Tuesday, 24 November 2009

The Week In Geek...

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

(1) Moorcock's Who: The great author Michael Moorcock writes an article in The Guardian about his forthcoming original Doctor Who novel... but doesn't give anything away.

(2) Starhyke Stars' Signing: Meet Babylon 5's Claudia Christian, Star Wars' Jeremy Bulloch, Red Dwarf's Danny John-Jules and other stars of sci-fi comedy Starhyke when they sign DVDs of the first series at the Forbidden Planet in London later this week.

(3) Back Through The Gate: HeroPress favourite Amanda Tapping is returning to the Stargate Universe as Sam Carter for the finale of Stargate: Universe's first sseason

(4) Absolutely Smallville: The Smallville telemovie (comprising two episodes written by Geoff Johns), featuring the debut of the Justice Society, will be called Smallville: Absolute Justice.

(5) Thor Starts Filming In January: Filming on the Kenneth Branagh-helmed adaptation of Marvel Comic's Thor is to be begin in January and be in cinemas on May 20, 2011.

(6) Golden Glory: Legendary pulp TV serial Tales Of The Gold Monkey is finally getting the DVD airing it deserves.

(7) Special Name: The episode name of the Doctor Who Christmas special has been revealed by the BBC.

(8) Buy Crom! Frank Frazetta's original cover art for Conan the Conqueror has been sold for a reported $1 million.

(9) Lost Found One Last Time: The sixth and final series of Lost begins in February.

(10) Chuck This: Season three of Chuck airs in the United States from January 10, 2010, kicking off with a two-hour special.

(11) Podcasters Tell Company To EFF Off: Podcasters are being asked to help the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) in its legal challenge against the 'cheeky' company that has been granted the patent for 'podcasting'.

(12) It Works (Again): The Large Hadron Collider, at Cern, is up and running again after lengthy delays.

(13) Kill All Monsters: Ken Hulsey's amazing Monster Island News blog is going on an extended hiatus, while he concentrates on his new site The Railroad Modeler.

(14) New Moon Shines: The latest Twilight movie, New Moon, had a better opening than either the last Harry Potter movie or The Dark Knight.

(15) Howling Reborn: The greatest werewolf movie franchise lives again with the news that The Howling Reborn should hit screens next Halloween.

(16) Beautiful Blogging: I am a guest blogger on Three Beautiful Things today, please check it out.

4 persons have something to say about this!:

greywulf said...

Moorcock writing Dr Who made it right into my Top 10 List of Awesome Things the minute I heard it.

My mind went into overdrive at the possibility of The Doctor actually being the Eternal Champion and an incarnation of Elric, and whether Stormbringer was in a closet in the TARDIS somewhere.

Hey, a geek can dream, right? :D

The Acrobatic Flea said...

Rather than being another avatar of The Eternal Champion, I'd like The Doctor to interact with one of its many faces...

But whatever Moorcock eventually decides to do, the chances are it's going to be mind-blowingly incredible and "the must-have" book of next year!

ken-of-ghastria said...

"Tales of the Gold Monkey" on DVD? Cool. In the duel of the Indy TV ripoffs, I liked "Bring 'Em Back Alive" better, but "Gold Monkey" was good.

The Acrobatic Flea said...

Gold Monkey all the way for me :-) But hopefully this will start a rush of pulpy/Indiana Jones rip-offs finally making it to DVD and we'll get Bring 'Em Back Alive eventually ;)

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