Heroes: A New Addiction

I am really hooked with this brand new TV Series "Heroes". I heard about this some time last year but I was so hooked with Smallville which is currently in it's 6th season. So far, I find "Heroes" as my favorite TV Series. I've done a marathon from Episodes 1 - 7 earlier and I'm currently downloading episode 8. Anyways, "Heroes" hasn't been introduced here in the Philippines but most likely, we'll have it by 2008, and chances are, it'll be aired in Studio 23... Just getting that feeling, though I'm still unsure.

What is Heroes?
Heroes is a new television series on NBC, created by Tim Kring (also creator of Crossing Jordan). It premiered last September 25th, 2006 at 9:00PM (Monday), it was the most awaited series that launched last year.

What is Heroes about?
The show is about regular people from all around the world discovering that they have special abilities. Not knowing where their powers came from, each of them deal with life changing events.

Who are the Heroes?
This is what I currently know of the main characters:

• Mr. Bennet (Jack Coleman), A father who works for the Primatech Paper Company, which is actually a cover operation for an organization that investigates people with superhuman abilities.
• Claire Bennet (Hayden Panettiere), Mr. Bennet's adopted daughter, who lives in Odessa, Texas, and whose injuries immediately heal.
• Simone Deveaux (Tawny Cypress), an art dealer and gallery owner whose skepticism and complicated romantic life are tested.
• D.L. Hawkins (Leonard Roberts), Once an escaped criminal (The charges were dropped), he has the power to alter his physical tangibility and phase through solid objects, both inanimate and organic.
• Isaac Mendez (Santiago Cabrera), An artist living in New York who can paint future events during precognitive trances. He also writes and draws a comic book called 9th Wonders! which has also been shown to predict the future.
• Hiro Nakamura (Masi Oka), A programmer from Tokyo with the ability to manipulate the space-time continuum.
• Matt Parkman (Greg Grunberg), A Los Angeles police officer with the ability to hear other people's thoughts.
• Nathan Petrelli (Adrian Pasdar), a New York Congressional candidate with the ability of self-propelled flight. He is Claire Bennet's biological father.
• Peter Petrelli (Milo Ventimiglia), A former hospice nurse and Nathan's younger brother. He is an empath with the ability to mimic the powers of others he has been near and can recall any ability he has used in the past by focusing on his feelings for those from whom the abilities originate. He also experiences clairvoyant dreams.
• Micah Sanders (Noah Gray-Cabey), D.L.'s son and a child prodigy, Micah has a technopathic ability enabling him to communicate with machines and electronics, and manipulate them.
• Niki Sanders (Ali Larter), The wife of D.L. and mother of Micah. A former internet stripperLas Vegas who exhibits superhuman strength when her alternate personality, Jessica, surfaces. Niki as far as we know hasn't shown superhuman strength like Jessica.
• Mohinder Suresh (Sendhil Ramamurthy), A genetics professor from India who travels to New York to investigate the death of his father, Chandra. Through his investigations, he comes into contact with people his father listed as possessing superhuman abilities.

What is their purpose?
At this time it is unknown why these people have special powers. Perhaps to save the world?