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The Office Predicts Your Halloween Night

Dwight and friends over at The Office have successfully recreated what I imagine is happening all over the globe right now. Since Dark Knight was the most popular movie of the year, I can only assume that the entire world is overrun with Joker costumes right about now, and the numbers will only grow. But…

Movies Meredith Woerner Oct 31

Eleventh Hour Once Again Revels in Torturing Teenagers

What the hell is it with pseudo-science action show Eleventh Hour and child torture? Is that like the only kind of weird science there is left? First we have an episode where our FBI science investigators have to solve a mystery about kids who are killing each other by licking toads, then an episode where…

Television Annalee Newitz Oct 31

The Hills Girls Analyze the Large Hadron Collider

I don’t watch The Hills, but that doesn’t mean I’m not entertained when I see Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt prancing around and pretending they aren’t posing for the cameras: in this clip, Audrina attempts to get scientific with the Big Bang theory and the Large Hadron Collider. Her friend explains that the Large Hadron…

Television Erica Ho Oct 30

The Best Thing That Ever Happened to Reality TV

If you’ve ever watched an episode of reality TV series Big Brother or Survivor or The Pick-Up Artist and wished everybody involved would just get ripped apart by rampaging zombies, then you’re about to feel seriously awesome. The UK miniseries Dead Set started airing this week, and it’s all about what happens to the cast…

io9 Annalee Newitz Oct 29

Heroes Is Saved by Homoeroticism and Daddy Love

Once again this week Heroes picked up steam by focusing in on one central conflict that has tugged all our characters back into each others’ orbits. It’s clear now that this season will be about family drama, featuring the dueling children of the Petrelli clan and the dueling corporations of its elders. More importantly, this…

io9 Annalee Newitz Oct 28

Zombie Reality TV Contestants Shuffle Their Way to the Top

Click to viewZombies have invaded every facet of entertainment, so it was only a matter of time before they shambled onto reality TV. VH1 just released five webisodes of America’s Next Top Zombie Idol, an undead parody of its already over-the-top reality programming, which pits eight zombified contestants against each other in the ultimate undead…

io9 Lauren Davis Oct 28

The Internet Explains That All of the Marvel Universe Is a Hoax

We’ll admit that we were a little uncertain about some of the series that Marvel Comics lined up to kickstart their online-only releases. But the more that we learn about them, the more we’re convinced. Especially the one with the least promising title of them all: Marvels Channel: Monsters, Myths and Marvels. That title and…

io9 Graeme McMillan Oct 24

Oprah’s Favorite Gadget is the Kindle, In Case You Were Wondering

TV host and noted technologist Oprah Winfrey has a favorite gadget, but it’s a secret! At least until she announces it on her show, which will probably happen today. But that wasn’t soon enough for BGR, who dug and dug and scraped and view-sourced until they found their answer in a tag list, buried in…

Commerce John Herrman Oct 24

Eleventh Hour in Real Time, Now with Breakfast Paranoia

Just for the hell of it, I’m liveblogging ultra-popular new science crime show Eleventh Hour tonight. Last week, it was the most popular scifi show on TV in the ratings. Can it keep up with its own success? Only a blow-by-blow account can truly answer that question. For my liveblog impressions, updated every 5 minutes…

Television Annalee Newitz Oct 24

Doctor Who Director Promises His Superhero Show Won’t Be “Heroes”

With the increasingly bloated cast of NBC’s Heroes and a pub full of powers in No Heroics, it might seem like there’s hardly room for another set of caped characters on TV. But BBC1 has given Joe Ahearne the go-ahead to pen Superpowers, a show inspired by his love of Marvel comics. And the one-time…

io9 Lauren Davis Oct 23

EW Dooms Heroes By Offering To Help Save It

The super-powered soap opera Heroes has been in danger for so long, it’s starting to look bad. First, the slow-moving second season was such a flop that creator Tim Kring apologized. And now, the new fast-paced third season has been losing viewers and annoying fans. But the show’s problems have reached a new level of…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Oct 23

Lost’s Fallen Star Will Shine On Chuck

Island castaway show Lost disappointed many of its die-hard fans when its super-cute rock-star character Charlie bit the dust. Actor Dominic Monaghan still doesn’t know when, or if, you’ll glimpse Charlie on Lost again. But he will be back playing another charismatic rock star character… on Chuck, NBC’s show about a nerd with the entire…

Television Charlie Jane Anders Oct 23

Lost Season Five Preview Gives Good Tease

A preview commercial for Lost season 5 has leaked and it’s full of hints about what’s in store next year. From the mere glimpses we get, it looks like everything has been thrown topsy turvey and we may be breaking down (or trying to) the secret workings of the island. If you haven’t seen the…

io9 Meredith Woerner Oct 23

Fringe Gives Us a Bloody Birthday Present This Week

If I’d had any doubts about Fringe becoming my new guilty pleasure, this week erased them. I am now officially a watcher of Fringe, rather than a sampler of it. Last night’s episode “The Cure” gave us a healthy dose of WTF back story on several of our main characters — Agent Olivia and Mad…

io9 Annalee Newitz Oct 23

Vote to Kick One Subplot Out of the Heroes Timeline

Things heated up and came together in last night’s Heroes, just like when you put a bunch of peeps in the microwave and they swell up really big and kind of merge into a sugary, hardened blob. A blob that tastes really good. Our patience was rewarded last night: Disparate plot lines met in intriguing…

Television Annalee Newitz Oct 21

Why Science Fiction Still Hates Itself

Click to view If geek stuff is so hip, then why are two of the season’s biggest scifi hits, CBS show Eleventh Hour and bestselling Neal Stephenson novel Anathem, adamantly classified as Not Scifi? Because nerd culture will never be pop culture. That’s why Borders slashed its scifi section. And it’s why JJ Abrams, director…

Movies Annalee Newitz Oct 20

New Star Trek Movie Is Intentionally Cheesy

Click to viewAs long as we only saw glimpses of the new Star Trek, we could convince ourselves it was going to be cool and sexy. But as soon as the first proper images from J.J. Abrams’ movie turned up the other day, the truth came out: it’s going to be dorky, retro, cheesy and…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders Oct 17

Lost: The Movie?

Now that ABC has agreed to let Lost end after a six-year run — meaning no more Dharma bums after 2010 — show helmer J.J. Abrams is finally contemplating a Lost movie. He says that’s mainly because the show will be able to end well, and not get dragged out for years. Somehow the idea…

Movies Annalee Newitz Oct 17

The 20 Most Awesome SciFi TV Theme Songs

Click to viewNeal Hefti, the jazzy trumpeter behind such TV theme songs as the propulsive ditty that introduced the 1960s Batman series, has passed away. His composition-with its singular staccato lyric, itself a paean to Adam West’s be-spandexed superhero-may have been intentionally campy, but it’s proven both indelible and award-winning. (Hefti won a Grammy for…

Television Nisha Gopalan Oct 16

The Not-So-Secret Fantasy of Every Fringe Fan

This week on Fringe, a hopeless dork who lives with his mom and has a dead-end job finds himself made into something “special” by science. Though this kind of plot crops up in nearly every Fringe episode, last night’s “Power Hungry” gave it a unique (and funny) twist. And in the process it revealed what…

Television Annalee Newitz Oct 15

The Office Predicts Your Halloween Night

Eleventh Hour Once Again Revels in Torturing Teenagers

The Hills Girls Analyze the Large Hadron Collider

The Best Thing That Ever Happened to Reality TV

Heroes Is Saved by Homoeroticism and Daddy Love

Zombie Reality TV Contestants Shuffle Their Way to the Top

The Internet Explains That All of the Marvel Universe Is a Hoax

Oprah’s Favorite Gadget is the Kindle, In Case You Were Wondering

Eleventh Hour in Real Time, Now with Breakfast Paranoia

Doctor Who Director Promises His Superhero Show Won’t Be “Heroes”

EW Dooms Heroes By Offering To Help Save It

Lost’s Fallen Star Will Shine On Chuck

Lost Season Five Preview Gives Good Tease

Fringe Gives Us a Bloody Birthday Present This Week

Vote to Kick One Subplot Out of the Heroes Timeline

Why Science Fiction Still Hates Itself

New Star Trek Movie Is Intentionally Cheesy

Lost: The Movie?

The 20 Most Awesome SciFi TV Theme Songs

The Not-So-Secret Fantasy of Every Fringe Fan

Ozempic Shreds Bones? How a Small Study Turned Into a Big Health Myth

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