Legends Of Tomorrow: Outlaw Country

ArrowThe CW airs the 22nd episode of Legends Of Tomorrow, starring Arthur Darvill, Brandon Routh, Caity Lotz and Victor Garber. Johnathon Schaech guest stars as Jonah Hex.

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Star Trek: The 50th Anniversary Collection

Star Trek: The 50th Anniversary CollectionLa-La Land Records releases the four-CD Star Trek: The 50th Anniversary Collection soundtrack box set primarily featuring music from the original series and The Next Generation, along with new works by Ron Jones and the premiere of a reconstructed selection of music from the 1970s Star Trek animated series. Read more

The Flash: Invasion!

The FlashThe CW airs the 54th episode of The Flash, a modern-day reboot of DC Comics’ superhero starring Grant Gustin. Melissa Benoist (Supergirl), Stephen Amell (Arrow), and Caity Lotz (Legends Of Tomorrow) guest star in the first chapter of a crossover event encompassing all of the current DC Comics-based shows.

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Arrow: Invasion!

ArrowThe 100th episode of Arrow, a modern-day reboot of DC Comics’ Green Arrow superhero starring Stephen Amell, airs on the CW. Neal McDonough (Boomtown), Grant Gustin (The Flash), Susanna Thompson (Star Trek: Voyager), Caity Lotz (Mad Men, Legends Of Tomorrow), and Brandon Routh (Superman Returns) guest star in an episode which is part of a crossover event involving all of the CW’s DC superhero series.

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Legends Of Tomorrow: Invasion!

ArrowThe CW airs the 23rd episode of Legends Of Tomorrow, starring Arthur Darvill, Brandon Routh, Caity Lotz and Victor Garber. Stephen Amell (Arrow), Grant Gustin (The Flash), Melissa Benoist (Supergirl), and Donnelly Rhodes (Battlestar Galactica) guest star in the Legends’ chapter of a major DC crossover event.

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Star Wars: Rebels: An Inside Man

Star Wars: RebelsCable channel Disney XD airs the 44th episode of the series Star Wars: Rebels. Clancy Brown (Highlander, Earth 2), Lars Mikkelsen (House Of Cards, Sherlock) and Mary Elizabeth McGlynn (Steven Universe, Ghost In The Shell: Stand Alone Complex) guest star. Read more

Legends Of Tomorrow: The Chicago Way

ArrowThe CW airs the 24th episode of Legends Of Tomorrow, starring Arthur Darvill, Brandon Routh, Caity Lotz and Victor Garber. John Barrowman (Torchwood) and NEal McDonough guest star.

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Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

Rogue OneDisney and Lucasfilm release Rogue One, the first standalone Star Wars “anthology” film of a projected series of such self-contained films. Diego Luna, Felicity Jones, Donnie Yen, Ben Mendelsohn, and Forest Whitaker star in a story that leads directly into the opening scenes of the original Star Wars. (This film will eventually receive its own prequel, the two-season streaming series Andor.) Read more

Doctor Who: The Return Of Doctor Mysterio

Doctor WhoThe 829th episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1 (the 130th episode since the series’ revival). This Christmas-themed episode closes the ninth season, and reintroduces Nardole (Matt Lucas) as a new regular companion for the Doctor in a story that pastiches American superhero comics (and their media spinoffs). Justin Chatwin and Charity Wakefield guest star. Read more

Carrie Fisher, actress, dies

Carrie FisherActress and author Carrie Fisher, universally known as Princess Leia from the original Star Wars trilogy, dies four days after suffering from a massive heart attack on a flight from London to Los Angeles. Alongside a storied career that included movies such as The Blues Brothers, When Harry Met Sally, and a revival of Leia in 2015’s The Force Awakens, Fisher embarked on a writing career that included the semi-autobiographical novel Postcards From The Edge (later adapted into a movie in its own right), which fictionalized elements of her Hollywood upbringing, and autobiographies that exposed her lifelong battles with mental illness. She died at the age of 60.

Star Wars: Rebels: Ghosts Of Geonosis – Part 1

Star Wars: RebelsCable channel Disney XD airs the 46th episode of the series Star Wars: Rebels. Forest Whitaker (Platoon, The Last King Of Scotland) guest stars, reprising his character from the recent film Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. Read more

Star Wars: Rebels: Ghosts Of Geonosis – Part 2

Star Wars: RebelsCable channel Disney XD airs the 46th episode of the series Star Wars: Rebels. Forest Whitaker (Platoon, The Last King Of Scotland) guest stars, reprising his character from the recent film Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. Read more

Masaya Nakamura, Namco founder, dies

Masaya NakamuraMasaya Nakamura, the founder of pioneering Japanese video game maker Namco, dies at the age of 91. Founded in 1955 as Nakamura Manufacturing Co., Namco was an early proponent of video game development in Japan, though it saw its earliest successes as the Japanese distributor of Atari arcade games imported from the U.S. After moderately successful early coin-ops such as Gee Bee, Namco quickly established itself as a global powerhouse with the release of such perennial classics as Pac-Man, Galaxian, Galaga, Dig Dug, Pole Position, and Xevious, among many others. Namco’s growth in the 1980s was so explosive that it absorbed Japanese film studio Nikkatsu in 1993 (several of whose titles Nakamura oversaw as executive producer), and later merged with Bandai in 2005.

Legends Of Tomorrow: Raiders Of The Lost Art

ArrowThe CW airs the 25th episode of Legends Of Tomorrow, starring Arthur Darvill, Brandon Routh, Caity Lotz and Victor Garber. John Barrowman (Torchwood) and NEal McDonough guest star.

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The Flash: Borrowing Problems From The Future

The FlashThe CW airs the 56th episode of The Flash, a modern-day reboot of DC Comics’ superhero starring Grant Gustin. Greg Grunberg (Heroes) guest stars.

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John Hurt, actor, dies

John Hurt is the DoctorBritish actor Sir John Hurt, renowned for memorable roles in everything from I, Claudius to Alien to The Elephant Man to 1984 to Doctor Who, dies at the age of 77 after a long battle with pancreatic cancer (during which he kept actively working). Known to genre fans for the role of unlucky astronaut Kane in Ridley Scott’s Alien (1979), though before this he had lent his voice to animated adaptations of Lord Of The Rings and Watership Down. He spoofed his Alien character for Mel Brooks’ Spaceballs in 1987. Other genre fare included the movie adaptation of Carl Sagan’s novel Contact in 1997, V For Vendetta, Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull, the final two Harry Potter movies, and voiced the dragon in the BBC’s TV series Merlin. In 2013, he joined the pantheon of incarnations of the Doctor for Doctor Who’s 50th anniversary, playing a previously unseen incarnation of the Time Lord, a role he reprised for Big Finish Productions’ Doctor Who audio plays.

Legends Of Tomorrow: The Legion Of Doom

ArrowThe CW airs the 26th episode of Legends Of Tomorrow, starring Arthur Darvill, Brandon Routh, Caity Lotz and Victor Garber. John Barrowman (Torchwood) and NEal McDonough guest star.

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