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

Geektown Radio is a weekly entertainment podcast, which looks at all the latest TV & Film News, hosts interviews with people in the tv industry, and gives you the latest TV show UK air dates. It also includes our Geektown - Behind The Scenes podcast, which features interviews with people from across the tv, film and gaming industries. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/geektown . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Geektown Radio - TV News, Interviews & UK TV Premiere Dates is a tv podcast hosted by David Elliott, with 686 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

David Elliott hosts Geektown Radio - TV News, Interviews & UK TV Premiere Dates, a tv show with 686 episodes published.

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  Geekstorians: Nothing Ever Ends | What Happens When Geek Culture Wins?

  Aug 18, 202641 min

  Geek culture got what it wanted. The stories once dismissed as disposable became global entertainment. The budgets arrived. The conventions became marketing stages. The films, shows and worlds fans fought to protect became permanent. But permanence is a strange kind of victory. Beginning in the cinema after ‘Avengers: Endgame’, Dave looks back across Geekstorians Season 3 and asks what it means to live inside a culture where beloved stories are no longer allowed to disappear, but may no longer be allowed to finish either. This is not a funeral for modern geek culture, or an argument that everything was better when the room was smaller. It is about the complicated space between stories and franchises, love and infrastructure, meaningful endings and endless continuation. Because the love was real. It still is. And while the machine can use that love, it can never fully manufacture it. ‘Nothing Ever Ends’ is the Season 3 finale of Geekstorians, hosted by Dave Elliott from Geektown. For more TV, film and gaming news, head to Geektown.co.uk, and check out Geektown Radio wherever you get your podcasts. If you enjoy Geekstorians, leaving a rating or review genuinely helps other listeners find the show. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/geektown . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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  Geekstorians: Hollywood Learns To Play | Why It Took Film 30 Years To Understand Video Games

  Aug 11, 202647 min

  In 1993, Hollywood took the bright colours, bouncing rhythms and cheerful nonsense of Super Mario Bros. and transformed them into a wet cyberpunk dystopia filled with fungus, humanoid dinosaurs and Dennis Hopper. It was only the beginning. For the next three decades, video game adaptations repeatedly reproduced the names, costumes, monsters and locations that players recognised, while struggling to understand the experience that made those games matter. Street Fighter tried to turn a character-select screen into a military action film. Resident Evil replaced vulnerability with superhuman spectacle. Assassin’s Creed recreated the rooftops but kept dragging audiences back into rooms where people explained genetic memory. In this episode of Geekstorians, Dave explores why video games presented Hollywood with an adaptation problem unlike books, comics or television. Games are not only stories or worlds. They are things players do, built around movement, timing, failure, discovery and the relationship between a player’s hands and a responsive world. From Mortal Kombat, Tomb Raider and Doom to Detective Pikachu, Sonic and the animated Super Mario Bros. Movie, the industry slowly began to stop apologising for the source material. Then television pushed the breakthrough further, using Castlevania, Arcane, Twisted Metal, The Last of Us and Fallout to find new ways of replacing the controller without losing the feeling behind it. Video game movies were never cursed. Hollywood was simply using the wrong controls... Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/geektown . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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  Geektown Talks To... ‘Hacks’ Production Designer Rob Tokarz: Building Deborah Vance’s Final Season

  Aug 6, 202637 min

  In this episode of Geektown Talks To..., Dave catches up with production designer Rob Tokarz as ‘Hacks’ takes its final bow. Rob first joined the Emmy-winning comedy as an art director in Season 2 before stepping up to production designer, helping shape the increasingly ambitious world surrounding Deborah Vance, Ava Daniels and the wonderfully strange collection of people orbiting them. We last spoke to Rob around a year ago, just before he began prep on Season 5. At that point, he had no idea what the writers were about to throw at him. Now the series has ended, he returns to reveal just how enormous that final challenge became. Rob talks about creating an astonishing number of sets across the season, jumping between Los Angeles, Las Vegas, New York and Paris, recreating locations viewers might assume were real, and working alongside visual effects to make some extremely complicated sequences appear completely effortless. We also get into the return to Deborah Vance’s Vegas world, designing pieces of her history that had previously existed only in dialogue, the painstaking details that might never actually be noticed on screen, and how the production design quietly helps tell the story of both Deborah and Ava. Rob also reflects on joining ‘Hacks’ as an art director before eventually taking charge of its production design, the confidence he gained over several seasons, the friendships forged behind the scenes, and which sets from his time on the show will stay with him. Plus, with ‘Hacks’ now finished, we talk about what sort of worlds Rob would love to build next... and whether one particular piece of the show might just be sitting in storage ready for a possible return. Listen, subscribe and explore more interviews, TV news and UK air dates at Geektown.co.uk, along with Geektown Radio and Geekstorians. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/geektown . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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  Geekstorians: The Adaptation Trap | Why Faithful Adaptations Can Still Fail

  Aug 4, 202648 min

  Why can an adaptation reproduce the characters, costumes, lore and famous moments, yet still feel completely wrong? The problem may not be fidelity, but whether the people rebuilding the story understand what is holding it together. Hollywood loves an established world. The maps already exist. The characters have names. The famous scenes are waiting. The fans are already emotionally invested. On paper, adaptation should be the safest possible form of storytelling. So why do some adaptations change enormous parts of their source and still feel completely right, while others reproduce the surface almost perfectly and somehow miss the point? In this episode of Geekstorians, Dave begins inside the screening room where HBO tested the original Game of Thrones pilot and discovered it had a very expensive problem. The world was on screen, but the audience could not see the machinery connecting it. From the pilot’s reconstruction and the brutal dramatic logic of the early seasons, through the moment the television series ran beyond George R.R. Martin’s published books, the episode explores what happens when an adaptation understands its load-bearing parts, and what happens when it loses the road beneath them. Then, as television launches its post-Thrones fantasy gold rush, Dave looks beyond simple arguments about “faithfulness” to examine The Witcher, The Wheel of Time, The Rings of Power, Foundation, The Boys and The Last of Us. Because adaptation is not the art of making the same thing again. It is the art of rebuilding it without bringing the roof down. Season Three of Geekstorians is The Conquest, exploring what happened when geek culture moved from the margins and became the machinery of mainstream entertainment. Spoiler warning: This episode contains major spoilers for Game of Thrones, along with discussion of storylines from The Last of Us, Foundation, The Boys and several other television adaptations. Written and presented by Dave Elliott. Geekstorians is a Geektown production. For more TV, film and gaming coverage, visit Geektown.co.uk . You can also find Geektown Radio, our weekly podcast covering the latest entertainment news, reviews and UK television premieres. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/geektown . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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  Geekstorians: The Streaming Kingdom | From TV Liberation To Platform Wars

  Jul 28, 202643 min

  Streaming was supposed to free television. No schedules. No missed episodes. No VHS tapes with the ending accidentally recorded over by Coronation Street . Just an endless library of stories waiting whenever you wanted them. For a while, it felt like liberation. But once television became something delivered through a pipe, the pipe became more valuable than the programmes moving through it. Netflix went from DVD-by-mail upstart to data-driven studio. Disney built its own digital fortress. Every media company wanted its own kingdom. And somewhere along the way, abundance became fragmentation, discovery became algorithmic fog, and shows could vanish from platforms that once promised permanence. In this episode of Geekstorians , Dave traces the rise of streaming from the red envelopes of early Netflix to the platform wars, Quibi’s spectacular faceplant, the cancellation machine, the return of advertising, password crackdowns, and the strange new bargain between viewers and the companies competing for their attention. Because more than you could ever watch is not the same thing as abundance. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/geektown . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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