From KCRW in Santa Monica, this is The Treatment.

Welcome to the treatment, which you can also hear at KCRW.com.

My guest, writer-producer, Tim Cr, has jumped quite a ways from crossing Jordan to his

newest, latest and most fascinating series Heroes, which is now on its third season on NBC.

I can't think of another show that blends comedy, drama, melodrama, so well as this show.

And, Tim, first of all, thanks so much for being here.

Thank you. Really appreciate it. And I've got to think part of the show is And Tim, first of all, thanks so much for being here. Thank you.

Really appreciate it. And I've got to think part of the show is, too, just based on what you've done in the past between Strange World and Crossing Jordan, you want to try something

that was a bit more complicated. I also had been working within the, you know, the form of a procedural

closed-ended storytelling. And, you know, so many of us who do that long for, you know, the form of a procedural closed-ended storytelling.

And, you know, so many of us who do that long for, you know, these much longer arcs of stories rather than having to do what is, you know, usually an artificial kind of version of storytelling

where you wrap everything up within an hour.

Because one of the things I love so much about heroes is that each narrative feels like a different kind of thing.

For example, hero could be the character hero, I should say.

It could be wild manga or anime the way the story is told.

The colors are different.

The emotional coloration is different.

To the Petrelli story, which is almost like something out of Russian literature.

You know, I think a lot of that came from my background as a freelance writer.

I would juggle four or five assignments a year, writing, you know, any number of different genres.

And I kind of developed this very short attention span for what I was doing.

And so I would get bored doing the same thing over and over again. And when I went first to series television and joined

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