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As Canadian communication theorist Harold Innis taught us, some empires are time-biased and others are space-biased, depending on their preferred mass medium of control. Well, he probably never dreamed things like interplanetary space travel, teleportation, telekinetics and instant cross-universe communication would figure into the evolution of empires. But then he probably wasn’t a huge sci-fi [...]

Hollywood seems intent on gutting the TV Guide archives for script ideas. Sometimes these small-screen-to-big-screen endeavors work (The Fugitive), sometimes they don’t (A Night at the Roxbury), and sometimes they really, really don’t (Bewitched). Here are the upcoming and rumored adaptations that better not ruin my memories:

The A-Team Oh, A-Team movie, my requests are few: [...]