Good News: America Ferrera doesn’t care about UGLY BETTY’s ratings. Bad News: We have a feeling ABC doesn’t feel the same way. [Source]

Good News: According to reports NBC has asked HEROES to think about the final chapter. Bad News: Only three seasons too late. [Source]

What’s more distressing: (a) That in a last ditch effort to attract viewers to the sinking-ship we like to call HEROES, NBC emailed this TV Addict a photo of Hayden Panettiere’s Claire making-out with roommate Gretchen (Madeline Zima). Or (b) that said roommate is played by none other than THE NANNY’s youngest daughter Grace Sheffield, thus making us feel really, really old.

While Robert Knepper’s ‘King of the Carnival’ certainly piqued our interest, and Claire giving it the ol’ college try had us intrigued, Hiro and Ando’s ‘Dial a Hero’ had us dialing another channel… RIP HEROES.

Neil Patrick Harris was robbed! Now that we’ve gotten that out of the way, there really isn’t that much else to say about last night’s HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER season premiere. After-all, it comes as little surprise that Barney has a ‘whip guy,’ or that we’re already in love with Robin and Barney together. Which is why, we’ll leave you with the following. A message if you will, to all those shows (*cough*cough*HOUSE*cough*BONES*cough*) who are terrified of putting their will-they-or-won’t-they couples together for fear that it will destroy their show and/or possibly cause a rift in some sort of time and space continuum… Allow us to present an argument for doing so: Marshall and Lilly, happily married remain one of television’s best twosomes. Oh yeah… you’ve been lawyered!

When it comes to THE BIG BANG THEORY we’re willing to accept a whole lotta crazy. Sheldon running off to his Mom upon discovering that his North Pole possé completely duped him into thinking he had discovered some sort of Nobel-winning-paradigm-shift makes total sense. Wolowitz donning a red cowboy hat to better fit into his southern Texas surrounding and to match his red turtleneck, ditto. But Penny and Leonard together, in the biblical sense? Sorry, not buying it. Seriously. Creators Chuck Lorre and Bill Prady can keep trying, but we will never buy into your bizarro version of Ross and Rachel because deep down inside, you know the truth: Penny is meant to be with Sheldon. (Exhibit A: Did you see how quickly she rushed to his bedside (again!) to console him?)

Good News: We’re getting more SKINS! Bad News: Thanks to MTV who is developing what we can only imagine will be a watered down Americanized version of the hit British teen series. [ZonTV]

Good News: The headline grabbing story of Ryan Jenkins — the reality TV contestant who was found dead, hanging from a belt in his hotel room after fleeing to Canada upon being accused of murdering his swimsuit supermodel ex-wife Jasmine Fiore — is finally over. Bad News: For Nancy Grace and the rest of her Cable News cohorts. [Vancouver Sun]

“Share the cleavage, save the show?” — is how the The Live Feed succinctly sums up some NBC execs pathetic last ditch effort to save HEROES, and probably, his or her job.

With today’s big news revolving around PUSHING DAISIES mastermind Bryan Fuller departing from his role as creative consultant (or as we like to call him, saviour) of HEROES so that he may focus his energy on developing new shows for NBC Universal, theTVaddict.com thought it might be fun to read between the lines of the statement Fuller sent to Ain’t It Cool News earlier in the day.

1) “Development was really starting to heat up” — Since NBC’s ‘new and exciting’ fall slate including 101 QUESTIONS, MERCY and THE MARRIAGE REF doesn’t exactly have “Must See TV” written all over it.

2) “And it appears like I may be writing multiple pilots for NBC” — Yes, the “Jay Leno” experiment really looks to be a winner!

3) “I love that cast dearly and am sad to go” — But Fuller knows a sinking ship when he see one and if Dr. Horrible taught him anything (besides, you know Neil Patrick Harris = Awesome), it’s that “a man’s gotta do, what a man’s gotta do.”

As it turns out, Bryan Fuller’s assessment that last night’s season finale of HEROES was “the best finale the show has ever had,” lived up to the hype. Too bad as season finales go, HEREOS doesn’t have much of a track record to live up to.

Sure, as promised by Cristine Rose (Angela Petrelli), a hero who had been with the show from day one die did in fact die. The only problem being, nobody on HEROES really ever stays dead. Leaving this TV Addict to wonder just how long it will take for Matt Parkman’s mojo to wear off, forcing The Company to resurrect the original Sylar (with the help of the spare shapeshifter that HRG already alluded to down in Building 26) in an effort to bring down Nathan Petrelli. Who it seems is already letting his inner-Sylar get the better of him.

Our guess, November sweeps! What’s yours?

CHUCK (8PM NBC, CityTV in Canada)
In the season 2 finale, yes NBC, you heard us correctly — SEASON finale — Chuck must spring into action on Ellie and Awesome’s wedding day to save his sister from evil Fulcrum forces and Steve Jobs wannabe Ted Roark (Chevy Chase).

GOSSIP GIRL (8PM CW)
Georgina Sparks (Michelle Trachtenberg) returns. Her mission: To liven up tonight’s been-there-done-that rivalry between Chuck and Nate for Blair’s affection.

HEROES (9PM NBC, 10PM Global in Canada)
It’s Nathan versus Sylar in this third season finale and we have a feeling that unlike season one, a parking meter isn’t gonna do Sylar in (or at least we hope it won’t.)

NEW & NOTABLE:
HOUSE (8PM FOX, Global in Canada)
House’s insomnia is playing tricks with his mind, but that doesn’t seem to bother him. Or us, because it means Anne Dudek gets an opportunity to reprise her role as Cutthroat B*tch.

ONE TREE HILL (9PM CW, SunTV in Canada)
Here’s some food for thought for all those Tree Hill parents who are wondering as to why their quiet little town seems to be home to an unusually high amount of sex, drugs, shootings and teen pregnancies. How about not forcing your kids to grow up so fast. Tonight, ‘lil Jamie attends his first school dance. Seriously, what’s up with that?

PUPPY MILLS: EXPOSED (10PM Animal Planet)
Furry, fluffy television it ain’t. But if there’s one show this TV DOG Addict can get behind, it’s a show that follows the ASPCA as it attempts to stop the inhumane treatment of dogs on the puppy farms mills that supply many of the America’s pet stores.

Look we get it. HEROES has become the television equivalent of that really bad relationship. The one where you’re constantly giving a second, third or heck, even fourth chance to that special someone in the hopes of re-capturing the magic of those unforgettable first few months.

Which is why this TV Addict has enlisted a few genuine ‘heroes’ to lend a hand with tonight’s big decision. Do you give what executive producer Bryan Fuller promises will be “the best finale the show has ever had” one last chance? We are, and here’s why.

Not only did the allusive Cristine Rose (Angela Petrelli) offer up three tantalizing word (”Time will tell!”) when we asked her to tease tonight’s finale at last weekend’s HEROES FOR AUTISM event. She confirmed an actual heroes death, promising that, “one of the main characters that’s been with us from the very beginning is really dead and nobody believes that but it’s absolutely true.”

Next up, is the man who brought horn-rimmed glasses back, Jack Coleman (HRG) who teased that tonight’s finale, “unravels in a dramatic way that springs us into a very cool fourth season.”

And finally, comes the surprisingly candid Milo Ventimigliia who had this to say when asked by this TV Addict why fans should give the show one last shot. “I think it’s a bummer that they [the fans] left. I understand they can get frustrated with the show, we [the actors] get frustrated with the show at times. But we stick with it and we ask that they stick with it because there are a lot of episodes between number one and the series finale and I think that when you look back with all of them compiled together everyone will realize and understand that the growth of the show, the maturation of the show came from every single episode. Some are going to be better than others, but everyone of them is a building block.”