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There’s No Doctor Who Christmas Special This Year—It’s a New Year’s Day Episode, Instead [Updated]

For the first time since Doctor Who returned in 2005, there won’t be a special episode airing on Christmas Day…but you seemingly won’t have to wait too long to get another slice of adventures in Time and Space. Previous recent rumblings in British tabloids have now been confirmed: After Doctor Who’s currently airing 11th season…

io9 James Whitbrook

Ursula K. Le Guin’s Nine Lives Movie Finds Its Moon-Mining Scouts

Ursula K. Le Guin’s sci-fi novelette Nine Lives is becoming a movie, and it’s found its stars. Common (Smallfoot, Suicide Squad) and Jonny Lee Miller (Elementary, Hackers) have joined the film as the two mining location scouts who are forced to work with a team of clones. According to Deadline, Common and Miller will play…

Movies Beth Elderkin

The Mandalorian Picks Up Game of Thrones‘ Pedro Pascal as Its Lead

First he was in Game of Thrones, soon he’ll be in the DC Universe, and now, he’s going to a galaxy far, far away. Variety reports that Pedro Pascal is in talks to star in the upcoming Disney+ Star Wars series, The Mandalorian, a piece of casting that was previously rumored but unconfirmed. The article…

io9 Germain Lussier

An Alien Invasion Was Happening in Searching, You Just Didn’t Notice It

Most people think Searching is just a movie about John Cho looking for his missing daughter.

Movies Germain Lussier

Yaz Finally Steps Into the Spotlight for a Poignant Doctor Who

One of the many changes brought to Doctor Who this year is more companions than a dimensionally transcendental phone box knows what to do with. Much of the season so far has left one new traveler—Mandip Gill’s Yasmin Khan—taking a backseat. But “Demons of the Punjab” finally let her shine. “Demons of the Punjab” sends…

io9 James Whitbrook

Indoor Vaping Bans, Trump’s New AG, and the Home Button: Best Gizmodo Stories of the Week

It’s been one hell of a week. From the 2018 midterms—in which races in Florida, Arizona, and Georgia are still being contested—to raging wildfires in California that are wiping entire communities off the map and continuing to rage, the news cycle has verged on impossible for any one person to process in its entirety. Still,…

Tech News Tom McKay

Sir Patrick Stewart Has Been an Important Presence in the Picard Show’s Writers Room

There are a lot of ways to get to know a character. You can study all their appearances, get really into the heads of the people who made them. Or, you can just be a brilliant actor who’s played that character for several years. That works, too. According to Michael Chabon, who’s signed on as…

io9 Julie Muncy

Report: Michelle Yeoh Could Be Getting Her Own Star Trek Spinoff

Michelle Yeoh, as Captain Philippa Georgiou and then, later, as the evil Emperor Georgiou from the Mirror Universe, was one of the most captivating parts of Star Trek: Discovery’s first season. And we may be seeing a lot more of her. According to the Hollywood Reporter, Yeoh is in talks with CBS to helm a…

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Short Treks Dives Far Into the Future of Star Trek With a Sweet Assist From Earth’s Past

Star Trek: Discovery’s latest episode in its bite-sized Short Treks series doesn’t feature a fan-favorite character from the show like the previous installment did. But “Calypso” does have one familiar element—Discovery’s titular ship, though presented in a way we may never see again. That’s because “Calypso” takes place 1,000 years after Discovery’s last crew (we…

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Michael Chabon on Honoring Star Trek Canon and How Picard Is ‘The Hero We Need Right Now’

Executive producer Michael Chabon is helping bring back one of Star Trek’s greatest captains, with a new show centered around Captain Jean-Luc Picard (played once again by Patrick Stewart). Chabon and his other writers have a lot to live up to—not just with honoring Picard’s legacy, but also the decades of Star Trek canon that…

io9 Beth Elderkin

John Boyega and Letitia Wright May Team Up For a Space Love Story

The director of Another Earth and I Origins is bringing together two of today’s most popular stars for a literal star-crossed love story. Deadline reports that John Boyega and Letitia Wright may team up with director Mike Cahill to make Hold Back the Stars, based on a book by Katie Khan. The book is about…

Movies Germain Lussier

Cassian Andor Is Getting His Own Star Wars Streaming Series

First was The Mandalorian and next is Cassian Andor. Disney just announced that Diego Luna will star in a Rogue One prequel series about his character, Cassian Andor, that will premiere on Disney’s streaming service, now officially called Disney+. The show will go into production next year and “follows the adventures of rebel spy Cassian…

io9 Germain Lussier

Star Trek: Discovery‘s Story Team Discuss the Spirit of Captain Georgiou in This Exclusive Clip

Although Michelle Yeoh’s stalwart Captain Phillipa Georgiou didn’t make it out of Star Trek: Discovery’s opening episodes alive, her spirit—and more literally, even her mirror self later on—was one of the driving forces behind Michael Burnham’s story. See just how important that was to both Yeoh and Discovery’s creative staff in this new clip. To…

io9 James Whitbrook

Why We Need Utopian Fiction Now More Than Ever

From the neon-drenched noir of Altered Carbon to the technophobic Black Mirror, dystopia is all over mainstream entertainment these days—and considering the current political climate, it’s easy to see why. But when was the last time you watched a utopian show or movie? Unless, like me, you’re watching Star Trek on repeat forever, it’s probably…

io9 Eleanor Tremeer

The ’80s Space Adventure Explorers May Come to TV With an Impressive Set of Writers

The men behind True Detective and A Ghost Story are trying to bring a cult 1980s sci-fi adventure film to the small screen. Deadline reports that Cary Fukunaga and David Lowery are teaming up to write a TV pilot script for Explorers, based on the 1985 Joe Dante film. The film was Ethan Hawke’s first…

io9 Germain Lussier

Another Tiny Slice of Doctor Who‘s Missing History Will Get an Animated Revival

So much of Doctor Who’s early past is lost to time—not in the romantic, time-travel sense, but in that old BBC archival policies meant that the original records of the earliest years of Who in the ‘60s were wiped, leaving nearly 100 episodes seemingly gone forever. But one tiny slice of vintage Who is getting…

io9 James Whitbrook

I Think I’m Ready for Doctor Who to Stop Proving That It’s Still Doctor Who

Despite being a show about change, there’s always a certain amount of trepidation in Doctor Who when any amount of it happens, whether it’s just a new monster or a whole new Doctor. The latest season has seen more changes than we’ve had in a while—and it still feels like it’s trying assuage that familiar…

io9 James Whitbrook

Come Have a Nibble on the Spoiler-Filled Doctor Who Discussion Thread

You could say, given that the internet is basically nothing but energy and inorganic matter, that there’s gonna be a lot to chew on. Hahaha. Haha. Ha. Anyway, let’s talk about Doctor Who, shall we? “The Tsuranga Conundrum” is a bit of a weird episode of Doctor Who, in that, it doesn’t really stand out.…

io9 James Whitbrook

How Annihilation Relies on Metaphor to Make Meaning

How do complicated, ambiguous stories work? What role does literal interpretation play in a story laced in metaphor? They’re good questions to ask, and especially good questions to ask about io9-favorite Alex Garland’s Annihilation. In a video essay about the very topic, Folding Ideas, aka Dan Olson, dives into the questions with gusto and critical…

Movies Julie Muncy

These Might Actually Be the Incredibly Weird Titles for the Avatar Sequels

Any day of the week it’s easy to forget James Cameron has been working on four Avatar sequels for most of the past decade. Yes, that’s right, four sequels. The first two are scheduled for release in December 2020 and 2021; if those are successful, two more will arrive in December 2024 and 2025. That…

Movies Germain Lussier

There’s No Doctor Who Christmas Special This Year—It’s a New Year’s Day Episode, Instead [Updated]

Ursula K. Le Guin’s Nine Lives Movie Finds Its Moon-Mining Scouts

The Mandalorian Picks Up Game of Thrones‘ Pedro Pascal as Its Lead

An Alien Invasion Was Happening in Searching, You Just Didn’t Notice It

Yaz Finally Steps Into the Spotlight for a Poignant Doctor Who

Indoor Vaping Bans, Trump’s New AG, and the Home Button: Best Gizmodo Stories of the Week

Sir Patrick Stewart Has Been an Important Presence in the Picard Show’s Writers Room

Report: Michelle Yeoh Could Be Getting Her Own Star Trek Spinoff

Short Treks Dives Far Into the Future of Star Trek With a Sweet Assist From Earth’s Past

Michael Chabon on Honoring Star Trek Canon and How Picard Is ‘The Hero We Need Right Now’

John Boyega and Letitia Wright May Team Up For a Space Love Story

Cassian Andor Is Getting His Own Star Wars Streaming Series

Star Trek: Discovery‘s Story Team Discuss the Spirit of Captain Georgiou in This Exclusive Clip

Why We Need Utopian Fiction Now More Than Ever

The ’80s Space Adventure Explorers May Come to TV With an Impressive Set of Writers

Another Tiny Slice of Doctor Who‘s Missing History Will Get an Animated Revival

I Think I’m Ready for Doctor Who to Stop Proving That It’s Still Doctor Who

Come Have a Nibble on the Spoiler-Filled Doctor Who Discussion Thread

How Annihilation Relies on Metaphor to Make Meaning

These Might Actually Be the Incredibly Weird Titles for the Avatar Sequels

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Epstein Victims Sue Google, Claim AI Mode Exposed Personal Information

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Anthropic and OpenAI Just Gave Us a Glimpse Into the Future of Model Pricing

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Smart Glasses Now Have One of the Vision Pro’s Best Features

Marvel Just Put ‘Daredevil: Born Again’ Season 2 in a Very Weird Place in the MCU Timeline

Trump Drops $1B to Kill 2 Wind Farms, Then Watches a Bigger One Go Online

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Asus ROG’s Cetra Open Wireless Gaming Earbuds Might Be Better Than Wearing a Headset

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