The History Channel's 9-part Vikings miniseries, from The Tudors creator Michael Hirst, is real-life medieval history leavened with enough flights of fancy to keep it afloat. Here's why you need to give this show a chance.
History Channel's Vikings is just as brutal as Game of Thrones
Vikings, the new scripted show from the History Channel is bonkers violent. It's like Game of Thrones without the nudity. Backed by historical research and lots of sexy Australian actors, this show is the channel's first venture into scripted drama. Thankfully writer Michael Hirst from Elizabeth, Elizabeth: The…
Discovery's Universe Declares War
The Discovery Channel is teaming with Stephen Hawking for a new multi-million dollar series explaining how the universe works. As an added bonus for the network, they get to piss off their rivals doing so.
Is The Truth Out There For SciFi Channel?
Sure, we may tease History Channel's UFO Hunters every Monday when we run down the shows you should watch each week on TV, but elsewhere on the internet, fans are wondering what happened to the SciFi Channel's show of the same name, that debuted on the same day and in the same time slot as the History Channel's series, …
Dogs Rule The Planet In 'Life After People'
Last night the two-hour post apocalyptic documentary Life After People aired on The History Channel, and it was awesome. As astrophysicist and author David Brin puts it in the film, "We're the first generation that could, by deliberate actions, cause its own doom." Find out what the Earth would do once we vacate, and…
New Television Series Examines Life Without Humans
Movies like The Mist, I Am Legend, and Cloverfield depict aliens, monsters from the briny deep, and superviruses hell-bent on driving people out of the cities and off the face of the Earth. But what would really happen tomorrow if everyone suddenly vanished today? A new series on the History Channel called Life After…
