NBC?S HIGHLY-ANTICIPATED NEW DRAMA SERIES ?HEROES? TO HOLD EXCLUSIVE PILOT SCREENING AND Q&A PANEL WITH CAST AND PRODUCERS AT COMIC-CON

WHAT: Comic-Con International 2006 fans will be the first to watch an exclusive 72-minute special cut of NBC?S ?Heroes? pilot episode, created just for the annual event in San Diego. Debuting this fall on Mondays at 9-10 p.m. ET, ?Heroes? chronicles the lives of ordinary people who discover that they possess extraordinary abilities.

WHO: Following the screening, cast members Ali Larter (?Final Destination?), Greg Grunberg (?Alias?), Milo Ventimiglia (?Gilmore Girls?), Hayden Panettiere (?Ice Princess?), Sendhil Ramamurthy (?Blind Guy Driving?), and Masi Oka (?Scrubs?); creator/executive producer Tim Kring; executive producer Dennis Hammer; co-executive producer/comic book writer Jeph Loeb (?Lost,? ?Superman for All Seasons?) and legendary comic book artist Tim Sale (?Batman: The Long Halloween?) will participate in a Q&A session. Limited edition ?Heroes? comic books, created by Tim Sale, will be distributed at the screening to fans who receive a special pin at the ?Heroes? booth.

In addition, ?Heroes? will have a booth set up on the convention center floor during the entire run of Comic-Con International 2006. At this booth, cheerleaders will be handing out exclusive ?Heroes? collector pins and other limited edition items.

WHEN: Friday, July 21, 2006 at 12:30 ? 2:00 p.m. (Screening/Q&A)

WHERE: Comic-Con International 2006 ? San Diego Convention Center

111 West Harbor Drive, San Diego, CA 92101

? Screening/Q&A will take place in Room 6CDEF

? Booth activities will take place in Booth 3912

SYNOPSIS: From NBC Universal Television Studio comes the epic saga ?Heroes,? which chronicles the lives of ordinary people who discover they possess extraordinary abilities.

As a total eclipse casts it shadow across the globe, we follow a genetics professor
(Sendhil Ramamurthy) in India whose father?s disappearance leads him to uncover a secret theory ? there are people with super powers living among us. A young dreamer (Milo Ventimiglia) tries to convince his politician brother (Adrian Pasdar) that he can fly. A high school cheerleader (Hayden Panettiere) learns that she is totally indestructible.

A Las Vegas stripper (Ali Larter), trying to make ends meet to support her young son (Noah Gray-Cabey), uncovers that her mirror image has a secret. A prison inmate (Leonard Roberts) mysteriously finds himself waking up outside of his cell. A gifted artist (Santiago Cabrera), whose drug addiction is destroying his life and the relationship with his girlfriend (Tawny Cypress), can paint the future. A down-on-his-luck beat cop (Greg Grunberg) can hear peoples? thoughts, including the secrets of a captured terrorist. In Japan, a young man (Masi Oka) develops a way to stop time through sheer will power. Their ultimate destiny is nothing less than saving the world