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While Dave is off working for the summer and there is no Geek Syndicate we bring you Good Morning Geekdom to feel the GS void.

Join your hosts Barry and Iz as they take a fun look at the crazy world of geekdom. In the main section there is news from around the web about Sherlock Holmes, War Eagles, Warren Ellis unleashes his pen on a new King Arthur film, True Lies 2 and more.

In 'Gateway to Geekdom' our hosts each give a recommendation of something (TV show, Film, comic or whatever) which could bring people into the world of geekdom.

Finally there is the BIG REVIEW in which we review just one thing in this case we take a look at Green Latern: First Flight (spoilers)

Enjoy

While Dave is off working for the summer and there is no Geek Syndicate we bring you Good Morning Geekdom to feel the GS void.

Join your hosts Barry and Iz as they take a fun look at the crazy world of geekdom.  In the main section there is news from around the web about Sherlock Holmes, War Eagles, Warren Ellis unleashes his pen on a new King Arthur film, True Lies 2 and more.

In 'Gateway to Geekdom'  our hosts each give a recommendation of something (TV show, Film, comic or whatever) which could bring people into the world of geekdom.

Finally there is the BIG REVIEW in which we review just one thing in this case we take a look at Green Latern: First Flight (spoilers)

Enjoy

Doctor Who: Podshock - Episode 158
Running Time: 1:25:16

Coverage of San Diego Comic Con 2009, Dragon*Con, The War Games reviewed, Adric the Cricket, and more.

Hosted by Louis Trapani, James Naughton, and Ken Deep with Tara Wheeler.

Please pay attention to the SPOILER ALERT in this episode.

Brought to you by the Gallifreyan Embassy and is an Art Trap Production.

Worth Godwin offers computer help in plain english. It makes a great gift!

Do you want the Enhanced Podcast AAC file format? Get our Enhanced Podcast version of this episode using our feed at http://www.gallifreyanembassy.org/podshock/podshock.xml.

We also look at the surprising news that series 5 will be produced and marketed as 'Series 1'.

Our guest panellist is Erik, previously heard on our Radio Free Skaro Wednesday Cutaway 'Pilot', who can be found on Twitter as @sjcaustenite.

Show Notes

Rebuttals

We recorded this episode immediately after releasing episode 1 due to Nat attending a convention. However we discussed:

@ minutes - Could Torchwood series 4 be filmed and set in America? Based on comments by LiveJournal user the-magician.

@ minutes - We responded to an interview with io9 where RTD confirmed that any future series would definitely be in the mini series format.

Creativity Corner

@ 14 minutes - We look at the first fan art responses to the Eleventh Doctor's costume and discuss the difficulty of creating fan art and caricatures with only still images or publicity photos:

http://neillcameron.blogspot.com/2009/07/new-doctor-who.html
http://nightwing1975.deviantart.com/art/doctor-who-11-130331960
http://onegemini.deviantart.com/art/Doctor-Who-The-11th-Doctor-130276468
http://draculasaurus.deviantart.com/art/eleventh-130375951
http://memorypalace.deviantart.com/art/The-Eleventh-Doctor-130965705
http://dtdstudio.deviantart.com/art/Matt-Smith-Dr-Who-toon-131213282
http://geezergonkess.deviantart.com/art/DW-Big-Shoes-to-Fill-110609388

@ 27 minutes - We look at location filming 'cat macros' from LiveJournal community I Has A Tardis:

http://community.livejournal.com/ihasatardis/1890999.html
http://community.livejournal.com/ihasatardis/1890711.html
http://community.livejournal.com/ihasatardis/1891514.html
http://community.livejournal.com/ihasatardis/1891810.html
http://community.livejournal.com/ihasatardis/1893001.html

Discussion

We have a plot-spoiler-free but speculation-filled discussion about the first location pictures:

@ 31 minutes - The Eleventh Doctor's costume

@ 50 minutes - Amy Pond's name and costume

@ 58 minutes - The revamped or 'reset' Tardis Exterior

And then:

@ 1 hour 8 minutes - We look at the fan reaction to news from the pages of Doctor Who Magazine that the 2010 series will be marketed as 'Series 1'.

Next Time

@ 1 hour 13 minutes - Episode 3 will be a Trock special, as this week marks the first anniversary of the 'founding' of the Time Lord Rock genre.

Trocking Out

@ 1 hour 14 minutes - We play out with the first self-described trock song, An Awful Lot Of Running by Chameleon Circuit, which is on their self-titled debut album available on CD from DFTBA records and to download from Amazon MP3 and iTunes.

Thanks to Chameleon Circuit and DFTBA records for kind permission to use this track.

We look at some of the demos, releases and more for July

Games being played this month: Fight Night Round 4, Infamous, Prototype, Mirrors Edge and Call of Juarez

We look at some of the demos, releases and more for July

Games being played this month: Fight Night Round 4,  Infamous, Prototype, Mirrors Edge and Call of Juarez

Show summary:
Adam J Purcell, Fake Keith, Jean Riddler and the ‘Real’ Keith Dunn talk extensively about the Torchwood radio stories Asylum, Golden Age, the Dead Line, also Torchwood: Children of Earth, find lots of general news, and a variety of other stuff, specifically:

• 00:00 – Intro and theme tune.
• 00:44 — Welcome!
• 01:35 – News:
• 02:05 — Doctor Who: Karen Gillan’s character named.
• 04:06 — Doctor Who: Matt Smith’s costume unveilled.
• 06:25 — Doctor Who: New look TARDIS exterior.
• 08:03 — Futurama: Voice cast get the heave-ho.
• 10:01 — World of Warcraft: Sam Raimi to helm the film.
• 11:25 — Tron 2: Now named ‘Tron Legacy’.
• 12:38 — Amazon US gets all Big Brother with 1984 and Animal Farm eBooks.
• 14:58 — The Staggering Stories of Ferdinand De Bargos: The Movie!
• 16:41 — Captain Pugwash creator, John Ryan, dies.
• 17:48 — Podcast 49 reply – Our names in Doctor Who (it’s not really news!)
• 19:01 — Doctor Who: Exclusive Character Options toys.
• 20:33 – Torchwood:.
• 21:23 — Radio Play: Asylum.
• 26:04 — Radio Play: Golden Age.
• 30:45 — Radio Play: The Dead Line.
• 35:18 — The Children of Earth.
• 67:22 – Emails and listener feedback.* Hit us yourself at show@StaggeringStories.net
• 86:19 – Farewell for this podcast!
• 87:12 — End theme, disclaimer, copyright, etc.

Vital Links:

• Staggering Stories.
• BBC: Doctor Who.
• Wikipedia: Futurama.
• World of Warcraft.
• Wikipedia: Tron.
• Amazon.
• Wikipedia: Nineteen Eighty-Four.
• Wikipedia: Animal Farm.
• IMDB: The Staggering Stories of Ferdinand de Bargos.
• YouTube.
• Wikipedia: Captain Pugwash.
• Forbidden Planet exclusive Doctor Who figures.
• BBC: Torchwood.
• The Terrible Zodin, Doctor Who fanzine.

In this episode, I read email feedback and review the Sylvester McCoy story, Battlefield.

In this episode, I read email feedback and review the Sylvester McCoy story, Battlefield.

Welcome to the resurrected Staggering Stories Audio Musings.A I’m Adam Purcell, and I’ll be your host for this musing.

This doesn’t replace the proper Staggering Stories Podcast feed but is instead a VERY irregular (in more ones than one!) outlet for individual members of the Staggering Stories team to vent and generally spew forth…

This is the first of a group of three musings (actually recycled MP3 comments…) about Herd Nurdles.A Herd Nurdles, do I hear you ask?A Probably not.A It’s a term introduced by the fabulous people over at the Box Room podcast, used to represent Science Fiction that one person really likes but few others do.A It’s the opposite of Nerd Hurdles… seek out Box Room Podcast 29 and onwards if you want to know more.

Without further ado, here’s my justification for liking the 1987 BBC 2 Sci-Fi/detective series Star Cops – my first Herd Nurdle.

You don’t know Star Cops?A Where were you in the late 80s?!A BBC 2, 1987.A A science fiction crime drama, devised and mainly written by none other than Chris Boucher, of Doctor Who and Blake’s 7.

Okay, the production values… leave a little to be desired.A Let’s not even talk about the zero-G acting…A There’s some great model work, though… By I’m drifting.

It’s basically Hard SF – It’s set in 2027 and there’s no magic tech, it’s all plausible.A There’s no anti-gravity, no faster than light travel, no transporters and NO aliens.A It’s real people policing a realistic Earth orbital stations and lunar colony universe.

There’s some really great writing, some fantastic dialogue, clever ideas about the sort of crime that near future environment might encourage.A Some great performances too, especially, for my money, by David Calder and Trevor Cooper.

It’s not for everybody – a lot of people probably won’t even get past the awful theme tune.

Star Cops is something people seem to either love or hate.A It’s in my top 4 favourite TV series, along with Doctor Who, Babylon 5 and Firefly.A Give it a go – you might just love it!A You probably won’t, most people hate it but you never know… Sadly the DVDs are long since deleted but no doubt it is available via alternative means..!
I can’t defend that cast photo on Wikipedia, though.A I think they must have just eaten from the BBC canteen or, perhaps, just been fired…