This is a cool development. BBC America has ordered a full season of The Nerdist, the geeky goofy and at least partially cool talk show that started out as a podcast with Chris Hardwick, as part of the Supernatural Saturday [...]
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Syfy Acquires K9, Jumps into Doctor Who Christmas Frenzy with Christmas Day Marathon
We've been telling you for months, near continuously, about the upcoming Doctor Who Christmas Special to air on BBC America at 9/8c on Christmas Day. Now word comes from Syfy that they are joining into the Whovian holiday celebration with [...]
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Details Announced for Upcoming Blu-ray Release of WILLOW
Willow is a completely charming movie, written by George Lucas and directed by Ron Howard. If you haven't seen it, and especially if you are a fan of Middle Earth-type stories and settings, you should definitely check it out; the Blu-ray DVD [...]
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Award-Winning THE WALKING DEAD Video Game Launches for XBox, PS3 and PC
Press Release: The Walking Dead - from Telltale Games Now Available at Retail in North America Based on Robert Kirkman's comic book series, Winner of Game of the Year at the 10th Annual Spike TV Video Game Awards SAN RAFAEL, Calif., Dec. 11, 2012 -- Leading [...]
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Syfy Celebrates Moving Past its Teen Years With a 20th Anniversary Special
They grow up so fast. It seems like only yesterday that the SciFi Channel was a toddler, and now look at it. It changed its name as a teen, getting all independent and calling itself Syfy, and is now moving [...]
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Syfy Mashes Genre and Wrestling by Announcing ROBOT COMBAT LEAGUE
Until the sci-fi viewers actually outnumber the WWE viewers, Syfy will likely keep its dual allegiance to genre fans and wrestling fans. But that's okay, there are plenty of sci-fi fans who also enjoy wrestling, and plenty of wrestling fans [...]
Read moreBREAKING EXCELLENT NEWS: AMERICAN HORROR STORY Renewed for Third Season
We are over-the-moon excited about this very excellent news. FX has announced that it has renewed our beloved American Horror Story for a third season! With Jessica Lange! No word yet about much more, other than it will air in the [...]
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Syfy Announces Premiere for Time Traveling Cop Show CONTINUUM
We hear from our Canadian friends that Continuum is a DO NOT MISS series, so we're really excited about it, and especially pleased that "coming in 2013" has become "January 14, 2013". It will be taking on that Mondays at 8 [...]
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Details Announced For BATTLESTAR GALACTICA BLOOD & CHROME Unrated Blu-ray Combo Pack
On the eve of the premiere of Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome on Machinima Prime tomorrow (see our story earlier this week), details were announced today about the February release of the unrated Blu-ray combo pack, along with this great [...]
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Neil Gaiman and Cybermen and New DOCTOR WHO, Oh My!
BBC America has issued a press release about Doctor Who in 2013 that has us completely excited. Yes indeed, author par excellence Neil Gaiman's second episode for Doctor Who (his first was "The Doctor's Wife"; that's Gaiman in a promo [...]
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Frenzy Begins as Tickets Go On Sale Tomorrow at Noon Eastern for THE HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY
Because. They. Can. We can come up with dozens of reasons why theater owners would want us to literally move in to their places of business the weekend before the big premiere, but we think the first one covers the [...]
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Details Announced for The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
SciFi Mafia has been the happy recipient of several soundtracks for review this year, but this one is one of the most highly anticipated. We. Can't. Wait. And we happily note, though it is no surprise, that the composer for [...]
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