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

http://youtu.be/l9isws7KJ_o This week I had a chat with indie game developer Daniel Linssen about his upcoming Steam release 'The Sun And Moon'. Australia based Daniel won 'Ludum Dare 29', with this platformer that has a unique mechanic: you can dive into the ground. Momentum is conserved but gravity is reversed, letting you fling yourself high into the air or deep beneath the surface. The goal is...

http://youtu.be/_Kw0ruzLrYw In this week's podcast, we're talking to veteran games developer Mike Diskett. Mike used to work at Peter Molyneux's Bullfrog where he helped develop the classic PC and Amiga game Syndicate, and was lead on the follow up, Syndicate Wars. Since those days, he's worked across the industry on games such Theme Park, Startopia, Grand Theft Auto IV and Star Wars: The Clone Wa...

This week, we spoke to Wanda Bertram, the producer of a newly funded Kickstarter documentary called A Brief History of Time Travel: A Mindbending Documentary! Over the past 3 years, director Gisella Bustillos and her team have been interviewing personalities like Bill Nye ("the Science Guy"), legendary game designer Tim Schafer and Robopocalypse author Daniel Wilson about time travel, and how it r...

Over the weekend I headed up to Manchester to take a look at PlayExpo 2014 at Event City. There was a lot of cool stores, some tv bits and pieces, and a huge retro gaming area of old SNES, SEGA and pinball machines. However the area that really captured my attention was the indie gaming section, full of new and in-development independent games. I got chatting with a number of the developers and pu...

http://youtu.be/LaX5AfFYWvE In this week's podcast we got the chance to have a chat with director Dominique Schilling and actress Marion Ross about their new movie A REASON. Dominique is a Swiss German film maker and writer who's previously worked on short films, music videos and documentaries. A Reason is her first foray into feature films, and the movie has been getting a great response, winning...

http://youtu.be/jamwIaTdMhE In this week's podcast we got to talk to Director Philip Shih about his new slasher flick REAPER, starring Danny Trejo (Machete Kills, TV’s Sons Of Anarchy) and Vinnie Jones (Lock Stock, X-Men: The Last Stand, TV’s Elementary). This inventive slasher that follows a death row inmate who survives execution and returns as a supernatural force known as Reaper. Descending on...

http://youtu.be/sXRpz-Mcz7k This week we had the chance to have a chat with the actor Harry Treadaway about his new movie Honeymoon, and his role as Victor Frankenstein in Sky Atlantic's brilliant Penny Dreadful. Honeymoon is a psychological horror starring Harry and Game Of Thrones' Rose Leslie (Ygritte - you know nuffin Jon Snow!), as newlywed couple Paul and Bea, who set off to Bea's family cab...

http://youtu.be/W_62ZKR9rK0 This week we got the fantastic opportunity to attend the red carpet premiere in Birmingham for the launch of BBC's brilliant Peaky Blinkers Series 2! The show returns to our TV screens on Thursday 2nd October at 9pm on BBC 2, but we got to take a sneak peak at the first episode... And it's fantastic! Cillian Murphy returns as Tommy Shelby, leader of the Peaky Blinders g...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ri6z2xEzhE4 This week I had a nice chat with Emmy-nominated Composer and two-time Grammy-nominated musician Jeff Russo. Jeff is currently composing music for the 2nd season of  the truly excellent TV show Fargo along with the 2nd season of  the Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson produced drama Power AND the new CSI:Cyber starring James Van Der Beek and Patricia Arquette. Add...

http://youtu.be/-Nx5DmK-umw This week's podcast was an interview with the actor Tom Benedict Knight, who, if you saw the first half of the excellent Houdini miniseries which aired on Channel 4 last Sunday, you may recognise as Dash, Houdini's younger brother (trailer above).  If you didn't catch it, it's available here on 4OD and i urge you to go and watch before part 2, next Sunday at 9pm. Since...

http://youtu.be/vJI-KXARcGg This week, we've been talking to film director Luke Massey about his first feature, which is out now in the UK called 'The Captive' (aka Armistice). The movie stars Joseph Morgan, who you'll probably know best as Niklaus Mikaelson in the excellent Vampire Diaries and The Originals, and  co-stars Matt Ryan, who's about to appear as the lead in NBC's new tv show Constanti...

http://youtu.be/RR5qJHEubfM In this weeks podcast we're talking to Magician, Burlesque Artist, Model and Fire Performer - Jasz Vegas. As her name suggests, Jasz Vegas performs a style of magic that is unlike any other performer on the scene. She combines it with her dazzling burlesque skills, has edge and brings a truly contemporary feel to the magic and burlesque scene. You may have caught Jasz o...

This week's podcast is rather timely, as Falling Skies, the show which he's recently joined, is about to start airing it's 4th season tomorrow night (Tues 15th July) at 9pm on Fox UK. Today we spoke to actor Treva Etienne, who's wide ranging TV and film credits include Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, Angel, 24, Terminator Salvation, London's Burning, Casualty, The Bill, Onl...

We're back, and once again Geektown is chatting with some of the best composers working in US film & TV right now. Last week I got to have a video chat with composer Dan Licht, the man behind the music of serial killer tv show 'Dexter', medical drama 'Body of Proof' and also provided additional music for 'The Blacklist. Dan has also worked on a number of films, including  'Children of the Corn II'...

This week I had the pleasure of chatting with the award winning and best selling author Craig Johnson. Craig is best know for his series of novels centred around Wyoming county sheriff Walt Longmire, all of which have been in the New York Time best sellers list, and have spawned the hit tv show Longmire, which is currently airing it's 2nd season on TCM in the UK. His new novel  is due out on the 1...

Whilst at Birmingham Comic Con this weekend, I had the opportunity to sit in on a round table discussion with the ladies from Sleepy Hollow, including Nicole Beharie (Lt. Abbie Mills, the police partner of Tom Mison's Ichabod Crane), Katia Winter (Katrina Crane - Ichabod's wife, who's stuck in purgatory), and Lyndie Greenwood (Jenny Mills, the kick-ass sister of Abbie). Sleepy Hollow is a modern d...

Thanks to the lovely folk at the Belgrade Theatre in Coventry, last week we got the chance to talk to the man, the legend, that is Warwick Davis! Warwick is of course best know for playing Wicket in Star Wars, Willow in Willow, Professor Flitwick in Harry Potter, and a rather warped version of himself in BBC's Life's Too Short. However, he's currently touring the UK with his newly formed 'Reduced...

http://youtu.be/bTzA9NAz9cc To help celebrate the release of Sky 1's excellent puppet fantasy show Yonderland on DVD on the 17th February 2014, we've got a special little bonus interview with one of the show's stars - Ben Willbond. Ben of course was part of the Horrible Histories team, but has also starred in BBC's Rev, and The Thick Of It, and Channel 4's Black Books. Yonderland stars the cast of...

http://youtu.be/bTzA9NAz9cc To help celebrate the release of Sky 1's brilliant family puppet fantasy show Yonderland on DVD on the 17th February 2014, I had the chance to have another chat with 2 of it's stars - Martha Howe-Douglas & Laurence Rickard. Martha Howe-Douglas plays the main star, Debbie in Yonderland. She is also best known for playing the receptionist Donna Parmar in the soap Doctors...

http://youtu.be/ruVv2SiJlc0 In this new podcast, we're chatting to a young actor called Bryan McClure, who's about to take on the role of Cadet Bradbury in Space Command, an epic new movie franchise from prolific screenwriter Marc Zicree (Sliders, Star Trek: TNG, DS9). Bryan got the role after beating 7000 entries in a global talent search for the movie! McClure has also guest starred in Sky 1's H...

http://youtu.be/0Y4kZdTbasg For our first podcast of the new year, we got to talk to Ron Newcomb about his new movie Rise of the Fellowship. Rise of the Fellowship is not so much a parody, but more a love letter to all things Tolkien. It centres around Randell, a game store employee and avid gamer, who decides to take on an 'epic journey' to compete in a Lord of the Rings Online gaming competition...

This week, I had the chance to catch up with our old friend Fil Eisler - aka, the artist formally known as iZLER... ;) - to talk about his recently released soundtrack album from the hit E4 TV show Revenge. The album contains music from seasons 1 & 2, which is performed by the 50-piece orchestra Fil conducts each week for the show. Eisler's music has become such an integral part of Revenge, with h...

In this week's podcast, I got the chance to chat with composer Nate Barr, who recently made Emmy history being the first composer to ever have a double nomination in the Main Title category in the same year! Nate received two Emmy nominations in 2013 for Outstanding Original Main Title Theme Music for his work on The Americans, which airs on ITV in the UK, and Netflix's Hemlock Grove. In addition...

This week I had the opportunity to talk to multi-Emmy winning composer Sean Callery, who is currently nominated for his 13th Emmy Award, for Outstanding Original Main Title Theme Music for Sky Living's Elementary. This nomination makes Callery one of the most Emmy-nominated television composers. Sean shows no signs of slowing as he continues to work on the third season of Channel 4's award-winning...

On this latest podcast, I talk to Multi-Emmy Award-Winning Composer, Trevor Morris, who has scored a huge array of music for TV, film and games. His film work has taken him from the heights of Mount Olympus in 'Immortals', to the White House in Gerard Butler's blockbuster 'Olympus Has Fallen'. His game work ranges from the hard driving action of EA's 'Need for Speed: Carbon', to a more sedate driv...