Geektown Radio - TV News, Interviews & UK TV Air Dates

Dave is joined by Matt for Geektown Radio Episode 494, and this week’s show is led by chat about horror film Undertone, relationship drama The Drama, Canadian crime series The Murder Line, and a return to Gilead in The Testaments.Matt kicks things off with three film reviews. First up is Undertone, an audio-led horror built around a creepy podcast mystery, which nails a lot of its atmosphere and sound design before losing its footing a bit in the final stretch. Then there is The Super Mario Galaxy Movie, which Matt found colourful but paper thin, before finishing strongly with The Drama, starring Robert Pattinson and Zendaya, which he thought was one of the best films he has seen this year.On the TV side, Matt also checks in with Daredevil: Born Again, which now feels far more confident and focused than it did at the start, plus more blood-soaked superhero chaos from Invincible as the Viltrumite story keeps escalating.On Dave’s side, he dives into the final season of Hacks, takes a look at ITVX crime drama The Murder Line starring Stephen Amell and Minnie Driver, and starts The Testaments, the follow-up to The Handmaid’s Tale, which shifts the focus to a younger generation still living under Gilead’s shadow.There is also a gaming detour into Starfield, which Dave has returned to following its major Free Lanes update, plus a quick mention of this week’s Geekstorians episode on Doctor Who and the Wilderness Years.In the news section, they cover cancellations for Law & Order: Organized Crime and The Copenhagen Test, plus renewals for Young Sherlock, Law & Order: SVU, The ’Burbs, The Madison, Maigret and Father Brown. There is also UK air date news for St. Denis Medical and Clarkson’s Farm, and a look at new BBC sci-fi drama Sutherland starring Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Stuart Martin and Iain De Caestecker.They also dig into the latest Skydance, Paramount and CBS upfront announcements, including vampire comedy Eternally Yours, legal drama Cupertino, mystery procedural Einstein, and Flint, a cop drama starring Matt LeBlanc as a detective trying to get himself fired.Plus, they round up what is coming to TV next week, including Criminal Record Season 2, Saint Pierre, Stranger Things: Tales From ’85, Half Man, The Cage and Secret Service.Listen now for film reviews, TV news, sci-fi updates, gaming chat and the usual Geektown mix of enthusiasm, side tangents and geeky nonsense.

Season 2 of Geekstorians continues with a story about collapse.In ‘When Giants Fall’, Dave looks at three companies that once seemed unstoppable — Atari, Sega, and Blockbuster — and how each of them, in very different ways, lost their grip on the future.From Atari’s collapse after the video game crash of the early 1980s, to Sega’s spectacular inability to get out of its own way during the console wars, to Blockbuster staring straight at the future and somehow deciding it probably wasn’t important, this is an episode about what happens when success turns into inertia.It is also a story about what comes after.Because these collapses did not just leave wreckage behind. They reshaped the industries around them. Atari’s fall cleared the way for Nintendo. Sega lost the hardware war but survived as a games company. And Blockbuster became the monument everyone points to when talking about businesses that had every chance to adapt and somehow talked themselves out of it.If last week’s episode was about a film nearly vanishing, this one is about something bigger: the moment giants stop noticing the ground moving underneath them.Geekstorians is a documentary-style podcast from Dave Elliott of Geektown, exploring the hidden history of geek culture, fandom, film, television, comics and gaming.If you’d like to support Geekstorians in the Webby People’s Voice Awards, you can vote here: https://wbby.co/57464N

Dave is joined by Darryl for Geektown Radio Episode 493, and this week’s show is led by chat about Swedish thriller Vaka, oddball sci-fi comedy The Miniature Wife, the return of The Boys, and why Daredevil: Born Again finally feels like it has found its footing.Darryl kicks things off with Vaka, a Swedish mini-series on Prime Video built around an insomnia epidemic that spirals into chaos in Stockholm. He also finishes Furies Season 1 on Netflix, with Season 2 already out now, and checks in on Daredevil: Born Again, which now seems to be in a much stronger place creatively than it was at the start.There is also discussion around Netflix’s Italian period legal drama The Law According to Lidia Poët, plus more superhero trauma and blood-soaked chaos from Invincible.On Dave’s side, he wraps up The Pitt Season 1, moves straight into Season 2, and remains completely sold on it as one of the standout dramas of the year. He also starts The Miniature Wife, starring Matthew Macfadyen and Elizabeth Banks, and dives back into The Boys for its fifth and final season. There is also a quick check-in on Star Wars: Maul – Shadow Lord, plus a reminder that voting for the Geekstorians Webby closes on Thursday, 16th April.In the news section, they cover renewals for Welcome to Wrexham, Would I Lie To You?, Shetland, Rooster, Memory of a Killer, Emily in Paris, The Rookie and Will Trent. There is also confirmation of Extraction 3, a premiere date for Dark Matter Season 2, and news on Netflix’s new undercover drama Legends.They also chat about Uma Thurman returning for Dexter: Resurrection Season 2, new cast joining Wednesday Season 3, and the BBC bringing back Philomena Cunk for Cunk on Cinema.Plus, they round up what is coming to TV next week, including Doc, Margo’s Got Money Troubles, Beef Season 2, Bergerac, Big Mood, Hacks, The Murder Line, Kevin and Tracker.Listen now for TV reviews, film news, superhero chaos and the usual Geektown mix of enthusiasm, side tangents and geeky nonsense.

Season 2 of Geekstorians begins with one of the great near-disasters in modern geek history.This episode tells the story of how Toy Story 2 nearly disappeared during production, not because of a studio fight or some dramatic Hollywood scandal, but because of a routine command, a failing backup system, and the sort of technical catastrophe that still makes creative people wince.But this is not just a story about Pixar nearly losing a film.It is also the perfect starting point for a season about how geek culture survives when everything goes wrong. The glitches, collapses, bad calls, money problems and moments of blind panic behind the films, games and franchises that now feel untouchable.If Season 1 was about how fandom built itself, Season 2 is about how geek culture kept going when it should probably have fallen apart.If you'd like to support Geekstorians in the Webby People’s Voice Awards, you can vote here:https://wbby.co/57464NGeekstorians is a documentary-style podcast from Dave Elliott of Geektown, exploring the hidden history of geek culture, fandom, film, television, comics and gaming.

Dave is joined by Domingos for Geektown Radio Episode 492, and this week’s show is led by reviews of Ready or Not 2: Here I Come, Prime Video comedy Bait, Netflix horror series Something Very Bad Is Going To Happen, and thriller Pretty Lethal.Domingos kicks things off with Ready or Not 2: Here I Come, the follow-up to the cult horror hit, which brings back Samara Weaving and adds Sarah Michelle Gellar, David Cronenberg, Elijah Wood and Catherine Newton to the chaos. He also dives into Something Very Bad Is Going To Happen, a creepy, psychological Netflix limited series set around a wedding that slowly spirals into something much darker and bloodier than it first appears.There is also chat about Pretty Lethal, a stylish thriller involving elite ballerinas, criminals, Uma Thurman, and a whole lot of trouble, even if the film does not quite land every part of its story as well as it might have hoped.On Dave’s side, he reviews Bait, the smart new Prime Video comedy from Riz Ahmed, built around a struggling actor who becomes the centre of a media circus after auditioning for James Bond. He also checks in with more thoughts on The Pitt and Harley Quinn Season 5.In the news section, they cover cancellations for The Runarounds, Wizards Beyond Waverly Place and 007: Road to a Million, plus renewals for Grey’s Anatomy, Taskmaster, Lynley and Star Wars: Maul – Shadow Lord. There is also discussion around the new Peaky Blinders series starring Jamie Bell, Brian Cox joining Dexter: Resurrection Season 2, and the live-action Masters of the Universe trailer.They also run through the week’s upcoming TV highlights, including The Boys final season, The Copenhagen Test, The Testaments, Taskmaster, The Miniature Wife, Malcolm in the Middle: Life’s Still Unfair and Euphoria Season 3.Listen now for horror, comedy, TV news, film chat and the usual Geektown mix of enthusiasm, side tangents and geeky chaos.

What do ‘Adventure’, the Konami Code, Pixar’s A113, hidden DVD extras, ‘The Beast’, ‘I Love Bees’ and Marvel post-credit scenes all have in common?They are all part of the long, strange history of the Easter egg.In this special Easter episode of ‘Geekstorians’, Dave digs into how hidden messages, secret rooms, buried jokes and coded nods evolved from acts of quiet rebellion into a full-blown language between creators and audiences.The story begins with Warren Robinett’s famous hidden room in ‘Adventure’ on the Atari 2600, before moving through the rise of the Konami Code, Microsoft’s increasingly odd software secrets, Pixar’s long-running A113 tradition, the golden age of hidden DVD extras, and the giant Alternate Reality Games that turned the hunt itself into the story.It also looks at how modern blockbuster culture transformed Easter egg hunting into an industry of its own, with fans racing to spot, decode and catalogue every hidden reference packed into films, games and TV shows.At heart, though, this is a story about something much simpler: somebody put something there, and somebody else found it.The episode also arrives just ahead of ‘Geekstorians’ Season 2, which is coming very soon.Geekstorians is the documentary-style podcast from Geektown, exploring the hidden histories, creative accidents and industrial chaos that shaped geek culture.You can find more on Geekstorians, plus all the latest TV, film and gaming news, at Geektown.co.ukAlso, a quick but important plug, Geekstorians is currently nominated for a Webby Award in the Podcasts – History category, and voting for the People’s Voice Award closes on Thursday, 16th April.Vote for Geekstorians here: https://wbby.co/57464N