Can You Say...Hero?

This article was originally published in the November 1998 issue. Once upon a time, a little boy loved a stuffed animal whose name was Old Rabbit.

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Move over, Bake Off! Why Masterchef Australia is TV's best cookery show

The Bake Off contestants might have been revealed today but, Masterchef Australia, currently celebrating its tenth year running, is one the most beautiful culinary show on TV.

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No Game of Thrones This Year: 11 Shows to Watch While You Wait

The wait for a new season of Game of Thrones felt especially long last year. Instead of our usual spring premiere, we had to wait until the fall. That’s more than a full year between seasons. By the time the eighth and final season airs, that longer-than-usual wait will seem like happier times.

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The Good Psychology In 'The Good Place'

Due to some celestial error, selfish and unpleasant Eleanor Shellstrop (Kristen Bell) has made it into heaven: the good place. She immediately recognizes the mistake, but she intends to earn her spot (or in any case, to "pass") before any higher-ups are the wiser.

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Everything You Need to Know About Star Trek: Discovery Before It Premieres

All images: CBSHey, did you hear there’s a new Star Trek show starting September 24? Anticipation is mighty high here at io9—but for everyone who hasn’t been cataloguing every bit of info that CBS has revealed about Star Trek: Discovery on the long road to its debut, we’ve assembled this han

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On ‘Star Trek: Discovery,’ a Franchise Boldly Goes Into the Serial TV Era

Space, in the “Star Trek” universe, may be an alluring and infinite frontier, but time is a much rarer and more vexing commodity.

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Before ‘Game of Thrones’ Returns, Let’s Revisit Season 1

Watching is The New York Times’s TV and film recommendation newsletter and website. You may have heard that “Game of Thrones” is returning to HBO on July 16. To prepare for Season 7, we’re reviewing and reassessing the first six seasons of the show, with the benefit of hindsight.

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Marvel TV Shows: ‘The Gifted,’ ‘Inhumans’ and 3 Other New Superhero Dramas Premiering In 2017

Fall TV is always packed with new shows, and Marvel Television’s programming is becoming a larger presence. With programming on several networks, fans can expect to see a bunch of new shows in the later portion of 2017. Here’s what’s coming up in the world of Marvel TV:

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32 Books for American Gods Fans

Sometimes they walk among us. Sometimes they empower us. They try to trick us, or don’t care for us, or don’t even notice we’re there. Whatever their agendas, the gods of fantasy literature rarely make characters’ lives any easier.

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All the 'Star Trek Beyond' Easter Eggs You Could Ever Want Are Right Here

Today, Star Trek Beyond hits movie theaters around the world. It’s the thirteenth Star Trek film ever and if that wasn’t pressure enough, it’s also releasing during a year that serves as the 50th anniversary for the entire shebang.

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Why Luke Cage Is The Hero The African American Community Needs

Luke Cage is a 13-episode Marvel Netflix series releasing late September. The show is based off Marvel Comics' African American superhero Power Man (played by Mike Colter), marking the first black superhero film or series to date from Marvel Studios.

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Here's 12 Easter Eggs From The Expanse You Might Have Missed The First Time Around

Syfy’s space opera The Expanse is getting geared up for its second season, and later this week, the series comes out on Blu-ray and DVD, which means that we can binge on the show all over again. When you watch it again, keep your eyes peeled for a whole bunch of easter eggs.

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Sony’s Portable Ultra Short Throw Projector will turn any surface into a TV

The latest products in Sony's aspirational Life Space UX range of home electronics have prices and release dates, at least for the company's home country of Japan.

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Ricky Gervais eviscerates Mel Gibson: The nicest thing he can say is “I’d rather have a drink with him in his hotel tonight than Bill Cosby”

Ricky Gervais keeps pushing. Joking about what a loon Mel Gibson is hardly rare in Hollywood circles, but Gervais decided to do it just as he was introducing him. “A few years ago I made a joke about Mel Gibson getting a bit drunk and saying a few unsavory things,” Gervais said.

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5 new sci fi series worth watching: best of 2015

GeekyLists decided to make a list of new Sci Fi shows for 2015 that have the chance to go the distance. Every year a lot of big swings are taken, but at the years end you can tell which shows have risen to the top. In that light we wanted to recommend the shows that we found to be watchable.

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‘Doctor Who’ : 10 Things You May Not Know About ‘Hell Bent’

So, the Doctor has found Gallifrey, discovered a way to bring Clara back to life and met up with an old friend, in the shape of Ashildr/Lady Me. Happy endings all round then? Hardly.

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Review: ‘A Very Murray Christmas,’ a Holiday Special for the Disillusioned

In “The Judy Garland Christmas Show” of 1963, an early example of what soon became a genre, Garland has a duet with Mel Tormé. They sing “The Christmas Song,” which Tormé wrote with Bob Wells.

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The Doctor Who Finale Had Such a Great Ending, I Forgive Everything

I had some mixed feelings about tonight’s episode of Doctor Who. The plot of the episode (and the season) felt severely half-baked, to say the least, and great moments intermingled freely with a certain amount of WTF. But that ending? Was the greatest.

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10 Super Facts About Jessica Jones

Are you planning to watch Marvel’s Jessica Jones starring Krysten Ritter on Netflix? Following in the footsteps of Daredevil, the new series is the second collaboration between Marvel Television and the online streaming behemoth.

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A New ‘Star Trek’ TV Series Will Debut in 2017

“Star Trek,” that venerable outer-space adventure, is boldly going where it’s been before, but hasn’t been seen in more than a decade: back to television.

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