Stephen Colbert Accurately Predicts Entire Plot of Star Wars: The Force Awakens

Okay, he doesn't, but that doesn't stop this Star Wars superfan (and close personal friend to director J.J. Abrams…despite "not knowing what J.J. stands for") from speculating on the entire plot of The Force Awakens after watching the final trailer.

The funny thing (well, one of the funny things) is how demonstrably not insane this is. Colbert is a legitimate Star Wars 

By  |  October 29, 2015

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Watch the Worst Take-Out Order of all Time in Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

In tonight's episode of Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Agent Jemma Simmons (Elizabeth Henstridge) is marooned on an alien planet, but unlike Mark Watney (Matt Damon) in The MartianSimmons can't grow her food, she's got to kill it.

In season two, Simmons was sucked into the Kree monolith after agreeing to go on a date with Fitz (Iain De Caestecker),

By  |  October 27, 2015
What if Star Wars: The Force Awakens Trailer Was Voiced by Brooklynites?

Thanks to Jimmy Kimmel, you now have an answer to this question. Kimmel was filming Jimmy Kimmel Live in Brooklyn all last week, and he decided to ask his local crew to record their voices over the actors in the Stars Wars: The Force Awakens trailer. The result? Hilarious. From the opening voiceover, "Hey what's up, how's everything?" playing over the masked face of Rey (Daisy Ridley),

By  |  October 26, 2015

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Showrunners From Power, Veep, Louie & More at NYTF’s Creative Keynote Panel

Last night at the New York Television Festival creative keynote panel "Running the Show: A Big Picture Conversation on Creating for the Small Screen," Power showrunner Courtney Kemp Agboh expressed her frustration with gender politics in the entertainment industry.

“I’d like for it not to be a thing when there are a bunch of women showrunners,“ she said. “And also not for it to be pointed out all the time,

By  |  October 21, 2015

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Check out This Awesome Animated X-Files Teaser

Mulder, Scully, the Smoking Man—they're all here in this very cool animated teaser for The X-Files six-episode event series. The spot aired during last night's episode of Gothamand it brilliantly teases the two-night season premiere by rendering in beautifully stylized animation a lot of what we loved about the original show. (If you're interested in why they chose this specific color palette for the animation,

By  |  October 13, 2015

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Benedict Cumberbatch is Back as Sherlock in 19th Century Special

Dr. Holmes (Cumberbatch) and Watson (Martin Freeman) are back at 221B Baker Street, only they’ve given up their contemporary garb and technology’s trappings in the special, Victorian-era Sherlock. Our favorite obsessive sleuth and his indefatigable partner are now plying their trade in the 19th century, which is interesting considering it’s the era when Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was living in when he wrote Holmes and Watson into existence. Everything’s different (especially Watson’s facial hair),

By  |  October 8, 2015

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Everything That Happened Last Season on The Walking Dead in 3 Minutes

AMC’s Fear the Walking Deada riveting look at a few families in Los Angeles just as the world's becoming aware of the horror to come, recently ended it's first season. Knowing what we do of that future from The Walking Dead, Fear packed an extra layer of despair into the viewing experience. The conceit of showing the first days of the zombie apocalypse could have felt unnecessary,

By  |  October 7, 2015

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HBO’s New Vinyl Trailer is Fast, Dirty, and Smashes You Over the Head

Back in September we interviewed Boardwalk Empire’s production designer Bill Groom, who was nominated for his fourth Emmy in a row for Terrence Winter’s prohibition era gangland drama. When we spoke, Groom was hard at work on HBO’s and Winter’s next big project, Vinyl, starring Boardwalk Empire alum Bobby Canavale as Richie Finestra, a hard charging music executive in 1970’s New York.

By  |  October 6, 2015
The Opening Title Sequence of American Horror Story: Hotel is Biblical

The premiere of Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk’s spine-chilling fifth season of the horror anthology American Horror Story is less than a week away. The newly released opening title sequence for AHS: Hotel is about as creepy as it gets. If you are someone like me, who does not deal well with horror movies and scary TV shows, you should watch between your fingers and then find a puppy to cuddle.

By  |  October 2, 2015

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Don’t Get Into a Bar Fight With Jessica Jones

With Jessica Jones release date of November 20 creeping up, Netflix and Marvel Entertainment have released another teaser for their upcoming series, which features Krysten Ritter in the title role.

In this teaser, we see the aftermath of a few unlucky bar patrons who have clearly picked a fight with Jessica Jones, unaware she's a superhero and that one of her abilities is superhuman strength. It'll be fun to see the actual fight—for now,

By  |  October 1, 2015

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A Game of Thrones Movie? Rumors, Rumors…

Editor's note: we were excited by the news reported by The Daily Star that George R. R. Martin had confirmed a Game of Thrones movie was in the works—alas, it looks like that might not be the case. Variety reported this morning that Martin to took his Livejournal to debunk this rather juicy rumor. Below is the initial story, which got our hopes up a tad too much.

By  |  October 1, 2015

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“The Truth IS Still Out There” in this new The X-Files Trailer

The first 24-seconds of the trailer begins with a man’s voice in a low staccato rhythm, “It will probably start on a Friday. What will seem like an attack on America by terrorists or Russia, driven by a well oiled, well armed and multinational group of elites, using alien technology the government’s been hiding for seventy years.” If we heard nothing else but this, punctuated by a single base note, we could guess which dynamic duo is returning after an almost fourteen year absence –

By  |  September 30, 2015

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Watch Trevor Noah’s First 11 Minutes on The Daily Show

"Growing up in the dusty streets of South Africa, I never dreamed that I would one day have, well, two things, really," Trevor Noah began as the new host of The Daily Show. "An indoor toilet and a job as host of The Daily Show. Now I have both, and I'm quite comfortable with one of them." It was a humble, funny start for the new host, one who faced his fair share of controversy from the moment he was selected,

By  |  September 29, 2015

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Has Rick Met his Match? Watch Epic Season 6 Teaser for The Walking Dead

We're inching closer to the first episode of The Walking Dead's sixth season, after one hell of a ride in season 5. 

Let's take a quick look back on last season to get us up to speed on what's coming. Season 5 showed our main group, still led by Rich Grimes (Andrew Lincoln), begin to fray in Alexandria. Compared to the Alexandrians, who have lived relatively safely behind the walls of their city,

By  |  September 28, 2015

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New Truth Trailer Recalls the Scandal That Rocked Washington

“Why did you get into journalism?” young reporter Mike Smith (Topher Grace) asks Dan Rather (Robert Redford). “Curiosity” he replies, the trait that would serve him well on a remarkable career that would end, abruptly, in disgrace.

Truth is based on the book “Truth and Duty: The Press, the President, and the Privilege of Power” by his producer Mary Mapes (played by Cate Blanchett). It delves into the drama surrounding CBS’s handling of a incendiary investigative report in 2004 detailing George W.

By  |  September 24, 2015

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Watch the Cold Open for Season 3 of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

The premiere for season three of Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. isn't until next Tuesday on ABC, but they've released the cold episode of that episode early, a full five minutes of juicy material. It seems a lot has changed since season two's finale, when S.H.I.E.L.D. was battling with Jiaying (Dichen Lachman) and her army of Inhumans.

The opening sequence is a stunner—the ruins of a kitchen and some petrified body parts,

By  |  September 24, 2015

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Jordan Peele’s Making a Horror Film Called Get Out—YES!

The Hollywood Reporter broke the story and the rest of the Internet (those who have seen Key & Peele, at least) became very excited about the news: Jordan Peele is going to make a horror film called Get Out. 

Key & Peele just ended their incredible 5-year run on Comedy Central, and while it's fantastic to see people going out at the very top of their game,

By  |  September 22, 2015

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New Supergirl Footage Reveals Some Freaky Villains

24 year old Kara Zor-El is ready to go toe-to-toe with a host of weird villains in CBS’s Supergirl. New footage released by CBS gives you a peek at some of the baddies Superman’s cousin is going to have to contend with. The show's two big stars are Melissa Benoist as Kara Danvers/Supergirl and Mehcad Brooks as Jimmy Olsen, but also includes a bunch of strong actors including Calista Flockhart,

By  |  September 22, 2015

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Amanda Seyfried & Balthazar Getty Join Twin Peaks

We're patiently, quietly growing very excited about Showtime's upcoming Twin Peaks revival. Written by the creators of the original series, David Lynch and Mark Frost, with every episode directed by Lynch, Twin Peaks will be one of the most exciting shows in television when it premieres sometime in 2017. When we went and listened to Lynch speak at Brooklyn's Academy of Music way back in May of 2014,

By  |  September 21, 2015

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Viola Davis, Tracy Morgan Highlight an Emotional, Funny 67th Emmy Awards

It was an emotional night at the Emmy’s, where some longtime bridesmaids finally became the bride (we’re looking at you, Jon Hamm), some very major milestones ocurred (yay, Viola Davis!!) and legends said their final (for now), goodbyes.

We could give you a list of the highlights, but why bother, just watch them below for yourself.

Let’s start with Andy Samberg’s opening number, which captured how it can feel to live in an era of too much good stuff on TV:

Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series

Making history,

By  |  September 21, 2015