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“Tabula Rasa,” an Nyu short film, is seeking a young actor for a December shoot. An Asian actor, aged 0–16, is currently sought to play the victim in the film. The role will require fake choking. “Tabula Rasa” will shoot on a date Tbd between Dec. 3–9 in Newport, New Jersey. Talent will be paid $300 per day, with travel and meal expenses provided. Fit the bill? Then apply directly at Backstage here! Check out Backstage’s kids auditions!

It’s time for a midsummer swimsuit refresh and right now, Net-a-Porter.com has a pretty amazing selection of designer styles on major markdown. We’re talking about an extra 20 percent off already reduced prices, which in turn could add up to 50, 60 and even 70 percent off! Not to mention, some of the fabulous items on sale include celebrity-loved, high-end brands such as Marysia, Tabula Rasa and one of Hailey Baldwin’s favorites – Solid & Striped.

Buy It! Solid & Striped Morgan Bikini, $66 (orig. $165); net-a-porter.com

Scroll down to shop more amazing designer swimsuit deals and add some star style to the rest of your summer!

Grrr arggg! Into every generation an excellent TV show is born: One show in all the world. The Chosen One.

It’s been 20 years since Buffy Summers, Mr. Pointy, The Bronze, and Giles’ always-smudged spectacles graced our small screens, and the world has never been the same (mostly because she saved it… a lot).

There were plenty of quips (“Out. For. A. Walk. B**ch.”), tears (Spike’s undying devotion, sob), and frights (bunnies, plus demons and stuff), but Buffy the Vampire Slayer was so much more than that.

The Joss Whedon masterpiece created several feminist icons, spoke to addiction struggles, portrayed the first lesbian sex scene on broadcast television, showed that vampires were sexy long before Twilight and made it ok to wear pink leather pants in public… well, sort of.

Whether you were Team Angel, Team Spike or kind of just wanted Giles and Joyce to get together, the show had...

On the previous episode of Feed the Beast, a shooting outside Thirio cast a dark shadow over the restaurant's impending opening night.

Would anyone still want to eat dinner at this elegant, expensive restaurant in the Bronx after seeing its sign looming over dead bodies on the news?

Watch Feed the Beast Season 1 Episode 7 Online

On Feed the Beast Season 1 Episode 7, "Tabula Rasa," the answer is no. The only people who wander in on opening night are lost yuppies looking for a bar mitzvah in Westchester. Turn out, no one wants to pay hundreds of dollars for a high-end meal that may be interrupted by gunfire before the main course has been served.

This latest episode stands out for a few reasons. The first is that the Beast of the title, Thirio, has finally awakened, first with a whisper but by the end of the episode with a roar.

The...

It doesn’t have to be Thursday to throwback to some of the best music moments in TV history. So for this TVLine Mixtape, let’s go way back.

What follows is a collection of songs from the ghosts of TV past, complete with artist and album information — and a Spotify playlist — in case you want to add them to your own collection.

We picked songs that instantly remind us of our favorite characters, couples and series, but we want to hear your favorites too. So hit the comments with songs that stuck with you from your favorite shows. And...

Former winners of Screen International’s Best Pitch Award are among the producers with projects at the co-production market during the 14th edition of Tallinn’s Baltic Event (Nov 16-18).Scroll down for full list of projects

Finnish producers Kaarle Aho and Kai Nordberg of Making Movies Oy, who won the Screen award on two occasions (most recently, last year for the comedy Impaled Rektum) will be coming to the Baltic Event with Klaus Harö’s next feature project, the grandfather-grandson drama Dark Christ.

Making Movies is the producer of Harö’s The Fencer, Finland’s submission for the Best Foreign-Language Film Oscar.

Another of Harö’s feature projects, Never Alone, to be produced by Mrp Productions’ Ilkka Matila, received Screen’s best pitch award in 2011.

Meanwhile, Lithuanian producer Uljana Kim, whose production of Kristijonas Vildziunas’ Seneca’s Day took the award home from the 2013 edition of the Baltic Event, will be back...

Season four of the Atx Television Festival (A Television eXperience, as they prefer to be called) kicked off Thursday, June 4th in Austin, TX, with a line stretched ‘round the corner for the sole opening night event, the premiere of Atx partner USA’s Complications. The double-length pilot of the series screened to a packed house and afterwards, Mark Peikert of Backstage Magazine moderated a brief Q&A with the series’ creator, Matt Nix, stars Jessica Szohr and Beth Riesgraf, and creative Mike Horowitz. From the very start, the atmosphere in Austin has been a relaxed, positive one. Badge pickup, at least when I was there, was straightforward with helpful volunteers steering the process and the line for Complications, which started forming well over an hour before the event, was friendly and low-stress.

The screening itself was underwhelming. I am confident there are many who will enjoy Complications, but I...

Philip Bates is a writer at Kasterborous Doctor Who News and Reviews - All the latest Doctor Who news and reviews with our weekly podKast, features and interviews, and a long-running forum.

As Ultravox sang: Oooooh, Vienna! The second series of Vienna from Big Finish is out now. Star Trek‘s Chase Masterson is back as glamourous bounty hunter, Vienna Salvatori, across three new stories in one weighty boxset. Co-starring Samantha Béart as Lieutenant Jexie Reagan, Harry Ditson as Chief Doran Curtis, and Dalek‘s John Schwab as Anders, here’s the official synopsis: Tabula Rasa by...

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Sundance TV has picked up new German drama series Deutschland 83, marking the first time a U.S. network will air a German-language series. FremantleMedia International is screening the first two episodes of the eight-part series Feb. 9 in Berlin as part of the European Film Market’s special focus on high-end television drama. Read more Tom Tykwer's 'Babylon Berlin,' Belgian Series 'Tabula Rasa' at Co-Production Market Deutschland 83 was shot mainly in and around Berlin with a special focus on an exact re-creation of West Germany in 1983, when the country was at the center of

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I still remember the opening scene from Ang Lee's Eat, Drink, Man, Woman, one of the most mouth-watering scenes ever, which alone has great repeat viewing value and shows a lot about one culture and the story that follows.The new trailer for Tabula Rasa hit me in exactly the same way, highlighting the Minangnese culinary arts from Sumatra that are very popular and widespread throughout Indonesia, while the main character, from Papua, works in a struggling lower class restaurant. Here's the official synopsis: Hans, a young man from Serui, Papua, has a dream of becoming a professional football player. Yet fate has a different agenda, when Hans almost loses his will to live he meets Mak, owner of a humble Minangnese restaurant (lapau). In the midst of...

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Screencrush offers hilarious proof that every superhero movie is called the greatest superhero movie ever. People are easily excitable!

Sight and Sound picks the best documentaries ever by pollling filmmakers: Man With a Movie Camera, Shoah and more...

MBetancourt finishes his Instagram Buffy The Vampire Slayer project. It was awesome. Naturally "Tabula Rasa" was the most popular - but not because it's a great episode

PopBytes I normally dont link to super gossipy things but this Justin Bieber / Orlando Bloom fight is just so bizarre and the coverage keeps getting weirder. I guess...

Gawker ... Leonardo DiCaprio was also there, cheering Orlando on? I mean who wouldn't?

Vox I love Todd Vanderweff but I'm not sure I buy Lucy as a feminist movie, even one that's afraid of feminism as posited

Gawker "I am terrified of Reese Witherspoon and a little bit in love with her"

In Contention Rosewater by Jon Stewart...

Time once again for our bi-weekly round-up of little news bites from around the region that have piqued our interest and have deemed worth sharing with our readership. We've got jury news from the upcoming Yxine Film Fest, a new poster for Indonesian food flick Tabula Rasa, an update on the true story behind heartbreaking documentary The Cove, as well as the new Scandal 2 poster and we finish up this update with a kick ass clip from upcoming Japanese schoolgirl actioner High Kick Angels. Enjoy!...

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If you're a Marvel fan, it's not unlikely that you're also a Joss Whedon fan, and vice-versa. After all, Joss Whedon was influenced by Marvel comics, they have storytelling styles in common, and they even overlap (The Avengers and Marvel's Agents of Shield onscreen, plus Astonishing X-Men and Runaways in comics). If you're a fan of one but not familiar with the other, why not check the other out? (Not to be confused with the Avengers character The Other, played by Whedonverse veteran Alexis Denisof.)

In any case, this comparison of the recent Marvel films Iron Man 3, Thor 2, and Captain America 2 (and the TV show Marvel's Agents of Shield) with Joss Whedon's first show Buffy the Vampire Slayer will try to avoid any major spoilers (though there's one for Captain America 2, which will be clearly marked), so feel free to keep reading.

Post-Avengers, all of the...

Joss Whedon is a man of many talents. He’s written and directed some of my favourite TV shows and films of all time, with his latest film, Much Ado About Nothing, opening over the weekend on our shores. So when the possibility arose to attend BAFTA’s Joss Whedon: A Life in Pictures on Friday night, I naturally jumped at the opportunity.

Of all of the people in the industry, Whedon’s work has had the greatest influence on me. I grew up on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and have had nothing but love for everything I’ve seen Whedon do since then.

Talking to a sold-out audience at BAFTA’s Princess Anne Theatre in Piccadilly, interviewed by the BBC’s Francine Stock, the evening started at the beginning, with his childhood.

Both his parents and his grandfather were writers, with his father and grandfather writers for television...

Feature Ryan Lambie 7 Jun 2013 - 06:10

Superheroes! Books! Games! A giant head! Here's another batch of worthy, geek-friendly crowdfunding projects for your perusal...

We're now into our second month of these weekly crowdfunding posts, and trundling around the internet has become a really fun weekly ritual. From compelling new ideas to bizarre, 'what were they thinking?' schemes, each trawl through the web's crowdfunding sites turns up a fresh surprise at every turn.

Although some of the things we've stumbled on our downright cheeky - unless we read it incorrectly, one person appeared to have set up a project to fund their overseas holiday - many are perfectly worthy. This makes the task of choosing just three or four projects each week extremely tricky - particularly as we always try to pick lots of varied things, rather than focusing exclusively on, say, movies or games or books.

To this end,...

Feature Juliette Harrisson 4 Mar 2013 - 07:00

Juliette picks five of geek TV's most memorable amnesiacs, feat. Buffy, Stargate, Fringe and more (but sadly, not Harold from Neighbours)...

This feature contains spoilers.

In reality, amnesia in its wide variety of different forms is a serious condition that can ruin lives. On TV, it’s an opportunity for romance, wacky hi-jinks and/or some serious angsting, depending on the cause of the amnesia and what the amnesiac gets up to while memory-less. Amnesia on television is nearly always retrograde amnesia (where the person forgets things that happened before the onset of amnesia) rather than anterograde amnesia (loss of short-term memory, a debilitating condition) and the amnesiac will always remember useful things like how to boil an egg, drive a car and speak English, but not specifics concerning their names, their family, their personal history, or, most importantly, who they were in love with.

James Chambers’ tales of horror, crime, fantasy, and science fiction have been published in numerous anthologies and magazines. In 2011 Dark Regions Press published his collection of four Lovecraftian-inspired novellas, The Engines of Sacrifice. Publisher’s Weekly described it as “chillingly evocative.” Most recently, Dark Quest Books has published his zombie novellas, The Dead Bear Witness and Tears of Blood, the first two volumes in the Corpse Fauna novella series.

Chambers is also the author of the short story collections Resurrection House, published in 2009 by Dark Regions Press, and The Midnight Hour: Saint Lawn Hill and Other Tales with illustrator Jason Whitley. His stories have appeared in Allen K’s Inhuman, Bare Bone, Deep Cuts, The Green Hornet Chronicles, Hardboiled Cthulhu, Walrus Tales, and many other anthologies and magazines. He has also written numerous comic books including Leonard Nimoy’s Primortals, the critically acclaimed The Revenant in Shadow House, the Web comic Tabula Rasa,...

Tom Hardy has quietly ascended the Hollywood hierarchy and has definitely become a star. He got his first taste of mainstream celebrity through Christopher Nolan’s “Inception” as a wily, charming dream impersonator. He was also Bane in “The Dark Knight Rises” which has given him the opportunity to work in more roles. After Batman, Hardy will start with a “Tabula Rasa” of sorts and work on a smaller film.

One of Hardy’s next projects will be the thriller “Locke.” The narrative follows family man Ivan Locke who has the ideal life until trouble rears its head. One fateful phone call put in danger all that he has worked for.

Hardy will soon be featured as Mad Max in “Fury Road” and it has been rumored that he will star in the biographical “Everest” which will focus on British climber George Mallory.

The screenplay will be written by Steven Knight...

Super Meat Boy creators Edmund McMillen and Tommy Refenes can't even rest when they're taking a break. The duo, who are in the middle of remaking Smb for iOS and PCs revealed that they both had a little game jam over the course of a weekend back in September and the result is what McMillen is calling "the strangest project [he's] ever worked on.. and that's saying something": Mew-Genics.

McMillen was light on details, but said that it would be randomly-generated, strange, and full of cats. Promising that the Smb remake was still in development, McMillen says that soon they'll be sharing gameplay details, platforms, and screenshots for Mew-Genics "soon."

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Firmware 4.30 unifies Psn trophies on your console while Sony retires their Life With PlayStation service.

Starting tomorrow, when you look under Psn in the Xmb, you can find all of those PlayStation Vita trophies you may or may not have racked up since the handheld's release. According to the PlayStation Blog, you can also see your progress for each trophy.

But Sony giveth and they taketh away, with the retirement of Life With PlayStation with which the Folding @Home service is most frequently associated. Some of you may not have navigated over to this application during the life of your PS3, but it was a service that lent the computation power of the PS3 to Stanford's Alzheimer ’s research, with over 100 million computation hours donating by PS3 users since the inception of the service.

While you won't be able to download Life With PlayStation after tomorrow's update, users with Folding...

Back in July, we brought you news that Ubisoft's movie arm was planning an Assassin's Creed movie around actor Michael Fassbender. Now they've partnered up with production studio New Regency to continue the slow march to getting the eternal battle between Assassins and Templars to the big screen.

New Regency distributes their movies through twentieth Century Fox, meaning Ubisoft now at least has a firm way of getting the movie in front of eyeballs when it's ultimately completed. According to the press release, the deal allows Assassin's Creed to be fast-tracked while letting Ubisoft maintain creative control of the project.

But that's putting the cart filled with hay that you can leap of faith into before the horse, since the script is still in development, and no other talent beyond Prometheus star Fassbender has been announced as of yet.

Speaking of the Fass, he's starting to rack up franchises at this point,...

by Tami Katzoff (@tvtamijo), with additional reporting by Bryant Gilmore

On this day, the 20th of August, we celebrate the 50th birthday of actor James Marsters, the man who embodies our very favorite Bad Boy of the Buffyverse: Spike. The blood-drinking, blooming-onion-loving blondie first appeared in Season 2 of “Buffy” but was never intended to become a series regular, much less the Slayer’s devoted lover and tragicomic hero.

“That was something that evolved out of how great James’ performance was,” says writer/producer Marti Noxon, who was partially responsible for Spike’s creation and evolution. “He brought the pain and the emotion to a character that could have been a big joke. We just loved writing for him.”

And we loved watching him. Spike is witty, handsome, romantic, British, and the ultimate representation of the Rock ‘n Roll Vamp. As a birthday gift to Marsters (and a Monday gift to...

*Exclaimer: Please don’t read this if you haven’t seen Inception, The Empire Strikes Back, Planet of the Apes, The Wizard of Oz, Saw, Gone With the Wind, Casablanca, The Usual Suspects or The Sixth Sense

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As a probable testament to my poor academic acumen, I cannot, in good memory, recall the particulars of the situation I’m about to describe for you. I don’t remember the course, the tutorial leader, or the topic at hand, but I do remember it was an early morning class on a balmy winters day. In my usual bleary-eyed state of apathy, I resigned myself to a self-assigned seat at the back, content to make up the numbers and to pick up my arbitrarily appointed participation marks.

As the class commenced its usual schedule of speculative faff and conjecture, I commenced my own schedule of affairs: looking at people when they...

It’s nearly time…

In just two short months the third and final chapter of the Christopher Nolan/Christian Bale Batman trilogy, The Dark Knight Rises, will descend upon us from the metaphorical rooftop and then we’ll all finally know. Will it have been worth the wait? Will we be able to actually understand Bane’s dialogue? Will it trouble Joss Whedon’s ridiculously awesome The Avengers?

In fact at this point, the only thing we can be sure of is that we’re most definitely due for some cowl-crunching, Bat-breaking Bane mayhem. And I say bring it on…

Those of you with a less aggressive interest in Batman and his family of friends and enemies may have had limited exposure to this mysterious, complex individual. As is, you may even consider him to be an unworthy candidate for a Nolan Batman villain – especially with the bar being set...

This May, superstar writer Jonathan Hickman joins fan-favorite artist John Romita Jr as the Avengers face their biggest battle yet in Avengers Vs. X-Men #4! The Phoenix Force is closing in on Earth, and Captain America has tasked Thor with stopping it…In Space! With brawls exploding across the Savage Land, Wakanda, Tabula Rasa and throughout the Marvel Universe, can Thor and his team put an end to the Phoenix threat once and for all? This is what you’ve been waiting for all year, and now the war is here! Don’t miss out on all the action in Avengers Vs. X-Men #4, hitting comic shops worldwide, the Marvel Comics app and the all-new Marvel Comics web store – this May! Plus! Every issue of Avengers Vs. X-Men come packaged with a code for a Free digital copy on the Marvel Comics app! Fans will also be able to take the Avengers Vs.

Sony Online Entertainment LLC (Soe) announced a new free-to-play business model for its popular massively multiplayer online (Mmo) game DC Universe Online (Dcuo) — where players have the freedom to become legendary fighting alongside DC Comics icons like Superman, Batman and The Joker in an ever-evolving online action adventure that has already logged more than 42 million hours of super-powered gameplay action by players since its launch earlier this year.

Soe also stated that they will be offering three different tiers of membership: Free, Premium, and Legendary.

Free: New players will now have access to the current gameplay in DC Universe Online (including Gotham City, Metropolis, and all current raids and alerts), with the ability to create two characters, join a league and many other benefits. Free level players will be able to purchase downloadable game packs/updates, additional character slots, powers and more through micro transactions. Premium: Any player who has...

The Dark Angel Saga: part 5 Genocide has incinerated half of Wolverine’s body, leaving only two remaining members of X-Force to defeat Archangel and his army. Someone has wiped out a small town in Northern Montana and in its place a new alien landscape has grown. What is Tabula Rasa? Can Fantomex and Deadpool work together to survive its harsh terrains long enough to unlock its mystery? The acclaimed team of Rick Remender (Venom, Punisher), Jerome Opeña (Punisher, Moon Knight) and Dean White (Avengers) return to introduce you to the strangest territory in the Marvel Universe. 32 Pgs./Parental Advisory …$3.99 Written by Rick Remender Penciled by Jerome Opeña Cover by Esad Ribic Marvel Architect Variant also available Marvel Architects Sketch Variant also available...

The Movie Pool is in geek heaven with Stargate: Atlantis The Complete Series on Blu-ray! Beware! This is a long review, necessary to cover all 20 discs!

Blu-ray Specs

Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1 (for episodes only)

Rating: TV-14

Audio: English 5.1 DTS-hd Master Audio

Subtitles: English for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing

Special Features: Detailed in the set breakdown.

Stargate: Atlantis The Complete Series comes in a 20 disc Blu-ray set. Seasons one and two come in one extra-wide case, as do seasons three and four, with season five in a third case. All three cases come within an outer slipcover.

Set Breakdown

Many of the special features listed are not presented in high-definition.

Disc 1 (Season 1)

Episodes include: “Rising” (Parts 1 and 2, with commentary by director Martin Wood and actor Joe Flanigan); “Hide and Seek” (with commentary by actors Rachel Luttrell, Torri Higginson and Paul McGillion); "Thirty Eight Minutes” (with commentary by actors Rachel Luttrell...

How Robert Lipsyte, author of the new memoir An Accidental Sportswriter, stood athwart the sports page yelling, "Stop!"

When a young man on the make tells me he wants to be a sportswriter, I tell him to read one book. It's called SportsWorld by Robert Lipsyte. Starting next month, I'll tell him to read another: An Accidental Sportswriter, which is functionally Lipsyte's sequel. In sportswriting's cosmic baseball card set-Jimmy Cannon! Dan Jenkins! Charlie Pierce!-you can find men who wrote as pretty as the former New York Times columnist. But Bob is the five-tool sportswriter. His beat is the ballpark, the '60s, African-American history, women's lib, Muslim theology, sports as metaphor, and-most interesting for you, young sportswriter-the craft of sportswriting itself.

Related story on The Daily Beast: Four Missing New York Times Journalists

Lipsyte is the guy who makes us ask the pencil-stopping question: Are sportswriters wasting their careers?...

Justice League Season Two Coming to Blu-Ray (Finally!)

Street Date: 7/26/11

Synopsis:  Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, The Flash, Green Lantern, Martian Manhunter and Hawkgirl - they have all used their unique powers to fight evil across the galaxy. These 7 super heroes unite to become the Justice League. Dangers across the galaxy threaten Deep-rooted feelings of mistrust and insecurity surface and plauge the Justice League, causing internal strife and leaving them vulnerable to attacks from their enemies. But when one of their own commits the ultimate betrayal, it could be the end of the Justice League and Earth forever. Don't' miss one second of suspense or one iota of excitement with this 26 episode collection.

Episodes:Twilight Part 1

Twilight Part 2

Tabula Rasa Part 1

Tabula Rasa Part 2

Only a Dream Part 1

Only a Dream Part 2

Maid of Honor Part 1

Maid of Honor Part 2

Hearts and Minds Part 1

Hearts and Minds Part 2

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When the announcement of Tom Hardy’s inclusion in Chris Nolan’s third and final Batman film was initially made, the rumour hounds went crazy over who he would play, with the top three options lining up as The Riddler, Hugo Strange and Bane, with the masked muscle-bound madman coming in a distant third in that particular race. So it wasn’t hugely surprising to find a vocal and vociferous opposition to the further announcement that the Brit would indeed be taking on the role of he who is often referred to as the anti-Batman.

But, given the time to reflect on the decision, and the way Bane (and also Anne Hathaway’s Selina Kyle) will fit in with the rest of the Nolan universe, I think the casting is genius. And here, my Batman-loving friends, is why:

It’s Tom fucking Hardy

He may have recently walked away with the Rising Star Bafta award,...

Tabula rasa. Until I walked into the theater tonight, I had never heard a single note of a Justin Bieber song.  I'd never seen him in motion.  I knew still photos of him in passing and I saw an appearance he made on "The Daily Show" last week, which made me laugh.  Right away, the impression I got of him was a kid who is willing to puncture his own celebrity, and who was enjoying the play side of things.  He struck me as a genuine kid, still impressed enough by the pop culture he's a part of to have fun...

In the first of what I hope to be a regular feature on Fused TV, I have decided to choose Buffy The Vampire Slayer, as my choice. First off, this feature is designed to rehash thoughts and feelings and interesting reactions to shows of the past. Shows that changed how I perceive TV, shows that I still can pull out a DVD and watch an episode, shows that have such an awesome cast, and many more things. “The Show Must Go On” and why not start with one of my favorite series ever, Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

Matt Roush of TV Guide put it nicely at the Buffy reunion one year at the Paley Festival. Roush, a long time fan of the show, got up and quipped at his introduction, “My name is Matt and I’m a Buffy-holic.” He also described the show as “Clueless meets Carrie by...

For years, employees at Google have suggested a project near and dear to their nerd hearts: a Google-led science fair. "It's come up over and over and over again," says Cristin Frodella, a senior product marketing manager in education at Google. After all, many a Googler has fond childhood memories of explaining the genius of his or her biology experiment to passersby in a school gym. (Frodella and her best friend trained hamsters to ask for food by ringing a bell.)

Today those Googlers and budding scientists worldwide should be ecstatic. The company launched Google Science Fair, the first global online science competition. It's open to full-time students ages 13 to 18, who are encouraged to use the panoply of Google products to record and share their work. "We want to let kids use our online tools so they can participate from anywhere in world," Frodella tells Fast Company. "They may be...

I supposed my reaction to Julie Taymor's photographically bold, yet cinematicly flat rendition of William Shakespeare's play could be summed up by comparing the performance of Alan Cumming from her previous film Titus to the one he yields here. In Titus, he is a campy-over-the-top force of nature, a pure delight of showmanship. In The Tempest, he is yawning his way through the inevitable march across the Hawaiian voclanic badlands with an equally subdued Chris Cooper and David Strathairn. Maybe the gory Grand Guignol of Titus was a more suitable fit than the more introspective, meta-ish nature of The Tempest for her particular sort-of-a-stage-production-sort-of-a-film style. Outside of the farcical comedic elements, Alfred Molina is at his bawdy best here, with Russell Brand providing somewhat consistent support, which seem to capture the best elements of Shakespeare's ability to play to the back of the room, The Tempest merely makes...

This review may contain spoilers. You may as well forget everything about .The Pandorica Opens. as the conclusion to the epic adventure, .The Big Bang,. has little in common with its opening act. Forget the Daleks, Cybermen, Sontarians and Silurians; forget the devastating note on which it ended, and certainly forget the thrill and excitement that made the episode a perfect bookend to Steve Moffat.s first year as showrunner. Instead, .The Big Bang. is an uneven and convoluted affair, filled with easy coincidences, convenient twists and, of course, a deus ex machina to wipe the slate clean. Tabula rasa seems to be the key word for the adventure; set against the backdrop of a universe where the Big Bang never occurred, the cosmos is a barren and desolate place and the only reason ...

That’s more like it. Lost’s final season continues to be a mirror-image of its first with “The Substitute,” a literal and spiritual successor to season one’s standout episode, “Walkabout.”

Back in 2004 when Lost premiered there was uncertainty about what exactly it was going to be. It was coming from Jj Abrams, who was fresh off his critically acclaimed Alias. Would it be, like that show, a mythologically-heavy serialized thriller, or a more down-to-earth character piece reminiscent of his prior project, Felicity? Part of the reason the pilot caused such a stir was because it seemed to fuse both, and introduced such a wide swath of characters and potential plotlines that the series seemed destined to burn itself out after maybe half a season at best. The series’ second episode, “Tabula Rasa,” started to mold the show into shape — establishing the weekly flashback structure and how it would...

Heroes hit a new low for BBC Two on Saturday night, according to the latest viewing figures. The latest episode, titled 'Tabula Rasa', managed 740k (3.5%) at 10pm - the lowest figure recorded for the series to date. The instalment originally aired on BBC Three last Sunday, and pulled in a fair 545k (2.6%). The double-episode opener, which aired on BBC Two Saturday, January 9, averaged 1.42m (7%). Earlier on BBC Two, The Virtual Revolution logged 920k (3.9%) at 8.15pm, then 1.85m (7.1%) tuned in for Qi Xl at 9.15pm. Over on BBC One, So You Think You Can Dance pulled in 4.99m (21.2%) during the 7pm hour, then the results show grabbed 4.82m (20.5%) at 9pm. The National Lottery: In It To Win It interested 5.38m (26.7%) at 8pm, and 5.74m (25.1%) watched Casualty at 9.25pm. Harry Hill's TV Burp attracted 6.99m (29.4%) to (more)...

On "Lost," death is about as common as the cold. It drifts in and out just like a sickness, sometimes with warning but often without any signs at all, and almost always claiming its victims with ruthless efficiency. Whether the dead party is a beloved or loathed character, one thing remains true throughout — the death scenes of "Lost" are almost always epic and inventive.

After the jump, we've listed 23 dead characters who should return for the final season of "Lost."

Stay tuned to MTV next week for the final installments of Lost In Numbers, a series of features pegged directly to the show's trademark number sequence: 4, 8, 15, 16, 23, 42. Needless to say, spoilers for season five and earlier lie ahead. And make sure to tune in to MTV Movies Blog next Tuesday for our live blog of the season premiere!

1. Roger Linus

Played By: Jon Gries

Occupation: Workman for the Dharma Initiative

First...

Our reviews for this past week are down a couple of shows, thanks primarily to baseball. Fringe was a no-show on account of the former, and Supernatural offered us a repeat of this season's premiere.

That said, we've got some new entries in the mix, which we'll be continuing as well. Blaine Kyllo chimes in with his thoughts on this past week's episodes of House, 30 Rock and Dollhouse (the latter of which returned to the airwaves after a one week absence).

With choices reduced on account of America's favorite pastime, viewers had a second look at shows they might have otherwise missed the first go-round, in their quest for something to watch, and this benefited FlashForward, which earned its best audience since its second week, picking up a 6.2 rating/10 share.

Meanwhile, according to the stats, Fringe, which has been a big ratings loser in its sophomore season, saw an uptick the week ending Oct.

Heroes continued to improve last night, according to early viewing figures. The 8pm screening of 'Tabula Rasa' pulled in 5.67m. Last week, the show logged 5.6m during the hour. Elsewhere at 8pm, How I Met Your Mother and Accidentally On Purpose put in 8.76m and 8.62m for CBS and The CW's One Tree Hill put in 2.29m. A special two-hour Dancing With The Stars averaged 17.04m for ABC from 8pm. CBS won the 9pm hour, pulling in 13.83m and 13.12m for Two And A Half Men (more)...

This week's episode wasn't bad at all, for the simple reason that -- like last week's installment -- it sort of underscored one of the larger problems of Heroes itself. (How's that for a backhanded compliment?) This time out, Heroes sorta figured out what to do with Hiro. Because for the past four seasons, Hiro has been a character without a purpose. If you'll think back to the first season, you'll remember that Hiro began as a flighty, superpowered, ex-wage slave who -- thanks to a mentor-encounter with his darker, futuristic self -- embraced his destiny and set out on...

(S04E06) If there was a theme this week, it's about nurturing and guiding people with abilities. We followed up with Sylar, now in the nefarious embrace of the Sullivan Brothers Carnival, as well as Peter and Hiro, and by extension Emma. The quest to save Hiro's life from the brain tumor that's killing him even affords Noah the opportunity to atone for his cold past by providing support to a former kid he and the Haitian had "visited" back in his Company days.

We got some very nice character moments this week. I like Hiro in the role of mentor to Emma, as it gives him a focus for his crazy optimism. Plus, we got to see how stopping time makes a magic show even more awesome -- I know that's the kind of crap I'd be doing with that ability. Screw saving the world, watch me make this woman vanish.

There weren't many forward-moving developments this week on Heroes, but the episode "Tabula Rasa" had its up and its down.

Let's go over what worked and what didn't work during the hour, as readers are encouraged to sound off themselves in our Heroes forum...

What Worked: Hrg, back in the spotlight! He's always been our favorite character. It's great to see him with a purpose again, one that can highlight new individuals with abilities and bring them into the fold when need be.

What Didn't Work: Hiro, one confused time traveler! So, does he have a list or not? Sometimes? When we last saw Hiro, and when this episode ended, it seemed as though he could control where he went in time. But he had no idea why fate brought him to Peter last week. The show has always had a consistency problem with various abilities.

What Worked: A sharper focus!

Nothing big really happened in "Tabula Rasa," the sixth episode of Heroes' fourth season, so I was a bit disappointed that the story didn't significantly make a big leap forward. There was also no mention of Claire's college adventures from last week nor did it tap on Angela's quest to find her missing son Nathan. However, I give credit to the coherence of the three student-teacher story arcs tackled through Noah and Jeremy, Emma and Hiro, and Sylar and Samuel.

On the upcoming new episode of Heroes, Hrg and Peter set out to save Hiro.

Meanwhile, Sylar starts to remember who he is, as he bonds with Samuel's carnival family.

Take a look at the official NBC promo for "Tabula Rasa" below:

Tabula Rasa Promo

As usual, we'll recap the episode soon after it concludes. For now, discuss it in our Heroes forum and click on the pics below for an early look at scenes from Monday night:...

Earlier this month, Heroes star Hayden Panettiere said her character of Claire will be "chasing a normal life" at college.

It's not hard to imagine how that will turn out, especially based on the following photo from an early season four episode.

It depicts Claire, bloodied and motionless on the ground. We know she'll soon heal herself, but why is there a chalk outline around her body?

In other season four news, the episode titles for the first eight installment of "Redemption" have been released. They are:

Orientation Jump, Push, Fall Acceptance Ink Hysterical Blindness Tabula Rasa Strange Attractors Once Upon A Time In Texas Heroes returns on September 21 on NBC. Talk about it now in our forum!