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Celebrating 20 Years of Zenon: Girl of the 21st Century With the Space King of Rock

There is one word in the English language that, when repeated three times in a row, instantly conjures up something magical. It might be weird, and a little bit scary at times, but saying those words out loud guarantees a raucous adventure. They are, of course: “Zoom Zoom Zoom.” Disney Channel’s Zenon: Girl of the…

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Hulu’s Latest Into the Dark Trailer Is About an Elevator Ride From Hell

Swing your partner round and round, end of the night it’s going “Down.” The trailer for Hulu and Blumhouse’s latest episode of the Into the Dark anthology series is all about two people, an elevator, and the worst Valentine’s Day weekend ever. Coming on the heels of the Sophia Takal-directed New Year’s special, “New Year,…

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Star Trek Heads Into a Familiar Unknown With IDW’s Year Five Saga

We all know how Captain Kirk’s five-year mission starts, but did you ever want to learn how it ends? IDW Publishing will soon be telling that part of The Original Series story with a new comic book series, Star Trek: Year Five, all about the final year of the Enterprise’s iconic five-year journey. As revealed…

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Journey to Middle-Earth, Riverdale, and Deep Space Nine in the Latest Tabletop Gaming News

Welcome back to Gaming Shelf, io9’s regular column all about the latest in tabletop and roleplaying game news—focusing on sci-fi and fantasy stuff, of course. Toy Fair 2019 is on the horizon, and io9 will be there! In the meantime, we’ve got plenty of newly announced games for 2019, including a Kickstarter for a brand-new…

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The King of Wakanda Holds the Oscars’ First Best Picture Nod for a Superhero Film

All hail the once and future king of Wakanda. Black Panther has now made Academy Awards history as the first superhero or comic book film nominated for Best Picture. And that’s not the only award the blockbuster Marvel film is gunning for at the 2019 Oscars. The Academy has released its list of nominations for…

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The Latest Punisher Teaser Prepares Us for a Heartbreaking Showdown

Frank Castle thought he was out of the game, but a dangerous new threat has drawn him back in. The latest look at Netflix’s next (and possibly final) season of The Punisher centers around Frank’s reluctance to get back into the fight…but unfortunately, this one is too personal for him to stay out. We had…

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Syfy’s Deadly Class Is More Awkward Than Cool

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse is a movie that feels like a living comic book. It works not only because of how it uses its source material, but how it shifts away from it. Syfy’s Deadly Class fails to meet the same standard, leaning too heavily on its graphic novel to the point where it doesn’t…

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A Hunchback of Notre Dame Live-Action Musical Is Happening, and Disney Might Already Have Its Quasimodo

God help the remakes. Disney has announced it’s making a live-action adaptation of Hunchback of Notre Dame, which will be based on both Victor Hugo’s original novel and the studio’s own 1996 animated film. Hopefully that means more hellfire, way fewer gargoyles. As reported by Deadline, Tony-winning playwright David Henry Hwang has been tapped to…

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Drunk History Resurrected the Tale of How Mary Shelley Brought Frankenstein to Life

Submitted for the approval of the Midnight Society: Drunk History tells the true story of how an opium-fueled sex party inspired not one—but two—of history’s greatest fictional monsters. Comedy Central’s Drunk History opened its latest season with an entire episode dedicated to the story of how Mary Shelley (played by Westworld’s Evan Rachel Wood) came…

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5 Questions We Have After That Cryptic Game of Thrones Teaser

HBO has continued its slow, agonizing trend of milking every last bit of hype for the eighth and final season of Game of Thrones. And you know what? It’s working. With the release of the first teaser, which reveals more than you might think, we’ve got a few questions about what it all means, and…

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Game of Thrones’ Season 8 Teaser Pits Westeros Against the Coming Night

It’s all come down to this. HBO has debuted the first teaser for the eighth and final season of Game of Thrones, along with an official premiere date for the show’s long-awaited return. With Westeros standing on the brink of an abyss, it’s hard to say who’s going to emerge from the coming war alive.…

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Heaven Is a Place on Earth in the Latest Gif Party!

Ooh baby, do you know what that’s worth? Ooh, heaven is a place in the io9 Friday gif party! We may still be recovering from the intense experience that was Black Mirror: Bandersnatch, but our hearts will always be in San Junipero. Join us in the latest gif party with your favorite party-time gifs—bonus points…

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Check Out This Very Good Boy Who’s Been Trained With Harry Potter Spells

Expecto Adorablum! A dog has been trained to do tricks using an unconventional method: Harry Potter spells. And we recently spoke with the owner who decided to use the wonderfully nerdy wizard training. Actress and YouTuber Anna Brisbin recently shared a video showing how she’s trained her dog, Remus (named after Remus Lupin, naturally), to…

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Jake Gyllenhaal and Velvet Buzzsaw Ensure You’ll Never Look at Art the Same Way Again

The art world can be pretentious, but it can also be deadly, as the first trailer for Netflix’s new thriller, Velvet Buzzsaw, reveals. It puts Jake Gyllenhaal right in the middle of an artistic mystery that threatens the minds and lives of everyone around him. Velvet Buzzsaw is the latest thriller from Nightcrawler’s Dan Gilroy,…

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Deadly Class, and the Powers and Limitations of a One Man Show

There’s one thing that’s clear from visiting the set of Syfy’s new comic book series, Deadly Class: This is Rick Remender’s show. The creator of the Deadly Class graphic novel series isn’t on the sidelines for the adaptation of his 2014 Image Comics work with Wesley Craig, Lee Loughridge, and Rus Wooton. He’s put himself…

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Aca-scuse Me? Netflix’s Carmen Sandiego Won’t Use the Acapella Theme Song

The Bellas from Pitch Perfect might be the queens of acapella, but the folks behind the theme song to PBS’s Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego? game show are practically gods. So, it was delightful to see Rockapella’s founder back with a new version of the acapella theme song—but tragic to learn it won’t be…

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Skydance Hires Alleged Sexual Harasser John Lasseter, Apparently Doesn’t Care About the Women Who Work There

Little over one year after former Walt Disney Animation Studios and Pixar Animations Studios chief creative officer John Lasseter was ousted over alleged multiple instances of sexual harassment, Skydance has decided it’s fine to put its own female employees at risk by hiring him. The Hollywood Reporter writes that Skydance Media CEO David Ellison has…

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The Creators and Stars of The Magicians Talk About Taking Their Next Musical Episode Up a Notch

Do you hear the people sing? Well, you’re about to, once again. Syfy’s The Magicians is doing another musical episode for season four, and it’s the biggest—and zaniest—one yet. io9 learned about the planned musical episode during a set visit last year. Boasting multiple songs and an impressive cast of talented singers, the episode is…

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What Once Was Big Is Now Little, and Issa Rae Has to Deal With the Results

We all love a good Magical Aging story. Well, sort of. It does get weird when films like Big and 13 Going on 30 venture into that uncomfortable “Oh shit, you’re a 13-year-old in an adult’s body” territory. Little, the newest flick from Girls Trip’s Regina Hall and Insecure’s Issa Rae, has changed the formula a…

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Saving Songbirds, Killing Pirates, and More in Tabletop Gaming News

Welcome back to Gaming Shelf, io9’s regular column all about the latest in board game and tabletop releases—focusing on the good genre stuff, though there are always exceptions! So far, it’s been a pretty dry 2019 in the gaming world, which is not really a surprise, considering how we’re now past the holidays and companies…

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Celebrating 20 Years of Zenon: Girl of the 21st Century With the Space King of Rock

Hulu’s Latest Into the Dark Trailer Is About an Elevator Ride From Hell

Star Trek Heads Into a Familiar Unknown With IDW’s Year Five Saga

Journey to Middle-Earth, Riverdale, and Deep Space Nine in the Latest Tabletop Gaming News

The King of Wakanda Holds the Oscars’ First Best Picture Nod for a Superhero Film

The Latest Punisher Teaser Prepares Us for a Heartbreaking Showdown

Syfy’s Deadly Class Is More Awkward Than Cool

A Hunchback of Notre Dame Live-Action Musical Is Happening, and Disney Might Already Have Its Quasimodo

Drunk History Resurrected the Tale of How Mary Shelley Brought Frankenstein to Life

5 Questions We Have After That Cryptic Game of Thrones Teaser

Game of Thrones’ Season 8 Teaser Pits Westeros Against the Coming Night

Heaven Is a Place on Earth in the Latest Gif Party!

Check Out This Very Good Boy Who’s Been Trained With Harry Potter Spells

Jake Gyllenhaal and Velvet Buzzsaw Ensure You’ll Never Look at Art the Same Way Again

Deadly Class, and the Powers and Limitations of a One Man Show

Aca-scuse Me? Netflix’s Carmen Sandiego Won’t Use the Acapella Theme Song

Skydance Hires Alleged Sexual Harasser John Lasseter, Apparently Doesn’t Care About the Women Who Work There

The Creators and Stars of The Magicians Talk About Taking Their Next Musical Episode Up a Notch

What Once Was Big Is Now Little, and Issa Rae Has to Deal With the Results

Saving Songbirds, Killing Pirates, and More in Tabletop Gaming News

JBL Boombox 4 Speaker Didn’t Stay at Full Price for Long as Amazon’s Spring Sale Pushes It Close to Used Pricing

Final Call: Get NordVPN at $266 Off + Amazon Gift Card (Few Days Left)

C-3PO’s Head From ‘Empire Strikes Back’ Sold for a Cool Million

T-Mobile 5G Home Internet Delivers Fast Speeds, Low Monthly Prices and Cash Back

Trump Says He’ll Sign Order to Pay TSA

Deadpool Will Deface ‘Magic: The Gathering’ Classics for a New Secret Lair

Apple’s Siri Isn’t Just Going to Use One Chatbot. It’s Going to Use All of Them

Why ‘For All Mankind’ Season 5 Is the Key to the Rest of the Series

ASUS ZenScreen 15.6-Inch Portable Monitor Is Now Cheaper Than Black Friday in Amazon’s Big Spring Sale

Early Wildfires Are Surging Across the US—and Trump’s New Fire Agency Isn’t Ready

Sonos Play Review: Call It a Comeback

Sonos Era 100 SL Review: The Cheapest Way Into Wired Sonos Sound

Asus ROG’s Massive Swift OLED Gaming Monitor Epitomizes Excess in the Best Way

The Ikea Varmblixt Smart Lamp Fills a Donut Hole in My Life

Nothing Headphone A vs. Headphone 1: Which Pair of ANC Wireless Headphones Wins?

Asus ROG’s Cetra Open Wireless Gaming Earbuds Might Be Better Than Wearing a Headset

Nintendo’s Talking Flower Is Annoying as Hell. I Love It

Level Lock Pro Review: As Good as a Secret Smart Lock Gets

Apple Studio Display XDR Review: It Looks So Good, I Wish It Were an iMac

RayNeo Air 4 Pro Review: My Eyes Love These Video Glasses, but My Nose Disagrees