Joss Whedon has had an incredible year, and I imagine every year from here on out is going to be incredible! He's made his mark, and now everyone knows who he is. The filmmaker recently signed a contract with Marvel in which he would write and direct the sequel to The Avengers, and develop a S.H.I.E.L.D. TV series for ABC.
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Yes, yes, it's a high bar. Futurama has a history of great anthology shows that deal out daring stories. Still, the last episode of the season leaps nimbly over that bar and lands with its hands, flippers, and fins triumphantly in the air. Futurama goes absolutely friggin' nuts over nature documentaries and it's grim and great.
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Deadline is reporting that ABC has given the go-ahead to begin work on Whedon's show about S.H.I.E.L.D., the top secret organization that flies around in an invisible aircraft carrier. Many people had suspected this would happen after the copious marketing behind the S.H.I.E.L.D.-centric short Marvel film, Item 47. And Deadline says the series will continue it's growing focus on the agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
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“Fight the dead. Fear the Living.” That’s the ominous tagline for the third season of AMC’s hit show The Walking Dead, which had a big Hall H panel Friday afternoon at San Diego Comic-Con 2012. We’ll have full coverage of the panel soon but figured you might be interested in seeing the brand new trailer for the sure-to-be action packed season now.
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Disney bought Marvel nearly three years ago, but it’s taken until this year to see synergy really grow out of the purchase. So far this year, we’ve seen the Marvel Universe programming block on Disney XD, and we’ve seen Disney throw its considerable marketing weight behind the blockbuster film The Avengers. But it’s only now that true integration of Disney and Marvel has been announced, in the form of a crossover animated special starring Marvel superheroes and the characters from Phineas and Ferb. via wired
Entertainment Weekly got themselves some exclusive new pictures from the third season of AMC’s The Walking Dead. Here we see that the survivors have discovered the prison and are making arrangements to move in.
Breaking Bad fans, right now is about the time that your yearly ulcer should begin expanding once again—it’s time for yet another season of Breaking Bad to begin. And with a new season comes another late summer of watching ex-chemistry teacher turned drug manufacturer for the American southwest, in what has become both television’s best current program and its most unnerving. And now you can watch the first post-credits scene from the upcoming fifth season premiere, which takes place immediately after season four’s shocking conclusion.
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Falling Skies came back with a two-hour season premiere last night, written by a trio of Battlestar Galactica writers. And both the creep factor and the alien menace were amped up from the first season, along with a noticeable reduction in the rate of platitudes per minute. Most of all, though, this show seems to be finding new ways to talk about its central metaphor: the harness.
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Even if you’re not a fan of the HBO series Game of Thrones, it’s highly probable that you’ve read or heard about the recent cameo appearance from former President of the United States George W. Bush’s decapitated head – or at least a pretty uncanny facsimile of same.
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The weather is getting warmer and it's time for the vampires to come back out of their coffins. Tonight, we'll finally get some answers to the questions we've been asking since September. Want to chat about tonight's episode? You've come to the right place.
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The BBC has apologised after it mistook an emblem from the Halo video game franchise for the United Nations logo, during a broadcast last week.In last Thursday's edition of News at One, the Beeb employed a graphic featuring the fictional United Nations Space Council (UNSC) logo. via tech radar
Sad as it is to say goodbye to HBO’s Game of Thrones for another ten months, at least the show’s second season is going out strong. After this past weekend’s explosive penultimate episode, the fantasy series will be tying up loose ends with an extra-long finale this coming weekend. via /film
It seems that the powers that be over at AMC have decided that Kevin Smith’s podcast turned tv show, Comic Book Men is being renewed for another season. via geeks are sexy
