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Erin is a lifelong geek who is a part-time writer for Bleeding Cool. Between her day job and her mom job, Erin reads and watches all the fantasy and sci-fi she can get her hands on. She is a Trekkie, Warsie, Potterhead, recreational WoW nerd, and Whovian. Find her on twitter @pearlsandchucks.
ER, Bones, Dawson's Creek, Supergirl, and more: we look back at television's modern relationship disasters, emotional wreckage and all.
As we attempt to survive everything this year has in store for us, lets look back at 10 ways "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" prepared us for 2020.
As communities call for the defunding or abolishing of police forces, is it time to abolish the police show/procedural as we know it?
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One writer's desperate plea for a return to weekly episodic television in order to save our exhausted, bored, unfulfilled brains.
Bleeding Cool figures you might be in need of a good cry, so we have compiled a list of 10 television episodes guaranteed to make you weep.
Bleeding Cool examines if classic TV shows like I Love Lucy, The Brady Bunch, and Get Smart are acceptable for today's children and parents.
Ashley Eckstein, the voice of "The Clone Wars" Ahsoka Tano, wrote a "Star Wars" Little Golden Book, "I Am A Padawan," that will be released April 7, 2020.
In February, Star Wars: The Clone Wars returned to Disney+ for a long-awaited seventh, and final, season. Last week, Anakin Skywalker's epically popular
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This week on "Follow-Up Day," "The Rookie" calls in comedic back-up. "SNL" star Pete Davidson guest stars as Officer John Nolan's long-lost half-brother.
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This week on "Star Wars: The Clone Wars" Captain Rex, and the Bad Batch must escape the Separatists in a violent, desperate struggle to survive.
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On ABC's "The Rookie," Chen is back to work and everyone is dealing with their personal dramas, with the murder case in "Now and Then" taking a backseat.
This week on "Star Wars: The Clone Wars" Anakin is back and joins Captain Rex and the Bad Batch to hunt down Echo, a clone trooper long thought dead.
"The Rookie" is back, Chen is buried alive, and the team races to save her. But with an episode title like "Day Of Death," who will make it out alive?
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Almost six years after the show's cancellation, the seventh season of "Star Wars: The Clone Wars" finally premiered on Disney+ with "The Bad Batch."
"The Rookie" Showrunner Alexi Hawley Plans Tactical Assault to Melt Our Dead, Frozen, Cynical Hearts
"The Rookie" showrunner Alexi Hawley is helping distribute "tactical caring kits" to the homeless population, and wants other shows to do the same.
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"Star Wars'" Obi-Wan Kenobi loved Padmé Amidala all along, and is an example of what "Harry Potter's" Professor Severus Snape could have been.
In "The Rookie" fall finale "The Dark Side," the team cajoles a serial killer into revealing where she hid her victims, while a more immediate threat looms.
In the winter finale of "The Rookie," "The Dark Side," a member of the team is destined to fall victim to a serial killer. But who?
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"The Rookie" finds its balance in the chaos of an ensemble cast, and this week's episode, "Breaking Point," is an action-packed success.
After months of writing about scraps of images and behind-the-scenes peeks, we finally have our first footage from Series 12 of Doctor Who. And my first
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In "Clean Cut," "The Rookie" finally rediscovers its sense of humor, restoring balance to the police force with drama, wit, and comedy.
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Calling all Browncoats! This is a red alert! Alan Tudyk is guest starring with Nathan Fillion in an all new episode of ABC's "The Rookie," "Clean Cut."
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On "The Rookie's" new episode, "Safety," despite all of the safety precautions the officers take each day, they are never fully protected from pain.
New on "The Rookie,": in "Safety," West (Titus Makin Jr.) and Bradford (Eric Winter) coach fooball with Eric Weddle and Robert Woods of the LA Rams.
This week's brand new episode of ABC's The Rookie, "Fallout," has all of the drama of a disaster movie. For a show that usually aims for lighthearted and
This week on ABC's "The Rookie," "Fallout," California braces for the big one but instead of an earthquake, its an impending missile strike to Los Angeles.
This week's "Star Wars Resistance" episode "The Engineer" echoes another distress message from long ago in a galaxy far, far away. But who is it from?
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"Hunt on Celsor 3" is is an excellent example of what "Star Wars Resistance" could be: quirky, adventurous, surprising, and focused.
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This weeks's episode ABC's "The Rookie," "Tough Love," earns the "dramedy" label, showing the ups, downs, twists, and turns of police work.