Some decades ago, CNN interviewed a couple who had just celebrated their 78th wedding anniversary. When asked their secret of a successful marriage, they replied: “Frequent separations and progressive hearing loss.”

Vox has an article that may (or may not) be of interest to io9 readers.

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I need an email address to share this with either a gmail address for sharing via G-Drive, or any other email address — and i will share it, one episode at a time (since i have limited cloud storage), and each time you download and delete an episode, i will upload the next. There are seven half-hour episodes in the…

Here’s my first recommendation: Hellfjord. It’s wacky, surprising, and I really enjoyed it—possibly because there is nothing else like it, anywhere. This article explains what it’s about and that Showtime has optioned a remake of the series. I don’t have a clue if it’s available on any streaming service, but I could…

Yeah, i have downloaded everything by James Griffin and Rachel Lang—I did everything I could to promote The Almighty Johnsons here on io9, but the SyFy channel didn’t do **anything** to promote it.

Thanks for the informative reply. Remakes often fail when a new team takes over—they just don’t have the insight(s) or passion of the original story line or the qualities that made it so fine.

Utopia is magnificent. Every single video frame would make a fabulously colorful postcard. And the cast! Wow!

Since we are both fans of this kind of international thriller, drama, sci-fi, let’s keep each other informed when new international series are broadcast. As they don’t usually get covered very well by US media ... (my sources for upcoming international drama include Variety (Global edition), DigitalSpy, TVWise and Scan…

according to Wikipedia, “ABC renewed The Code for a second series in June 2015.” Yay.

I so much loved the original Swedish version (both seasons), that I have been reluctant to watch the US remake (in case it’s a bad remake, as many are). I will now try it ...

Anyone self-destructive enough to work there deserves exactly what they get.

Is Zorg really the Ruler of the Universe?

‘Humans’ Gets Season 2 Renewal From AMC, Channel 4

and you thought The Total Perspective Vortex was big .... i mean, you may think it’s a long way to the chemist, but ...

The show runners really can’t create a clean ending that wraps up the whole story, as that ends the discussion of all of these topics, that they obviously care about. And, it’s not like Samaritan will be the only AI standing at the end ... that’d be just too much of a bummer.

Containment sounds like another US remake of a European series. Cordon was a 2014 Belgian TV series that could have had the same description (except it was set in Antwerp).

The New Yorker: The New and Improved San Diego Comic-Con Anti-Harassment Policy

Living in Silicon Valley, we’ve got a few things competing for attention of most geekiest.