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Articles about your favorite horror, fantasy, and scienc fiction television shows, mini-series, and made-for-TV movies – both new and classic.

It’s amazing some researchers haven’t figured out a way of determining personalities based on what aspect of Frank Oz’s career one is impressed with. Of course there’s Yoda — Frank voiced the beloved, and powerful, Jedi master, operated the puppet for most of the STAR WARS films, and for many helped form the heart and [...]

This is a couple months old, but I just happened to see it and thought it was worth posting. General Electric teases the announcement of some “brilliant new machines” by showing a parade of familiar movie and TV robots – including Robby, Data. K.I.T.T., and B-9 (i.e., the robot from LOST IN SPACE). Whatever [...]

It’s not often an actor gets to redeem an entire species, but that’s what Armin Shimerman did when he took on the role of Quark, the amenable but eminently self-interested Ferengi barkeep of STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE. Having been present for the Ferengi’s ignominious debut on STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION, when a race [...]

Give REGULAR SHOW creator J.G. Quintel credit for coming up with a title that works in ironic counterpoint to itself. On the one hand, the Cartoon Network series is an examination of young people entering the workforce in modern America, with all the friction, tension, and social and moral quandaries that might ensue. On the [...]

The shadows continue to spread over the DC Universe, most recently with ARROW, the new reimagining of The Green Arrow as a driven, bow-wielding vigilante for justice, determined to clean up the corruption of his home town of Starling City. With its dark ambiance, its intense, parkour-inspired action sequences, and its LOST-style central mysteries (what, [...]

Just because last year saw the publication of a mammoth retrospective of his work, that doesn’t mean cartoonist Bill Plympton is putting away his pencils just yet. He was back at New York Comic Con this year, to promote a new, career-spanning documentary about him and a new book meant to inspire prospective artists with [...]

It’s bright days in Blood Gulch, indeed. RED VS. BLUE, the first machinima (animation created with video games) series to get mainstream attention, is now also the longest-lived, wrapping up its tenth season of playing around in the HALO universe this November. And what started out as a kind of Seinfeldian take on science-fiction warfare [...]

Seemingly located in a reality that neighbors BUFFY’S — albeit a neighborhood somewhat less affluent in its trappings — the Syfy series LOST GIRL applies a similar degree of wit, sex, drama, and action to the adventures of a conflicted succubus (Anna Silk) and her human companion (Ksenia Solo) as they try to make their [...]

Surprisingly, the pilot episode of this GREEN ARROW re-imaging is quite interesting and enjoyable to watch.

THE ANGELS TAKE MANHATTAN at the end of too short and unsatisfying a season.

Plus DOCTOR WHO IN THE U.S. special.

Here’s ‘Justice’, the latest teaser for ARROW, The CW Network’s TV reimagining of DC Comic’s long-running Green Arrow character

DOCTOR WHO returns for Seventh Seven –SPOILERS–