The year 2025 was jam-packed with must-see genre entertainment. io9 covered an extensive range of pop culture across film and television, including major releases from Marvel Studios, DC…
Read more Our Favorite io9 Stories of 2025Photo-Illustration: Vulture; Photos: HBO, Disney, Netflix, FX Come, weepers! Come, sobbers! Come, ugly-ass criers! You are all welcome here at our annual countdown of the scripted TV moments…
Read more The Weepiest TV Moments of 2025In an example of a sliding doors moment, one Game of Thrones star nearly played an important role in Andor. What Star Wars character was Rory McCann set…
Read more Game of Thrones’ Rory McCann Almost Played Another Star Wars CharacterThough we here at io9 would have preferred Andor win all the Emmys, the Disney+ Star Wars show did pick up a few notable trophies, including Outstanding Writing…
Read more ‘Andor’ Writer Dan Gilroy Knows Why You’re Thinking About the Show This Week (and It’s Not the Emmys)Of many, many breakout moments in Andor‘s first season, the passionate posthumous manifesto of Alex Lawther’s Karis Nemik providing the backdrop for Cassian’s return home remains one of the…
Read more Alex Lawther Didn’t Know Just How Much His ‘Andor’ Manifesto Hit Until Season 2The 2025 Emmys took place this past weekend, and Andor walked away with several wins for its final season, among many highlights for genre media across both nights of…
Read more ‘Andor’ Leads the Big Genre Wins of the 2025 EmmysClockwise from top left: Gilded Age, Sirens, The Bear, The Rehearsal, and King of the Hill. Photo-Illustration: Vulture; Photos: HBO (Karolina Wojtasik, John P. Johnson), Netflix, Mike Judge/Disney,…
Read more The Best TV Shows of 2025 (So Far)Simon Kinberg recently opened up about what inspiration he’s drawing on to create a new Star Wars film trilogy. What do we know about the new Star Wars…
Read more New Star Wars Trilogy Teased By Writer, Reveals InspirationKeeping pace with Hollywood’s perpetual awards horserace. Sign up for the newsletter here. Photo: Vulture; Photos: Lucasfilm Ltd., FX, Apple TV+, ABC At their best and most pure,…
Read more Every Scripted Show Nominated for a 2025 Series Emmy, RankedWhen Tony Gilroy began his Andor journey, his original pitch was deemed “pretty mad and undoable” by Lucasfilm head Kathleen Kennedy. In a new interview with The Hollywood…
Read more Tony Gilroy Is Very Sad at How Relevant ‘Andor’ Has BecomeAstronauts on board the International Space Station have a lot of serious business to handle each day. But even astronauts need time for rest and relaxation. And if…
Read more Every TV Show Astronauts Can Watch on the ISS Right NowMillie Gibson, Ncuti Gatwa, and Varada Sethu at a Doctor Who table read.Photo: James Pardon/Bad Wolf/BBC Studios We already had an inkling that Andor’s Varada Sethu would be…
Read more Doctor Who Makes It Official: Andor’s Varada Sethu Is the New CompanionYou could certainly accuse creators within the Star Wars franchise of needlessly injecting their media with heavy doses of fan service, and Ahsoka series creator Dave Filoni might…
Read more Ahsoka Episode 1 Review: It Really Is Star Wars: Rebels 2The WGA writers’ strike continues to affect many film and TV shows currently in production. Tony Gilroy, the creator of and producer for the Star Wars series Andor, for example, he…
Read more ‘Andor’ Creator Tony Gilroy Stop Work During Writers StrikeImage: Lucasfilm / Disney Studio Ghibli, The famous Japanese animation studio behind classics like Princess Mononoke and Spirited Away has spent the past few days teasing a possible…
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