Ever since our article about the ?de-gaying? of Zach on NBC?s Heroes went up this morning I?ve been receiving all sorts of emails. While I expected to get a lot of email about it, I certainly didn?t expect to hear from the creator of the hit show himself, but I did. Tim Kring emailed me earlier today. With his permission, I?m posting what he had to say.

"I am very sorry this has caused concern for the readers of your website. It was certainly not our intention to confuse the issue of Zach?s character being gay. We have too much respect for our audience to do that intentionally. However, it has simply become too complicated behind the scenes to push this issue further with this particular character. We apologize for misleading the audience, and wish that we could have handled things better on our end. But making a TV show is often a very imprecise business. As you stated, Heroes is a big, sprawling drama and there is no reason to believe that a gay character will not be represented on our show in the future. It is my hope than we do, we do it with honesty and dignity. That will certainly be our attempt."