Almost everyone knows how the Doctor Who story “The Tenth Planet” ends — it’s the last story where William Hartnell plays the mysterious time-traveling Doctor. Except that a newly unearthed draft script by Kit Pedler and Gerry Davis leaves out the Doctor’s regeneration. Instead, the climax of the story is much more about the Doctor…
Zombies. They’re your ultimate nightmare. But the only thing that’s more intense than regular zombies? Is space zombies. Because zombies are automatically way more terrifying when there’s noplace to run. Here are the 10 greatest space zombies of all time! Possible spoilers ahead… We hadn’t realized quite how many space zombies there are out there…
The season finale of time-travel show Continuum contains so many bizarre twists and revelations, our heads were spinning. The whole premise of this show has been turned sideways. Let’s try and make sense of all this crazy new information, together. Spoilers ahead! Top image via Imgur. My favorite thing is when a story moves at…
Can’t wait to see Peter Capaldi take ownership of the TARDIS in 2014? 3-D artist NeonVisual (aka Xander David-Hugh) has you covered. He’s created some brand new Capaldi opening credits that look neat enough to be the real thing. Meanwhile, if you’re a massive Doctor Who fan and want to get married during the 50th…
Very few people really love Enterprise, the Star Trek prequel series that aired for four years. Until its final season, this show seemed to be struggling with the worst elements of both prequels and sequels, given its confusing time-travel storyline. But on the Blu-ray special features, the show’s creators blame the studio. Top image: The…
Jonathan Nolan has explored the nature of artificial intelligence in some intense, thought-provoking ways in his show Person of Interest. Now he’s making a Westworld TV show for HBO, and it’s described as “a dark odyssey about the dawn of artificial consciousness and the future of sin.” In Westworld, a theme park features robots who…
Everybody loves a character with a tragic origin story. The more heart-breaking a character’s beginnings, the more we invest in his or her origins. Case in point: Batman. But which character has the saddest, most depressing, or downright horrifying backstory of all time? Our vote? Simon Petrikov, better known as the Ice King. Partly, because…
Fall is here, and science fiction and fantasy are taking you where you’ve never gone before! There are tons of new TV shows, including Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Plus some great movies, including the return of Riddick. Plus Stephen King’s sequel to The Shining! Here’s everything you can’t miss in September. Top image: The Mammoth Book…
Remember Outbreak, the 1995 disease thriller that was less about science, and more about monkeys and heartfelt Dustin Hoffman speeches? Well, that movie is getting its own television drama! Why? Because coming up with new ideas is HARD, OK? According to Deadline, John Wells and Jack Orman (the crackpot producers behind ER) are ready to…
You know computers? Those magic boxes that can do anything — unless the entire Internet is taken down by a virus of course. Pop culture often has a fuzzy idea, at best, of how computers actually work. But what’s the most heinous misrepresentation of how computers work in pop culture? Please include a picture or…
Sometimes you grow to love a character — or at least get used to him or her having a particular personality. And then… all of a sudden, this once-familiar character has a completely different personality, in between movies or seasons of a TV show. What’s the most baffling personality shift of all time? Please include…
Yesterday Apple TV added Vevo, Disney, Disney XD, and Smithsonian apps. Today, in another over-the-air update, it got ESPN’s entire lineup of apps, including ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU, and more.
David Morrissey is one of the best things about The Walking Dead as the one-eyed martinet, the Governor. But now Morrissey has been cast as the lead in a new AMC science fiction series, Line of Sight. Could this mean he’ll disappear from the zombie wasteland? According to Deadline, which broke the news, Morrissey can…
Summer is giving us one last heat wave before turning into fall, and your humble post-apocalyptic fake mailman couldn’t be more ready for some cool weather. You know what the truest mark of civilization is? It’s not buildings, language, community, or even social justice. It’s goddamned air conditioning. A League of Their Own Jason H.:…
Everybody knows that in most science fiction and fantasy universes, the villain is way cooler and more interesting than the hero. But who’s the coolest and most badass villain of all time? You decide! Please include a photo or clip of this baddie, so we can admire him/her/it/them. And yes, this can include monsters and…
Don’t hold your breath for a new Blake’s 7. Those reports that Microsoft would be producing the reboot of the classic British space opera as original content for the Xbox? Apparently not true after all.
In the past year, Continuum has become a must-watch television show. This time-traveling cop show has been blowing our minds with twisty storytelling and a complex mythology. We were excited to ask creator Simon Barry what’s coming next on the show, and here’s what he told us. We corresponded with Barry via email, and here…
In less than a month, we’re going to be seeing Joss Whedon’s long-awaited return to television, with a show about S.H.I.E.L.D., the shadowy organization from the Marvel movies. But S.H.I.E.L.D. has already had a ton of unforgettable storylines in the comics. Here are 11 sagas that Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. could draw on. 11. Operation Brain…
Back in May, we showed you the insanely detailed concept art for The Simspsons park at Universal Studios. Well, now the doors to Springfield have opened! See what Moe’s looks like in the flesh! Thanks to Inside the Magic, we have a collection of videos and amazing images that give you a taste of the…
Apple TV got an over-the-air update today that added a couple of great new apps to the platform—Vevo, Disney, Disney XD, and an app from the Smithsonian.
