Heartbreaking, but important, profile of Bob Swartz a year after he, and we, lost @aaronsw: http://t.co/BKYGVl1jnL

Futurama is over. No, really this time. After seven seasons, a few cancellations, and multiple visits to parallel universes, the long-running sci-fi animated series finally ended its run on September 4th, with the final episode “Meanwhile.” Executive producer and head writer David X. Cohen has been…

One weekend last October, Robert Iger, chief executive officer of Walt Disney (DIS), sat through all six Star Wars films. He’d seen them before, of course. This time, he took notes. Disney was in secret negotiations to acquire Lucasfilm, the company founded by Star Wars creator George Lucas, and…

The first video game I ever fell in love with had no graphics whatsoever. It was all text, and text alone: dim green, amber, or white characters on a dark background—that’s all the earliest monitors could handle. It was a game from the mid-eighties, based on the Douglas Adams novel, “The…

Bioshock An interview with Ken Levine, the mind behind BioShock Last winter, I received an interesting invitation. Would I, and my video-game-writing partner, Rob Auten, like to travel to Boston to spend a weekend playing a complete but not yet fully polished build of BioShock Infinite, the…

From the youngs of Brooklyn to old-timey Jersey, the White Walkers to the regular old zombie walkers, here's our list of the 10 best television shows of the year ... and two that were not so much.  30 Rock A glimpse at the finish line has inspired NBC's greatest sitcom since Seinfeld to pick up the…

" src="http://cdn.hitfix.com/photos/1829538/girls26_featured_photo_gallery.jpg"> So it turns out there sometimes are word limits even on the internet, and a 9000-word interview with ""  producers and was too much to try to squeeze into a single post. So you can read the first half here , and after…

Executive producer David X. Cohen describes the Comedy Central show’s creative process. The seeds of the animated sci-fi comedy Futurama—which returns for its seventh season on Comedy Central tonight—can be seen in the college career of executive producer David X. Cohen. He graduated from Harvard…

Last September, the writer/director/occasional-novelty-T-shirt-subject Joss Whedon wrapped principal photography on the biggest film of his career. Chances are if you know who Whedon is, you know that movie is called The Avengers, and that it’s a kind of hypersequel to five years’ worth of other,…

" src="http://cdn.hitfix.com/photos/1152587/mad-men-a-little-kiss_featured_photo_gallery.jpg"> is finally back after 17 months, and I have a review of the premiere episode coming up just as soon as I have tickets to the bean ballet... "What is wrong with you people? You're all so cynical! You don't…

When I was asked to write an article about what it was like to work with my husband on a TV show, I assumed it was because people thought it would be titillating. He’s a creator/writer/producer, I’m an actress; there must be lots of gossip, in-fighting, maybe some crazy-sexy time on the set, right?…

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