The message this week is that technological innovation, together with political commitment, can drive social change. Interestingly this is a very sci-fi theme.
Holly Cara Price | Posted 09.23.2009 | Entertainment
Brilliant -- the idea to do a two hour special featuring many of our favorite contestants from past seasons of Project Runway. Talk about being on the edge of your seat!
Andy Borowitz | Posted 08.21.2009 | Comedy
Roger Ailes, chairman of the new combined network known as SciFox, said that it would roll out a slate of new shows in the fall, including Bill O'Reilly's "Galactica Factor."
Michael Giltz | Posted 09.17.2009 | Entertainment
Firefly is quirky, with the offbeat and clever dialogue we expect from Whedon. But it's also wholly satisfying and fun from episode one
Mike Ragogna | Posted 08.26.2009 | Entertainment
As you're recovering from the joyful overkill that was this year's Comic-Con, take a few moments to catch-up on a handful of the more interesting new press releases.
Mike Ragogna | Posted 07.22.2009 | Entertainment
The songs on Wilco's self-titled album are laden with fat, beefy hooks although there isn't the usual amount of boundary pushing here.
William Bradley | Posted 07.01.2009 | Entertainment
Is the era of the dark comic book movie fable coming to an end? Or is it more a matter of a spate of seemingly underperforming dark would-be blockbusters?
Andrea Chalupa | Posted 06.28.2009 | Entertainment
Green compares Unbroke to the Schoolhouse Rock shorts: funny and informative. "I'm concerned for all of America's youth who grew up watching My Super Sweet 16 and Cribs."
Mike Ragogna | Posted 04.30.2009 | Entertainment
Leonard's voice really has grown better over the years, Yeah Yeah's new album is 42 minutes of electronically retro-licious pop, and Sara Watkins is as a serious lyricist with a mission.
Lee Stranahan | Posted 04.23.2009 | Media
Maybe it's time for NBC to start using it's strengths in cable to build a great primetime lineup. When a show on an NBC cable property hits, give them a shot at the big leagues.
Michael Giltz | Posted 04.19.2009 | Entertainment
Warning! SyFy (yes, that's how they spell their name now) has just announced that the series finale is not 2 hours long. It's two hours and eleven minutes long!
PETA UK | Posted 03.28.2009 | Green
Jamie Bamber has long been a firm favourite on the sci-fi scene, with his ever-exciting role as Lee "Apollo" Adama in Battlestar Galactica. And now he...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 03.15.2009 | Media
We're told every day that the country faces any number of intractable crises, both at home and abroad. But how bad are things, really? Probably not ...
Jenna Busch | Posted 03.12.2009 | Entertainment
On Battlestar Galactica, Kate Vernon plays Ellen Tigh, wife of Colonel Saul Tigh. Ellen has always been a wild card, seducing the crew, sleeping with cylons to get info and save her husband.
Christine Huang | Posted 01.02.2009 | Entertainment
Networks are now treating the once stigmatized scifi genre (and its followers) as the powerful, profitable force it has grown to be.
Mike Ragogna | Posted 11.23.2008 | Entertainment
After years of inactivity, Star Trek has been re-energized by J.J. Abrams, and supposedly transformed in such a way that connects it to its roots while making it relevant again.
Mike Ragogna | Posted 10.20.2008 | Entertainment
Thirty years ago, ABC-TV delighted and outraged sci-fi fans with its new series, Battlestar Galactica, a lovable beneficiary of Star Wars' success. Happy Birthday, BG!
Mark Jeffrey | Posted 10.03.2008 | Politics
Watching the whole Sarah Palin saga unfold, I can't help but think of Laura Roslin from Battlestar Galactica. On the show, humanity is all but wiped ...
Michael Giltz | Posted 07.03.2008 | Entertainment
A spreading practice needs to be stopped right now. A number of studios -- led by Paramount/CBS -- are releasing old TV shows in half-season sets.
Daniel Holloway | Posted 06.25.2008 | Entertainment
But one of the reasons Battlestar works so well is that humanity's demise is rooted in its Alfred E. Neuman-esque attitude toward the machines of war.
Ed Martin | Posted 05.30.2008 | Entertainment
We had been led to expect networks to roll over and play dead in the wake of the WGA strike and amid the recession -- but almost all the networks rallied in grand style for Upfronts 2008.
Michelle Kung | Posted 04.28.2008 | Entertainment
This past weekend, I experienced my first New York Comic Con and am a better geek for it.
Huffington Post | Michelle Kung | Posted 04.07.2008 | Entertainment
Battlestar Galactica spoiler seekers, take note: "I would lie before I gave something away," says Lucy Lawless, who will be reprising her role as the ...
Dave Howe | Posted 11.24.2009 | Media