style Icon Award. And she also revealed that the lesbian kiss between her and Madeline Zima in last week’s episode was all her idea. Really.

But when sexpot Pamela Anderson came up behind Hayden on the red carpet, the cameras shifted to get a better look at Pammie’s outlandish Vivienne Westwood frock that resembled an unmade bed.

It’s pretty hard to compete with Pamela Anderson.

Hayden Panettiere, who was awarded the Style Icon honors at the Hollywood Style Awards on Sunday night, admitted on the red carpet that the kiss she recently got from co-star Madeline Zima was all her idea.

She even admits that she persuaded the writers to include the lesbian tongue wrestling action. “I kinda threw it out there. The writers put you in relationships and I was like, ‘Can I just be with a girl or something? Let’s do that.’ So they took it and ran with it.”

Madeline Zima, the talented young actress who gets to bestow the honors on Hayden’s cheerleader’s lips, talked to the Dish Rag about wanting to have the power to fly, learning the “Heroes” lore, and the truth about her sexually and morally ambiguous character that even Claire’s father is growing suspicious of.

“I watched everything. I feel like the fans are so hardcore for that show, that unless you watch, you don’t know what you’re getting yourself into,” she admits.

Hayden Panettiere has admitted that she is secretly worried that a crazed Heroes fan might stab her.

The sexy actress – who plays a girl who is able to heal herself in the show – says she’s been worried since the show began, that a fan who takes the show too literally, might one day go too far and hurt her – in hopes of seeing her regenerate.

“I’m just afraid somebody’s going to stab me one day and think that my power is real and they expect me to start healing. I’ve been thinking about that since the first season,” she admits to Showbiz Spy. “I’m like what if somebody really thought I was indestructible.”