Broken Frontier

Heroes creator and executive producer Tim Kring has signed a new two-year deal at NBC, reportedly one of the biggest in television.

The deal will allow Kring to continue running Heroes and its upcoming spin-off anthology series, Heroes: Origins, as well as developing new projects.

Kring's deal is the first at NBC Universal Television Studios since the studio appointed Katherine Pope, a good friend of Kring's, as its new president.

As Pope told The Hollywood Reporter, "NBC Studios has grown and changed as I have grown, and Tim has too -- he's grown to show more of the absolute diversity of his talent.

"The reason this deal is so important to us is because of Tim's absolutely extraordinary ability to write all types of characters with such authenticity. He can find the humanity in the characters and everything he writes."

"He is a brilliant writer, and he also runs one of the tightest ships in town."

Kring added: "There is a tremendous continuity in my relationship with NBC, and with Katherine Pope coming back to the studio, it's coming full circle to my original relationship with her."

"Nothing about the show has been easy. It's become a show that defies expectations each week."

"Going from showrunner who oversees writing and production on a show to a person managing a brand and everything involved in that [has been one of the big changes in my jobs]."

In other Heroes news, Hiro Nakamura is very likely to get a love interest in the show's second season, scheduled for this Fall: