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A Companion To Doctors: The Second Doctor.

An interview with Steven Moffat at Gallifrey One.

Nicholas Briggs will provide the voice of the Daleks for An Adventure in Space and Time.

The Wolverine: New Official Image.

Great Moments in Comics History: DC Special Series #8

Image of the Day Best BTAS Screenshots #4

Abandoned Love: The Scorched Earth of the New 52 Green Arrow

Interview with J.M. DeMatteis

Possible Running Time For Man of Steel.

'Superman Lives' Indeed Via Nic Cage's Serene Movie Life Mask

Warner Home Video Issues Press Release, New Images, From Superman: Unbound

Beyond JLA: 10 Superteams Patrolling The Rest Of The World.

Greg Pak To Write Batman/Superman.

Stan Lee's Oscar Nomination

Mania and Dream Logic: Looking Back At Steve Ditko’s Cackling Creeper.

From College Humor: The 25 Greatest Comic Book Villains Of All Time.

Vertigo Announces Fables Encyclopedia, Fairest: In All the Land OGN

One Trek Mind: 10 Facts About The First Trek Tie-in Novel

Mark Hamill Confirms He’s in Talks For Star Wars: Episode VII Role

New Evil Dead Poster

Doctor Gash's Top 10 Greatest Horror Movies Ever #7 - Frankenstein

Censoring Hammer’s Dracula.

Benedict Cumberbatch and the cast of Neverwhere - first photo and air date revealed

What If BBC Sherlock Was An Animated Cartoon Series?

Cynthia Addai-Robinson joins The Vampire Diaries.

Fox’s Sleepy Hollow TV Pilot Has A Time Travel Element

Read Jane Espenson's spec script for 'Frasier'.

Short interview with Joss on Much Ado About Nothing

Gandalf Gear Poster.

The Hobbit Re-Read: Chapter 13, Not At Home.

TV Legends Revealed: Didthe Mob Try to Kill Desi Arnaz?

20 Things We Learned From the ‘Argo’ Commentary

Gift Guide: Zombified Art Nouveau Cameo

Scanners and Its Sequels Heading to UK Blu-ray from Second Sight Films

Random Roles: Linda Cardellini on Freaks And Geeks, ER, and more.

Luke Mitchell joins The Tomorrow People.

Daniel Knauf opens up about Carnivàle’s long, weird journey (1 of 2)

The Strange, Secret Evolution of Babylon 5

Top 10 Movie Ghosts.

5 Revitalizing Trends In Horror Movies Today.

Smodcast: Grant Morrison interview with Kevin Smith, part 2.

Hey Kids, Comics—Season 2, Episode 8: Spider-Man 2099.

Radiodrome, Episode 111: Blaxpliotation

The Collinsport Historical Society Podcast, Episode 9: David Selby

The JV Club #50: Carla Gallo.

Lucille Bliss has passed away, at the age of 96. May she rest in peace. She was the voice of Smurfette from 1984-1989 in the Smurfs tv series, as well as all of the 80’s specials. She may also be remembered for doing voicework for one of the stepsisters (never knew they had names, but she was Anastasia) in Cinderella. She also had roles in numerous other Disney and Hanna-Barbera titles.

Margaret Nicholas has passed away, at the age of 82. May she rest in peace. She directed the 80’s Transformers, The Glo Friends, Inhumanoids, Moon Dreamers, Potato Head Kids, Fraggle Rock, My Little Pony n’ Friends, The Addams Family (the 1992 cartoon) as well as many, many other shows. For X-Men fans, she was the animation director for Pryde of the X-Men.

Skype Disables Password Resets After Huge Security Hole Discovered.

Exclusive: Larry Blamire and Cleve Hall To Produce The Lost Skeleton Walks Among Us And More.

Scarecrow Video’s VHS Art New Wave Exhibition Revives Video Store Weirdness.

Terry Pratchett Leaves Discworld To His Daughter.

Lost Girl sets its return date, gears up for season 3.

Sandman box set is out.

February Start Planned For The Amazing Spider-Man 2.

Asgardian Storm, as drawn by Mike McKone.

‘GIF’ Named America’s Word of the Year.

The Only Fridge That’s Bigger On The Inside.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle house development appeal upheld.

Warner Bros. Launches ‘For Your Consideration’ Awards Campaign For The Dark Knight Rises.

David Tennant interview.

Children In Need: Publicity Photo.

Personality Quiz: Could You Survive As The Doctor’s Companion? Looks like I would survive unscathed.

From Think Geek: Doctor Who Bathrobes.

Hero Complex interviews Bill Willingham about Fables.

P:R Approved: Jason Ho’s Sons Of The Bat.

Full Trailer For Oz: The Great And Powerful.

Joe Biden’s 1993 Cameo on Where In The World Is Carmen Sandiego.

The House That Jack Built.

DC Histories: Eclipso.

Michael Uslan’s 1980 choice for Joker up for sale.

Perfectly Gruesome Evil Dead Nike Air Foamposite Pro Sneakers.

Watch Rare Home Movie Footage of Boris Karloff’s Frankenstein In Color.

The Iron Cyberman.

First Look At Thor: The Dark World Villain Malekith and Army of Dark Elves Via Set Photos.

10 Bizarre Death Rituals From Around The World.

A live Twitter chat with Jane Espenson today at 7 PM PDT.

Rick Baker To Be Honored With Star On The Hollywood Walk Of Fame.

New TV Spot For The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey.

Secret Circle Creator Heads To ABC With Fantasy Drama Saga.

Hitchcock Clip #2.

Hitchcock Clip #3

The Forgotten Flix Podcast: Back To The Future (1985).

Now Playing Podcast: Die Another Day (2002)

Comic Issues Podcast #92: Darth Mickey

Geek Fest Rants, Episode 114: Blade Runner, 30th Anniversary.

Saturday B Movie Reel #86: Ghost Storm (2012).

Weinberg’s House of Horrors: Episode 11: Night of the Living Dead (1968).

The Holiday Wish List meme is going around again. I’ll probably just let it pass, since I can’t think of anything. I’ll just wait until Fandom Stocking opens.

Lance LeGault has passed away at the age of 77. May he rest in peace. Star Trek fans might remember that he played the Klingon K’Temoc in the TNG episode The Emissary.

Amazon targets one-day delivery to make up for lost tax advantage.

Skeleton found at dig may be Richard III..

Shannara fantasy novels to become US TV series.

ABC Family has released their programming schedule for their annual 13 Nights of Halloween block.

How on Earth is the Buffyverse getting a male Slayer?

Scott Allie Talks ‘Billy’ The Vampire Slayer.

TIFF Interview: Joss Whedon.

Interview: Mark Waid on Daredevil, Hulk, Insufferable and Rocketeer.

Homemade Doctor Who chess set turns Matt Smith into a king, the TARDIS into a rook.

Life Outside The TARDIS: Catherine Tate.

TARDIS Bar.

Now Batman Fixes Potholes, Too.

Here’s another new clip from The Dark Knight Returns, Part 1.

Alternative Costume Designs for Cass Cain as Black Bat.

Confirmed: No Extended Director’s Cut Of The Dark Knight Rises Exists Or Is Planned.

Looking back at Beauty And The Beast. The Ron Perlman series.

Tuesday Q&A: Dan Slott.

CR Sunday Interview On A Wednesday: Tim Sale and Scott Hampton.

E.T. coming to theaters, Blu-ray for 30th anniversary

Fatal Events: 10 Comic Book Crossover Character Deaths.

Benedict Cumberbatch beats Matt Smith as Sherlock wins twice at TV awards.

Discworld Fan Film Possibly The Largest Scale Fan Film Ever.

Comic Book Easter Eggs: The Many Faces of Identity Crisis.

Spoiler: Obituary For The AvX Fallen.

Top 10 Scenes Of Epic Superhero Carnage.

Trailers From Hell: Mick Garris on Ghost Story

The Girls of Tumblr’s Monster Girl Drawing Challenge.

Culling Comics in the Digital Age.

How Much Longer Until A Samurai Jack Movie?

First Clip From Frankenweenie.

The CW’s official description of season 4 of The Vampire Diaries.

Dear science: please, please name this dancing spider after Zoidberg.

Amazing New Nosferatu Poster Available Tomorrow.

5 Things You Didn’t Know About Raiders of the Lost Ark.

Brannon Braga Returns To Star Trek With Star Trek: The Next Generation: Hive

Tarzan Never Dies: Part I: 100 Years of Books and Movies.

Thale, Byzantium Find U.S. Distribution.

Robot Chicken: Nerd Lantern.

Grace Randolph’s Stacktastic: New Justice League Line-Up.

3 Chicks Review Comics Podcast, Episode 43: Interviewing Greg Rucka.

Now Playing Podcast: The Spy Who Loved Me (1977).

The Forgotten Flix Podcast: Big Trouble In Little China (1986)

Sofa Dogs Podcast #256: The Monster Squad (1987) Commentary

Geekfest Rants Podcast Episode 105: Raiders of the Lost Ark in IMAX.

Comic Issues Podcast #83—Back To School Special.

Third annual Read Comics In Public Day is August 28th.

Demonoid Starts Redirecting To Ads And Malware.

PublicBitTorrent And OpenBitTorrent Trackers Return.

Doctor Who Series 7 Trailer.

How Is Doctor Who Good For Science?

Publicity image released for Asylum of the Daleks.

The Dark Knight Rages.

12 Gotham Newspaper Headlines During The Dark Knight Rises. Massive spoilers for everything in the movie, so proceed at your own risk.

Comic Influences On The Dark Knight Rises.

Dark Knight Themed Home Theater For Only $2 Million.

Memos from Nick Fury.

Excelsior! A Tribute To Stan Lee.

Futurama Hypnotoad Vinyl Figure.

Brian Hibbs pays tribute to Bob Wayne.

Christopher Eccleston joins Thor: The Dark World as Malekith The Accursed.

10 Worst Comic Book-Based Movie Performances Of All Time.

SDCC 2013 Online Badge Pre-Registration Announced.

Bryan Singer Confirms X-Men: Days of Future Past, Suggests Connection To Other X-Men Films.

5 Reasons Why The Next X-Men Movie Should Be Days Of Future Past.

Caroline Dhavernas joins the cast of Hannibal for the lead role of Dr. Alana “Al” Bloom.

Archeologists Uncover Maya Temple of the Blood Drinking Sun God.

Trailers From Hell: Josh Olson on The Howling.

Ghostbusters 3 Loses Bill Murray, Can We Move On Now?

The 10 Worst Cartoons Spawned By Video Games. The only one on that list I ever watched was Darkstalkers.

3D Glasses For The Hobbit Revealed.

Redesign Rewind: Best Of Marvel’s Timeslip.

Brian Posehn writing the new Deadpool series?

Children’s chemistry sets used to contain cyanide.

10 Foods You Crave—And Why You Crave Them. I never craved ice when I was near death from anemia, but I know others who did get that one.

How It Should Have Ended: Skyrim.

Dracula vs. Frankenstein managed to get a Blu-Ray release.

MacGyver Comes To Comics.

Lynn Cohen joins the cast of The Hunger Games: Catching Fire.

Dimestore Dames spotlights ‘Glittering’ Goldie O’Gilt.

Why Remakes Are One Of Our Greatest Achievements As A Civilization.

The Line It Is Drawn #100—100th Issue Celebration.

First Photos From Joss Whedon’s Much Ado About Nothing.

Fantastic Fangirls Call For Staff Writers.

Prime Time Madness 2012 is live.

Official poster for Dredd.

From Think Geek: Lego Star Wars Darth Vader Desk Lamp.

Hitchcock's Vertigo ousts Citizen Kane as greatest film of all time

Nerdist Writer's Panel #49: Women on TV.

Richard Zanuck passed away on Friday, following a heart attack, at the age of 77. May he rest in peace. He produced dozens of movies, including the recently released Dark Shadows, Jaws, Alice In Wonderland, Cocoon, and Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street.

Sage Stallone passed away at the age of 36. May he rest in peace. His father was told immediately after the Expendables panel at Comic Con—condolences to his family.

One of the most recent Livejournal releases managed to break the syndicated feeds. While this post says feeds are updating again, they are not. Several comments confirm that it isn’t just me.

US ‘Six Strikes’ Anti-Piracy Scheme Will Roll Out Gradually.

Rapidshare Liable For Copyright Infringement.

Comic Book Legends Revealed #375.

LeBeouf Out, Radcliffe In For Horns Adaptation.

Terry Moore To Return To Strangers In Paradise In 2013.

AfterElton interviews Jane Espenson and Brad Bell on Husbands, season 2.

A recap of the Community panel at Comic Con.

New Ghostbusters Prop Ecto Goggles Announced At Comic Con. Courtroom Ray Stantz with Tony Scoleri.

Recovered 1927 Metropolis Film Program Goes Behind The Scenes of a Sci-Fi Masterpiece.

Stan Lee Talks World of Heroes And His Movie Cameos.

Solomon Kane is finally coming out…and there’s a trailer.

6 First Look Pictures From Oz The Great And Powerful.

Comic Con Cosplay: Mister Mxyzptlk.

Best Comic Con Cosplay Gallery Ever—Thursday. The Deadman costume is my favorite.

66 costumed Comic Con fans that have to be seen to be believed. The same guy dressed as Deadman makes an appearance.

Comic Con: Eddie McClintock talks Warehouse 13.

Greystone Park Coming To VOD, DVD—from son of Oliver Stone.

Kieron Gillen Launches A Podcast.

Doctor Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog To Air On The CW.

Game of Thrones: Diana Rigg and 13 others join the cast of season 3.

China White To Appear In Arrow.

Dimestore Dames would like to hear from fans of Catwoman.

The Walking Dead returns October 14th.

Booster Gold TV Show Still On Track.

New VOD title from Rifftrax: Bloody Pit of Horror.

Weekend Discussion Thread: Musical Covers.

Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Natasha Calis Talk The Possession.

Comic Con 2012: Notes From The Firefly Press Conference. Firefly cast and Joss reunite 10 years later—live blog. Watch the panel in its entirety here. The Shiniest Moments From A Closed Door Q&A With The Cast of Firefly.

Interview: Cast and Crew on The CW’s Cult at SDCC.

Comic Con Interview: Atticus Shaffer of Frankenweenie.

Alexis Denisof reveals his role in The Avengers.

How Prematurely Axed TV Series Should Have Ended, According To Their Creators.

Jessica Biel Might Play Viper In The Wolverine. I’ve seen various reports ranging from offered, to cast, to only a rumor. So we’ll see.

Chris Claremont: Dead Should Mean Dead: X-Men mastermind talks the Phoenix and the flame.

The 2012 Eisner Award Winners.

Justice League and Green Lantern Panel.

Nikita Cast Previews Season 3.

Lionsgate TV Taking A Trip To Zenescope’s Wonderland.

Jack Kirby once designed costumes for a college Shakespeare play.

Retroist Podcast, Episode 116: The Golden Girls.

Pulp Nightmare Podcast: Friday the 13th Commentary.

Now Playing Podcast: Batman Begins (2005)

Movie Issues Podcast: Batman And Robin (1997)

Bad Movie Fiends Podcast #133: Showdown In Little Tokyo (1991)

For those that are interested, and have access to the channel: From 3 PM-7PM CST, G4 will be having Comic Con Live.

10 Great LGBT Superheroes (And Superhero Couples).

Dimestore Dames spotlights Frigga.

Retro Shock Theater: Burnt Offerings From Dark Shadows’ Dan Curtis.

NBC Cancels Awake

Apparently some spiders hunt in packs. You have been warned.

The CW picks up The Carrie Diaries, Arrow, a version of Beauty and the Beast with Kristin Kreuk, First Cut, and Cult.

The CW renews Nikita, Gossip Girl, and Hart of Dixie, cancels Ringer and The Secret Circle. Whedonesque reacts to the news of Ringer here.

NBC officially cancels Harry’s Law. ABC cancels Missing, Pan Am, The River—also, GCB.

ABC officially picks up 666 Park Avenue, show details revealed.

The Easter Island statues have bodies.

The Last Voyage of the Demeter Attracts Another Director: Neil Marshall.

From Think Geek: Malcolm Reynolds Metal-Plated Pistol Prop Replica.

Vintage Star Wars Stamps.

The You Are Beautiful Meme.

First drawing of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles by Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird sells for $71,700.

Weekend Discussion Thread: What would you do after the apocalypse?

Sign ups are open at Whedonesque.

Nominate your favorite sf/f podcast for the Parsec award.

Dalek from recycled engine parts.

Editorial: Marvel Needs To Re-Hire Joss Whedon For The Avengers 2.

Jane Espenson: Cocktails With Stan Lee.

Court Gives IFPI Permission To Identify Pirate Bay Users.

Company Accidentally Fires Entire Staff (Worldwide) Via E-Mail.

Best look yet at Before Watchmen pages, character designs.

The Great Alan Moore Reread: From Hell, Part 1.

MTV Geek interviews Amber Benson.

The unaired pilots for Wonder Woman and Batgirl, from 1967.

5 Things You May Not Know About Superman II.

First look at Jim Lee’s poster for 2012 Hero Complex Film Festival.

Creators’ families rights: merit vs. inheritance.

Upstairs Downstairs Not Returning For Third Season.

32 Science Fiction And Fantasy Movies That Could Rock Your Summer.

BuzzFeed offers a look inside the DC Comics offices.

An interview with John Barrowman, from the recent C2E2 convention.

Should John Barrowman return as Captain Jack for the 50th anniversary?

Dark Shadows Original Cast Reunion Photo. Taken before Jonathan Frid passed away.

Preview of Superman #8.

The Avengers Theme.

Buffy Writer Jane Espenson Talks Tough TV Heroines.

Jessica Chastain is in talks for Iron Man 3.

New trailer for Pixar’s Brave. And a clip called Eyes On the Pies.

The director of Bridesmaids wrote some of The Amazing Spider-Man.

Amazing Spider-Man Toaster.

BAFTA Television Award Nominations. Nominations are up for Sherlock, The Fades, and Misfits.

G.I. Joe: Retaliation Theatrical Trailer.

Gallifrey Time Lords T-Shirt

DC Cancels Legion Lost Trade.

Original art from New Mutants Special and X-Men Annual #9.

Fantastic Fangirls: What comic book character would make a good coach?

Svengoolie interviews Vince Price’s daughter, Victoria Price.

Jane Levy on Possession and The Evil Dead Remake.

Watch Chris Weston Paint Miracleman.

24 Things We Learned From The Total Recall Commentary.