Hear David Tennant and Catherine Tate Return to the TARDIS in Their New Doctor Who Adventures!

Last month, Doctor Who audio play producer Big Finish revealed that the Tenth Doctor and Donna Noble would finally return for a whole new series of audio adventures. Although we have to wait to hear them all until May of next year, there’s now a quick preview of what’s to come. https://gizmodo.com/the-tenth-doctor-and-donna-noble-return-for-their-own-d-1738654861 Radio Times unveiled…

On The Flash, Barry’s Worst Enemy Is Himself, But Also a Giant Telepathic Gorilla

“YO. GRODD.” yelled Joe West breathlessly, after he ran into STAR Lans to let Barry Allen and out other heroes know that the giant evil telepathic gorilla that menaced them last season had returned. It was all he needed to say. Really, it’s all I need to say for this recap: Yo. Grodd. Yes, everyone’s…

Ridley Scott Reveals the First Scene From Blade Runner 2

Speaking at the AFI festival, Ridley Scott gave a very detailed description of what the opening of Blade Runner 2 will look like. It involves stew, a creepy tree, and Harrison Ford. Here’s the full description, and there is a lot going on: Turn around and you see a massive tree, just dead, but the…

The New Star Wars Crossover Comic Rejuvenates Darth Vader’s Terrifying Reputation

Darth Vader should be an immensely intimidating figure. Emphasis on the should, because over the years, his appearances in increasingly silly scenarios as part of Star Wars’ place in pop culture have blunted his reputation. But Vader Down’s first issue is a fantastic reminder that we should never underestimate the power of the Dark Side.…

New Game of Thrones Set Reports Tease A Surprising Family Reunion

Lawrence Kasdan talks the tone of The Force Awakens. Karen Gillan says the next Guardians of the Galaxy will explore Nebula and Gamora’s relationship. Some iconic facial hair might be making its way to Arrow. Plus, our first look at Galavant season 2! Spoilers now! Star Wars: The Force Awakens In an extensive feature for…

We Almost Got An Incredibly Different Version Of Jessica Jones

This Friday, the second phase of Marvel’s four-series deal with Netflix begins with Jessica Jones. But if original plans went ahead, we might have seen a very different version of the show. First of all, we would’ve seen it four years ago—on ABC itself. Speaking at AOL’s Build Series yesterday afternoon, producer Melissa Rosenberg revealed…

A Third Season of True Detective Is Still Possible

We loved True Detective season one. We wanted to like season two, but creator Nic Pizzolatto had trouble keeping the anthology series’ magic alive in a new setting with new characters. There might be chance for redemption, now that Pizzolatto has signed a new HBO deal—but TD3 isn’t a sure thing yet. https://gizmodo.com/all-the-ways-true-detective-season-2-should-have-worked-1720533449 As Variety…

Supergirl Is Straight-Up a Show about Women Tearing Each Other Down

When Supergirl isn’t about competing with the absentee Superman (whose dreamlike cameos represent a vision of heroism that is so iconic, it can only be seen via abstraction, or synecdoche), it seems to be a show about women who show affection by criticizing and belittling each other. And weirdly, the show makes this dynamic not…

Disney Wants To Turn The Merlin Saga Into Their Next Big Fantasy Movie

Big-ticket Fantasy has had a rough go of late at the box office—but it looks like Disney wants to get behind the genre in a big way: They’ve tasked Lord of the Rings screenwriter Philippa Boyens to write a Merlin movie… and thankfully, it’s not another live-action adaptation of one of their own cartoons. Deadline…

MST3K Has Found the Perfect Formula for Reviving a Beloved Series

Whenever a beloved project like Mystery Science Theater 3000 returns to life, there’s always the danger that it’s going to be a pale simulacrum of the original. Or so awful that it tarnishes the original version. But the new MST3K is uniquely positioned to avoid these pitfalls—not just because of what it was, but how…

Oh God, Frank Miller Is Going to Write a Dark Knight Returns IV, Too

Dark Knight 3: The Master Race isn’t even out yet, but co-writer Frank Miller has already announced that the trilogy has turned into a quadrilogy. Miller told Newsarama that “after he reads DK3 in full, he intends to create his own fourth chapter” which, frankly, is terrifying on about eight different levels. It also pretty…

On Blindspot, All The Best Characters Are Bad Guys or Dead

Bond. Jane Bond. That’s the aesthetic on this week’s extremely silly adventure into the world of Blindspot, where evil Dark Web millionaires host fancy dress parties. Martinis and black tie shootouts, anyone? Anyone? Spoilers for Blindspot episode 9, “Authentic Flirt,” shaken, not stirred. I think we can agree that the entire purpose of this episode…

Watch As These People Struggle to Remember What Happened in The Hunger Games

You’d think that, what with being one of the biggest franchises in the last five years, The Hunger Games would have made it into the minds of most people. And The Hunger Games has. Catching Fire and Mockingjay on the other hand? Better get caught up before Mockingjay Part 2 comes out on Friday. Contact…

The 10 Dumbest Artificial Intelligences Ever Created

The Singularity is coming soon! Artificial intelligences will reinvent everything, and there will be unlimited rice pudding. Except, of course, that when we imagine artificial intelligences in fiction, they’re often not that smart. Case in point? These 10 ridiculously dumb artificial intelligences. 1) B1 Battle Droids (Star Wars) Controlled by a central computer intelligence, inexpensive…

The Exact Moment When Justice League Unlimited Delivered the Perfect Animated Batman Story

After writing about Justice League Unlimited last week, my thoughts kept coming back to one episode in particular: “Epilogue.” It’s a story that managed to tie together so many years of Batman in such a perfect manner, it was almost the last-ever episode of the DC animated universe—and it truly understood what makes Batman so…

The Totally Restrained Gods of Egypt Trailer Raises Just a Few Questions

Welp. Gods of Egypt is a thing that is happening. And the trailer very much relies on the sheer spectacle eclipsing any other issue this film might raise. But we are not fooled, Gods of Egypt. Here are a few things, macro and micro, that were raised by this first trailer: Ancient Egypt sure had…

Gotham, What Are You Even Doing

Hey? Did you know Jim Gordon has a dark side? If you’ve watched five minutes of any episode of Gotham you did, but that didn’t stop the show from devoting an entire hour to an idea that the whole damn show has been built upon from the start. “A Bitter Pill to Swallow” isn’t dull,…

Been waiting to binge watch Legend of Korra? Now you can, for free. If you’re based in the U.S., Nick.com and the Nick app now have every episode from all four seasons of the show available to watch online until November 30th. Our suggestion? You should get to watching it, right now.

Watch an Exclusive Sneak Peek of Tonight’s Limitless

On Limitless this week, Brian pitches Naz the tall order of capturing the FBI’s “Ten Most Wanted” in two weeks. And he wants NZT to do it. And, if he succeeds, he also wants his own “headquarters” at the office. And, oh yeah, he’s made creepy clay effigies to make his point. We’ve got our…

We’re done speculating how much The Force Awakens will make in its opening weekend: now it’s time to speculate how much the toys will. Wall Street Journal reports that Star Wars merchandise could make up to $2 billion between its September launch and Christmas, squeezing out its nearest competition.