Very sad. She was great in her roles, loved MitM as Jessica, manipulative babysitter.
The Independent reprinted her interview from May 2026. Her mother was a piece of crap, living the dream through her daughter.
Gift link to a New York Times interview with her from May, when her memoir was released.
Maybe there has been some revisionism in recent years, but I think that is generally a near-universal opinion. The decline in quality wasn’t just noticeable, it was absolutely striking. Rarely if ever does a show careen fully from fairly good to pretty shitty in just the first two seasons.
But of course none of that was Pannetiere’s fault, it was all on the writers (compounded by the writer’s strike). She had a tough life despite her professional successes, awful it should end so young.
It wasn’t a “moment” in the show; the phrase was used over and over and over. Also in the commercials.
The coroner’s office overseeing the autopsy of TV and film star Hayden Panettiere, who died on Sunday in South Carolina, released a statement on Monday indicating that there were no signs of trauma found on her body.
On Sunday at around 1:50 p.m. local time, Panettiere, 36, was found unresponsive inside a residence in Greenville, South Carolina. Officials on the 911 call were reportedly heard discussing an “overdose” and “cardiac arrest” around the time of Panettiere’s death, according to a report on Monday in Page Six.
A lot of people blamed it on the writers strike, with Tim Kring taking over for Brian Fuller in season 2, but they just kept fucking with how people’s powers worked (and introducing both a time traveler and a power-stealer in season 1 made them way overpowered so they had to limit them) and couldn’t seem to figure out how to write decent comic book storylines, so it crashed pretty hard. Even bringing back Fuller couldn’t save it, and Heroes Reborn flopped super hard as well when they tried to re-launch the show about 10 years later due to the same writing issues.
It’s interesting, if she had died somewhere else she would have got a brief mention in the local news if she was mentioned at all. But since she died locally it has been the first, top story (after the heat) on every news program today.
Her death was widely reported (at least in the United States), and not just in the area where she was living.
Is it the “above the fold” front page headline top story (to borrow a newspaper term) in other parts of the country? Because that’s what it is in the Greenville market. Which is what was my explicit point.
This is what the front page of the local TV station looks like right now.
Looking at this website, the news isn’t apparently on the front page of the print newspaper in Greenville or really any newspaper for Monday, August 16. That may be a matter of timing, that the papers went to print before the news broke. But the story is on the front page of the websites for the New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, and so forth.
Edited to add, it’s prominent on the websites for Variety, Deadline, Hollywood Reporter and other industry publications.
And I was using the newspaper analogy as an analogy, as I stated. I was saying that it was the top non-weather story in every local television broadcast today. And musing that a (face it) b-list celebrity wouldn’t have had such prominent coverage in the local market if she hadn’t died here. Your claiming that other news programs mentioned her at all utterly misses the point that my local market (the one that I watch, so the one that is important to me) wouldn’t have made it the main story if she had died thousands of miles away. You either don’t get that, or you do and chose to point out something irrelevant anyway. Either way, I’m done engaging with you on this because anything more I would say to you about it is pit-worthy.
I hadn’t heard of her before today, when ghoulish posters on Twitter were speculating that Covid vaccination killer her, because when a person of note dies of anything now, it’s gotta be the vaccines.
Yeah, I’m sure it had absolutely nothing to do with at least a decade of past alcoholism and opioid drug abuse starting with “happy pills” from age 15 when her body was still growing. So much, much more likely that a vaccination that at least 230 million people received a full series of in the U.S. alone was the culprit 
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The credulousness of some people no longer surprises me.
Well, can you help me out because I, honest to Og, have no idea what your point here is.
Options:
- She was in your opinion a b-list actress and if she hadn’t died in Greenville, then the local news would have ignored what has been demonstrated to be an international story of interest (even the friggin’ BBC did stories on it today for crying out loud)? But since she did it’s all I’m hearing about!
- ???
For what it’s worth, I’ve spent a shit ton of time in Greenville and my wife went to college there. You’re making it sound like some back-water “first buck of the season gets the headline” hick town uninterested in anything not local. It’s not. So please start the Pit thread so I can respond appropriately.
How about:
- Of course her death would have been mentioned here otherwise, because she was a celebrity who died suddenly, and young (even if her fame is not what it was years ago), but because she died here, it’s the lead story on the local news.
The two of you are talking past each other, and making this into a hijack.
What is a “b-list” celebrity to you?
“I think ‘Heroes’ is really hot because it’s just a really great combination of everything that people love — they love reality, they love sci-fi and things like ‘X-Men’ where they get to dream of something bigger,” Panettiere told the AP in 2008. “And at the core of it are these human stories that people can relate to, very rugged. And it’s just grabbed everyone in every age group.”
She went on to win three Teen Choice Awards for that role and was nominated for a Grammy for a children’s spoken word album, “A Bug’s Life: Read-Along,” also voicing a role in the Disney animated movie.
Panettiere later played a brash country upstart opposite Connie Britton on “Nashville,” which aired on ABC for four seasons before being canceled and revived on CMT. She did her own singing in the show, which scored some hits on country charts, spawned U.S. tours and earned Panettiere two supporting actress Golden Globe nominations. Eleven songs that Panettiere recorded for “Nashville” appeared on Billboard’s Hot Country Songs charts during the show’s run, including two featuring Britton. - SOURCE
12 wins and 30 nominations for various awards. - SOURCE
She was never AAA but I think b-list is a bit low.
Today’s TV news morning, noon, and evening started off (after the weather) with the top story of Hayden Panettiere is dead, speculation of why Hayden Panettiere is dead, speculation of why Hayden Panettiere was in Greenville, an overview of the career of Hayden Panettiere, and interviews with people on the street about their feelings about Hayden Panettiere and the death of Hayden Panettiere. The top item in the local news cycle today is Hayden Panettiere. If the main story in the local news in your part of the country is not spending several minutes talking about Hayden Panettiere at the top of the broadcast, then that is making my point: Hayden Panettiere was probably not the primary television news item of the day outside of north-west South Carolina.
Her main fame, and all those awards (childhood acting roles, Heroes, and Nashville) were all 10 to 25 years ago. She was likely a borderline A-lister back then, but less well-known in recent years.
Yes. She’s getting coverage not far short of the death of Lindsey Graham.
So you’re bitching that local news leads the local news? Ok. Fucking meaningless, but ok.
Here are the top three stories on 3 New York tv stations:
Fox News (Fox 5)
- Luigi Mangione state murder trial pushed back following federal guilty plea
- Hayden Panettiere’s preliminary autopsy released: What it says
- Suffolk leaders condemn anti-Islamic graffiti at future mosque in Mastic-Shirley
NBC News (NBC 4)
- Mangione state trial delayed as prosecutors respond to motion to dismiss on double jeopardy claims
- Australian tourist repeatedly stabbed in unprovoked Midtown McDonald’s attack
- Video shows 33-year-old woman, a possible bystander, shot dead on Brooklyn sidewalk
ABC News (ABC 7)
- Woman grazed by bullet in Brooklyn; 3 men flee on scooter
- Luigi Mangione’s state murder trial adjourned
- American Airlines plane from NYC blows tires landing in Chicago: FAA
Why oh why are they not focused on things that didn’t happen in New York!