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What’s the one thing that every single member of the WWE Universe has in common? Family. How have WWE ensured they garner a reaction from their Universe in a storyline more times than they would care to mention? Have a family at the centre of any commotion!

WWE is all about connecting with its Universe, and one of the easiest ways to do this is to play the family card; calling on those everyday scenarios that happen in every household and ramping them up to 11.

This is a tactic that has been used quite literally since the beginning of time and doesn’t seem to be letting up. After all, family storylines are often the most compelling inside the ring due to the backstories you can create; just look at The Undertaker and Kane as an example of this happening…

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With Battleground in the rear view mirror, WWE’s got a clear path heading toward SummerSlam, the second-biggest Pay-Per-View event of the year. While WrestleMania is the undisputed king of the company’s schedule, SummerSlam has long served as a miniature version of the “Granddaddy of ‘Em All,” featuring marquee match-ups and, in recent years, a full weekend of fan-oriented festivities.

The event has become legendary, with some SummerSlam moments — The British Bulldog defeating Bret Hart for the Intercontinental Championship in 1992, Steve Austin and The Undertaker battling in the “Match of the Century” in 1998, and Daniel Bryan capturing the WWE Title from John Cena in 2013 — standing just as tall as any of their WrestleMania counterparts.

Of course, SummerSlam moments don’t create themselves. For the event to truly have that legendary feel, WWE has to give the fans at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center the most explosive card they can concoct.

Between concludes its six-episode Netflix run with yet more silliness and illogical plot developments...

This review contains spoilers.

1.6 War

Somewhere in my review notes I wrote down a series of tropes that get rolled out when writers have either lost all interest or run out of actual ideas. To get one of them in a show isn’t good, two is really bad, but War managed to deliver no fewer than four of them!

Those would be:

The hidden tunnel The parental revelation The selfless, but pointless death A person who is dead, who isn’t

On top of that I’d also throw a bad TV bonus score for a character that is only useful in one highly implausible situation being available.

But before we get to that, War starts where End Of The Rope ended, with Adam and his father. I’d give Adam’s father a name,...

Netflix is expiring a slew of movies and TV shows in February -- but don't panic! As we previously reported, several BBC series including "Doctor Who" and the original British "The Office" that were once set to leave Netflix on Feb. 1 are staying put. However, several other BBC titles will be disappearing Feb 1. According to Variety, bid a sad toodle-doo to "Fawlty Towers," "Blackadder" and "Mi:5." (Don't worry, "Sherlock" isn't due to expire anytime soon.)

As for movies, the clock is ticking on "Zodiac," "Batman Returns," "Apocalypse Now," and "Mad Max," which will also be pulled in the monthly purge.

Here's the complete list of titles that will vanish from your streaming list (pending any sort of meddling time-travelers):

Netflix Titles Expiring February 1, 2015

"A Bit Of Fry And Laurie" (1987-1995)

"Airheads" (1994)

"Allosaurus: Walking With Dinosaurs Special" (2001)

"Apocalypse Now" (1979)

"Apocalypse Now Redux" (2001)

"Auschwitz: Inside The Nazi State" (2005)

"Batman Returns" (1989)

"Blackadder...

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When wrestling fans get all liquored up and talk smack to each other about the WWF/WWE’s most ridiculous wasted opportunities, there are a fair few that surface again and again. Shane Helms… Drew McIntyre… the Nexus… and, riding high at the top of so many lists, the late Sean O’Haire, who died this past Monday 8th September at the terribly young age of 43.

Born Sean Christopher Haire, the 6 foot 6 inch powerhouse debuted in WCW in 2000 after graduating from the company’s training programme at their development facility The Power Plant, and nailed the WCW tag titles with partner Mark Jindrak only three months later, a title he’d on to hold three times with both Jindrak and later Chuck Palumbo.

O’Haire was green and full of himself, but he could go. More than that, he was a contender: big, incredibly strong, with a fantastic look and,...

Former World Championship Wrestling and World Wrestling Entertainment wrestler Sean O'Haire was found dead on Tuesday, Sept. 9, in his South Carolina home, TMZ reports. O'haire was 43 years old. The cause of death is currently unknown, but no foul play is suspected, the site reports.  The wrestling pro, whose real name was Sean Haire, made his debut on an episode of WCW Nitro in 2000, where he became a three-time WCW Tag Team Champion paired with Mark Jindrak and Chuck Palumbo. Following WWE's purchase of WCW, O'Haire [...]...

Sean O’Haire, who previously wrestled with the WCW and WWE, reportedly committed suicide on Monday. He was 43.

Sean O'Haire Committed Suicide

O’Haire was found dead of an apparent suicide by hanging in his bedroom by his father, reported TMZ. Upon finding his deceased son, the father called 911. Toxicology reports are pending.

News of O’Haire’s death broke Tuesday, though at the time the cause of death was not revealed. Former WCW wrestler Scotty Riggs broke the tragic news on Twitter.

Just got a message that former wrestler Sean O' Haire has passed away. #RIPSeanOHaire

— Riggs (@realscottyriggs) September 10, 2014

Back in 2000, O’Haire made his debut in the WCW with partner Chuck Palumbo. The duo was the final tag team in the WCW before the organization folded and was purchased by the WWE in 2001. O’Haire eventually joined the WWE as Roddy Piper’s protégé and remained with the...

The 43-year-old former professional wrestler was found dead at his home.

Former professional wrestler Sean Haire, who went by the stage name of Sean O’Haire, has died at the age of 43 of what is being ruled a suicide.

According to local Spartanburg, S.C. police, the WCW/WWE star was found dead in his bedroom with a rope tied around his neck in his bedroom.

O'Haire first made his World Champion Wrestling debut in 2000. During his time in the WWE, he developed a Devil’s advocate character who inspired people to commit acts of chaos. He would tell the audience to break the law, cheat on their spouses and not pay taxes before saying, "I'm not telling you anything you don't already know."

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Chuck Palumbo, who was O'Haire's tag team partner during much of his career, tweeted this message about his late friend.

#RIPSeanOHaire tag team...

12:50 Pm Pt -- According to local police, O'Haire committed suicide.  He was found in his bedroom beside his bed, with a red rope tied around his neck and connected to the bedpost. His body was discovered by his father, who then called 911.  Former WCW and WWE wrestler Sean O'Haire was found dead Tuesday at his home in South Carolina ... TMZ has learned. The coroner in Spartanburg, Sc tells TMZ a cause of death is unknown at this time,...

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News broke sometime late last night about the sudden and tragic death of Sean O’Haire at the age of 43.

The former professional wrestler was best known for his for his stints in both World Championship Wrestling and the WWE. Beyond his career in wrestling, Haire worked as a bouncer, bodyguard, and personal trainer, among other things. His passing was first reported by former WCW alumnus, Scotty Riggs, who sent out a tweet stating he had heard about the death.

Sean Christopher Haire was born on February 25, 1971 in Hilton Head, South Carolina. He got his start in professional wrestling after training at WCW’s Power Plant facility in the year 2000. In June of that year, at just 26 years old, the man called Sean O’Haire debuted on Nitro. During his WCW tenure, O’Haire helped form the Natural Born Thrillers stable — also consisting of Mark Jindrak, Chuck Palumbo,...

The 2001 WWE Invasion PPV was held on July 22, 2001 in Cleveland, Ohio. It was the only time that WWE used the Invasion title for a PPV because it was the only occasion where it would have fit. That’s because the main story at the time was about the WCW brand led by Shane McMahon and the Ecw brand led by Stephanie McMahon & Paul Heyman were trying to take over Vince McMahon’s WWE. It was a dream storyline that fans had wanted to see for years.

While it wasn’t perfect for a lot of reasons, they did a fantastic job of building up the event, which did great business for WWE with a reported 775,000 PPV buys. From a financial standpoint it was one of the most successful WWE PPVs ever.

This show was unique because there wasn’t a WWE Title match in the main event slot. That’s...

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A lot of people have been talking about Benjamin Morris’ 538 piece, “Are Pro Wrestlers Dying at an Unusual Rate?”

Like Morris, I am neither an actuarial scientist nor a demographer. So, our interpretations of the data should be taken with a grain of salt. My results were somewhat different from Morris’ due to a difference data set and changes in how we calculated actuarial predictions.

Differences in methodology from Morris

I also used Social Security Actuarial Life Tables, but my “expected mortality rates” for the age groups were not the same as Morris’. For each wrestler, I calculated what their age would have been as of today. Then, based on gender, I looked up the number of lives (out of 100,000) that were expected to still be alive and converted that to a percentage. His analysis looked at wrestlers who were on 20+ WWF PPVs through 2002. I went with a...

9) Walson’s Mountain

The point is, ladies and gentleman, that greed, for lack of a better word, is good.

Greed is right, greed works. Greed clarifies, cuts through, and captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit. Greed, in all of its forms; greed for life, for money, for love, knowledge

has marked the upward surge of mankind.

From the movie, Wall Street (1987)

Up until alternate delivery systems — like home satellite dishes, home video, and, later, HBO’s online service, HBO Go — Home Box Office was synonymous with cable television. In fact, go back far enough and there was a time where, when you said “cable,” you meant “HBO,” and when you said “HBO” — … Well, you get the picture.

And that’s one of the several ironies in the birth of HBO, because cable TV was not originally developed as an alternative to broadcast television, but as an adjunct; you subscribed...

If you are a fan of comics, sci-fi movies, or sci-fi TV – in other words, if you are a SciFiMafia.com reader – you need to be listening to the weekly live radio broadcast of Where Monsters Dwell. Hosted by Remington J. Osborne and Monster Mike, Where Monsters Dwell is a weekly live dose of pop culture talk radio.

Spanning such topics as comics, movies, TV and games, Where Monsters Dwell also features live creator interviews every week along with their own perspective on pop culture news and happenings. You can tune in live around the world on Wednesdays at 8:30/7:30c at WhereMonstersDwell.ca, where you can also download previous broadcasts. Do that.

They’ve been on the air for almost 5 years and in that time have aired nearly 250 episodes and interviewed comic creators both new and established, including Mark Waid, Tony Moore, Darick Robertson, Todd McFarlane, Jamal Igle,...

I think tomorrow I’ll call up Merriam-Webster and suggest a new word for their dictionary. That word? Geeklitism. (Not to be confused with Geekleetist, which posts fun stuff).

It should be in the dictionary, because it certainly is a thing that exists. But how would I suggest they define it? Damned if I know, although I guess the short version could be: “claiming you’re a ‘real geek’ and other people aren’t; claiming you’re the superior geek.” But really, the various aspects of both this attitude and of being a “geek” generally are so broad that I’m not sure they can be encompassed in a dictionary definition.

The reason for this, and the funny thing about “being a geek,” is that it’s a different experience for everyone. For instance, I’ve been a geek probably all of my life; but I don’t know that...

On TV this Monday: Gossip Girl‘s Dan and Blair have some trouble just “doing it,” Bones returns in time to give birth, Beckett is urged to make her move on Castle and more. All told, we found nine programs to keep on your radar.

8 pm Gossip Girl (The CW) | Chuck invites Jack (guest star Desmond Harrington) to town to thank him for saving his life, but the trip doesn’t go as planned; Blair and Dan attempt to consummate their new relationship — but hit unexpected roadblocks; Ivy finds an unlikely ally in William (Billy Baldwin) in her quest for Ues acceptance.

Horror fans today are spoiled. With the vast array of films available on DVD and Blu-ray via storefronts like Best Buy and Fye, online outlets like Amazon and Deep Discount, and rental/streaming services such as Netflix, there are few films that are unattainable. Virtually anything one might hear of is available some way, somewhere. But it wasn't always so...

Back at a time before disc (or VHS for that matter), the only way - and I mean the Only way - to see classic and not so classic genre pictures was on broadcast television. As a kid, I remember getting the local TV Guide and a yellow highlighter and systematically going through the listings, marking each and every show time of movies I'd heard about either from friends or ones that were obliquely mentioned in Forry Ackerman's Famous Monsters of Filmland . I would meticulously go over each entry...

The 2011 Comic-Con is set to happen next month, that wonderful time of year where geeks can fly their Geek flags proudly and hang out with like-minded bearded folks, meet their favorite bearded comic-book related people, and see all the new bearded-comic-book related stuff. Or whatever it is that you geeky folk used to do at Comic-Con besides talk about getting laid and spending most of the time hiding out in your hotel rooms.

Whatever that was, it's not what goes on anymore. Geek Mecca has been co-opted by corporate America and, apparently, Seth MacFarlane. Of course, attendees still wear their Browncoats and their Princess Leia costumes, but now they have to share floor space with a few thousand teenage girls hoping to get a glance of Robert Pattinson's chest hair. Having never been there, I can't speak definitively to the transformation, but from what I can gather, the place...

On Monday (May 2) night's episode of "Gossip Girl," Chuck Bass (Ed Westwick) wasn't really feeling like himself. He was sporting "I'm-on-a-bender" facial hair at the beginning of the episode, and wacky camera angles were used to create a disorienting feeling during all of his scenes.

We've seen Chuck's dark side before (not that he has any particularly light sides), but in one of the final scenes of the episode, he went particularly off the rails.

After humiliating Blair (Leighton Meester) by crudely airing details of their sex life to a woman she was trying to impress, Chuck went home to continue to drink himself into a stupor. Blair met him there to tell him that the Prince had proposed to her. She wasn't malicious or intending to use the revelation to hurt him. She was just asking that he acknowledge reality. Considering his behavior at the party, she was surprisingly gentle with him.

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Here's tonight's lineup of new shows and events (all times Eastern). Check your local TV listings for additional information.

* = Series/Season Premiere

** = Series/Season Finale

# = New Day/Time

8:00 to 9:00

ABC: 'Dancing With the Stars' -- (90 minutes)

CBS: 'How I Met Your Mother' and 'Rules of Engagement'

CW: '90210'

Fox: 'House'

NBC: 'Chuck'

Cartoon Network: 'Adventure Time,' 'Regular Show,' 'Mad' and 'Robotomy'

Current: 'The Beat'

DisneyXD: 'Zeke and Luther'

Diy: 'House Crashers'

Espn: 'Monday Night Football' -- The Philadelphia Eagles against the Washington Redskins

TCM: 'Moguls and Movie Stars: A History of Hollywood' -- A look at Hollywood in the 1920s

Tlc: 'Little People, Big World' -- Two episodes

USA: 'WWE Monday Night Raw' -- (120 minutes)

The rest of the schedule and the late night talk shows after the jump.

Joshua David Stein of Esquire Magazine posted a cute Venn Diagram of the tendencies of television programming nowadays and where all the current shows fit into it. The diagram is titled "The Unified Theory of Prime Time Programming in the Year 2010."

Sadly, Mr. Stein has left out certain programs from within the diagram. Where is 'Mad Men?' That show should fall somewhere within the "Bureaucracy" and "Greed" categories. Other shows that don't appear are 'South Park,' which should go somewhere between the "Fat People" and "People Being Crummy" sections, and 'Chuck' which should fall between the "Wise Fools" and "Bureaucracy" sections. It was a bit of a laugh finding the categories between which 'American Idol' appears. One of them couldn't even be said on television.

So what do you think? Which shows are missing from the Venn Diagram and where do they belong?...