Geek Tragedy Podnotes

Episode 22: The Doctor Is  40 46!

Starters:

• Introducing special guests: PixyGina and Browncoat Lisa!
• Happy Life Day! The Star Wars Holiday Special turns 31!
• Please follow @Lauren_Bacall on Twitter

Geek News:

• Retraction: Neal Moritz and Ori Marmur, not Orci and Kurtzman, to produce Doc Savage movie
• GeoCities closes
• Librarians fired for keeping LXG: Black Dossier away from 11 y/o girl
• Comcast May Buy NBC
• Movie studios ask Netflix not to rent new movies for 30 days after DVD release
• Blockbuster to rent movies on self-destructing SD cards
• Nestor “Batmanuel” Carbonell possibly to play Khan in Star Trek sequel
• Fight Club/Never Been Kissed Blu-ray prank
• Dollhouse canceled
• New Japanese trend – “Skirt Boys”
• Man marries his Nintendo DS
• First all-gay superhero team introduced in “Spandex”
• Meiji University to open International Manga Library
• Steven King’s “American Vampire” coming
• Anthony Michael Hall faces restraining order
• Pam Grier joins cast of Smallville
• Stephen Fry to star in, Grant Morrison to write, “Dr. Who-esque” new show “Push”
• David Tennant to play a lawyer on an American sitcom?
• Thor’s “Warriors Three” cast; includes Tadanobu Asano as Hogun
• Be sure to catch the new independent anime short “Fumiko’s Confession”

Remake Corner:

• Coen Brothers to remake True Grit
• Possible new Judge Dredd movie
• A new Charlie’s Angels TV series?
• Short Circuit remake gets director
• Spielberg/Will Smith Oldboy remake not happening

TV Review: The Prisoner (2009)

• Unconditional thumbs up from Kyle and David, conditional thumbs up from Browncoat Lisa

Doctor Who Roundtable

Best of (Recent) British TV

• Being Human
• The IT Crowd
• Demons
• Jekyll
• Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace
• Man To Man With Dean Learner
• The Mighty Boosh
• Hex
• Blackpool
• Robert Llewellyn’s Carpool Podcast

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We’d like to let all our listeners know that we’ve decided that the Geek Tragedy Podcast will resume with a new episode on November 24th.

We’re planning for that episode to include a review of the brand-new remake of the classic 60s TV drama The Prisoner, a Doctor Who roundtable featuring a couple of Whoniverse experts, and a special announcement about our upcoming Awards Show.

We’ll see you then.

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Episode 21: We’ll Miss You, Mike

Special Comment:

• The Geek Tragedy Podcast says our goodbyes to our friend and co-host, Mike Nebeker

Interviews From APE 2009:

• Batton Lash
• Mike Hampton of 916Halo
• Chris Wisnia of Tabloia
• Steve Naughtly, aka Bob the Angry Flower
• Keith Knight
• Dan Conner of Crazy Good Comics
• Steven Lim of Bay Area Artists Union
• Emily Martin and the Burrito Girls of Megamoth.net
• Llyn Hunter

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For any of his friends who still may not have heard this from any other source, funeral services for Mike will be held at 11AM on Thursday, November 5th at the LDS Interstake Center, next to the Mormon Temple in Oakland, California. I’m sure that anyone who might have called Mike a friend will be welcome to stop by and pay their respects.

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