It looks like the cure for what ails Heroes is simple: stay away from dancing celebriries.

The next-to-the-last installment of Heroes: Generations got a nice gift from ABC...a truncated version of Dancing With the Stars which ended as Heroes began. That meant that Hiro, Claire, Elle, and crew did not have to deal with SWTS's last half hour.

And that equaled out to a higher-than-last week rating of 5.3.

The dancing D-listers did do well...6.2 Neilsen rating for best of the night, but in the 9-10 slot, in all demos, Heroes reigned:

HEROES (NBC) 5.3
TWO AND A HALF MEN (CBS) 5.0
SAMANTHA WHO?/NOTES FROM THE UNDERBELLY (ABC) 4.1

I'm sure that FOX, the CW, and MyNet would rather talk about something else....

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