Clues abound in "The Bells of Saint John," the midseason premiere of Doctor Who. They raise more questions than answers but at least one is possibly a huge spoiler about the prophecy of the Fields of Trenzalore (bottom). Impossible Girl The Doctor's new companion, Clara Oswin Oswald (Jenna-Louise Coleman), has familiar ability to defy death. The Great Intelligence temporarily uploads ... [Read More]

The BBC has announced David Tennant and Billie Piper will return for the Doctor Who 50th Anniversary Special. Presumably, Tennant will be playing the Meta-Crisis Tenth Doctor, a human version of the Doctor who was supposedly trapped forever in a parallel universe with Rose in "Journey's End." This gives rise to yet another Clara Oswin Oswald theory. A tombstone in "The Snowmen" Christmas ... [Read More]

The prequel to the Doctor Who season premiere has a deceptively simple plot. The Doctor is consoled by a little girl, who unbeknownst to him is younger version of Clara Oswin Oswald the death-defying girl he's been looking for. She intuitively realizes he's lonely and asks "Have you lost something?" The Doctor says no but she tells him that when she loses something she goes to quiet place and ... [Read More]

It looks like it'll be a blue Christmas for fans of Matt Smith, who plays the Eleventh Doctor on Doctor Who. Smith won't be renewing his contract, which ends in November. "Matt has told bosses he wants to bow out at Christmas,” an insider told the Sun. The Twelfth Doctor would be the penultimate Doctor according to "The Deadly Assassin" which introduced a limit of 12 regenerations ... [Read More]

Zombies are people too and killing them could have serious legal ramifications says James Daily, an attorney at Stanford University's Hoover Institution and co-author of The Law of Superheroes. "If a zombie presents an immediate danger and lethal force is necessary, then the zombie could be killed," Daily explains in the April issue of Playboy. "In some jurisdictions -- particularly those ... [Read More]

In fiction, sex is usually a figurative weapon but sometimes body parts become actual weapons! Machete Kills In this upcoming sequel to Machete, Sofia Vergara shows off her gun rack. Austin Powers Dr. Evil creates Fembots that gun nipples and gas nipples! Licensed To Love And Kill AKA The Man from S.E.X. In this James Bond parody a female assassin swings her pasty ... [Read More]

The undead have never been more alive in the media, and now the BBC is getting in on the action with a 3-part television series entitled In the Flesh. In the same vein as the film Warm Bodies, there is a zombie cure but it's based on science not love. Four years after the "the rising," scientists find a functional cure to the condition called PDS. The story follows Kieren Walker (Luke ... [Read More]

Cartoon Network will celebrate the 16th anniversary of its Toonami programming block this week with Evangelion: 1.11 You Are (Not) Alone, an alternate retelling of the television series. The movie features enhancements and extra footage but is faithful to the original story about a boy that reunites with his estranged father, who only cares about using him as a pilot for a giant mecha to fight ... [Read More]

A&E is reimagining Psycho with Bates Motel, a new series that follows a young Norman Bates and his mother, who is still very much alive. The premiere is March 18 but you can get an exclusive preview of first 6 1/2 minutes on-demand through Comcast and Youtube (credit card required beyond 2 minutes). It opens with Norman Bates (Freddie Highmore) discovering his father's lifeless body. Norma ... [Read More]

Saturday Night Live host Kevin Hart encounters Rick (Taran Killam), Carl (Nasim Pedrad), Daryl (Bill Hader) and Maggie (Kate McKinnon) and tries to join the group but once he gets bitten they accuse him of being "one of them" so he plays the race card. He explains away things like shambling around as a pimp walk. As always it's up to Carl to do what needs to be ... [Read More]

In this week's couch gag, the Simpsons do the dance meme known as the Harlem Shake. It starts off with Maggie doing the cabbage patch dance while the rest of family carries on oblivious to her but then the beat kicks in and the whole town joins in. The "Homer Shake" currently has over 5 million views on ... [Read More]

Producer Michael Bay got a lot of flack for introducing Ebonics speaking Transformers, which I dubbed Ebonicons, but apparently there were racist Transformers all along. The Transformers were created as a slave race by the Quintessons but the robots rose up and took control of Cybertron. In Transformers: Generation 1 "Dweller in the Depths," Megatron reluctantly teams up with the ... [Read More]

Morrissey may be a musician but he's a vegetarian first, apparently. He gave late-night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel an ultimatum to choose either him or the stars of Duck Dynasty, an A&E reality show about a family of duck hunters. "As far as my reputation is concerned, I can't take the risk of being on a show alongside people who, in effect, amount to animal serial killers," he said in a ... [Read More]

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has privately shown his support for same-sex marriage with sizable donations but now the company is publicly backing marriage equality in a new commercial for the Kindle Paperwhite. The commercials typically feature the irresistible Anna Zielinski being hit on by a man, who she gives the cold shoulder. She not-so-subtly mentions her husband but this time so does ... [Read More]

Ever since Cougar Town was cancelled, Abed Nadir (Danny Pudi) has been obsessed with Inspector Spacetime (Doctor Who parody). You'd think he'd be thrilled about an American version of his favorite show but not this time. In this week's episode of Community, "Conventions of Space and Time," Pierce Hawthorne (Chevy Chase) is selected as part of a focus group for the show, which he knows ... [Read More]

Designer Ray Cusick died his sleep Thursday at age 84 but he will live on forever through his iconic Doctor Who villain: the Daleks. The BBC originally assigned the task to Ridley Scott but he couldn't commit to the project. "There's a world of difference between film and TV as any cameraman will tell you, and Ridley Scott was only going to do the studio work, but when Verity Lambert, the ... [Read More]