Tim Kring on Heroes Reborn, YouTube celebrities, and starting a conspiracy to save the world

‘Walk with me’, said Tim Kring, gesturing for me to follow him into the edit suite, where he and his team were busy putting the final touches on his new show, Heroes Reborn. If you were one of the 76 million people watched the original Heroes series during its three-and-a-half-year run, you would already know exactly who Tim is. Tim is one of Hollywood’s most successful writers and producers, best known for shows like Strange World, Crossing Jordan, and Touch. He is also an Emmy award winning pioneer in transmedia storytelling. When we finally sat down for a chat, we talked about the shifting behavior of TV audiences in the digital age, how the next generation think about entertainment, why interconnectedness is such a big theme in his work, and how he uses storytelling as a strategy to create social change.