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Monday's episode of Heroes , "Thanksgiving," represented one of those rare moments when everything wrong with this show suddenly became right. It was a soapy tale of three intertwined, dysfunctional mutant family dinners - and it was old-fashioned freaky fun. For some reason, everything ...
Sci-Fi
Heroes
Let all your worries slip away, as Morena Baccarin 's Anna gives a naked inspirational speech about living fluidly, in a fairly dead-on parody of motivational tapes. What do you think: Should the makers of last night's V be without regret? Watching "It's Just The Beginning" a second time, I ...
Comedy
Morena Baccarin
Scrubs
Queen Latifah
The Mars base in Doctor Who 's latest adventure looked almost too neat and tidy — but it originally looked a lot junkier, as this newly released concept art reveals. And click through to see guns, pencil drives and gadget gloves. [ BBC Doctor Who Site ] The "gadget glove" concept ...
Sci-Fi
Doctor Who
BBC
Will we ever get real-life teleportation devices? How invisible will an invisibility cloak make you? What are the rules for plausible time travel? A new television series will look at technologies found in science fiction and what could become fact. The Science Channel has just announced a ...
Sci-Fi
The Science Channel
Stargate Universe
Just how much can outgoing showrunner Russell T Davies tie up in his final two Doctor Who specials? How about answering a question no-one even knew they had about a throwaway line from Torchwood ? Spoilers! Remember being told that Martha Jones was on her honeymoon during Torchwood: Children ...
Sci-Fi
Doctor Who
Martha
Torchwood
David Tennant
Russell T Davies
Has FlashForward become the next show to fall afoul of network micromanagement? ABC have halted production on the series until after Thanksgiving in order to — according to an official statement — "boost the writing." This news follows both the show's steady fall in the ratings ...
Sci-Fi
Flash Forward
ABC
Bones
It's the final V of 2009 tomorrow night, and we've already watched it. The resistance ramps up, the Vs move forward with their nefarious plans, and Chad is a man-whore. But mostly, it's all about the cult of Morena Baccarin . There are minor spoilers for tomorrow night's episode, "It's Only ...
Sci-Fi
Erica Durance
Morena Baccarin
Elizabeth Mitchell
It's the final V of 2009 tomorrow night, and we've already watched it. The resistance ramps up, the Vs move forward with their nefarious plans, and Chad is a man-whore. But mostly, it's all about the cult of Morena Baccarin . There are minor spoilers for tomorrow night's episode, "It's Only ...
Sci-Fi
Erica Durance
Morena Baccarin
Elizabeth Mitchell
Fringe star Joshua Jackson is taking his ongoing fight against extra-terrestrial freaky fringe science to the movie screen. He's signed on to headline the big screen version of 1970s British series UFO . Jackson, who despite his Fringe smirks and long dramatic pauses will always be Pacey ...
Sci-Fi
Joshua Jackson
Fringe
Joshua Jackson is taking his ongoing fight against extra-terrestrial freaky fringe science to the movie screen. The Fringe star has signed on to headline the big screen version of 1970s British series UFO . Jackson, who despite his Fringe smirks and long dramatic pauses will always be Pacey ...
Sci-Fi
Fringe
Joshua Jackson
Some of your favorite shows take a Thanksgiving hiatus, meaning you might need to talk to your relatives. But fear not: V has a huge cliffhanger, James Bond and Ben 10 are back, and Heroes will probably be inappropriate again. Monday If you'd rather not think about Turkey Day, you may want ...
Sci-Fi
Ben 10
Heroes
House
MythBusters
Beyond
Stargate Universe , what are we going to do with you? After last week's challenging episode, you give us a mind-numbingly dull and frustrating episode, which could have ruled. Instead, we were treated to more pointless sex scenes and stir fry. My heart is broken with this series. And after ...
Sci-Fi
Stargate Universe
Last week's episode of Supernatural , "Abandon All Hope..." was jam-packed with action and heartbreak. Lucifer is back, engineering a mega-slaughter in Missouri, and the brothers find a strange ally in a homoerotic demon. Written by Ben Edlund , this story was full of beautifully weird ...
Sci-Fi
Supernatural
With Watchmen , GI Joe , Transformers and now V , American pop culture seems stuck in a particular part of its past. Why are we so fascinated with taking things from the 80's and making them our own? Written by David Grossman Everyone gets nostalgic. What's odd is when an entire society wants ...
Sci-Fi
It's enough to warrant a "TV Movie Event" and a special subtitle, but does the appearance of Smallville 's Justice Society of America actually look good? Click through and judge for yourself. I'm one of the more cynical Smallville viewers around, but dammit if this doesn't look promising. ...
Drama
Smallville
Michael Shanks
Legion of Super Heroes
Oh, Batman: The Brave and The Bold , clearly you know the way to my heart: A guest-star filled episode featuring heroes and villains having to race each other in special vehicles for the fate of the planet? Yes please. Last night's "Death Race To Oblivion" was exactly the kind of thing Brave ...
Other
What if Doctor Who had starred in Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey ? A new fan video shows a potential crossover between the two, and dodgy CGI-David Tennant aside, we like what we see. The video, 2001: A Who Odyssey , creates a CGI mashup between the 1968 movie and "The Wheel ...
Sci-Fi
Doctor Who
David Tennant
Patrick Troughton
They've been lurking in the background for the entire series, and last night, Fringe 's bald Observers finally stepped into the limelight. Here's what we learned about the mysterious beings who've been spying on the Fringe team. They can catch bullets. The ability to catch bullets probably ...
Sci-Fi
Fringe
Last week we learned that Stephen King 's brand new book Under The Dome , about a town sealed off by the government, is getting an HBO miniseries. Now Steven Spielberg has stepped in to make sure it's a success. DreamWorks TV and Spielberg will executive produce the miniseries based on the ...
Other
Larry King
Steven Spielberg
HBO
The Prisoner
From Chapel Hill, NC: "We met at a party just off Franklin Street. You were dressed as Dr. Horrible, and I was the Doctor. We chatted for awhile, but then my friends took off while you were distracted." [ Craigslist ] Thanks for the tip Lay, and for letting us use our powers for good.
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