Television

The Walking Dead Is Back and Everybody Is Already Totally @#$%ed

Hey, remember all that talk about how TWD would be putting more zombies on screen than ever before? They weren’t kidding. “First Time Again” is not at all what I was expecting for the hit zombie show’s sixth season premiere. It’s half a reintroduction to the series and characters, especially as we left them at…

The First Three Minutes of Shadowhunters Are All Sexy Supernatural Stalking

ABC Family has released a sneak peek at Shadowhunters, the TV adaptation of Cassandra Clare’s The Mortal Instruments, which is taking the place of the film series that was already in development. Even from just this sneak peek, you can see that Shadowhunters is starting with City of Bones, ignoring the movie adaptation which came…

A Totally Insane Rumor Says Marvel Is Killing The Inhumans Movie

An unlikely actor is rumored to take over the role of Boba Fett. An Adventure Time movie is still in the works. Agent Carter casts four big new characters. Plus, Seth Green throws cold water on a Howard The Duck movie, and NYCC sizzle reels for Arrow, The Flash, and Gotham. To Me, My Spoilers!…

Paul Reubens Will Play the Penguin’s Father on Gotham

Back in 1992, Paul Reubens played Oswald Cobblepot’s snooty father in the movie Batman Returns. Now Pee-Wee Herman will play a different version of the Penguin’s dear old dad, this time on Gotham. Entertainment Weekly reports the news from NYCC’s Gotham panel, where Robin Lord Taylor, who plays Oswald Cobblepot/the Penguin, was excited to announce…

George R.R. Martin’s Novella About a Werewolf Collections Agent May Become a TV Show

Now that we’re five seasons deep into Game of Thrones, another George R.R. Martin story may be coming to television: The Skin Trade, Martin’s 1989 novella about a detective trying to solve a gruesome murder case and a collections agent who suffers from lycanthropy. Over on his blog, Martin has announced that Cinemax has optioned…

Every Burp in Rick & Morty Collected in One Nauseating Video

The folks at Digg decided to celebrate the end of Rick & Morty’s second season with this compilation of Rick’s gaseous emissions. Just a warning: You may feel slightly sick after watching them all in a row. [via Geeks are Sexy]

On Doctor Who, We See The One Thing That’ll Make The Doctor Bend The Rules

Tonight’s episode of Doctor Who sees the Doctor in an impossible situation, where his fate appears already sealed. In other words, it’s another day at the office. But this time around, the Doctor is only able to find a way out when he’s given the proper motivation: an even worse looming disaster. Spoilers ahead… In…

Latest Clip From Syfy’s The Magicians Shows How You Get to Magic College—With Snark

Brakebills University, the secret school of magic in Syfy’s upcoming show The Magicians, isn’t Hogwarts. You don’t get a charming letter saying you’ve gotten in. In fact, this clip shows Brakebills’ admissions are about confusion, entrance exams, and no small amount of snootiness. Syfy just showed this clip from its adaptation of Lev Grossman’s novel…

We Saw the First New X-Files Episode, And It Feels Like Home

The first episode of the revived X-Files was shown to packed house at New York Comic Con. Here are our spoiler-free first impressions. If there was one really big takeaway from the first episode, it was just how much of the old show had survived. Despite everything, for better or worse, this is The X-Files,…

It looks like Minority Report is already on the chopping block. Fox cut the episode order on the TV adaptation from 13 episodes to 10, with plans to wrap up production after that. Insert requisite “You didn’t need a Precog to see this coming” joke here.

In This Brand New Librarians Clip, Atlantis Once Again Rears Its Ugly Head

If there is one thing I have learned from fiction, it’s that finding the lost city of Atlantis is never a good thing. And it looks like the librarians are going to discover that for themselves when season 2 of The Librarians returns to TNT. This exclusive clip reminds us how much we missed this…

Rumor: The Wonder Woman Movie’s Storyline Will Span Centuries

A Time Bandits TV series may be in the works. The Flash teases a new superpower for Barry Allen. Get a good look at the concept work behind Batman v Superman’s new costumes. Plus, Robert Kirkman talks keeping The Walking Dead faithful to the comics, and new footage of Game of Thrones filming. Behold, Spoilers!…

American Horror Story: Hotel Is Basically The Lady Gaga Show, and That’s OK

American Horror Story returns to Los Angeles and sets up camp at the Hotel Cortez, which boasts a lushly restored art-deco lobby and a super-swanky penthouse—but ordinary guest rooms reek of recent death and nasty surprises. Spoilers ahead! Upon this gorgeous/creepy onslaught of visuals drapes a plot that’s either tissue-thin or amazingly uninteresting, or both.…

Syfy’s New Shows Are Tapping Into Classic Science Fiction Allegory

Syfy’s got two shows adapted from book series coming to TV soon: The Expanse and Hunters. And they’ve both got their eyes on the human condition. We’vealready talked about the pilot for The Expanse and how great it is—it bears a bit of repeating, because it truly is excellent and different from the books in…

Ahsoka Will Be the Gandalf of Star Wars Rebels 

Along with this epic trailer—which is apparently mostly scenes from just the first half of the season—the cast and crew of Star Wars Rebels dropped by New York Comic Con to talk about Ahsoka’s reappearance and a new villain, voiced by Sarah Michelle Gellar. As the trailer makes clear, Gellar’s Seventh Sister Inquisitor is a…

This Year, Arrow Is Determined to Kick Your Ass From The Very First Episode

Arrow is back, and its first episode, “Green Arrow” is mashing all our emotional buttons! If you like sappy romance, it’s got you. If you like angsty bromance, it’s got you. If you like ladies being superheroes, it’s got you. And if you just want to figure out this season’s latest tragic mystery, it has…

Hear David Tennant’s Sinister Villain For The First Time In The New Jessica Jones Teaser

Netflix and Marvel have been releasing dribs and drabs of Jessica Jones teasers recently—everything from trippy imageryto bar brawls and smashed alarm clocks. But this latest teaser is the biggest yet: because it finally gives us a look at the show’s major villain, played by David Tennant. Tennant is playing Zebediah Killgrave, better known as…

Absolutely Everything You Need To Know About The  Walking Dead Season Premiere!

A crazy new Star Wars theory explains why Finn knows how to use a lightsaber. Arrow’s producers say their latest twist isn’t a fake-out. Christoph Waltz is sick of being linked to Blofeld in SPECTRE. Plus, confirmation of a Game of Thrones character’s return, and a brief look at The X-Files. Spoilers Now! Star Wars:…

The New iZombie Status Quo Is the Same as the Old 

iZombie’s first season ended with a fairly intense finale. People got changed, healed, exploded . . . so now that “Grumpy Old Liv” has started season 2, what’s changed? Not much, surprisingly. Liv Just like last season, Liv is still solving murders by eating the brains and assuming the personality of murder victims. This week…

Scream Queens Heralds the Coming of “Chanel-O-Ween” By Driving a Cleaver Into Your Skull

We get two semi-big revelations (and one admittedly funny Matthew McConaughey impression) on this week’s Scream Queens; the rest is a whole lotta filler studded with handy reminders that one could actually be watching a real campy horror flick (Leprechaun FTW!) instead. OMG spoilers! The episode’s title, “Haunted House,” refers of course to Kappa house,…