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This Week’s TV: Falling Skies ends, and you’ll never guess who’s been married to Seven of Nine!

Television is going to teach us what happened to the dead people on Torchwood, and to the kidnapped children on Falling Skies. We’re also going to visit a sinister alternate universe with Phineas and Ferb. And Jeri “Seven of Nine” Ryan comes to Warehouse 13! But more than anything, there’s also… Shark Week! Better learn…

Television Charlie Jane Anders Aug 1

The Insignia TiVo TV: A “Smart” Television that Isn’t Dumb

We’ve made no attempts to hide our contempt for sloppy, inconsiderate “connected” TVs. So far, they’ve been thrown together with all the effort of a fad. But Best Buy’s in-house brand has a trick up its sleeve: TiVo. https://gizmodo.com/i-just-want-a-dumb-tv-5728167 The new Insignia Connected TV line, landing in Best Buy stores and BestBuy.com in both a…

Gadgets Sam Biddle Aug 1

The Logitech Revue Is Now $99, and It Still Costs too Much

The Revue, Logitech’s Google TV black box, never really took off. Unsurprising, since Google TV never took off either. So a humbled Logitech just slashed the price down from the original $299 to just $99. That hurts. Logitech promises that, when the Android 3.1 update comes to Google TV later this summer, customers can expect…

Tech News Kwame Opam Jul 31

The Rapture will be televised, on Torchwood

With the clip above, Torchwood zeroes in on two strands of Protestant politics, especially in America. There’s the “City on the Hill,” in which the elect are chosen in advance for paradise. And then there’s the forgiven sinner, in which the worst sin can be wiped clean as someone is lifted up by the grace…

Television Charlie Jane Anders Jul 30

Clarissa Explains It All prophesied the movie Cowboys & Aliens

Way back in the early 1990s, before Cowboys & Aliens was a graphic novel/film pitch, Clarissa Explains It All predicted the existence of the film in a throwaway line courtesy of Clarissa’s dorky brother Ferguson. Now we know where Hollywood gets its ideas — trawling Nickelodeon teen sitcoms. [Via NYMag]

Television Cyriaque Lamar Jul 30

Falling Skies just keeps getting better… and creepier

If you gave up on TNT’s Falling Skies after the first few episodes, now’s a great time to give it another chance. The just-concluded “Sanctuary” two-parter was genuinely intense and awesome. And this Sunday’s new episode has answers, action and weirdness. The above clip contains the moment when we finally found ourselves on the edge…

Television Charlie Jane Anders Jul 29

NBC’s Grimm is like early Angel… unfortunately

Fans of Angel, the Buffy the Vampire Slayer spinoff, will remember that took a long time to find its feet. The makers of Angel have a new production, a fairy-tale cop show called Grimm. And the pilot gave us a very “early Angel” feel. That is to say, the Grimm pilot is not quite firing…

Television Charlie Jane Anders Jul 29

Don’t hold your breath for more Torchwood

Torchwood: Miracle Day has been one of the summer’s great triumphs, both creatively and in the ratings. But Starz CEO Chris Albrecht tells Entertainment Weekly he doesn’t see it as an annual event. This season’s order of 10 episodes is an unusually large one for their production partner, the BBC, he claims. And the question…

Television Charlie Jane Anders Jul 29

What science fiction movie made Nathan Fillion cry?

We asked our big damn hero, Nathan Fillion, if there’s a single science fiction film that actually made his chiseled mug burst into tears. Find out what he told us below! On behalf of nerds everywhere, are there any other causes you’d like us to abandon? https://kotaku.com/even-nathan-fillion-wants-you-to-chill-on-the-uncharted-5824701 Nathan Fillion: Monkeys in space. No more sending…

Television Meredith Woerner Jul 29

Futurama gives the most twisted presidential history lesson ever

Yesterday’s Futurama took us on a psychedelic, president-licking journey through time, space, and disturbingly British alternate futures, complete with a rope-dealing Thomas Jefferson, vomiting Ulysses S. Grant, elbow-fetishizing James Madison, and badger-wielding Benjamin Franklin. Now that’s what I call history! “All the President’s Heads” finds Professor Farnsworth sprucing up his family tree, eager to show…

Television Alasdair Wilkins Jul 29

The new cast of ThunderCats explains why this reboot is better than the original

What does do new ThunderCats have that the original kitties didn’t? World-building, and tons of it. Watch the new voice cast of the ThunderCats series compare this new version to The Hobbit. And of course, there’s an excellent Sword of Omens call to round it all out. In case you were wondering, above we have…

Television Meredith Woerner Jul 28

Matt Smith explains why Doctor Who’s darkest hour is yet to come

Doctor Who shook up its entire universe by revealing the truth about River Song — and then left us hanging all summer. How will River Song shape the Doctor’s future? We asked Matt Smith. We were lucky enough to have five minutes with the Doctor Who star, who told us what to expect from this…

Television Charlie Jane Anders Jul 28

Can helium use the Colbert Bump to survive past 2020?

On last night’s Colbert Report, Stephen Colbert talked about helium and its surprising disappearance from the Earth. Despite being the second most abundant element in the universe, helium is quickly being depleted on Earth, and will soon be lost forever. With the Federal Helium Reserve soon exhausting its supply, the world will lose its source…

Television Jonathan Wilkins Jul 28

Why Patrick Duffy is Writing 3 Man From Atlantis Novels

Patrick Duffy is best known as Bobby Ewing on Dallas, the plucky hero who resurrected by stepping out of the shower. But he actually got his start on another show, The Man From Atlantis, about an amphibian superhero. Duffy feels so strongly that The Man From Atlantis never achieved its full potential, he’s writing a…

Television Charlie Jane Anders Jul 28

Alastair Reynolds Writing a Doctor Who Novel — Starring Jon Pertwee’s Doctor!

Alastair Reynolds is known for huge, sweeping space operas, like Revelation Space. So it’s sort of fascinating that he’s chosen to write a novel about Doctor Who’s most Earthbound era, the days of Jon Pertwee’s dashing military advisor. Reynolds announced that he’s joined Michael Moorcock, Naomi Alderman and Stephen Baxter in writing a new Doctor…

Television Charlie Jane Anders Jul 28

Wil Wheaton says the technobabble on Eureka is better than Star Trek’s

Nerd icon Wil Wheaton has returned to sci-fi television as Eureka’s slimy Dr. Isaac Parrish. We spoke with him at Comic-Con about just what makes good (and bad) technobabble, the secret to playing a scientist, and what’s ahead on Eureka! What’s it like stepping back into the world of technobabble? The technobabble is terrific because…

Television Alasdair Wilkins Jul 27

What would Jeffster do with the power of the Intersect?

Now that Morgan has uploaded the Intersect into his brain, some of the other Chuck stars think their characters should get a piece of the superpowered action, and argue why they should (or should not) get the Intersect. At Comic-Con, actors Scott Krinsky and Vik Sahay, who play Jeff Barnes and Lester Patel (collectively known…

Television Lauren Davis Jul 27

Will The Secret Circle be your new guilty pleasure in fall?

Over the weekend, we had a chance to see the pilot for Secret Circle, a teen sorcery show coming this fall from Kevin Williamson, creator of Vampire Diaries and Dawson’s Creek. It’s hard to deny the lure of a show whose pilot features teenage girls magically lighting cars on fire. But is it just too…

Television Katharine Trendacosta and Annalee Newitz Jul 27

On Alphas, our heroes take a deep whiff of the scent of madness

Alphas delivered its best showing thus far with “Anger Management,” an episode about the team chasing down an Alpha whose pheromones cause everyone in the vicinity to act like they’re at a Black Flag show. Some much needed character time and an expansion of the show’s mythology made this episode a fun watch, even if…

Television Cyriaque Lamar Jul 26

Frank Darabont stepping down as Walking Dead showrunner

Just days after he touted The Walking Dead’s second season at Comic-Con, rumors are flying that showrunner Frank Darabont is stepping down as the head zombie-wrangler on AMC’s hit undead series. What. The. Fuck. The Hollywood Reporter has just released this loaded bit of news: Sources confirmed to The Hollywood Reporter that Darabont, the creator,…

Television Meredith Woerner Jul 26

This Week’s TV: Falling Skies ends, and you’ll never guess who’s been married to Seven of Nine!

The Insignia TiVo TV: A “Smart” Television that Isn’t Dumb

The Logitech Revue Is Now $99, and It Still Costs too Much

The Rapture will be televised, on Torchwood

Clarissa Explains It All prophesied the movie Cowboys & Aliens

Falling Skies just keeps getting better… and creepier

NBC’s Grimm is like early Angel… unfortunately

Don’t hold your breath for more Torchwood

What science fiction movie made Nathan Fillion cry?

Futurama gives the most twisted presidential history lesson ever

The new cast of ThunderCats explains why this reboot is better than the original

Matt Smith explains why Doctor Who’s darkest hour is yet to come

Can helium use the Colbert Bump to survive past 2020?

Why Patrick Duffy is Writing 3 Man From Atlantis Novels

Alastair Reynolds Writing a Doctor Who Novel — Starring Jon Pertwee’s Doctor!

Wil Wheaton says the technobabble on Eureka is better than Star Trek’s

What would Jeffster do with the power of the Intersect?

Will The Secret Circle be your new guilty pleasure in fall?

On Alphas, our heroes take a deep whiff of the scent of madness

Frank Darabont stepping down as Walking Dead showrunner

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