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Al Jazeera America’s employees didn’t see it coming. They thought they had more time. The cable news channel was always a gamble. Everyone knew that — the anchors, the producers, the engineers. And in retrospect, the channel was probably doomed from the get-go. But the business plan called for seven to ten years of huge…
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The Radio Times is reporting that Doctor Who showrunner Steven Moffat will be leaving the massively successful British sci-fi series at the end of its upcoming tenth season. Moffat—who took over showrunning duties from Russell T. Davies in 2010, just in time for the fifth season of the long-running time-travel show’s current iteration—will be replaced…
The award-winning actress discusses the return of Dana Scully in Fox’s beloved supernatural series and her epic battle to be treated equally on the show. “People have said to me, ‘I can’t believe that happened, how did you feel about it, that is insane.’ And my response always was, ‘That was then, this is now.’…
Whatever happened to television’s most famous couples? Ross and Rachel. Carrie and Big. Cory and Topanga. Whether you love them or love to hate them, you can’t deny the enormous place so many of television’s fictional couples occupy in pop culture. And if you’ve ever come within 20 feet of a water cooler, chances are…
Information company’s gauge of online buzz for TV shows expands beyond just Twitter to include the world’s biggest social network Soon, your Facebook friends won’t be the only ones paying attention to the TV show rants in your News Feed. Television ratings giant Nielsen is expanding how it measures social chatter around TV shows to include Facebook, expanding it…
After what’s felt like a lifetime of waiting, the sixth season of The Venture Bros. is nearly upon us. It even feels like it’s been ages since we got our first glimpse of this new season. But a new extended trailer reveals so much more about the Venture’s new fate—and how suitably weird New York…
Add another entry to the long list of amazing things Netflix is doing with their original programming. They’ve just picked up the rights to Altered Carbon, a 10-episode-series based on the brilliant award-winning 2002 novel of the same name by Richard Morgan. http://io9.gizmodo.com/5542862/cyberp… Altered Carbon is set in the 25th century, where humans live all…
This post contains what could be considered spoilers for the first episode of the new X-Files miniseries There is a moment in the first episode of the upcoming X-Files miniseries that brings the sense of fun and even wonder of the original series at its best. It concerns ex-FBI Agent Fox Mulder — who used…
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