Television

Revealed: The Cast of the Total Recall Reboot, plus the Secret Mutant Cameo in X-Men: First Class!

Matthew Vaughn has an insanely awesome (not to mention awesomely insane) premise for his next X-Men movie. Eight directors are in the running for The Wolverine. Plus Ron Howard talks The Dark Tower, and Fright Night gets an encouraging rating. Spoilers from here on out! Top image from X-Men: First Class. X-Men: First Class Tons…

Television Alasdair Wilkins

Oren Peli’s The River: Best TV Pilot We’ve Seen in Years

A good TV pilot tells you a complete story, and seduces you into wanting to see more. It provides a crash course in a TV show’s world, and introduces a cast of characters. There’s a lot of heavy lifting. The pilot for Oren Peli’s new show, The River, makes it all look easy. The director…

Television Charlie Jane Anders

An unexpected guest star returns for Doctor Who’s big cliffhanger episode! Plus casting updates for the Hunger Games and World War Z!

We may get to hear the new Batman villains in the very near future. One of Professor X’s mutants explains his difficult life in X-Men: First Class, while Rupert Grint explains why Ron finally becomes a hero in Harry Potter. Spoilers from here on out! Top image from Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part…

Television Alasdair Wilkins

Why Supernatural season 6 was kind of like Buffy season 6

Supernatural season five had one of the best endings of any show ever, which could well have been a fitting conclusion to the series as a whole. So season six carried the burden of showing why the show should continue. How did Supernatural meet this challenge? By taking an approach sort of similar to that…

Television Charlie Jane Anders

Is this the leaked script for FX’s Powers TV show?

An anonymous tipster has sent us what appears to be the pilot script for FX’s adaptation of Brian Michael Bendis and Michael Oeming’s cop-and-superheroes series Powers. It reads like the real deal, complete with a heaping dollop of cable grime. Spoilers from here on out… A caveat before we begin. We have no way of…

Television Cyriaque Lamar

We’ve seen ABC’s new fairytale show Once Upon a Time

Can a show about fairytale characters in the real world keep you wishing upon a star every week? ABC is hoping you’ll want to get to know Snow White and a host of fairytale characters in Once Upon a Time. We were lucky enough to watch the pilot of Once Upon A Time in advance,…

Television Charlie Jane Anders

At last, we know what “the event” is on The Event

When a show gets canceled before its time, it can go out gracefully or it can go out like an oily smack on the trousers. Unfortunately for The Event, we got the full smackage. But I will give the series this: It stayed true to itself, with an ending that made no sense, yet was…

Television Annalee Newitz

Did Zoe Saldana hint at the villains of Star Trek 2? Plus new trailers for Green Lantern and Torchwood: Miracle Day!

The Dark Knight Rises and The Hunger Games add more actors. John Carter of Mars and Now get new titles, while Real Steel and Harry Potter release new posters. Gaze in wonder at the silliest thing ever said about Candyland! Spoilers from here on out! Top image from Torchwood: Miracle Day. The Dark Knight Rises…

Television Alasdair Wilkins

How Twitter Was Fooled Into Thinking bin Laden Watched The IT Crowd and Big Bang Theory

Amidst stories of war-dogs, secret choppers, and hard drives chockablock with porn, there was a small furore on Twitter about Osama bin Laden watching hit UK TV show The IT Crowd—or was it Big Bang Theory? Turns out, it was all an elaborate hoax by The IT Crowd’s writer. https://gizmodo.com/the-navy-seal-team-6-dog-is-a-bigger-badass-than-you-5798745 We all know how Chinese…

Television Kat Hannaford

Star Trek’s wildest spin-off is starting to show its age

Peter David’s Star Trek: New Frontier series has spawned 18 novels and a host of tie-in materials. The weirdly soap-operatic book spinoff has become an obsession for a host of Trek fans. But how does David’s latest installment stack up? Blind Man’s Bluff is the first New Frontier book since 2009’s Treason, so it’s got…

Television Katharine Trendacosta

Vampire Eric deals with the fallout from the best True Blood episode ever

Do you remember the “Best True Blood Ending Ever. Ever. Ever. Ever.” ? The high water mark for all TV shows attempting to cross the rat-shit Rubicon of insane-but-brilliant television? Vampire Eric has a videotaped his response to that incident. http://io9.com/5613435/best-true-blood-ending-ever-ever-ever-ever Of course we’re talking about the episode where Russell Edgington ruined life for out-of-the-coffin vampires…

Television Meredith Woerner

This week’s TV: Batman fights Star Sapphire, and the Avengers face Ultron!

Remember how we had a bunch of season finales last week? That was pretty awesome, huh? Unfortunately, though, it means one thing for this week’s television: Kind of a slow week. But don’t panic! There’s still copious televisual greatness ahead! For one thing, Batman fights Star Sapphire, who’s arguably Green Lantern’s most alluring nemesis. (Sorry,…

Television Charlie Jane Anders

Which science-fiction epics will Tom Cruise join? Plus new promos for X-Men: First Class, Transformers 3, Harry Potter, Tintin, and Doctor Who!

The Dark Knight Rises films an explosion and adds three cast members. Sherlock Holmes joins The Hobbit. Plus new photos for Transformers: Dark of the Moon, Super 8, and the new TV shows Alcatraz, Awake, and Grimm! Spoilers from here on out! Top image from Transformers: Dark of the Moon. The Dark Knight Rises In…

Television Alasdair Wilkins

Yep, Hulu Plus is Now on TiVo Premiere

As if Netflix, YouTube, Amazon Instant Video and Blockbuster streaming weren’t enough—now TiVo Premiere owners can also stream TV shows from Hulu Plus. You’ll have to be a Hulu Plus subscriber, or just buy a new TiVo Premiere DVR for six months’ free Hulu Plus goodies. Alternatively, get your “free trial” in now, for however…

Television Kat Hannaford

Here are the shorts we’ll never see Wonder Woman wear (again)

Wonder Woman’s gone the way of the Generation X and Justice League TV pilots, but pictures of Adrianne Palicki rocking the fabled hot pants have hit the web. They’re certainly more risqué than those worn by the illustrious Lynda Carter. https://gizmodo.com/nbcs-wonder-woman-will-rock-lynda-carters-hot-pants-aft-5791742 [Via Wonder Woman TV. Hat tip to Jean!]

Television Cyriaque Lamar

Doctor Who timeline breaks down the wheelings and dealings of your modern doctors

This character map by NathanTheNerd breaks down the various escapades of the modern Whoverse going up to this season. Be sure to consult the key on the left to determine which companion is along for the (chronologically wacky) ride. [Via NerdBastards]

Television Cyriaque Lamar

A Doctor Who Story that Doesn’t Need the Doctor

People often point out that Doctor Who can do any type of story — a murder mystery, a war story, a ghost story, etc. There’s really only one requirement for a good Doctor Who story: the Doctor must be crucial. If the Doctor doesn’t add something important to the story just by being there, then…

Television Charlie Jane Anders

On the Supernatural season finale, there cannot be democracy in heaven

Many of us are probably still reeling from last night’s two-hour season finale of Supernatural, in which all the bad things we expected came to pass – but in a much more deeply disturbing way than one might imagine. But this is Supernatural, so there was also quite a bit of fun, and clever tweaks…

Television Annalee Newitz

Watch a Smallville fan positively lose his shit watching the finale

Some of you know that I wasn’t that enthused by the Smallville finale. And judging from the hate mail I got, some of you found it a profound aesthetic experience…like this guy right here. https://gizmodo.com/the-confessions-of-a-smallville-apologist-5801851 It’s entirely possible that our squealer right here is faking his Smallgasm, but I don’t doubt that some folks out…

Television Cyriaque Lamar

9 Classic Remote Controls

In the old days, even the remotes had character. Names like Space Commander and Flash-Matic lent a feeling of speed and sense of authority that something like a modern RM-VL700 never could. Our friends at Oobject.com have assembled a great collection. Looking for more antique-media-related media? Check out these Vintage TVs and Spy Radios, or…

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Revealed: The Cast of the Total Recall Reboot, plus the Secret Mutant Cameo in X-Men: First Class!

Oren Peli’s The River: Best TV Pilot We’ve Seen in Years

An unexpected guest star returns for Doctor Who’s big cliffhanger episode! Plus casting updates for the Hunger Games and World War Z!

Why Supernatural season 6 was kind of like Buffy season 6

Is this the leaked script for FX’s Powers TV show?

We’ve seen ABC’s new fairytale show Once Upon a Time

At last, we know what “the event” is on The Event

Did Zoe Saldana hint at the villains of Star Trek 2? Plus new trailers for Green Lantern and Torchwood: Miracle Day!

How Twitter Was Fooled Into Thinking bin Laden Watched The IT Crowd and Big Bang Theory

Star Trek’s wildest spin-off is starting to show its age

Vampire Eric deals with the fallout from the best True Blood episode ever

This week’s TV: Batman fights Star Sapphire, and the Avengers face Ultron!

Which science-fiction epics will Tom Cruise join? Plus new promos for X-Men: First Class, Transformers 3, Harry Potter, Tintin, and Doctor Who!

Yep, Hulu Plus is Now on TiVo Premiere

Here are the shorts we’ll never see Wonder Woman wear (again)

Doctor Who timeline breaks down the wheelings and dealings of your modern doctors

A Doctor Who Story that Doesn’t Need the Doctor

On the Supernatural season finale, there cannot be democracy in heaven

Watch a Smallville fan positively lose his shit watching the finale

9 Classic Remote Controls

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