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Anime did not cross into Western culture in one clean movement. It arrived in fragments, through edited TV dubs, bootleg tapes, playground obsessions, fansubs, late-night downloads, and eventually legal streaming platforms. In this episode of Geekstorians, Dave picks up where Season One’s ‘The Anime Underground’ left off, following anime’s journey from cult import to global mainstream force. We be...

Video games didn’t just become bigger than film, music and TV. They became places people went, watched, gathered, spent money, and built memories inside. In this episode of Geekstorians, Dave from Geektown looks at how gaming quietly became the largest entertainment industry on Earth, and why nobody really announced it. The story begins in April 2020, when millions of people attended Travis Scott’...

In this episode of Geekstorians, Dave looks at the strange five-year window when geek culture stopped being something fans used to find each other, and became something companies used to find them. Beginning in 2007, the episode follows the moment geek identity moved from comic shops, conventions, video rental shelves and school computer labs into the mainstream marketplace. The iPhone made techno...

Season Three of Geekstorians begins with the moment geek culture stopped knocking on the door and started owning the building. In this episode, Dave looks at the rise of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, from Marvel’s desperate rights situation and the gamble of Iron Man, to Kevin Feige’s phase-planned architecture, the genre trick that kept the films from feeling like a production line, and the extr...

This week on Geekstorians, we bring Season 2 to a close with ‘Nothing Went To Plan’. Across the season, we’ve looked at films that nearly vanished, companies that collapsed under their own weight, shows that survived cancellation, fandoms that refused to let go, and the strange ways failure can become an origin story. In this shorter reflective finale, Dave steps back from the individual stories t...

It is a very special episode of Geektown Radio this week, as Dave celebrates Episode 500 with regular co-hosts Matt and Gray for The Great Geeky Hall Of Fame Pub Quiz ! Geektown Radio officially launched back on Tuesday, 20th January 2015, although Dave had already recorded 32 interview podcasts before the weekly show began. Since then, there have been hundreds of episodes, specials, Geektown Behi...

This week on Geekstorians, Dave from Geektown looks at three films that did not behave the way Hollywood expected. ‘The Rocky Horror Picture Show’ arrived as a box office failure before midnight audiences turned it into a ritual. ‘Blade Runner’ opened to confusion, studio interference and mixed reactions before becoming one of science fiction’s most debated landmarks. And ‘The Big Lebowski’ drifte...

Dave is joined by Matt for Geektown Radio Episode 499, with this week’s show led by chat about breakout horror film Obsession, the opening episodes of Spider-Noir, Russell T Davies drama Tip Toe, and spy series PONIES. Matt kicks things off with Obsession, which he calls one of the best films of 2026, praising its slow-burn setup, sharp horror concept and one scene that completely floored him. He...

This week on Geekstorians , we’re boldly going into one of the strangest survival stories in geek culture: Star Trek , the franchise that has been cancelled, revived, mismanaged, overextended, rebooted, and pushed through nearly every major shift in modern entertainment. Born in 1966, cancelled in 1969, and kept alive by fans who refused to accept that decision, Star Trek became something far bigg...

This week, Geektown Radio heads to MCM Comic Con London for a special episode recorded around one of the UK’s biggest pop culture events, which took over ExCeL London for a packed weekend of TV, film, games, anime, comics, cosplay, panels and general geeky mayhem. Dave went down to the convention for the weekend, although sadly Darryl had to drop out after being struck down ill, leaving Dave to ta...

This week on Geekstorians , we’re looking at the leak that punched a hole through Hollywood’s gates. For years, Fox had Deadpool sitting in development limbo. Ryan Reynolds wanted to make the film properly. Director Tim Miller had test footage. The fans knew exactly what they wanted. The studio, however, remained unconvinced. Then, in July 2014, fifty-two seconds of Deadpool test footage appeared...

Dave is joined by Darryl on this week’s Geektown Radio as they chat through the latest TV, film and gaming news, along with the shows and games they’ve been watching recently. Darryl kicks things off with a look at ‘High Potential’ Season 2, the crime procedural starring Kaitlin Olson, which continues to deliver those fun “clever outsider helps the police” vibes. He also reviews ‘Mistletoe Murders...

In Season 2 Episode 6 of Geekstorians, Dave digs into one of the strangest turnarounds in blockbuster history. After Tim Burton redefined Batman for the big screen, Warner Bros. slowly pushed the franchise away from gothic weirdness and towards something brighter, louder, more commercial, and far more toy-friendly. The result was 1997’s Batman & Robin — a film so spectacularly misjudged it did...

Dave is joined by Matt for Geektown Radio Episode 497, and this week’s show is led by chat about Sky thriller Prisoner, the return of Citadel for Season 2, Marvel’s Daredevil: Born Again, and the annual US network bloodbath as renewals and cancellations roll in. Matt kicks things off with social media reviews for Wonder Man Season 1 and Daredevil: Born Again Season 2, with the latter earning huge...

In this Geektown Talks To interview, Dave chats with cinematographer Hillary Fyfe Spera, the lead cinematographer behind both seasons one and two of Marvel’s ‘Daredevil: Born Again’. Hillary was there from the very beginning of the Disney+ series, shooting the pilot, finale, and seven of the nine episodes in season one, helping to establish the grounded, cinematic look of Matt Murdock’s return to...

Season 2 of Geekstorians continues with the moment virtual worlds stopped being just games and started becoming laboratories. In ‘Virtual Worlds, Real Consequences’ , Dave looks at three very different digital worlds — World of Warcraft , EVE Online and Second Life — and the very real human behaviour they exposed once thousands of people were let loose inside them. It starts with World of Warcraft...

Dave is joined by Matt for Geektown Radio Episode 496, and this week’s show is led by chat about the Kenyan romcom Boda Love, ambitious sci-fi film Project Hail Mary, the return of Criminal Record for a second season, and Dave getting pulled back into Starfield. Matt kicks things off with Boda Love, a Kenyan romance that follows a British woman travelling to Africa after falling for someone online...

Geektown Talks To is back, and in this episode, Dave sits down with actress Joséphine Jobert to discuss her new crime drama ‘Saint-Pierre’, which recently launched in the UK on U&Alibi. UK viewers will know Joséphine from ‘Death in Paradise’, but in ‘Saint-Pierre’ she takes on a very different kind of island detective role as Deputy Chief Geneviève “Arch” Archambault. Set on the French territo...

Season 2 of Geekstorians continues with the corporate disaster that accidentally redrew modern pop culture. In ‘The Fire Sale Blueprint’ , Dave looks at how Marvel’s bankruptcy in the 1990s led to one of the strangest and most important chain reactions in film history. As the company collapsed under debt, many of its biggest characters were licensed or sold off in deals that looked sensible at the...

Dave is joined by Domingos for Geektown Radio Episode 495, and this week’s show is led by chat about Michael, the Canadian crime drama Saint Pierre, Apple TV alt-history spin-off Star City, and the return of A Good Girl’s Guide To Murder. Domingos kicks things off with Michael, the new biopic charting the early life and rise of Michael Jackson, with Jaafar Jackson playing his famous uncle. He also...

Season 2 of Geekstorians continues with one of the strangest survival stories in geek culture. In ‘The Wilderness Years’ , Dave looks at what happened after Doctor Who disappeared from television in 1989. No big finale. No proper ending. Just a show the BBC quietly stopped making, and an audience that refused to accept that as the end of the story. This episode follows the long years when Doctor W...

Dave is joined by Matt for Geektown Radio Episode 494, and this week’s show is led by chat about horror film Undertone, relationship drama The Drama, Canadian crime series The Murder Line, and a return to Gilead in The Testaments. Matt kicks things off with three film reviews. First up is Undertone, an audio-led horror built around a creepy podcast mystery, which nails a lot of its atmosphere and...

Season 2 of Geekstorians continues with a story about collapse. In ‘When Giants Fall’ , Dave looks at three companies that once seemed unstoppable — Atari , Sega , and Blockbuster — and how each of them, in very different ways, lost their grip on the future. From Atari’s collapse after the video game crash of the early 1980s, to Sega’s spectacular inability to get out of its own way during the con...

Dave is joined by Darryl for Geektown Radio Episode 493, and this week’s show is led by chat about Swedish thriller Vaka, oddball sci-fi comedy The Miniature Wife, the return of The Boys, and why Daredevil: Born Again finally feels like it has found its footing. Darryl kicks things off with Vaka, a Swedish mini-series on Prime Video built around an insomnia epidemic that spirals into chaos in Stoc...

Season 2 of Geekstorians begins with one of the great near-disasters in modern geek history. This episode tells the story of how Toy Story 2 nearly disappeared during production, not because of a studio fight or some dramatic Hollywood scandal, but because of a routine command, a failing backup system, and the sort of technical catastrophe that still makes creative people wince. But this is not ju...