The Week In Geek...

A round-up of geeky news you might have otherwise missed...

(1) More Lost Stories: Big Finish is producing a new season of 'lost stories' audio plays from the early years of Doctor Who, scripts that were written but never filmed from the time of William Hartnell (the First Doctor) and Patrick Troughton (the Second Doctor) and Sylvester McCoy (the Seventh Doctor). These will come out at the end of 2010.

(2) Dollhouse Dead: Joss Whedon's struggling show Dollhouse, already in its death throes rating's wise, has finally been put out of its misery by Fox.

(3) Day Of The Undead: Join fellow zombiephiles for 12-hours of flesh-munching zombie goodness in Leicester, UK, on November 28. Included in the events is the world premier of Zombie Undead and screenings of the original Dawn of the Dead (in HD), Pontypool, Dead Snow, La Horde and Zombieland.

(4) You'll Believe A Scrunt Can Fly: The reopened Olleys Armies Miniatures website is selling a retro flying craft for Bob Olley's range of wonderful sci-fi dwarves (aka "scrunts").

(5) Shiny And New: Killer B Games, manufacturers of the incredible Galactic Adventures In The Fourth Dimension Of The Forbidden Zone (or GAFDOZ) range of heroic-scaled retro sci-fi miniatures, has a new website, with shopping basket facilities etc

(6) Who Let The Dogs Out? Mongoose's Strontium Dog role playing game of mutant bounty hunters, based on the 2000AD comic strip, is now available.

(7) Huh?? Hollywood is finally getting the ball rolling on a movie about DC's iconic World War II character, Sgt Rock, but is not setting it during the Second World War! WTF?

(8) Eastwick Axed: The short-lived TV spin-off from the movie Witches Of Eastwick has been dropped by ABC before it even made to these shores.

(9) Marvel's Blackest Night: Monthly sales of Marvel comics continue to drop as DC dominates with five of the top six titles in October being Blackest Night related.

(10) Vatican Embraces E.T.: A recent Vatican conference has acknowledged that there may be sentient life on other planets.

(11) Roddenberry Acknowledged: Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry is to be inducted into the Television Academy’s Hall of Fame in January.

(12) Bringing Hexy Back: Serinda Swan is to return to Smallville as sexy magic-using babe Zatanna next year.

(13) Two-Hour Smallville Event: Geoff Johns' twin Smallville episodes about the Justice Society will be shown as a single, two-hour telemovie on January 29 in America.

(14) Torchwood Relit: Russell T Davies plans to start work on the fourth season of Torchwood in January.

(15) Mind-Blowing: Elric author Michael Moorcock has revealed that he is to write a Doctor Who novel next year.