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Is Sci-Fi TV Too Scary For British Kids?

Is Doctor Who too scary for kids? That’s the claim that one survey seems to be making, pointing out that British parents feel that the show should be broadcast later to avoid giving kids nightmares. The survey of 3000 UK parents, carried out by website TheBabyWebsite.com, happily blamed television for children’s bad dreams: All children…

io9 Graeme McMillan May 15

Are You Ready For More Monsters Unstuck In Time?

British monster show Primeval is coming back to BBC America this Saturday for its third season, and Egyptian gods and future gremlins are on the loose. We’ve watched the first couple episodes. Spoilers below! BBC America sent us DVDs of the first two episodes of Primeval season three, and the show about monsters and rips…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders May 14

Say Goodbye To Lost, Fringe, Smallville and Supernatural

Get a look inside each of this week’s heart-stopping finales, with clips and promos. Will your heart be able to stand major cliffhangers from Lost, Supernatural, Fringe and Smallville? Will Chloe vanish forever? Fingers crossed! Monday: Movies: In a future where cloning is possible but human cloning illegal, Arnold Schwarzenneger returns home to find a…

io9 Meredith Woerner May 11

British TV Series Primeval Gets A Hollywood Movie Debut

Rejoice, hunters of time-lost monsters! British cult hit Primeval is getting its own dinosaur-filled movie. Also, there are new photos, and updates on the U.S. premiere of Primeval’s second season. The creators of Walking with Dinosaurs are working on a U.S. Primeval film, in the works for 2010. Work will begin on the movie later…

Movies Meredith Woerner Apr 23

Comics’ Space Opera Master Gives Primeval A New Attitude

If you’ve read a great space-opera comic in the past decade, chances are it was co-written by Dan Abnett. Now he’s written a novel based on dinosaur/monster show Primeval, and we’ve got an exclusive chapter. In the novel Primeval: Extinction Event, When strange anomalies in time start to appear, Evolutionary Zoologist Professor Cutter and his…

Television Charlie Jane Anders Mar 20

Nerds Vs. Jocks Vs. Droids Vs. Padme Vs. Pigeons Vs. Serial Killers On This Week’s TV

This week on TV, Chuck’s nerd pals get into trouble with some jocks led by real-life football star Michael Strahan. Walter uses pigeons to do his sciencey bidding on Fringe. And Padme gets into some trouble on Clone Wars. Clips of the nerd-jock fight, some shocking revelations on Heroes, and some Smallville, Fringe and Star…

io9 Meredith Woerner Oct 13

John Larroquette Teaches Sexiness Lessons. General Grievous Takes Notes.

It’s only the second week for Chuck, and already the guest spots are starting to pour in. Thank god it’s the hilarious John Larroquette. In other TV news the Knight Rider team hits the beach, General Grievous is still up to no good, Ben 10 Alien Force is back, and Stargate Atlantis brings us more…

io9 Meredith Woerner Oct 6

Watch Clips From This Week’s New Smallville, Sarah Connor Chronicles And Fringe

On this very special week we’re getting some baby-mama drama on the new episode of Fringe. Also, why does Sarah Connor have to do everything herself? She needs some more competent team members, and hopefully in tonight’s episode, some people will step up and take responsibility. And finally we get to relive some 90s Pauly…

io9 Meredith Woerner Sep 15

TV This Week: Stargate Atlantis Has One Big Fat Reveal

Welcome back, Stargate Atlantis – we missed you! This week promises the dramatic return of a past character, and Rodney almost sinks the city. (Or tries to save the city, who knows with this Stargate math?). Plus, the mighty Hercules, Kevin Sorbo, cameos on Middleman as hero from the past (fingers crossed for more ridiculous…

io9 Meredith Woerner Aug 11

Getting Primeval on Your Television

If you’re a fan of dinosaurs, the premise of British series Primeval will immediately appeal to you. Airing for the first time in the U.S. tonight, Primeval is the story of a glittering portal that opens in Gloucestershire’s Forest of Dean — a portal that connects a Jurassic desert with contemporary England. Lucky for giant…

Television Annalee Newitz Aug 9

Primeval Is Interactive SF. You Know, For Kids

While the first episode of UK time-travel drama Primeval is just about to air tomorrow on BBC America, audiences in its home country haven’t just seen the first couple of seasons; they’ve designed monsters for the third season, as well. A recently-concluded competition to create a time-lost creature for the show resulted in 16-year-old Carim…

io9 Graeme McMillan Aug 8

3GTV Is Hoping To Make You Miss Doctor Who A Little Less

Now that Doctor Who has, to all intents and purposes, left our screens until 2010 (Yes, I know that SciFi still has a few episodes left of the current season, and that there are four specials starting this December), you may be wondering what can fill the void left behind? Under the jump, we look…

io9 Graeme McMillan Jul 12

Help! I’m Being Carjacked By The Cloverfield Monster!

A weird long-limbed creature attacks this guy’s minivan, from the British time-warp show Primeval, coming to American TV. The show’s producers insist it’s nothing like Doctor Who: it’s a work of total realism, except for the one central plot device of a time/space rift opening and letting prehistoric creatures attack. Primeval, from the creators of…

Television Charlie Jane Anders Jul 10

Is Sci-Fi TV Too Scary For British Kids?

Are You Ready For More Monsters Unstuck In Time?

Say Goodbye To Lost, Fringe, Smallville and Supernatural

British TV Series Primeval Gets A Hollywood Movie Debut

Comics’ Space Opera Master Gives Primeval A New Attitude

Nerds Vs. Jocks Vs. Droids Vs. Padme Vs. Pigeons Vs. Serial Killers On This Week’s TV

John Larroquette Teaches Sexiness Lessons. General Grievous Takes Notes.

Watch Clips From This Week’s New Smallville, Sarah Connor Chronicles And Fringe

TV This Week: Stargate Atlantis Has One Big Fat Reveal

Getting Primeval on Your Television

Primeval Is Interactive SF. You Know, For Kids

3GTV Is Hoping To Make You Miss Doctor Who A Little Less

Help! I’m Being Carjacked By The Cloverfield Monster!

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