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Doctor Who’s New Future Gameshow Spin-Off: WTF?

If the success of Doctor Who has taught British television makers anything, it’s that audiences love science fiction. But that’s no excuse for the announcement of Mission: 2110, a new SF-themed gameshow written by a former Who writer. 2110 is the creation of Who writer Phil Ford, and described by executive producer Sue Morgan as…

Television Graeme McMillan

How Regular Movies Are Converted To 3D

Now that Avatar is officially the highest grossing movie of all time, it’s inevitable that studios will continue to push 3D as the new frontier of cinema. But actually filming in 3D is prohibitively expensive. Here’s how they fake it. https://gizmodo.com/avatar-is-now-the-highest-grossing-film-of-all-time-me-5457366 Not many directors share James Cameron’s obsession with three dimensional authenticity, and not many…

Movies Kyle VanHemert

One Reveal Too Many On Fringe

I love Fringe to pieces, but last night’s episode “The Bishop Revival” was surprisingly meh. Immortal Nazi scientists are always fun, but not when it turns into yet another reveal about the Bishop family of mad scientists. Again, don’t get me wrong. I like all the weird family revelations about the Bishops, with transdimensional kidnapping/adoption…

Television Annalee Newitz

This Is Exactly Why I Don’t Check My Voicemail Anymore

There are times when I let my voicemail fill up to the point of callers getting the “Sorry. Mailbox is full. Please try again.” message. This is why. Click on the image for a closer look. Look, I’ll return missed calls even if you don’t command me to do so, I promise. Unless you’re annoying.…

Books & Comics Rosa Golijan

Welcome To The Soft Apocalypse

By now, the apocalypse story – which goes back at least as far as the ancient Hebrews – has fractured into numerous sub-genres. Our favorite, these days, is the soft apocalypse, where the end has come but life goes on. Sometimes, things are rough. Not everybody plays fair. Nobody drives Beemers any more. The style…

Movies Scott Timberg

7 New Wolfman Clips Reveal Benicio’s Painful Puppy Transformation

Watch Benicio del Toro’s fingers bend, eyes change color and face skew up horrifically in these brand new Wolfman clips. It’s dark and brooding and Emily Blunt seems amazing, but is Benicio your wolf of choice? Transformation Kill The Beast! Wolf Kiss Werewolf In London! You’ve Done Terrible Things This Gypsy Is No Help Wolf…

Movies Meredith Woerner

Body-Switching And Satanic Nerds On Supernatural

In last night’s Supernatural, called “Swap Meat,” Sam and Dean arrive in a small Massachusetts town to fight a poltergeist – but wind up tangling with something much more dangerous. An MIT-bound nerd who loves Latin. Like many of the best Supernatural episodes, this one started goofy, and wound up taking us to a really…

Television Annalee Newitz

The Shiniest Stories On io9 Last Week

Spend all week with a flock of screaming Gary Buseys? Don’t worry we’ve got chart porn, a wholly original J.J. Abrams Board Game, plus 10 Marvel TV shows we’d like to see. https://gizmodo.com/the-epic-mural-of-the-internet-doesnt-have-nearly-enoug-5459303 Stargate Universe Writer Asks For Your Help With The New Season Stargate writer and consulting producer for SGU Joseph Mallozzi took to…

io9 Meredith Woerner

The Iraq War Was A Turning Point For Robot Armies

An old trope of science fiction, from Asimov to the Teminator series, is the robot uprising. But robots have already started taking over – at least in the US military, where robots now carry out 33,000 missions per year. Call them the New Hessians: Like the German troops hired by the Brits to fight in…

io9 Scott Timberg

Iron Man Out, Bond In For Cowboys and Aliens

Robert Downey Jr. may be too busy saving the world as Iron Man and Sherlock Holmes to revisit the Wild West, but luckily another cinematic hero has stepped in to take up the fight in the upcoming Cowboy Versus Aliens. Nikki Finke is reporting that Daniel Craig has signed on the dotted line to star…

Movies Graeme McMillan

Cobra Christ, Superstar: The Musical

Now you can watch all three Cobra Commander musicals, Cobra The Musical, Cobra Christ, Superstar, and Return of the King… of Kings . That’s right – someone made a villain-centric Cobra musical so you can learn what’s behind the mask. Found on The Floor has all three musicals. We suggest you start with the first,…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Giant Explosions Are The Cheapest Way To Halt Climate Change, Say Scientists

A recent report from a group of environmental scientists, published in Nature, argues that cutting greenhouse emissions is much more expensive than another option we have to halt global warming: Setting of a mega-volcano that would coat atmosphere in nice, sun-blocking ash. According to an article on the report in the Telegraph: They called for…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Important Robert Silverberg Novel, Back in Print

A classic population explosion novel, Robert Silverberg‘s The World Inside, with a contrarian point of view and lots of sex, will soon return to print — and could be the subject of an upcoming HBO series. The writer Robert Silverberg absolutely tore through through the sf world in the early ’70s, writing so much good…

Books & Comics Scott Timberg

Watch The First Four Minutes of “Lost” Season Six

Buckle your seatbelts, because the first four minutes of the new season of Lost, from the episode “LA X,” deliver some shocks. Spoilers! [via Slashfilm]

Television Annalee Newitz

Three Reasons Why We’re Closer Than Ever To Fusion Power

It seems like we’re constantly just around the corner from fusion power, and that soon it’ll solve our energy woes. While we’re not quite there yet, three new reports all indicate we’re at least getting a little closer. A joint project between MIT and Columbia University has shown the possibility of a new path towards…

io9 Tim Barribeau

Twitter And Win Buffy’s Most Recent Season

Been missing out on the further adventures of Buffy The Vampire Slayer? Dark Horse Comics wants to help with a Twitter lottery to win all Season 8 collections to date. Go here for details, but hurry: It’s only running today.

Books & Comics Graeme McMillan

Jon Favreau’s Mandalorian Battle Debut In Star Wars Clone Wars

Jon Favreau gets to voice possibly the best new character in the Star Wars mythology, a no-nonsense killing machine Mandalorian. Can Favreau pull off badass in the new Clone Wars episodes? This is the guy behind Iron Man, after all. Favreau voices the leader of the Mandalorians and wields an ancient light saber, stolen from…

Television Meredith Woerner

“Utopia” Comes to Sundance [NSFW]

This week an intriguing new film, Utopia in Four Movements, screened at Sundance. It explores the way people in the past imagined the future. We can’t wait for it to bust out of the festival circuit. So far only a few handfuls of people have seen the film (a “live documentary,” screened with performances by…

Movies Scott Timberg

Lost Case Mod Is Perfectly Suited For Your Hatch

This impressive Lost case mod incorporates a few disparate elements of everyone’s favorite time-jumping mystery island. You’ve got the whole jungle thing going on and a Dharma Initiative-flavored octagonal shape. Oh, and it can take down airplanes flying overhead. It doesn’t come as much of a surprise that some Brazilian Lost fanatics had the geek…

Television Kyle VanHemert

How to Prevent an Asteroid Impact and Look Good Doing It

While NASA and other space agencies keep their telescopes trained on near-Earth objects that could smash into us, we don’t know how to prevent an impact. Here are some of the best (and weirdest) ideas for protecting Earth from incoming asteroids. There’s actually a federal mandate that says NASA has to discover all near-Earth objects…

io9 Ed Grabianowski

Doctor Who’s New Future Gameshow Spin-Off: WTF?

How Regular Movies Are Converted To 3D

One Reveal Too Many On Fringe

This Is Exactly Why I Don’t Check My Voicemail Anymore

Welcome To The Soft Apocalypse

7 New Wolfman Clips Reveal Benicio’s Painful Puppy Transformation

Body-Switching And Satanic Nerds On Supernatural

The Shiniest Stories On io9 Last Week

The Iraq War Was A Turning Point For Robot Armies

Iron Man Out, Bond In For Cowboys and Aliens

Cobra Christ, Superstar: The Musical

Giant Explosions Are The Cheapest Way To Halt Climate Change, Say Scientists

Important Robert Silverberg Novel, Back in Print

Watch The First Four Minutes of “Lost” Season Six

Three Reasons Why We’re Closer Than Ever To Fusion Power

Twitter And Win Buffy’s Most Recent Season

Jon Favreau’s Mandalorian Battle Debut In Star Wars Clone Wars

“Utopia” Comes to Sundance [NSFW]

Lost Case Mod Is Perfectly Suited For Your Hatch

How to Prevent an Asteroid Impact and Look Good Doing It

National Film and Sound Archive of Australia Adds ‘Succulent Chinese Meal’ Guy

Feds Sniffing Around Polymarket After Suspicious Bets

DJI Osmo 360 Review: The Best 360 Camera for the DJI-Pilled

Don’t Get Too Attached to Any AI App

‘Paradise’ Writer Teases What’s Coming in Season 3 After That Huge Twist

Trump’s New White House App Is Mildly Concerning and Weird for a Lot of Reasons

Bloodsucking Ticks Can Survive Inside Your Home Longer Than You Might Think

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MSI Prestige 14 Flip AI+ Review: A Solid 2-in-1 Laptop With Some Glaring Flaws

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

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