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Simpsons World Is Live: Every Simpsons Ever, Across All Your Devices

It’s here! The highly anticipated Simpsons World portal is open for your entertainment. Go forth and browse all 552 episodes, find and share clips, and use the impressive search function to look up every single appearance of Sideshow Mel. But wait, there’s more! Cable subscribers with the FXNOW app will have on-demand access to all…

Game Of Thrones Season 5 Just Made Another Major Change From The Books

A few behind-the-scenes photos reveal two major TV show characters meeting that haven’t encountered each other in the books — at least not yet, anyways. Spoilers ahead, obviously! First let me set the scene: In the books, Daenerys has trouble ruling Meereen, to say the least, so she marries a Meereenese noble named Hizdahr zo…

Justice League and Guardians of the Galaxy Add Secret New Characters!

And what’s going on at the Batman v. Superman red carpet? Plus, David Ayer on Suicide Squad, James Gunn on already writing Guardians of the Galaxy 2, and Melissa McCarthy ends those pesky Ghostbusters rumors. And tons of information on the Arrow and Flash crossover and their new characters. Spoilers now! Top image: The Flash…

Get Ready, Southeastern United States, the Sharknado Is Coming For You

Sharknado 3: Has This Joke Run Its Course Yet? has announced its next target and it’s, well, most of the southeastern coast of the U.S. It sounds like our leads are going to be running from a sharknado that chases them. Is this a tornado of Voodoo Sharks? Now that the major metropolitan areas of…

Support Some Kickass Indie Scifi About Gamer Ninjas

io9 hero Jim Munroe’s new lo-fi scifi series, Haphead, is almost done. Filming is done, and the crew just needs a little more help to do the finishing touches on the production. Consider contributing to their Kickstarter! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1453845642/haphead-a-near-future-videogame-subculture-webseri This is the same team that brought you the amazing movie Ghosts with Shit Jobs, so you…

Captain Hook Goes On A Date And Wears Normal Pants On Once Upon A Time

AND IT WAS GREAT. Once Upon A Time is at its best when it’s making its fairy tale characters pantomime actions of real-world people. And watching Captain Hook go on a date with Emma while she’s wearing a 16-year-old’s dress was pretty great. Honestly, I’m bored to hell with the Frozen storyline, and even more…

Ryan Murphy Claims To Have Invented The Genre Of Horror-Comedy

While we’re super optimistic about the idea behind Ryan Murphy’s new female-lead, Fox horror comedy series, Scream Queens, someone needs to tell Murphy about Buffy (and Evil Dead and A-Haunting We Will Go and Beetlejuice and Cabin in the Woods). Looking at a press release for Fox’s new horror anthology series Scream Queens, Slashfilm writer…

The Simpsons‘ A Clockwork Orange Parody Is A Brilliant Piece Of TV

Each year, The Simpsons tickles our funny bones with a trio of horror-themed tales, and this year’s Treehouse of Horror delivered one of our favorite Halloween segments yet: “A Clockwork Yellow,” which starts as a parody of A Clockwork Orange and gradually becomes a Stanley Kubrick free-for-all. Truly, “A Clockwork Yellow” is fantastic just for…

​Detective Carl Takes The Case Of The Peculiar Priest On Walking Dead

When the crew takes a brief respite, they come across an odd priest with something to hide. Fortunately, Carl is on the case! Unfortunately, he doesn’t trade his sheriff’s hat for Sherlock Holmes’ deerstalker, but everyone gets a chance to catch up before the shit hits the fan again in true Waking Dead style. After…

First Photos Of Game Of Thrones‘ Sand Snakes Show Off Their Boob Armor

One set of characters that we’re especially excited to meet in the upcoming season of Game of Thrones is the Sand Snakes of Dorne. Now we’re getting a peek at these badass ladies in leather boob armor complete with nipple-like points. With all of the filming on the Dorne set lately, it was only a…

Captain Boomerang Is One Stylish Boomerang Thrower On Arrow

Check out the first look at Spartacus’ Nick Tarabay as long-time Flash rogue Captain Boomerang, who will be making his inaugural appearance on Arrow later this season! (Don’t worry, he’s already slated to come to The Flash series, too). For a dude carrying multiple boomerangs on him, he’s looking dapper as hell. Clearly he’s modeled…

Who Will Be X-Men‘s Apocalypse? Plus Revealing Game of Thrones Photos!

There are a ton of new Interstellar details. Get a good look at most of the Avengers crew. New reports on Pacific Rim and How to Train Your Dragon reveal what’s being planned for those franchises. Plus a major Grimm spoiler from its star, and what’s next for the Queen siblings on Arrow. Top image:…

Peter Straub’s Shadowland is being developed as an “event series” for NBC by David S. Goyer. In addition producing the project, Goyer will also co-write it with BAFTA-winner Jack Thorne, who is currently adapting The Sandman. Shadowland follows two boys who spend a summer with a magician who may be a sorcerer. [Deadline]

Resurrection’s Most Awkward Family Dinner Has 3 Generations of the Dead

Take a back seat, mystery of why people are returning, we have got to sit through a dinner that is the exact opposite of getting “closure.” Plus, Grandma? Knows a lot and reveals it in the scariest possible way. Spoilers… Things to know: Rachael’s pregnancy is proceeding at twice the normal rate. And Pastor Tom’s…

20 Years Too Late, Ridley Scott’s Finally Adapting The Hot Zone

Ridley Scott and Lynda Obst have had the rights to adapt Richard Preston’s nonfiction best-seller The Hot Zone for two decades. And now that it’s a timely property again, it’ll be a miniseries for Fox. That’s actually a major departure from the original idea, which was a movie starring Jodie Foster. The new iteration has…

This Year, Doctor Who is Built Around A Character Arc, And That’s Major

Tonight’s episode clinches it: Doctor Who is doing a much more ambitious character arc than it’s done in years, even as the show’s “mystery” storytelling is drastically scaled back. Even with a few stumbles here and there, this is really major. You have to applaud the ambition, and a lot of the execution. Spoilers ahead……

It’s Official: We’re In Love With Legend Of Korra‘s New Antagonist

One of our biggest wishes for Legend of Korra Book 4 was that Kuvira, who is forcibly reuniting the Earth Kingdom, would be, if not a sympathetic antagonist, at least a relatable one. But after this episode, we could almost see ourselves rooting for her. And that’s why she’s so insidious. Sure, Kuvira is a…

Thank God The Sheriff From Eureka Is Cleaning Up The Vampire Diaries

Here’s the most brilliant, happy-making, fist-pumping “fuck yeah” moment from last night’s Vampire Diaries. In which my two favorite characters team up and take out the trash. Booyah! Of course, this being Vampire Diaries, Tripp (aka the Sheriff from Eureka) is the Bad Guy because he wants to kill vampires — particularly vampires who go…

Jason Momoa’s Game Of Thrones Audition Tape Is Scary/Sexy

Oh, Khal Drogo, you are all things terrifying and sexually alluring at the same time, as is your ridiculously intense audition tape for Game of Thrones. And this is pre-eyeliner! [Game of Thrones wiki via The Mary Sue]

Are We Getting Fewer Star Wars Movies And More DC Ones Than We Thought?

Star Wars has announced the return of another actor. Ryan Gosling’s rumored to be in all the genre films. Could Batman v. Superman be building Wonder Woman’s home in New Mexico? See a first look at Alexander Siddig in Game of Thrones. Plus, more details on Interstellar and Terminator: Genisys. Spoilers now! Top image: Star…