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Even after all of your presents are unwrapped and your tree is packed away (or put on the curb), Arrow Video will continue to give the gift of new horror Blu-ray releases for fans looking to expand their collections. The company just announced their impressive February 2018 slate of Blu-rays, including a limited edition version of Frank Henenlotter's Basket Case, The Gruesome Twosome, and much more!

From Arrow Video: "Time for our new announcements! First up two titles coming from Arrow Records and Books this December…

New Arrow Book: The Hitcher (Book)

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Release date: 29th December

Robert Harmon’s 1986 film The Hitcher is a complex beast: reviled at the time of its release, it has been adored in the long term as one of the most intoxicating, unrelenting highway cult films ever made. Starring Rutger Hauer in the title role whose alluring villainy...

Earlier this summer, filmmakers Mark and Jay Duplass, alongside Seed&Spark, the film-focused crowdfunding platform with built-in distribution, announced a brand new initiative designed to find and bolster new filmmaking talent all over the country. Their Hometown Heroes partnership was designed to challenge “filmmakers from all over the country to tell stories that have never been told from wherever they are,” including a large-scale call for crowdfunding campaigns for narrative feature films on the Seed&Spark platform.

Submissions opened for the initiative in August and the rally launched on September 12, when the 73 participating films began their crowdfunding campaigns. All campaigns closed on October 13. More than $860,000 was raised across all rally projects, who also amassed a total of 63,000 followers in the 30-day period.

Read More:Mark and Jay Duplass’ Ambitious Crowdfunding Campaign Gets a Major Boost In Its First Week

Up to five winning projects were eligible to be picked from those that applied,...

Emanating from their studio in Cincinnati, Ohio, The History of Bad Ideas sees hosts Jason, Jeff and Blake talk about all things geeky on their podcast. Whether it’s rumours of the latest comic book movies, debating who really is the worst villain of all time, discussing the latest comic issues or just wondering about life in general, you are sure to have a fun time with them! In theory.

If you haven’t listened to the show before – why not? – you can check out previous episodes of The History of Bad Ideas podcast on iTunes and look out for new episodes here on Nerdly each and every week…

Episode 181: Sharecropping in Disney!

The Hobi Gang welcomes Number One Fan Doug into the Bob Studios to talk his latest visit to Disney World and Pandora, aka AvatarLand and to teach the gang some Disney history! The guys are hating on Transformers even before it is released, Blake hates the fake news surrounding Wonder Woman while Jason lightens the mood with impressions of celebrity siblings! The gang is scared of Bat-nipples, Jeff gets angry at people that don’t understand Lost while Doug is only interested in a new Atari console if it has the dirty games from the old system! The guys list their Top 5 Favorite Fictional Fathers and Hobi has two Bad Ideas of the Week this time! This episode is sponsored by the Cincinnati Comic Expo!

Even though the worlds of film and TV are converging more than ever before, it’s interesting to note just how many of the people behind the biggest films of the year have tried their hand at TV work in the past.

“Get Out” director Jordan Peele never officially directed an episode of his long-running Comedy Central sketch show “Key & Peele,” but his debut film currently sits at No. 7 on the year’s domestic box office list. Go up and down the rest of that chart and you’ll find movies from directors who’ve made valuable contributions to TV comedies and dramas alike.

Most of these episodes were pilots or season premieres, ways for directors to help establish a template or shorthand for what governs life in front of and behind the camera for the duration of these series. While some of these filmmakers took multiple opportunities in the TV director’s seat,...

Although it may be hard to believe, it's been nearly thirty years since Grandpa warned Michael and Sam not to touch the second shelf of the fridge, and Paul Davis celebrates the legacy of The Lost Boys in his new book, Lost in the Shadows: The Story of The Lost Boys, featuring over 400 behind-the-scenes photos from the making of the beloved film.

Lost in the Shadows: The Story of The Lost Boys will ship in August and is now available to pre-order from Cult Screenings Ltd. and Dead Mouse Productions. We have official details and cover art below, and you can also learn more by visiting Cult Screenings Ltd. online.

Press Release: From writer and director, Paul Davis, Cult Screenings Ltd. and Dead Mouse Productions, comes the anticipated follow up to Beware The Moon – The Story Of An American Werewolf In London. This time around the author trades werewolves for vampires,...

Clerks star Lisa Spoonauer died on Saturday at age 44.

The actress, who starred in the cult classic 1994 film, passed away at her home in Jackson Township, New Jersey, according to an obituary posted on the Hassler Funeral Home's website.

Clerks director Kevin Smith took to Instagram to announce the sad news, sharing some photos from Spoonauer's time on the film, as well as a heartfelt essay honoring the actress' life.

"Devastated to report that #LisaSpoonauer, who played Caitlin in #clerks, has passed away," the 46-year-old filmmaker wrote. "In 1992, I went looking for Lisa without knowing either who she was or the integral role she'd play in my life. I'd held a night of open auditions at the #firstavenueplayhouse (where we found @briancohalloran and @marilynghigliotti) but the perfect Caitlin Bree never walked through the door. So I popped...

It’s been nearly 50 years since former Green Beret surgeon Jeffrey MacDonald’s wife and two daughters were brutally murdered at their Fort Bragg, North Carolina, home.

MacDonald claimed that on that 1970 night, four intruders killed his wife, Colette, 26, and daughters Kimberley, 5, and Kristen, 2. But MacDonald was convicted of the murders.

He has maintained his innocence, and on January 26, an appeals court in Richmond, Virginia, will hear oral arguments on his “actual innocence” claim, a legal term that sets a high bar for exonerations.

The case is the focus of the upcoming People Magazine Investigates episode “The Accused,” which airs Monday night at 10 p.

Chicago – When comedian/writer/director Mike Birbiglia is in his element, as during the interviews he conducted at The iO Theater in Chicago, he is relaxed and ardently philosophical. He has written and directed a new film, “Don’t Think Twice,” which is about a improvisation comedy troupe, but it’s also about life.

“Don’t Think Twice” – besides being a clever play on the famous Bob Dylan song title – is essentially about the stages of life, and how we react to our own ambitions. The members of the comedy troupe – portrayed by (clockwise in the picture below, starting top left) Mike Birbiglia, Kate Miccuci, Chris Gethard, Gillian Jacobs, Keegan-Michael Key and Tami Sagner – are at a crossroads in their professional and personal lives, and have to deal with the sudden uptick of fame to one of their members. As Birbiglia did with his first feature, ‘Sleepwalk with Me,’ he...

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Buffy, Doctor Who, Star Trek and more have all devoted episodes to members of their supporting cast...

Over an extended run, some television shows give off the impression that all life in their universe revolves around a small number of characters, but if they run long enough, writers and producers will invariably have to look elsewhere every once in a whle. Maybe on another day to every other episode, when the forces of evil rally and all seems lost, the good guys are... otherwise occupied, leaving someone else to pick up the slack.

As a dramatic convention in pop culture, foregrounding minor characters dates at least as far back as Tom Stoppard's 1966 play Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead, which takes place “in the wings” of Shakespeare's Hamlet as the two minor characters have little comprehension of the tragic events going on concurrently. But over the years, geek...

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Scream Queens delivers a cruel and ultimately disappointing season 1 finale, but that doesn't take away from its highlights...

This review contains spoilers.

1.12 Dorkus & The Final Girl(s)

It's hard to come to terms with how disappointing and infuriating Scream Queens' ending is. There are different ways a finale can let down its viewers and fans but Dorkus/The Final Girl(s) almost breaks new ground in this sense. I'd go so far as to say that Scream Queens has put Lost to shame. It doesn't so much fail to stick the landing but miss the landing entirely and break every bone in its body.

Back in July, Ryan Murphy said, "... at the end of the first season there will only be four characters out of twenty-five left" and yet ten remain. The thirteen-episode run has always seemingly been building up to a bloodbath, with Murphy effectively...

The saying that ‘TV is the new film’ hits close to home for Mr Robot creator and showrunner Sam Esmail.

Esmail recounted how he first thought of the project as a film, before turning it into the USA Network’s summer hit.

The story follows paranoid young man Elliot Alderson (Rami Malek) who works as an engineer at a cybersecurity company. Christian Slater plays an anarchist hacker-activist named Mr Robot.

“As far as I’m concerned we are making the movie version, it just happens to be on streaming and television,” Esmail responded to Screen at a Zurich Film Festival press conference.

“I don’t see the difference. Films are two hours long, and TV shows can go on for 20 or 30 hours or more, that affects your storytelling. But if [either format] is right for your story, I don’t see any difference.

“I originally intended [Mr Robot] to be a film, I’m not shooting it any differently. We’re executing...

What’s up with Once Upon a Time‘s improbable alliance? Which Castle couple is butting heads? What happens when NCIS‘ Dinozzo does La? Is hope lost for S.H.I.E.L.D.‘s Skyeward? Read on for answers to those questions plus teases from other shows.

Can you explain to me the new Once Upon a Time photo of Dark Swan being trained by Rumplestiltskin? How can that be, if he’s in a coma back in Storybrooke? – Vera

Upon being consumed by the Darkness in the May finale, Emma “did not travel time, but she did travel realms,...

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To celebrate the release of Now That’s What I Call Music 91! we are giving you the chance to win one of 3 copies of the Now CD, due for release on 24th July 2015.

Now That’s What I Call Music is back with the 91st edition of the iconic numbered series. Stuffed to the brim with the biggest chart hits around, Now 91 features million selling hits Ellie Goulding ‘Love Me Like You Do’, Wiz Khalifa feat. Sam Puth ‘See You Again’ & Omi ‘Cheerleader’ amongst 44 hits and an incredible 7 number 1’s. You won’t find a bigger collection of smash hits on one album – if you’re a fan of pop hits this won’t be one to miss!

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Ellie Goulding – Love Me Like You Do (from ‘Fifty Shades Of Grey’) Wiz Khalifa feat Charlie Puth – See You Again Omi – Cheerleader (Felix Jaehn Remix Radio Edit) Jason Derulo...

As much as the whole idea sounds like an oxymoron, it appears Paramount's plans for a 'brain trust' of writers to steer the "Transformers" franchise has come to fruition.

Not long ago came word that Paramount intends to expand their mega-selling "Transformers" series with not just further direct sequels but interconnected spin-offs as well.

To do this, the likes of Michael Bay, Steven Spielberg and Lorenzo di Bonaventura would lend their support to a team of writers who would come up with story ideas for that film series. Said team would be lead by producer/writer Akiva Goldsman.

Today comes word on who will be a part of that team with five names you'll probably be familiar with - "The Walking Dead" creator Robert Kirkman, "Pacific Rim" and "The Incredible Hulk" scribe Zak Penn," "Fringe" and "Lost" writer/exec producer Jeff Pinker, and "Iron Man" scribes Art Marcum and Matt Holloway...

Cooked up by the team behind the point and click trilogy Hector: Badge of Carnage and featuring the voice talent of the brilliant A.J. LoCascio (known for his role as Marty McFly in Telltale Games’ Back to the Future), Schrödinger’s Cat and the Raiders of the Lost Quark is set in The Particle Zoo, where a catastrophic event has caused all enclosures to open and all the primitive particles to escape! What used to be a cheery theme-park style environment is now utter chaos, and not in the mathematical sense of the word. The Zoo is put on lockdown, and the emergency services are called in to sort everything out. Those emergency services? Schrödinger’s Cat, of course! Thankfully he’s not alone; by collecting and commanding an army of cuddly quarks, Schrödinger’s Cat can combine and create a total of 14 unique abilities to solve any problems he may encounter.

We’ve got questions, and you’ve (maybe) got answers! With another week of TV gone by, we’re lobbing queries left and right about shows including Glee, The Bachelor, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Empire and The 100!

1 | Of all the guest stars on last week’s Glee, might the return of a dreadlock- less Joe have been the most shocking? (Seriously, where has he been all this time? Hiding his hair from E!’s Fashion Police?)

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2 | For those children of the ’80s savoring (not binging) Netflix’s Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt...

On this episode of Nashville, "I'm Lost Between Right and Wrong," Scarlett tries to keep Deacon's spirits up and gets a new love interest in the process. Rayna fights to nullify Maddie's Edgehill contract. Avery finds out Sadie's secret. Will, Luke and Gunnar hit the town for a boys' night. Teddy must face the consequences of his actions.

So Teddy folded and signed Maddie over to Jeff and Edgehill. This guy has absolutely no testicles whatsoever. If he does have anything dangling, Rayna's is sure to lay into him with such fury that they'll retreat upwards. Mama bear received a diamond necklace and note from Fordham sent to his new "star" via the Highway 65 office. I nice little F-u from Jeff to Rayna, I'm sure.

Sid and Marty Krofft with Amazon Studios head Roy Price and Sigmund the Sea Monster

From H.R. Pufnstuf to The Donnie and Marie Show to Pryor’s Place, many of the most colorful and memorable series of the 1970s and 1980s sprang from the imaginations of Sid and Marty Krofft. Their groundbreaking, live-action kids fantasy shows were mainstays of the Saturday morning airwaves, which had previously been the exclusive domain of cartoons.

Now the iconic television producers are working with Amazon Studios to develop a reimagined pilot of classic ‘70s children live action series Sigmund and the Sea Monsters.

“Sid and Marty are geniuses and we are honored to be working with them to bring to the world a return of what we believe is TV’s most fabulous and funniest sea creature ever,” said Roy Price, Vice President, Amazon Studios, in an announcement about the development deal with the Kroffts.

Last night, ABC delivered the new promo/spoiler clip (below) for their upcoming "Nashville" episode 13 of season 2, and it gives us new looks at a very intense and dramatic situation when Rayna threatens Teddy's parental status over him letting Maddie sign on to Jeff's label as a solo artist, and more! The episode is labeled, "I’m Lost Between Right and Wrong." In the new, 13th episode official storyline: "Rayna is going to be furious when she finds out Jeff Fordham's plans to sign Maddie to Edgehill. Luke is going to enlist Gunnar in his efforts to forget his heartbreak, first by writing revenge songs, and then by carousing ,and they will bring a cautious Will along for the bar hopping. Sadie will be tormented by her stalker ex-husband and is going to bring her expensive recording session with Avery to a standstill, jeopardizing his job. And Deacon's secrecy...

Veteran 60 Minutes reporter Bob Simon was killed Wednesday in a car accident in New York City, CBS News reports. The celebrated journalist was 73.

CBS Evening News achor Scott Pelley broke into regular programming at 7:01 p.m. Pt to deliver the news.

According to the New York Daily News, Simon was a passenger in a livery cab. The vehicle was driving south on the West Side Highway when it suddenly rear-ended another car and then crashed into the median.

Photos: Stars We've Lost In Recent Years

Simon was rushed to St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital, where he later died. The driver of the cab and the 23-year-old driver of the car that was rear-ended both sustained minor injuries.

No information regarding the cause of the accident has been released.

CBS News President David Rhodes released a statement saying, "Bob Simon was a giant of broadcast journalism, and a dear friend to everyone in the CBS News family. We are all...

We’ve got questions, and you’ve (maybe) got answers! With another week of TV gone by, we’re lobbing queries left and right about shows including Shameless, The Flash, Nashville and The Blacklist!

1 | Has Hawaii Five-o upped the ante when it comes to how police convoys get hijacked on TV? #CameInLikeaWreckingball

2 | Were you impressed by Hart of Dixie‘s commitment to keeping Wade shirtless throughout nearly all of last Friday’s episode?

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3 | Fiona and Gus’ quickie marriage on Shameless: Foolish or romantic?

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Sam Winchester is having a change of heart.

As Dean struggles with the effects of the Mark of Cain on Supernatural (returning Tuesday at 9/8c on The CW), the younger hunter will have to reevaluate his beliefs in order to help his brother.

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In the process of ridding Dean of his darkness, Sam — and Castiel — will pair up with some questionable allies and take “pretty strong risks,” executive producer Jeremy Carver previews below.

Tvline | How do Cas and Sam react to Dean having left this trail of dead bodies in his wake?...

Today is the day, Gleeks!

After months of impatiently waiting, the premiere of the sixth and final season of Glee is finally here — and we've got six things you definitely need to know before tuning into tonight's special two-hour debut.

From relationship updates, to a recap of the best reunions, and a rundown of the brief, yet amazing inside jokes that will re-appear, this is your candid guide of what to expect when you return to McKinley High.

Watch: Check Out Rachel's Full Performance of 'Let it Go'

1. Rachel's Star Has Lost Its Shine

Last season, Rachel floored fans when she blew off her longtime Broadway dreams to star in a TV show, and unfortunately, it looks like she made the wrong decision. After starring in the lowest-rated series of all time, "That's So Rachel," Ms. Berry returns to Lima after months of hiding out, only to discover that everything has fallen apart.

Luckily, she finds...

We’ve scanned the UK Christmas TV and radio schedules for the festive fortnight and circled a few programmes you may enjoy…

We’ve taken our glittery pen to the pages of this year’s festive TV Listings guide to circle a selection of shows that might tickle your Christmas fancy.

Supplement your festive box-set viewing with appearances from the Doctor and Clara, Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett, Dame Judi Dench, Professor Danielle George, the work of Roald Dahl, Charlie Brooker, David Attenborough, the much-missed Rik Mayall, and many more...

Drama Doctor Who: Last Christmas

The tenth annual Doctor Who Christmas Special since the show’s 2005 return, and Peter Capaldi’s first real festive Tardis adventure. Nick Frost, Michael Troughton, Dan Starkey and Nathan McMullen all co-star in this Father Christmas North Pole caper, alongside Capaldi and Jenna Coleman. Watch the latest trailer, here.

When’s it on? 6.15pm on Christmas Day,...

Nothing good on TV? Cut your cable? Thank goodness there's plenty of fantastic TV series on Netflix.

Whether you've always meant to catch up with "The Walking Dead" or "Sons of Anarchy," or want to revisit a classic like "Miami Vice" or "Twin Peaks," they're among the many great shows available to stream right now on Netflix.

(Availability subject to change.)

1. "Alias"

Miss when Jennifer Garner kicked ass on a regular basis? Relive her days as superspy Sydney Bristow and (in the first two seasons) Bradley Cooper as the guy who's not so secretly in love with her.

2. "Bates Motel"

Norman Bates and his mother run a hotel where people end up dying, but that's about all this series has in common with the Hitchcock movie that inspired it.

3. "Being Human"

Aidan Turner (lovestruck dwarf Kili in "The Hobbit" films) stars as a hot vampire in the British original series where he,...

Hey, remember when Proudlock was the man who loved life? Every time we turned on Made in Chelsea, we'd see his happy face proclaiming another glorious day. Not now. It's all grim in the Lost Bois' camp... but it made this week's episode pretty thrilling, to be fair.

As if all that drama wasn't enough, there was a misjudged phone call, an awkward date and even accusations of black magic. Seriously. Read on for our 23 best bits from the episode...

1. The bit when... Jamie cracked on to Lucy and it was weird.

Jamie explained that he'd just been rowing with Spenny because he wanted to get fit. And then, inexplicably, he looked at Lucy and practically winked as he slithered: "I know you think I look fit and healthy." Lucy's reaction was... lukewarm.

Luckily, Andy stepped in to point out that Jamie and Lucy had only just got back...

Over the past few months, artist Travis Falligant has delighted fans of Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! with tribute art showing the Great Dane and his gang with horror icons, and he recently launched an Indiegogo campaign to get those memorable moments printed in an art book. In his latest batch of vintage images, Travis pits the young sleuths against more horror characters, including Sam from Trick ’r Treat.

Travis Falligant has teamed up with Bloody Disgusting and Indiegogo with his recently launched “Lost Mysteries” art book. The fundraising goal is $25,000. If that amount is reached, Travis’ well-received twists on the vintage cartoon classic will be collected and published in a hardcover, full-color, 6″ by 9″ book, complete with new horror-themed adventures that would mix the Mystery Machine riders with characters from Carrie, The Lost Boys, The Shining, and more.

Only 300 copies of the art book would be published, with Travis planning to...

Well, this week's Made in Chelsea was jolly good. It seems it's all going down in the streets of SW3 - there were drama explosions all over the place. Even Mark-Francis and Victoria had a scene that actually had a point! Read on for our 24 favourite moments, from Alik and Louise's nightmare to everyone being mean to Jamie to, well, all the rest of it...

1. The bit when... Binky had work-out glow from seeing WIll.

"It was glorious," she gushed to Alik and Louise. "I'm so turned on." Now, we're not sure that's really daytime drinks conversation, but we did enjoy it. And so did Louise, who couldn't resist bursting into a chorus of "Binky and Will Sitting In A Tree". Bless.

2. The bit when... Alik said "love ya" to Louise when he left.

"Love ya, later!" Binky couldn't help but gasp, and even Louise was cringing, which is not exactly a good sign.

What would you do if someone told you it was up to you to finish some old songs Bob Dylan had lying around?

That's the question facing Marcus Mumford, Elvis Costello, Jim James (of My Morning Jacket), Taylor Goldsmith and Rhiannon Giddens (of the Carolina Chocolate Drops) in Showtime's new original documentary, Lost Songs: The Basement Tapes Continued, which documents the making of the new album Lost On the River: The New Basement Tapes.

Dylan's The Basement Tapes is one of his most cherished releases, and its mythology is well-established. Recuperating from a motorcycle accident in 1966 in upstate New York,...

It's Halloween time, and while that means a huge influx of horror movies, don't get too scared! There's some great horror comedy movies that will put you into the holiday spirit but keep you laughing, too!

Each month the Cinelinx staff will write a handful of articles covering a specified film-related topic. These articles will be notified by the Movielinx banner. Movielinx is an exploration and discussion of our personal connections with film. This month, with Halloween on the horizon, we're going to be examining the best Horror film genres out there. Be sure to join us in the discussion and share your favorite films in each genre we discuss!

It’s the most wonderful time of the year. With pumpkin flavored everything and scary movies giving you fear, it’s the most wonderful time of the year! It’s the sca-scariest season of all. Okay, I’ll stop, but...

If you've ever noticed, Marcus Mumford of Mumford & Sons sings an awful lot about hearts and hands and the like. But this new heart-hand-touch-you song? Not even entirely his. It's Bob Dylan's, from off of "Lost On The River: The New Basement Tapes," new tunes based off of newly uncovered Dylan lyrics. This little tune stays little, for a soothing effect, never curling into a payoff but loping around the fantastic wanderer that is the lyric video. The whole handwritten thing is also a scheme of the Jim James-led song "Nothing to It" and Elvis Costello-sung "Married to My Hack," all three below. "Lost on the River" is out on Nov. 11, and gathers the collective talents of Mumford, James, Costello, producer T Bone Burnett, Dawes, Rhiannon Giddens and more. "Lost Songs: The Basement Tapes Continued" is a Showtime documentary focused on the album's creation and is directed...

Bob Dylan has written more songs than even he could ever record. After discovering nearly two dozen never-recorded lyrics written by Dylan during his exceptionally prolific "Basement Tapes" period in the late '60s, award-winning producer T-Bone Burnett has put together an all-star band to marry the lyrics to new music. The band includes Mumford and Sons' Marcus Mumford, My Morning Jacket frontman Jim James, Elvis Costello, Dawes, Carolina Chocolate Drops’ Rhiannon Giddens, and more. The result is the upcoming tribute album "Lost On The River: The New Basement Tapes," and you can hear a taste of it below, with the animated lyric video for the Costello-led "Married to My Hack." Watch the video here: And take a listen to "Nothing to It," with James on lead vocals, here. The upcoming Showtime documentary "Lost Songs: The Basement Tapes Continued" will peek behind the scenes at the album's creation, and will...

What makes a good series finale? Three events this week bring this question into focus: Sunday's "True Blood" series ender, Monday's celebration of the departed "Breaking Bad" at the Emmys, and Wednesday's Vox interview with David Chase, where the "Sopranos" creator finally offered an answer to the question of whether Tony died at the end of the notorious blackout finale of the 1999-2007 series.

All three of these finales, plus others of shows that went off the air this year ("Dexter," "How I Met Your Mother") drew both kudos and complaints. Some fans found these finales satisfying and others found them cheap copouts. It almost makes you sorry for the writers, who seem bound to disappoint some faction of fans, no matter how they choose to wrap things up.

Take "True Blood," for instance. (Warning: Spoilers follow.) Fans who'd been watching since the beginning of the HBO series seven years...

UK industry representatives arrive in Sarajevo as part of CineLink Partner Country initiative

Sarajevo’s CineLink Partner Country Initiative has been running for more than a decade, systematically strengthening the working relationship between the Southeast European film industry and its international counterparts.

This year’s Partner Country is the UK, and a delegation of around 20 British producers, sales agents, distributors, agents and festival representatives will be present at CineLink for four intensive days of meeting regional film makers and promoting the possibilities of cooperation with the UK.

As an introduction for the producers from Southeast Europe attending the festival, Isabel Davis, the head of international film fund at the BFI, held a presentation of its recently established minority co-production fund.

“The UK has had a good, long-standing relationship with this festival and this region, and it felt very timely to come here as a partner country,” Davis said.

“While the UK is very talent-driven and actually getting...

If ever Under the Dome needed to totally bring it, it was this week. You don't just end on a Lost-style hatch shot without having something big in store. And there was something big — for Uncle Sam, at least. Everyone else, and the overall mythology of the series? Still on hold. I'll give Under the Dome this: It doesn't make us wait for the trip into Chester's Mill's personal Carcosa. Down the locker-hatch we go, into the center of … the high-school basement. Boooooo!! Alright, I take it back. I can't be booing this early. We'll see what happens. Inside the haunted high-school basement. (I mean, it better be haunted.)But first, a check-in at the Sweetbriar Rose. Apparently Barbie did take the sheriff gig last week? Didn't seem like it — at all — but we'll go with it. (Monarch + sheriff = No. 1 power couple on Forbes'...

In CBS’ 13-episode summer drama Extant, Halle Berry is Molly Woods, an astronaut facing a very freaky final frontier. And based on the Lost­-like vibe of the series premiere, it’s likely you’ll want to tear open a foil pack of freeze-dried ice cream and strap in for the ride.

In addition to serving up some serious heebie-jeebies and bringing Goran Visnjic back to my TV screen (side note: thank youuuu), the Steven Spielberg-produced thriller poses some big questions in its first outing. Among them: If a machine can fake love with precision and aplomb, does it...

The road so far …

It wasn’t exactly easy for genre television in 2005. Well, it’s really never been easy for genre television ever in the history of television, but in 2005, a deluge of genre shows premiered and almost all of them had fallen prey to the swift axe of the television gods by the next year. Start by thinking about television now. It’s a fruitful time for horror and science fiction and fantasy. There are a multitude of genre shows, running the gamut from The Walking Dead, Game of Thrones, to True Blood and The Vampire Diaries. They’re all massive hits.

Now, think of all of the shows that premiered around that time in 2005. There was Surface, and that was cancelled after ten episodes by NBC. Invasion, a well-regarded show written by Shaun Cassidy (who created one of my favorite shows, American Gothic) and that was cancelled...

The relevant recommendation for Fox‘s new series, Gang Related, may begin and end with the knowledge that it is created/written by Chris Morgan. If the writing abilities that brought you the last five Fast & Furious films, Wanted, and 47 Ronin has left you impressed, you’re all set. Lock in to your new favorite show now.

If that fact alone doesn’t mean much to you, the show obligingly lays all its cards on the table in the first fifteen minutes of the pilot. You only have to invest that amount of time to know exactly what’s coming your way, I imagine for the entirety of the show’s run, but at least for the first few episodes. The show, and you have to give it some credit really, puts it out there and says, “Look, you’re in, or you’re out.”

In one of the quickest...

“Going against the family,” in gangster parlance, takes on a twist in Fox’s new police drama series Gang Related, premiering Thursday, May 22, at 9pm Et/Pt. Ryan Lopez (Ramon Rodriguez, The Wire) is a rising star in the Lapd’s elite Gang Task Force, earning the trust and respect of the unit’s captain, Sam Chapel (Terry O’Quinn, Lost). At the same time, Ryan owes allegiance to crime boss Javier Acosta (Cliff Curtis), who helped him in his troubled youth. Javier has been pulling Ryan’s strings ever since. Ryan works both sides of the law, giving information about police operations and rival … Continue reading →

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While TV shows nowadays tend to concentrate on building complex mythologies, what's wrong with the odd one-off monster?

There was a time when the Monster of the Week was the standard format for genre television. There might be some character development across the series, but from week to week each plot stood alone and the audience didn’t need to have seen the previous week’s episode to understand a new story. There were exceptions and special cases of course. Classic Doctor Who was serialised, and some shows like The Prisoner, while largely following a distinct narrative each week, also incorporated ongoing plot progression, an ongoing story arc. But for the most part, you could tune in to a show a month after you last saw it and still know what was going on.

Due to a variety of factors including the increasing popularity...

2013 has been a great year for TV. We saw the introduction of a ton of amazing new series, said goodbye to some of the greatest shows that will ever air, and watched as streaming sites became legitimate networks. But what we really loved (and our rewind buttons hated most)? Watching all of our favorite couples finally give us 'shippers the payoffs we've been waiting for.

It may have taken upwards of eight years for some moments to finally happen, but from kisses, to people sleeping together, to proposals, to weddings, so many of our favorite couples sealed the deal in some way. Here are the 21 best 'shipper payoffs of 2013 ... with video of all the hot, sweet, sexy, romantic, and beautiful moments:

'The Vampire Diaries' - 'My Brother's Keeper'

Although the big moment was tinged with the poison of Caroline and Stefan realizing Elena was sired to Damon,...

Because a movie and/or TV show in a catalog at a studio is now something to be licensed, rebranded and repackaged and resold, a romantic classic and cult series are getting fresh life on the small screen. First up, 1990 romance classic "Ghost" starring Patrick Swayze and Demi Moore is going to become a weekly thing. Paramount is putting a show into development with Akiva Goldsman ("Winter's Tale," "I Am Legend") and Jeff Pinker ("Fringe," "Lost") teaming up on a pilot script that will find some way to serialize the story of a ghost who teams with a psychic to connect with his living wife. Maybe it'll be told through the eyes of the psychic who was an adventure with romantic ghosts each week? Who knows... But maybe pottery will become popular again? Meanwhile, omnipresent producers Alex Kurtzman and Bob Orci are behind a reboot of "Tales From The Darkside,...

Paramount is developing a Ghost TV show — as in the movie Ghost — with a pilot co-written by Akiva Goldsman and Jeff Pinker, the studio announced today. There's no info yet on a timeline for when this show would air, but those are some big guns working on the pilot: Goldsman won an Oscar for his screenplay for A Beautiful Mind, Pinker has been a writer and producer on Alias and Lost, among other things, and the two previously collaborated on Fringe. [Cut To: a jar with a penny in it, and the sad, sad lady idly rolling it back and forth before she pushes it down the modern, stark staircase.]...

Twenty-seven seasons into Survivor, it’s hard to believe any contestant can get away with being the “manipulative” one. At this point it’s an embarrassing, outdated word for gameplay on reality TV, the kind of whodunnit connivery you associate with Richard Hatch or Project Runway‘s Wendy Pepper – self-fancied Iagos ginning up the green-eyed monster in otherwise rational competitors. Which is why it’s insane that any Survivor veteran in 2013 — let alone the veterans who’ve been invited back to play — can be so naive as to allow a blatant manipulator like Vytas plow through their preordained plan of attack with almost no pushback. Vytas is not just manipulative. He is hauntingly stalwart in his plan to undermine his female teammates with “vulnerability.” “We’re eliminating you!” his teammates tell him. He blinks once and responds, “Oh. Right. You are. Thank you for telling me. Thank you. But… you won’t.

James Corden has hinted that The Wrong Mans will return for a second series.

The actor co-wrote and starred in the comedy-drama, which finished its first run on Tuesday (October 29), alongside Horrible Histories star Mathew Baynton.

Taking to Twitter yesterday (October 30), Corden thanked fans for their support of the series and suggested that we would see more of the show's main characters Sam (Baynton) and Phil (Corden) in the future.

He tweeted: "Waking up to so many incredible messages about The Wrong Mans. So very sweet. They'll be back. Thanks for watching, it means the world x"

Baynton echoed the news on his account, tweeting: "Sam and Phil will be back #TheWrongMans"

The pair recently told Digital Spy that big-budget Us series like 24, Lost and Heroes acted as inspiration for the show, which they originally devised while starring together on Gavin & Stacey.

The Wrong Mans attracted over 3 million viewers for...

(Spoilers ahead for a slew of television shows; proceed with caution!)

A television show represents a fictional world, an escape from the drama that surrounds us in our real lives. Instead of dealing with our relationship problems, we discuss which brother Elena Gilbert should choose on The Vampire Diaries. And instead of reflecting on our own issues, we get lost in Walter White’s downfall or Olivia Pope’s family drama. Typically, these fictional worlds represent a more extreme universe than the one in which we live, and therefore a more exciting one. Most of us don’t have a...

Prepare for battle 'cause we're launching the most competitive 'ship race ever! That's right, we're once again on a mission to find TV's Top Couple. But this time we decided to up the ante: We're out to find, once and for all, which pairing is TV's Best Couple of All-Time! Yes, we're having some of the small screen's most iconic couples (Buffy's Buffy and Angel [or Spike]! Lost's Kate and Jack! Cheers' Sam and Diane!) face off against duos currently steaming up the screen with their chemistry (Bones' Booth and Brennan! The Vampire Diaries' Damon (or Stefan) and Elena! Glee's Kurt and Blaine!) But before the tournament officially kicks off, we're...

What would happen if Smithy and Deano from Gavin & Stacey ended up in a high energy crime caper worthy of Willis and Stallone?

You can find out that very answer tonight (September 24) as James Corden and Mathew Baynton's long-awaited new comedy The Wrong Mans mashes up American box set-style action with a very British sense of humour.

Watch Corden and Baynton talking to Digital Spy about the new series:

The duo revealed to Digital Spy that big-budget Us hits such as 24, Lost and Heroes were the inspiration for the series, which blends laughs and thrills as viewers follow the unlikely adventures of Berkshire County Council employees Sam and Phil.

The six-part series, which has been snapped up by streaming service Hulu in the Us, was originally devised by Corden and Baynton when they starred together on Gavin & Stacey.

Dawn French, Nick Moran, Benedict Wong and Him & Her actress Sarah Solemani...

Jennette McCurdy, star of Nickelodeon's "Sam & Cat," lost her mother on Friday.

Debra McCurdy died after a lengthy battle with breast cancer and her 21-year-old actress daughter is understandably devastated.

"Jennette has suffered an unimaginable loss," the actress' rep told E! News. "Please respect her and her family's privacy at this time of mourning. She appreciates the love and support of her fans."

Photos: Stars We Lost In 2013

According to a 2011 article Jennette wrote for the Wall Street Journal, her mom had been battling breast cancer for 17 years. After temporarily going into ...

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Not very much actually happened in the "One by One" episode of "Siberia."

Sam, Daniel, Johnny and Joyce wandered around the research station. Sabina, Neeko and Biljan sniped at each other. That really is about it -- except, of course, for the rather numerous borrowings from another TV tale of survival, "Lost."

Obviously, "Lost" has been a big influence on the fake reality show of "Siberia" since day 1. It's just that it is feeling a whole lot more extreme these days. Examples of "Lost"-like moments in "One by One" include:

The research station: Nothing says "Dharma Initiative" like a mysterious, abandoned scientific facility filled with semi-working technology and animal experiments

Mysterious video: Like the training videos of "Lost," this week's grainy footage from that old (and very real) Tunguska mission was supposed to provide answers. And -- like "Lost" -- it didn't help much.

Pointless plane signals: Some of...