Geektown Radio - Tv News, Interviews & Uk Tv Air Dates

It's a brand new Geektown Radio, and this week, along with the usual tv new and UK TV premiere info, we're all about the movies! Not only do we break down this year's Oscars, but we also have an interview with film director & writer Patrick Meaney.Patrick is an award-winning filmmaker who has explored the art of storytelling documentary films like 'Grant Morrison: Talking With Gods', 'Neil Gaiman: Dream Dangerously' and 'The Image Revolution'. His films have appeared on Netflix, Starz, Hulu and Amazon Prime, and have played at festivals around the world. He also co-created the comic book series 'Last Born' for Black Mask Studios.'House of Demons' is his first narrative feature as a director, and follows Gwen, Matthew, Katrina, and Spencer. They were best friends for years, until a terrible tragedy tore them apart, and left all of them in a state of arrested development. Ten years later, they're reunited for a destination wedding to stay together in a rented house. What they don't know is in

On this week's Geektown Radio, we have another first for you. Along with all the usual tv news and UK TV air date info, we also have our first interview with a Hollywood Hair Stylist - Lawrence Davis.Lawrence is an Emmy-winning fashion hair stylist who most recently served as the key hair stylist on the upcoming film, 'The Front Runner', starring Hugh Jackman and J.K. Simmons, as well as the hair department head on Netflix’s 'Mudbound', which is nominated for four Oscars this year, and earned Lawrence a Hair and Makeup Stylists Guild Award nomination.His talent and expertise can be seen in various award-winning films, television, Broadway shows, editorial pieces, ad campaigns, and on the red carpet. Last year, he took home a Primetime Emmy Award for his work on 'Hairspray Live!' for outstanding hairstyling for a special. Additionally, Lawrence holds a Daytime Emmy for outstanding hairstyling for daytime television from his work on 'The Tyra Banks Show'. Other top TV shows he has styled for include 'America’s

We have a little bit of a different show this week as Bex and I when on a little trip to London's Olympia to see all the latest PC games at the PC Gamer Weekender! Don't worry though, if you are not a gamer, we also have all the usual tv news and air info for you.The main feature this week sees us discussing all the new and upcoming games we saw at the show, from triple-A titles to some amazing little indie developments. We discuss the slaughterfest that is 'Warhammer Vermintide 2', waving around virtual lightsabers 'Star Wars Jedi Challenges', the very meta 'PC Building Simulator', competitive shooter with an interesting twist 'DRG Initiative', railroad management sim 'Mashinky', farming sim 'Real Farm', the wonderful RTS 'Empires Apart', plus numerous more! You can find more info on what we thought of these games here too.Also On This Week's Show:Bex is back as co-host, so we chat about the games, tv shows and films we've been watching including 'Star Trek Discovery', 'Altered Carbon', and of cour

It's that time of the week for brand new Geektown Radio podcast with all your usual tv news and airdate information, and another great interview, this time with 'Counterpart' Cinematographer Luc Montpellier.Luc is an award-winning Canadian cinematographer who shot Starz's new science fiction thriller 'Counterpart' starring J.K. Simmons. The show stars Simmons as Howard Silk, a cog in a seemingly innocuous UN agency, who discovers that they are actually guarding a path into a parallel dimension... 'Counterpart' has yet to land a UK air date, but it has already got a 2nd season and is getting great reviews. It looks to be a brilliant high concept sci-fi drama, so fingers crossed it gets picked up over here soon!Luc's other recent work includes Universal Channel’s 'Flashpoint' and the 'Rocky Horror Picture Show' television event which aired on Sky Movies last year. He has also worked on 'Battle Creek' with household names such as 'Breaking Bad’s' Vince Gilligan, and 'House' & 'The Good Doctor's' Da

We are back with a brand new Geektown Radio podcast and along with all the usual tv news and airdate information, we have not one, not two, but three guests on the show - Steve McNeil, Sam Pamphilon and Ellie Gibson from the brilliant 'Dara O Briain's Go 8 Bit'!For those of you that haven't caught the series, it sees celebrities battle each other at a hose of classic and contemporary games - everything from Star Wars Battlefront and Temple Run to Pong and Tetris.Steve McNeil and Sam Pamphilon are a comedy duo who created Go 8 Bit as a live show at Edinburgh and are now the team captains on the show. Last year McNeil broke a world record with his 'WiFi Wars' live show for 'Most People Playing A Single Game of Pong'. Pamphilon has also starred in 'Josh' and Russell Howard’s 'A Gert Lush Christmas'. Ellie Gibson is a comedian and journalist who has written for The Guardian and Eurogamer. She’s currently the resident games expert on 'Dara O Briain’s Go 8 Bit', and hosts the 'Scummy M

On this week's Geektown Radio podcast we have all the usual tv news and airdate information, and the return of Composer Mac Quayle, the man behind the music for the brilliant 'Mr Robot', and pretty much ever Ryan Murphy show currently out there!Mac won the Emmy for his score on Golden Globe-winning suspense-thriller 'Mr Robot' starring Christian Slater and Rami Malek, and also received 3 additional Emmy nominations - 2 for his outstanding Main Title and Score for Ryan Murphy’s hit series, 'Feud: Bette and Joan' starring Jessica Lange and Susan Sarandon, and 1 for his Score on 'American Horror Story', starring Kathy Bates and Angela Bassett.His other work includes 'American Crime Story', both 'The People v. O.J. Simpson' and the upcoming 'Assassination of Gianni Versace', which is due to land on BBC Two in February. He also scores 'Scream Queens', starring Jamie Lee Curtis and Emma Roberts, Murphy's procedural drama '9-1-1', and will be scoring Murphy's new project 'Pose'.Also On This Week's Show:Matt returns

On Geektown Radio this week we have all the usual tv news and air date information, but also another first for us, as, incredibly, we interview our first female composer, Ariel Marx.Ariel is the composer of ‘The Tale’, which premiered at Sundance this weekend to huge success, landing the first standing ovation at the festival. The film follows an investigation into one woman's memory as she is forced to re-examine her first sexual relationship and the stories we tell ourselves in order to survive.The film stars recent Emmy winner, Laura Dern, Jason Ritter and Common, and has been called "thought-provoking and thoroughly compelling" by The Hollywood Reporter, "the mother of all #MeToo movies" by The Guardian, and racked up a slew of 5 star reviews across the board.Ariel is among very few female composers, so we also discusses her experience as a female composer in a very male-dominated industry and how ‘The Tale’ is a meaningful and timely story, which is enhanced by her score. Also On This Week's Show:Be

Welcome back to Geektown Radio, and this week we have a number of firsts! It's the first time for our new film reporter, Gray, to appear as co-host, and it's also the first time we've interviewed a film editor on the show!Tatiana S. Riegel is a highly experienced film & tv editor who has worked across a range of projects, from Quentin Tarantino's ‘Pulp Fiction’ and ‘Jackie Brown’ to brilliant tv series like 'Game Of Thrones' and ‘House’, to movies such as ‘The Men Who Stare at Goats’, ‘There Will Be Blood’ and ‘The Finest Hours’. Her most recent project sees her reteam with longtime collaborator, director Craig Gillespie, on the darkly-comedic biopic ‘I, Tonya’.The film is a portrait of one of the most controversial figures in sports history, and follows Tonya Harding's story from her abusive childhood to her shocking figure-skating career, all the while maintaining a tone that strikes a careful balance between pitch-black comedy and real-life tragedy. As editor, it was up to Tatiana to balance the f

Happy New Year everyone! We are back with our first new Geektown Radio of 2018, and we have a show packed full of tv news, air date info, and a very special exclusive interview with the brilliant composer Jeff Russo.As longtime listeners will know, this is the 4th time the Emmy winning composer Jeff Russo has been on the show. Three-time Emmy nominee and a two-time Grammy nominee, Jeff is at the top of his game right now, and has been extremely busy since we last chatted around 18 months ago. Not only did he recently win the Emmy for his thrilling and angst-producing score on Emmy and Golden Globe-winning series ‘Fargo’, he also has been creating music for ‘The Night Of’, ‘American Gothic’, ‘Snowfall’, ‘Lucifer’, ‘Bull’, ‘Ghosted’, ‘Power’, ‘Channel Zero’ and the utterly brilliant ‘Legion’.However, the main thing we've been desperate to get him back on the show to talk about is his latest composing gig - writing the music for ‘Star Trek: Discovery’. We talk about how he went about tackling such a monumen

We return for the final show of 2017 before we head off for Christmas, but we have an episode stuffed like a turkey, full of tv news, air date info, and an exclusive interview with Julian Slater, the incredible sound designer behind Edgar Wright's brilliant 'Baby Driver'.Julian is a man of many titles - re-recording mixer, sound designer, supervising sound editor… basically, everything, other than the composed music in a film, is Julian’s responsibility. The British born, now LA-based, “sound guy” has worked on some brilliant projects over his career, from films such as ‘Shaun of the Dead’, ‘In Bruges’, ‘Hot Fuzz’, ‘The Danish Girl’, ‘Mad Max: Fury Road’, and ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’, to tv shows like ‘Life on Mars’, ‘Ashes To Ashes’ and ‘Hotel Babylon’.All that experience came in handy when his long-time collaborator, Edgar Wright, presented him with the movie ‘Baby Driver’ - a film about a young getaway driver, who gets involved in a heist that goes wrong. The unique part of the movie is contained

As we all huddle around the fireplace to escape the wintery weather this week, what better way to pass the time, than to pop on Geektown Radio and catch up with the latest tv news, film info, and listen to an exclusive interview with composer Michael Wandmacher!Michael is an American composer of music for film, television, and video games. His work is an interesting eclectic mix of genres, from films such as 'Drive Angry', ‘Piranha 3D’, ‘Punisher: War Zone’, and 'Ben 10: Alien Swarm' to tv shows such as 'Imaginary Mary', and ‘Night Stalker’ to games like ‘Bloodborne’, and ‘Twisted Metal’. His latest 2 projects are equally polar opposites, as his main tv show day job is providing the music for 80’s period sitcom ‘The Goldbergs’, whilst his latest movie project is ‘Underworld: Blood Wars’, which he takes over from composers Paul Haslinger and Marco Beltrami.If working in tv, film and gaming wasn’t enough, Michael also performs as remixer under the pseudonym "Khursor", remixing popular songs into more

After all the fun launching the Geektown Awards last week, we are back to a normal edition of Geektown Radio with all the usual tv, film and gaming chat, plus an exclusive interview with makeup artist Donald Mowat.Donald is well-known for his work on a number of films including 'Spectre', 'Sicario', 'Skyfall', 'Nocturnal Animals', 'Nightcrawler' and '8 Mile' - to name a few, along with working as personal makeup artist for Mark Wahlberg and Daniel Craig.His latest job saw him as makeup department head for 'Blade Runner 2049', where he faced the challenge of honouring Ridley Scott's classic while establishing a new visual world. He’s also recently worked on 'Stronger', starring Jake Gyllenhaal as Jeff Bauman, an ordinary man who captured the hearts of his city and the world to become a symbol of hope after losing both his legs in the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing.Also On This Week's Show:Matt is back as co-host, so we chat about the games we've been playing, and the tv shows and films we've been watching i

This week's Geektown Radio podcast is another special, as we launch the 6th Annual Geektown Awards!As regular visitors to the site and listeners to the show will know, every year we hold the Geektown Awards, a massive event where you can not only vote for all your favourite shows, films and games, but also be in with a chance of winning our MASSIVE prize package... And this year it's bigger than ever!We not only have the MASSIVE main prize package worth a whopping £750, but also a runner-up prize worth at least £125! To enter, and for the full list of prizes and rules, you just have to head over to geektown.co.uk/geektown-awards and fill out the awards entry form at the bottom. Easy as that!On the show this week, we have not one, but two co-hosts - Ross and Bex, as we chat through the things we chose from the awards long lists, which were then shortened down for the public vote. We reveal which shows we thought should win, but the final choice is up to you, the voting public!The Geektown Awards

Geektown Radio returns once again to the regular show with all the tv & film news you could want, plus the latest UK TV air date info, and an exclusive interview with 'Scandal' cinematographer & director Oliver Bokelberg!Oliver is a German-born and LA-based a cinematographer & director who has worked across a wide range of tv and movies including 'No Ordinary Family', 'My Own Worst Enemy', 'The Bounty Hunter', and 'The Station Agent'. However, his main job for the past 7 years has been as director of photography on the hugely popular Shondaland series 'Scandal', which has just returned to Sky Living for it’s 7th and final season, Wednesday nights at 10pm. We chat to Oliver about creating the look of the show, making the move from being Scandal's cinematographer to directing episodes, and what it’s like working on a such a popular series for so long. We also discuss getting into the industry and some of his other work.Also On This Week's Show:A newly married Ross returned as co

On Geektown Radio this week it's another special edition, due to Dave being away on a super-secret set visit, so we have interviews with two of Hollywood's top Production Designers - Seth Reed and Erik Carlson.We first interviewed Seth Reed last year, where we chatted about his work on 'Supergirl', designing the world of 'The Expanse', and building just about everything in the brilliant 'Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey'. His latest job sees him return to a much more earthly plane as he tackles the monumental task of recreating Bagdad in Texas for National Geographic's 'The Long Road Home'.Based on the New York Times best-selling book by internationally acclaimed journalist Martha Raddatz, The Long Road Home tells the story of the 4th April 2004, when a small platoon of soldiers from the 1st Cavalry Division out of Fort Hood, Texas, was ferociously ambushed in the teeming, maze-like Baghdad suburb of Sadr City - a day that would come to be known in US military annals as “Black Sunday.” To recreate t

We're back after our mini-break to MCM London Comic Con last week, and we are full of tv news, tv premiere date info... and cold in the case of co-host Bex... We do, however, have a fantastic interview with Amber Rose Revah, a lead actress from one of this year's most anticipated new shows - 'The Punisher'.Amber started her on-screen career in 'I Can't Think Straight', which has since become a worldwide cult LGBT movie. She made her TV debut on BBC/HBO Emmy-nominated 'House OF Saddam' in 2008 before performing alongside John Travolta and Jonathan Rhys-Meyers in Luc Besson's 'From Paris With Love' in 2010. Since then she's played the lead role of Vidya Kahn in the BBC’s four-part mystery drama 'What Remains', Mary Magdalene in History Channel's 'The Bible', and had guest lead roles in 'Silent Witness', 'Foyle’s War', and 'Midsummer Murders'. Most recently you may have seen her as Leena Prasad in Channel 4's huge hit drama 'Indian Summers' and as Miranda in NBC'

This week we have a special edition of Geektown Radio featuring two interviews from MCM London Comic Con last weekend!The first interview is with Manu Bennett, star of 'Arrow' and 'The Shannara Chronicles'. The New Zealand actor first came to our attention playing Crixus in Starz epic drama 'Spartacus', but has since gone on to play Azog, king of the Orcs, in 'The Hobbit' trilogy, the druid Allanon in 'Shannara' and has recently returned as Deathstroke in 'Arrow'. It the interview he talks about his thoughts on the recently announced 'Deathstroke' movie, some of his motivations behind his characterisation of Crixus, and making up spells for Allanon with some... interesting... origins!The second interview on the this week's show is with Anthony Lemke, star of the sadly cancelled series 'Dark Matter'. This is Anthony's first Comic-Con interview since the cancellation, so he gives us his thoughts on what happened, along with the state of the Canadian tv industry in general. He also chat's abo

We're back with another show packed full of tv news, air date info, and an exclusive interview the movie director and editor Kevin Tent.Kevin is an Oscar-nominated editor who is making his directorial debut on the upcoming film 'Crash Pad', starring Christina Applegate, Domhnall Gleeson, Thomas Haden Church and Nina Dobrev. The comedy, which is currently screening on the festival circuit, is the story of a man thinks he has found true love with an older woman until he finds out she is married and using him to get revenge on her husband.He’s also recently re-teamed with long-time collaborator Alexander Payne, to edit his latest movie 'Downsizing' (UK release date 19 January 2018), which stars Matt Damon, Christoph Waltz and Kristen Wiig, and is based on the idea that scientists have decided the best way to save the planet from overpopulation is to ask people to voluntarily shrink themselves down to being 5 inches tall.Also On This Week's Show:Chris returns for his second appearance on the show, so we chat

With Autumn tv season now in full swing, Geektown Radio returns to help you navigate all the new and returning shows you should be watching as the nights get darker. This week we also bring you an exclusive interview with 'Arrow' cinematographer Bruce Worrall! Veteran Cinematographer Bruce Worrall as started his film career at the Emily Carr University of Art and Design in Vancouver, graduating with Honours. From there he moved to London to study at London International Film School, earning a Distinction in Cinematography. Since then he has worked throughout Europe and North America on Commercials, Music Videos, Television, Documentaries and Feature Films. His latest job is as the new Cinematographer on the DC show ‘Arrow’ which returns to our screens this Thursday, 19th October 2017 at 8pm on Sky 1. We talk about what it's like joining such a massive franchise, shooting complex fight sequences, and (as heroes like Arrow tend to work in the dark), dealing with all those night shoots! Also On This Week's Sh

As we hurtle into the Autumn tv season, Geektown Radio is back with another podcast show bringing you the latest TV news and UK TV premiere date info, plus an exclusive interview with 'DC's Legends Of Tomorrow' Cinematographer Mahlon Todd Williams! Award-winning, Canadian native, Mahlon Todd Williams is one of the two cinematographers on 'DC’s Legends of Tomorrow', which returns to returns to Sky 1 from Wednesday, 18th October 2017 at 8pm. We first interviewed him last November, but with Season 3 just around the corner, we thought it would be a good time to catch up and see how things had changed over the past year. He discusses working within the Arrowverse, what our Legends will be getting up to in the new season, and a little about his brilliant artwork, which you can see over on his Instagram account at https://www.instagram.com/mahloncinematography/ Also On This Week's Show: A very jetlagged Bex returns to the show, so we catch up with her adventures abroad, plus the latest tv shows and films we've be