BBC boss hails 'Heroes' global scope

BBC fiction controller Jane Tranter has praised the network's imported American series Heroes for its scope.

Speaking to the Royal Television Society, she stated that "the ambitious spec of Heroes is a clear role model" for homegrown BBC dramas.

Making reference to the character of Hiro, she said: "If NBC, an inevitably relatively conservative US network, is prepared not only to set a popular mainstream returning drama series all over the world, but to cast a character who speaks throughout in Japanese… then I'm sure, with your help, that we can think bigger."

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