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It’s Official: Netflix’s First Original TV Show Coming Late 2012

Netflix confirms they’ve successfully acquired the “broadcast” rights to the upcoming show House of Cards, a David Fincher-produced show with Kevin Spacey in lead role. The only bummer is that it’s not coming until late 2012. Ugh. [Netflix via Engadget]

Television Adrian Covert

Underwater Explosions Are Surprisingly Beautiful

What happens when you combine one ton of water, seven grams of black powder and a high-speed camera? You get this lovely explosion, which is to be featured in the upcoming BBC show Everything and Nothing. Pretty cool. [BBC]

Television Adrian Covert

V goes out in a sticky pile of lizard porn and blood-soaked bliss

As I watched the season finale and, most likely, series finale of V, I was once again struck by how brutally, off-the-charts insane this show is. Incest-laced breeding programs and mother/daughter/grandmother sexual voyeurism and naked torture and psychic drugs and hybrid babies . . . I’m going to miss everything that happened on Anna’s V…

Television Annalee Newitz

Some of Doctor Who’s most thrilling stories come to DVD

A few of Doctor Who’s coolest stories have shown up on DVD recently. Last week, we got the classic stories “The Seeds of Doom” and “The Ark,” and a few weeks earlier there was “A Christmas Carol,” the latest special. These three stories, collectively, show what Doctor Who is capable of being at its absolute…

Television Charlie Jane Anders

Is This the World’s Worst Home Wiring Job Ever?

Most people aren’t wiring experts. But the person responsible for this job takes “not-an-expert” to a whole new low. Perhaps they shouldn’t be trusted with electricity?

Television Lauren Soroken

Netflix Will Produce Network-Quality Shows of Its Own

There were rumblings yesterday that Hulu wants to produce original content. Netflix just beat them to the punch, acquiring the rights to a new show starring Kevin Spacey, with the pilot being directed by David Fincher. Wow. The show is a drama called House of Cards, which is an adaptation of the book and miniseries…

Television Adrian Covert

Fox delays time travelers and dinosaurs show Terra Nova until Fall 2011

The premiere of Terra Nova, the Steven Spielberg-produced TV show about humans traveling 85 million years into the past to escape their crappy, everything-is-dead present, has been pushed back from May until next autumn. The reason? Fox needs more time to work on the special effects. Said Fox entertainment president Kevin Reilly: Terra Nova is…

Television Cyriaque Lamar

Listen to the Japan Earthquake

Produced by Tectonic, these eerily harmonic and rhythmic sounds are the sonification of seismic activity off the coast of Honshu during Japan’s massive earthquake on Friday. What is Tectonic? “Tectonic is a realtime seismic analysis and sound synthesis system. Sound is created in realtime by earthquakes as they occur across the globe. A tightly integrated…

Television Richard Blakeley

Watch High-Rise Buildings in Tokyo Sway During Massive Earthquake

Here is amateur footage of swaying high-rise buildings taken in downtown Tokyo during Friday’s 9.0 magnitude earthquake. Thankfully the structures have been seismically retrofitted to absorb the shock waves of the earthquake.

Television Richard Blakeley

Studies Show Most of Us Need to Be Surrounded by Screens at All Times While Watching TV

A nice little study to prove the increasingly obvious: TV isn’t enough anymore. No, one screen is pitifully lacking—instead, we need to be in constant communication with our pals (and strangers) while tuning in. Eight out of ten respondents to a recent British survey said they use some form of social networking (Twitter, mostly) while…

Television Sam Biddle

Matthew Vaughn, James McAvoy and Michael Fassbender talk X-Men. Plus is Gary Oldman hinting at a new Batman 3 villain?

Neil. Blomkamp’s Elysium gets a villain and a release date. The director and stars of X-Men: First Class explain the world of 1960s mutants. We parse Gary Oldman’s cryptic description of the main villain in The Dark Knight Rises. Spoilers from here on out! The Dark Knight Rises Here’s some more intriguing snippets from the…

Television Alasdair Wilkins

Doctor Who season six airing on BBC America the same day as in the UK?

Good news! Not only did Doctor Who film in the United States for the first time this year, but we’re also getting the episodes the same day in the U.S. as in the U.K. At least, Doctor Who Magazine reports that series six will launch in Britain over Easter weekend (April 23). And BBC America…

Television Charlie Jane Anders

Man dumps girlfriend because she hates Firefly, writes song about it

We’ve discussed the ultimate relationship deal breaker scenario before. But this musician wrote an entire song about how he dumped his girlfriend for disliking Firefly. True or false, we feel your pain — even if we don’t fully support it. Via Topless Robot

Television Meredith Woerner

Ian McKellen describes his first look at Martin Freeman’s Bilbo Baggins. Plus new X-Men: First Class posters!

Ian McKellen reports his first sighting of Martin Freeman in costume as Bilbo Baggins. The dinosaur time travel show Terra Nova will also explore the 22nd Century. Plus updates on Fringe, The Walking Dead, True Blood, Chuck, and more! Spoilers from here on out! Top image from Mars Needs Moms. X-Men: First Class Here’s some…

Television Alasdair Wilkins

House Vs. Zombies! Television’s best doctor battles the undead

We don’t know how we missed this amazing scene from Monday night’s House in which he battles an army of the undead, with his “axe-cane”… which transforms into a shotgun. It’s settled: We want Hugh Laurie by our side in the zombie apocalypse. [via Darren Mckeeman on Twitter]

Television Charlie Jane Anders

Robbers Break Into Prison to Steal a TV

Most sane people, like you and me, do all we can to avoid prison. Not these idiots in New Zealand though, they broke into prison to steal a 50-inch plasma TV. The numbnuts set some drapes in an administrative building afire and that’s when police realized the New Plymouth Prison, a minimum to high security…

Television Casey Chan

Two-hour “The Event” event is a mind-asploding mess

If you want to know what it felt like to watch the two-part episode of The Event last night, just watch this video. It was an infinite loop of non-conversations. Plus an inexplicable celebration of lying to the American people. Spoilers ahead! You will know nothing! I loved that scene I looped for your viewing…

Television Annalee Newitz

How Stargate Universe got its groove back

Last night during the midseason premiere of Stargate Universe, the entire cast and crew upped their game. Was it the best SGU episode ever? No. But it certainly had the best pacing, chemistry, and look to date. Spoilers ahead… “Deliverance” accomplished two things: it managed to get Prince Of Egypt’s song “Deliver Us” song stuck…

Television Meredith Woerner

Michael Chabon’s new HBO series: Magicians Vs. Hitler

When he’s not working Disney’s John Carter of Mars script or penning Pulitzer Prize-winning novels, apparently Michael Chabon is pitching alternate-history series to HBO about the magicians that fought Hitler. Which sounds fantastic. According to Variety HBO has picked up Chabon’s new TV show called Hobgoblin, which is about “a motley group of conmen and…

Television Meredith Woerner

Eric strips down in the first footage from True Blood season 4

Hooray — it’s almost time for more of the vampire humpy-hump show, True Blood! Watch the first clip from season four, in which Vampire Eric wanders around lost and naked. Spoilers below… It’s no huge secret that this new season of True Blood will be playing with the magical plot from Charlaine Harris’ book series,…

Television Meredith Woerner

It’s Official: Netflix’s First Original TV Show Coming Late 2012

Underwater Explosions Are Surprisingly Beautiful

V goes out in a sticky pile of lizard porn and blood-soaked bliss

Some of Doctor Who’s most thrilling stories come to DVD

Is This the World’s Worst Home Wiring Job Ever?

Netflix Will Produce Network-Quality Shows of Its Own

Fox delays time travelers and dinosaurs show Terra Nova until Fall 2011

Listen to the Japan Earthquake

Watch High-Rise Buildings in Tokyo Sway During Massive Earthquake

Studies Show Most of Us Need to Be Surrounded by Screens at All Times While Watching TV

Matthew Vaughn, James McAvoy and Michael Fassbender talk X-Men. Plus is Gary Oldman hinting at a new Batman 3 villain?

Doctor Who season six airing on BBC America the same day as in the UK?

Man dumps girlfriend because she hates Firefly, writes song about it

Ian McKellen describes his first look at Martin Freeman’s Bilbo Baggins. Plus new X-Men: First Class posters!

House Vs. Zombies! Television’s best doctor battles the undead

Robbers Break Into Prison to Steal a TV

Two-hour “The Event” event is a mind-asploding mess

How Stargate Universe got its groove back

Michael Chabon’s new HBO series: Magicians Vs. Hitler

Eric strips down in the first footage from True Blood season 4

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