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Do fan campaigns ever work? With Community still in questionable limbo, it's time to step back, assess past save-our-show protests, and learn from those motivated viewers who did succeed (however briefly). Which fans saved their series, and what can they teach us today? More »
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In a country whose ideal of success is often called "the American dream," there are plenty of nightmares too. The United States has its own particular brand of dystopia, full of religious thuggery, class warfare, and the spectre of slavery. Here are ten of the greatest dystopian stories ever created about America. More »
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It's almost fall TV season, which means just one thing — it's time to start second guessing the TV networks. Many new shows will be introduced, and most of them will die an ignominious death. More »
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Steven Spielberg's new show Falling Skies launched last night on TNT, and the good news is, it got gangbuster ratings for a basic cable show: 5.9 million viewers, more than The Walking Dead's first episode on AMC. More »
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The BBC's Outcasts looks a lot like Battlestar Galactica, at first glance: You've got the gritty action, the tense drumming soundtrack, and Jamie Bamber looking filthy and flustered. But once you watch a bit of it, Outcasts is actually a bit more like the late, lamented Jericho: The slow, character-driven story of a community trying to survive in the wilderness. More »
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As the fall TV season starts up, shows are resolving their agonizing summer cliffhangers — but for some unlucky shows, that resolution never arrived. Here are the most frustrating "cancel-hangers," cliffhanger endings for shows that got cancelled too soon. More »
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The best science fiction and fantasy television hooks you with endless suspense... including hair-raising cliffhangers. But only the greatest cliffhangers can make you throw your remote at the screen, and keep you wondering for weeks. Here are the 20 awesomest. More »
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Science fiction is an endangered species on the "big four" U.S. networks — Lost is ending, and pretty much every other show is in ratings freefall. Which trend should we blame for this turn of events? More »
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With regular shows beginning to go on holiday hiatus, you'd think this might be a dull week on television, but you'd be very wrong: Doctor Who marathons! Better Off Ted returning! Lots of disaster movies! We love you, television. More »
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Worried that you won't be able to make it through Thanksgiving without help? Comics come to your rescue this week, with timely collections celebrating America and eating, as well as something for fans of Skeet Ulrich and spoon-loving superheroes. Comics! More »
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Looking through a copy of the comic catalog Previews recently, I realized how many canceled TV shows have been spun off into ongoing comic series: Buffy, Farscape, Jericho, even Galactica 1980... Why can't we say goodbye to things we love? More »
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The United States is always collapsing in science fiction. The U.S. implodes, explodes, or just declines. But a team of professional futurists sees only four scenarios that could end the U.S.A. — and they've got a chart to prove it. More »
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Despite being canceled twice, it's sounding like CBS' Jericho may be headed back to television screens again, to wrap up loose ends left over from the cliffhanger at the end of last season. Why won't this show die? More »
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Wondering what to expect from Jesse Alexander's new NBC series Day One? The creator has been talking about the show's influences, format and why it's not as like Jericho as you may have originally thought. More »
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CBS' Jericho may not be as dead as you may have thought. Publisher Devil's Due announced yesterday that they're releasing a comic book spin-off of the series, produced by the show's creators. More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5167578&view=rss&microfeed=true Skeet Ulrich rises from the ashes of Hollywood cancellation, with a big-screen debut for the postapocalytic epic Jericho. Executive producer Jon Turtletaub confirmed the movie is indeed still happening: "We're developing a feature for Jericho," Turteltaub explained. "It would not require you to have seen the TV show, but it gets into life after an event like this on a national scale. It would be the bigger, full-on American version of what’s going on, beyond the town in Jericho." Jericho told the story of a Kansas town that survived a single act of nuclear terrorism that took out two dozen or so U.S. cities on the same day. [IF Magazine] More »
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Click to viewWere you shocked to realize Sarah Connor (Lena Headey) was secretly British? When you were mining through Battlestar Galactica DVD bonus features, did you start yelling at the screen when Lee Adama spoke with a British accent? It turns out American science fiction is crammed with aliens — British and Australian people, that is — doing fake American accents. But some of them are better at it than others. We rank the Brits (and a few Aussies) playing Americans in scifi, from best to worst. More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5032973&view=rss&microfeed=true The American remake of British time-traveling cop show Life On Mars just scored a major coup: Harvey Keitel is replacing Colm Meaney in the role of Detective Gene Hunt. The hard-assed boss who spars with time-lost detective Sam Tyler is probably the hardest role to fill, because Philip Glenister put his mark on the role in the British version. But Keitel could just possibly pull it off. In other casting news, AMC has released some images of the new stars of the new miniseries remake of The Prisoner, the 1960s spy-village drama. I recognized the amazing Lennie James from Jericho, off the top of my head. The names will be released tonight. [EW and AMC] More »
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How many times does the world have to end for people to accept it? If you're talking about fans of CBS' failed apocalypse drama Jericho, the answer would appear to be "at least three." Apparently the cancellation, fan-outcry-inspired resurrection and subsequent re-cancellation of the show haven't dulled their appetites to make Skeet Ulrich America's favorite rural dystopian leading man. Under the jump, view the triumph of blind, terrifying hope over experience. More »
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When you think about the archetypal science fiction story, chances are you think of the bold explorer, setting foot on a newfound planet in the name of a secure homeworld. But possibly the most pervasive narrative in science fiction is actually the story of refugees. They flee from planetary destruction, war, or just from overcrowding and ecological crappitude. The refugee story is the flipside of the gung-ho explorer story, but it might actually be the most uniquely science fictional story of all. More »
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Here's the Jericho I'm going to miss: a tough, thought-provoking drama where nobody's exactly right or wrong. And I didn't actually know what was going to happen after this scene in the cancelled post-nuclear war drama, or what Eric Green was going to decide. Alas, a lot of the rest of the series finale was as much of a pat resolution as I'd been dreading. It was satisfying, but not entirely believable. Spoilers and commentary after the jump. More »
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Barring a miracle, this week sees the last ever episode of Jericho, the nuked-America show that grew into a masterpiece of paranoia. (Maybe the Sci Fi Channel will discover some extra money laying around that it hasn't spent on Ghost Hunters.) Also this week, Clark takes another huge step towards his super-destiny on Smallville. And there are two mini-documentaries about Battlestar Galactica. Click through for full listings, including preview clips. More »
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Trust Jake Green to summarize in a few words the theme of this season of post-apocalyptic Kansas drama Jericho: "This isn't a country, it's a company." The old America is gone, replaced with a corporate dictatorship. This scene really made me feel as though the show knows exactly what it wants to say, and it's heading towards a huge resolution next week. And then the show threw a plot twist at me that suddenly put me in a smidgen of doubt. Spoilers, and more reaction to last night's episode, ahead. More »
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It's your last chance to get to know Kyle XY this week, and your second-to-last chance to discover Jericho before it goes away, maybe forever. Those both happen to be shows that I really disliked when they started, and they've both grown on me a lot. Meanwhile, Smallville features Chief Tyrol in full crazoid mode, and Lost has a script co-written by Brian K. Vaughan (Y: The Last Man). Click through for clips and full listings. More »
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A nuclear holocaust has caused a new ice age and all but wiped out humanity... and the survivors kill time with pointless murder games. Robert Altman's Quintet has two of the greatest movie concepts in history jammed together, in a quintessentially 1970s blend of apocalypse and wacky death game. No wonder Paul Newman is excited! It's like stumbling into Rollerball, Death Race 2000, Jericho and the Sci Fi Channel's Ice all rolled into one. (And check out the proto-Bartertown sets, complete with weird slogans.) Sadly, the seemingly innocent game of Quintet hides a dark secret, as you'll see after the jump. More »
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Wow. Just when I thought last night's episode of Jericho was giving me just a little bit too much wish-fulfillment, it gave me a little more, and then a little more than that... until I was choking on it. Jericho was once again dark and twisted, but in a different way than the show's usual post-nuclear-attack evil conspiracy mongering. It was disturbing enough that I almost forgave the show for how convenient it all was. Almost. More »
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I'm going to try something a bit different starting with this week's TV column. Instead of just telling you what's on TV and letting you make up your own mind, I'm going to recommend stuff. I'm going to explain to you why Kyle XY really is a better show than you ever realized, and why it's time to give Smallville another chance. And why several thousand of your friends should be watching Jericho. Advocacy, and preview clips from Jericho, Smallville and Lost, below the fold. More »
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Smallville will try to imitate Lost — which will be doing something completely different. Meanwhile, Doctor Who is visiting more alien planets and showcasing radically different alien monsters in its fourth season. Learn more in our television-heavy round of spoilers this morning, which also include clips from next week's Lost, and new promo images from Smallville and Jericho. Because we're all about giving away the surprise. More »
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This scene from last night's episode of post-apocalyptic survival show Jericho really startled me. I had to rewind my DVR a bit, because I didn't believe what I was seeing at first. It was the first really surprising thing in this whole season of Jericho, which has been cool and subversive, but not really startling except in a twisty-turny suspense thriller way. But this clip — which you really shouldn't watch unless you're prepared for major spoilerage — changed all that. Click through for spoilers. More »
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We have a new official plot description for Joss Whedon's fledgling show Dollhouse, which gives way more concrete details about the hows and whys of his dystopian future of brainwashed slaves. That's just one of the as-yet-untold stories which we unravel in this morning's dose of spoilers. We also have new clips from Lost and Jericho, and tons of spoilers for Lost, Smallville and Heroes. Spoilers ahead! More »
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The biggest thing on TV this week is tonight's two-hour season finale for Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles — which may also be a series finale unless the show manages to bring a few million more viewers back in time. But there are also new episodes of Lost, Kyle XY, Stargate: Atlantis and Torchwood... plus some other special programming. Click through for preview clips! More »
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When Mad-Maxian bikers team up with riot cops with lion badges to attack your little town, what are you going to do? You're pretty much screwed. That's the message of 2020 Texas Gladiators, a post-apocalyptic action movie filmed in Italy. (You know it's Texas because they occasionally write "TEXAS" in big letters on the buildings.) This scene strikes me as a more scifi, but much cheaper, version of the Ravenwood stand-off from post-nuclear-disaster show Jericho. Click through to learn more. More »
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Our favorite day-after-nuclear-bombs TV drama, Jericho, actually improved its ratings this week over the week before, with a million extra viewers and double-digit increases in all categories. Will it be enough to win the show a third season? Stay tuned. [The Futon Critic] More »
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Jericho isn't toast yet, insists producer Carol Barbee. The post-apocalyptic TV drama's first two episodes of its second season got "good but not great" ratings, but the demographics were decent. And if tonight's episode shows an uptick, then the show about Kansas surviving a nuclear holocaust could still win a third season. If CBS pulls the plug on Jericho, Barbee adds, she may shop it around to a cable network. [Sci Fi Wire] More »
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Are you ready for the most shocking plot twist in Battlestar Galactica's final season? Will you know what to expect in the final two seasons of Lost? Can you see the writing on the wall for a budding romance on Jericho? Reading spoilers isn't just a guilty pleasure, it's all about being prepared for every eventuality. Click through to start pulling together your spoiler preparedness kit. More »
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The biggest cheers at Wondercon weren't for killer robots, but for allegories about government conspiracies, endless wars and terrorism. Much of the weekend felt like a poli-sci seminar, except with nuclear holocausts and mutated alien bugs instead of textbooks. If you needed proof that the shadow of 9/11 keeps falling over our formerly escapist narratives, then you only needed to sit in on any one of the con's jam-packed panels. More »
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These days, the networks are bending over backwards to promote their shows online — and not just with crappy Flash games and viral-marketing mysteries. We have new promo clips for this week's episodes of Lost, Sarah Connor, Kyle XY and Jericho. You can get a pretty good flavor of which shows will be exciting (Jericho) and which will be kind of painful (Sarah Connor, sadly.) More »
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This week's episode of post-apocalyptic drama Jericho pits our hero Jake Green against Ravenwood, the government security contractor he used to work for. When the producers were originally coming up with ideas for a TV show about the collapse of governing institutions after nuclear attacks, they did a lot of research into contractors like Halliburton and Blackwater operating in the chaos of post-invasion Iraq, producer Carol Barbee revealed at Wondercon. Jericho's portrayal of unaccountable contractors presaged the Blackwater scandals, which hadn't yet come out. More about the politics of Jericho, after the jump. More »
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The biggest cliffhangers on TV this week are the ones that you, the viewers, will resolve on your own. Will Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles pull out of its ratings slump in time to win a second season? Will Jericho improve on last week's blah performance enough to avoid a second cancellation? It's crunch time for some SF TV shows. Click through for full listings, plus we have sneak preview clips of this week's Lost and Sarah Connor. More »
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The post-apocalyptic rebuilding may have begun on last night's Jericho, but the CBS show's own restoration after a cancellation scare looks like it'll be short-lived. The season opener failed to beat a rerun of Law and Order, and an original Boston Legal. The episode's 7.1 million viewers was much better than the tail end of season one, but nowhere near as good as the show's first few episodes. Barring a miracle spurt in the next couple of weeks, Jericho is not coming back. To make things worse, few critics liked the season opener as much as we did. More »
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