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All The Fake Websites From Doctor Who Make Me Wish They Were Real

TV show websites are notoriously bad and comically unreal yet I can’t help but be charmed by their hilarious simplicity (and god awful horribleness). Can you imagine if there were giant flashing RED ALERT messages popping up at you? Or if hacking was as simple as just slapping the keys on the keyboard a few times? I want to exist in this world of fake websites.


HBO Picked Up That Silicon Valley TV Show That Might Be Good

We heard last year that HBO had greenlit a dark, single camera Silicon Valley comedy show pilot by Mike Judge (Office Space) but with the blink and you’ll miss it nature of TV pilots, you never know what’s going to happen until it hits the airwaves. Well, it’s going to air. Deadline reports that HBO has picked it up and ordered a series.


Amazon Is Making A TV Show Called Betas That’s About Nerds In Silicon Valley

Not to be left out from the copycat networks making shows about Silicon Valley, Amazon Studios is producing a half-hour comedy series called Betas. It’s centered around four nerds “and their quest for nerd fame as they attempt to crack the ultimate code.” One of these shows has to be good, right?


Sex, Twitter And Maths Are Making TV Smarter

Ratings don’t matter anymore. Well, Nielsen ratings don’t matter anymore. While we may have known that implicitly for some time now, Wired says that network execs and advertisers — the people who underwrite TV shows — are wising up to the importance of engagement over eyeballs.


Everybody Needs To Watch This Geek Love TV Show

Oh man. I have a new addiction. Or guilty pleasure. Or whatever you call it when you watch shows like Keeping Up with the Kardashians because you love how the family sticks together. It’s called Geek Love, and it’s amazing. An online reality TV show, the series focuses on geeks who are looking for, well, love.


Here’s The New Trailer For Game Of Thrones Season 3

Yep, it’s almost time for another season of Game of Thrones, which is, you know, really awesome, and it will be great and yeah yeah yeah. But this teaser is especially foreboding (if very sparsely produced) because of the song “The Rains of Castamere”.


All The Special Effects In Game Of Thrones Are Still So Unbelievably Real

After seeing the reel of special effects used for season one of Game of Thrones , I was on high alert to see if anything looked off or weird in season two of the hit show. Could I spot the hidden CGI? Nope. I couldn’t find anything. It turns out pretty much everything is CG, and it’s amazing because it all looks so damn real.


Disney Tween Sitcom Insults Open-Source Software For No Reason

Disney, the pre-teen brainwash buzz mill and Miley Cyrus clone incubator, now seems to be on a new, stranger mission: anti open-source propaganda. Why is its latest sitcom suggesting that to use open source is to make a dangerous “rookie mistake”?


Now Amazon Is Planning To Make Original TV Content

Rumours have been floating around for the past couple of months that Amazon was looking to produce sitcoms and children’s television. Now All Things D is confirming it: Amazon is looking to pay $US10,000 to option scripts and $US55,000 if a show is greenlit.


What The Simpsons’ Springfield Looks Like In Real Life

At last, Matt Groening has revealed where The Simpsons is actually located: the actual Springfield is in Oregon, a suburb of Eugene near Portland, the city where Groening grew up. We went through the entire city to find what the most important locations look in real life.


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