Television

This is the week of Chewbacca!

Let the Wookiee win the battle for your TV remote this week. Chewbacca comes to Star Wars: The Clone Wars for its one-hour season finale. Also: Superjail! is back on Cartoon Network. Camelot makes King Arthur gritty. Plus there are new episodes of The Event, Adventure Time, Sym-Bionic Titan, Big Bang Theory, Batman: The Brave…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Mar 28

Watch Jim Henson’s pre-Muppet Show pilot for the Wizard of Id

In 1969, Jim Henson created a test pilot for the medieval-themed comic strip The Wizard of Id. Check out a clip of this Muppet show that never was. Henson was a fan of the comic strip and actively sought to collaborate with the cartoon’s creator. Says The Henson Blog: In the summer of 1968, Jim…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Mar 28

Ebert’s Art Film Revolution (1987)

OMNI magazine interviewed Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert about the future of movies for their June, 1987 issue. Ebert makes some bold and accurate predictions about how a revolution in the delivery and distribution of movies will open up the “art film” market, allowing people greater access to movies that may not make financial sense…

Tech News Matt Novak Mar 27

No Ordinary Family’s forgotten episode is shockingly good

Thanks to Dancing with the Stars, the penultimate episode of No Ordinary Family was exiled to Saturday night, all but ensuring that nobody will see it. Which is a real shame, because this might actually be the show’s best episode. “No Ordinary Future” is the first episode I’ve seen in ages that makes me think…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins Mar 27

The creators of The Venture Bros. tell us about the new season (and slash fiction)

io9 recently chatted with Venture Bros. head honchoes Jackson Publick and Doc Hammer about the upcoming seasons of their Adult Swim comedy, their new DVD, and fanmade Venture erotica and slash fiction. In fact, we mostly talked about slash. First off, congrats on getting renewed for two seasons. What do you guys have cooking? https://gizmodo.com/venture-brothers-renewed-for-two-more-seasons-with-an-5784377…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Mar 26

Fringe gives us the mother of all creep-outs

Now that Fringe is miraculously renewed for a fourth phenomenal season, the show is back to blowing our minds. I counted four clever misdirections in last night’s episode. Actually, “Bloodline” could have felt ridiculously contrived — but unlike last week’s episode, Anna Torv totally sold this one, and once again it’s harder to know where…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Mar 26

The cast of Syfy’s Being Human promises the season finale will break you

A vampire, a werewolf, and a ghost let from Being Human gave us some hints about the season finale of the US series. How will the season ender leave things on the supernatural soap, and which creature will suffer most? Spoilers ahead… We nabbed the cast of Being Human at the Syfy Upfront. Again, we…

io9 Meredith Woerner Mar 25

Richard Nixon has a dark secret, in the latest Doctor Who teaser video

This “prequel” to season six of Doctor Who just went up on the BBC America website, and it features Richard Nixon getting a mysterious phone call. (Sounds like “Look behind you” is the new “Are you my mummy?”) Best part: Nixon saying “There are no monsters in the Oval Office,” in exactly the same tone…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Mar 25

A writer for X-Files and Breaking Bad reveals the secret aliens among us

John Shiban wrote some of the most acclaimed X-Files episodes, and then went on to work on Smallville, Supernatural, Star Trek: Enterprise and the upcoming Torchwood: Miracle Day. He also has worked on Breaking Bad from its second season onward. So it’s great news that Shiban is developing a new science fiction show, tentatively named…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Mar 25

Douglas Adams’ lost Doctor Who story is becoming a book at last

Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy creator Douglas Adams wrote three Doctor Who stories in the late 1970s, but only two of them made it to the screen. The third, “Shada,” was never completed due to a strike. Now, at last, a book version of “Shada” is coming from BBC Books in 2012. And the good…

Television Charlie Jane Anders Mar 25

Showtime adapting the ultra-weird, super-gross comic book Chew for TV‎

There’s a lot of excellent buzz surrounding John Layman and Rob Guillory’s comic Chew, the story of an FBI agent who snacks on the dead to absorb their memories. And now the comic is getting its own TV series. Deadline broke the news that Showtime is readying a dark series adaptation of the popular comic…

io9 Meredith Woerner Mar 25

Fringe has been renewed for a fourth season

The news just hit this afternoon: Fringe, which was on the bubble, has at last been renewed for another season. We’ve been rooting for this crazy show, where we’ve come to care for people in the alternate Earth as much as we do the people in our own. According to Entertainment Weekly, network executives have…

io9 Annalee Newitz Mar 24

First Superjail! clip heralds the return of TV’s most demented cartoon

Superjail!, the most messed-up cartoon on Adult Swim is back — and we’ve got one of the first clips, featuring everyone’s favorite warden, voiced by David Wain. The new season promises double the amount deranged murders, and even more Jailbot! On Sunday, April 3rd, Superjail! will be back with even more violence and lunacy. The…

io9 Meredith Woerner Mar 24

10 Things You Probably Didn’t Know About Doctor Who

You think you know Doctor Who? Just like his sprawling time machine, the Doctor’s mythology and mystery are too expansive and weird to be contained in a finite space. Here are 10 things you might not know about Doctor Who. 10) The Doctor almost met God. John Wiles, who took over as producer of the…

Television Charlie Jane Anders Mar 24

Stargate Universe’s cast and crew pitch their own post apocalypse series

Stargate Universe maybe canceled, but it’s not dead yet, sort of. Visual effects supervisor Mark Savela (one of the coolest parts of SGU) is creating his own pitch for a post-apocalypse series, with 80% of SGU’s cast and crew. Red Eye is reporting that Savela has teamed up with SGU production assistant Ken Kabatoff to…

io9 Meredith Woerner Mar 24

SGU’s odd couple bomb squad saves the day

Last night SGU dropped a massive bomb on our home planet. Thank goodness the odd couple was around to diffuse the situation. Ha! But seriously folks, this was a dark little episode of Stargate… with a French Stewart cameo. Apologies about missing last week, it’s been crazy around here. And what a week to miss!…

io9 Meredith Woerner Mar 23

The beginning of the end for No Ordinary Family

Last night’s No Ordinary Family finally put its characters in mortal danger, featuring unlikely team-ups, minor moral quandaries, cheesy supervillains, and an utterly random Sara Bareilles cameo. Too bad it’s already too late. This episode found Eric Balfour’s animal-like supervillain killing off people with powers, which soon enough brings the Powells in his clawed crosshairs.…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins Mar 23

First look at Syfy’s new superhero series, Alphas

Last night Syfy premiered their brand new TV line up, including a first look at their new superhero drama Alphas. We’ve got an exclusive interview with two of the cast members, and the first ever teaser trailer! Here’s the first teaser trailer (above). We got the chance to see a few (very short) moments in…

io9 Meredith Woerner Mar 23

Torchwood: Miracle Day gets a poster and an airdate!

The next chapter of the Torchwood saga will air on Starz in the U.S., starting Friday July 8. Here’s your first look at the poster for Torchwood: Miracle Day, the 10-episode miniseries that picks up where “Children of Earth” ended. Here’s the full press release that Starz put out, including a brand new plot description…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Mar 23

Showtime Will Pull Original Shows From Netflix

Adding even more tension to the tug-of-war match between Netflix and content providers, Showtime original series which are still in production—like Dexter and Californication—will disappear from the service this summer. However, the LA Times says shows that have been cancelled, such as The Tudors, will still be available. Looks like Showtime now views Netflix as…

Television Adrian Covert Mar 22

This is the week of Chewbacca!

Watch Jim Henson’s pre-Muppet Show pilot for the Wizard of Id

Ebert’s Art Film Revolution (1987)

No Ordinary Family’s forgotten episode is shockingly good

The creators of The Venture Bros. tell us about the new season (and slash fiction)

Fringe gives us the mother of all creep-outs

The cast of Syfy’s Being Human promises the season finale will break you

Richard Nixon has a dark secret, in the latest Doctor Who teaser video

A writer for X-Files and Breaking Bad reveals the secret aliens among us

Douglas Adams’ lost Doctor Who story is becoming a book at last

Showtime adapting the ultra-weird, super-gross comic book Chew for TV‎

Fringe has been renewed for a fourth season

First Superjail! clip heralds the return of TV’s most demented cartoon

10 Things You Probably Didn’t Know About Doctor Who

Stargate Universe’s cast and crew pitch their own post apocalypse series

SGU’s odd couple bomb squad saves the day

The beginning of the end for No Ordinary Family

First look at Syfy’s new superhero series, Alphas

Torchwood: Miracle Day gets a poster and an airdate!

Showtime Will Pull Original Shows From Netflix

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