Fantasy

Andray Domise: Why fantasy TV shows and movies like ‘Game of Thrones’ should ignore the genre’s core Medieval tropes around race

Ishiguro’s long-awaited novel explores new terrain—and not just because of the ogres

Through 14 books and the death of author Robert Jordan, fans of a cult series hung on

Book by Karen Russell

It’s hard not to root a little for a show that is an old-fashioned, high-concept fantasy comedy

Toronto’s annual celebration of anime and manga brought out thousands of devotees, including many in costume

When the CBC’s ‘Being Erica’ came back this season, its heroine had changed quite a bit

This is one of those Weekend Viewing posts that gives us a chance to see a beloved TV star Way Back When, in this case, Alyson Hannigan (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, How I Met Your Mother). This was the first TV show she was in, a Sunday night sitcom that ran on ABC in the 1989-90 season, and following up on her role in My Stepmother is an Alien, this one could have been called My Nanny Is a Witch. Yes, in a strange mish-mash of Bewitched, Nanny and the Professor and Full House, a widower with three kids, one of them being Hannigan, gets a new live-in nanny who is actually a witch, sent to live with this family for reasons that aren’t entirely clear. The three kids know she’s a witch; the dad doesn’t; every week a spell goes wrong in some wacky way; in this episode, Hannigan is accidentally turned invisible; you know how it works. Corinne Bohrer, whom you know best as Veronica Mars’ mom, played the witch. Yes, we’re talking bad ’80s sitcom land.