Live TV Comes to iPad, But You’ll Have to Stay Home

You know you want to watch live TV on your iPad, because what else are you going to watch live on your iPad, right?

Origins: “Walking Dead” Director Frank Darabont on His Influences

AMC’s The Walking Dead will wrap up its first season this Sunday and in honor of the finale we have a little treat for you.

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Google’s Innovative New Name for Ads: “Ads!”

Search Engine Land’s Barry Schwartz has made an interesting discovery: Google has stopped calling the ads in its search-engine results “sponsored results.” The new label is one that should be clear to just about everybody: It’s calling the advertisements “Ads.”

The Best Thing About Caprica? Their Technology – No, Not Cylons

When Caprica returns to Syfy tonight, it’ll bring with it a return of all the gadgets and almost-but-not-quite technology that’ve quietly become one of the highpoints of the series’ worldbuilding – The holobands, the e-paper and the one-step-beyond-steampunk broken down “old” technology that mixes and matches technology we’ve already got. In this exclusive video from [...]

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Internet TV’s Killer App is the Entire History of TV

For this week’s Technologizer column for TIME.com, I wrote about the new generation of Internet TV boxes, including Roku, Apple TV, Google TV, and the Boxee Box. As I say in the story, I love the idea of canceling my cable-TV service and depending on one of these gizmos to do my consuming of episodic [...]

Your Quick Guide To September TV Season Premieres

It’s September! And, for those of us who watch far too much television, that can only mean one thing: the return of most of your favorite shows (And the disappearance of some, too; I’ll miss you, Leverage. Come back soon, okay?). But if you’re not sure when you’ll be able to catch up with Fringe‘s Parallel Earth Olivias or meet Chuck‘s new mom Linda Hamilton – or, if you’re looking to find out when potential new Lost replacement is beginning – here’s a quick guide to what to expect from September’s genre TV.

Extended Season 3 Star Wars: The Clone Wars Trailer

Lucasfilm’s The Clone Wars returns on September 17 for its third season on the Cartoon Network. With it comes a handful of surprises that are sure to delight fans of the series and Star Wars, in general.

America’s Youth Is Doomed: Did You Watch Jimmy Kimmel?

Apple’s 4mer “I’m a Mac” spokesperson Justin Long was on Jimmy Kimmel last night promoting his new movie and shared a series of texts that he exchanged with a female tween. Nothing perverse, mind you, but it did offer a bit of incite into America’s youf. Oh, and Long rocks a jailbroken iPhone. LOLZZZZ.

Video: Highlights of the Walking Dead Panel

We weren’t able to attend AMC’s The Walking Dead panel yesterday because, well, AMC is new to Comic-Con and they sort of proved that yesterday. Not to sound like an entitled jerk or anything but we – the media – don’t really have the time to wait on line for hours to get into a [...]

Futurama’s Return: Within 90 Seconds, A New Pun High

Wondering how the Futurama crew survived disappearing into a wormhole and ended up with a new season on Comedy Central (starting tomorrow night)? The first 90 seconds of the premiere explains all, and ends with the one of the greatest bad puns in television history. You know you want to see it.