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

Dave is joined by Domingos for another packed episode of Geektown Radio, featuring some intriguing new TV dramas, horror-filled reviews, major franchise announcements and the latest UK TV premiere dates.

This week, Dave dives into 'Nocturne', Apple TV's disturbing new crime thriller starring Stephen Graham (Adolescence), Liev Schreiber (Ray Donovan) and Zazie Beetz (Atlanta). He also reviews Paramount+'s vampire comedy 'Eternally Yours', from the team behind the US version of Ghosts, and 'Sherlock & Daughter', HBO Max's fresh take on the famous detective, starring David Thewlis (Fargo), Blu Hunt (The Originals) and Dougray Scott (Batwoman).

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Halloween night, 1992. Eleven million people tune in to BBC One to watch Michael Parkinson investigate a haunted house, with Sarah Greene reporting live from inside, Mike Smith taking calls, and Craig Charles talking to the neighbours.

Except it isn't live. And the house isn't haunted.

This is Ghostwatch, one of the most extraordinary and controversial programmes in British television history. A cleverly constructed drama that borrowed the familiar faces, techniques and authority of BBC broadcasting to create something genuinely terrifying.

For this Geekstorians Halloween Special, Dave explores how writer Stephen Volk, director Lesley...

This week, Geektown Radio heads to MCM London Comic Con 2026 for a special episode packed with superheroes, video game legends, fantasy authors, behind-the-scenes revelations, and a rather wonderful Jason Statham impression!

Dave spent three days exploring London's ExCeL Centre, battling two storms, navigating enormous crowds, and walking approximately half the length of London every time he needed to get from the press office to a panel. But the effort was worth it, as we've got highlights from six fantastic (well, mostly fantastic!) panels, featuring some huge names from the worlds of television, gaming and geek culture.

This week on Geektown Radio, Dave is joined by Darryl from Hollywood North News for another packed episode of TV, film and gaming goodness! We're reviewing Marvel's 'VisionQuest', 'Neagley', 'The Diplomat', 'Time', and plenty more, alongside a look at the newly released Planet Zoo 2. Plus, there's news on The X-Files reboot, a star-studded True Detective Season 5, and a whole host of renewals, cancellations and upcoming shows!

We kick things off with Darryl's latest watches, beginning with Netflix's genre-hopping sea monster thriller Below, the supernatural teen drama Coven Academy, and Apple TV's rather bizarre Matchbox: The Movie, starring...

Marvel's 'VisionQuest' has arrived on Disney+, and in this episode of Geektown Talks To…, Dave sits down with showrunner Terry Matalas for an exclusive chat about the brilliant new series, James Spader's extraordinary return as Ultron, and the wonderfully weird world inside Vision's head!

Terry, whose previous work includes '12 Monkeys' and 'Star Trek: Picard', reveals how a conversation with Marvel boss Kevin Feige sparked the idea of filling Vision's mind with a dysfunctional family of familiar AIs, including J.A.R.V.I.S., F.R.I.D.A.Y., E.D.I.T.H., D.U...

Welcome to Episode 505 of Geektown Radio! It's a bumper edition this week as Dave is joined by Matt from Entertainment Talk for a packed show featuring reviews of Marvel's 'VisionQuest', the new 'Resident Evil' movie, gaming adventures, and some major developments in the worlds of Doctor Who, Stargate, Marvel and streaming.

We kick things off with our usual look at what we've been watching and playing. Matt has three reviews this week, starting with the supernatural horror 'Other Mommy', which unfortunately doesn't live up to its intriguing premise. Things improve considerably with 'Resonance: A Plague Tale Legacy...

On this week’s Geektown Radio, Dave is joined by Domingos from The Sunday Film Club to chat through another packed week of TV, film and gaming, including ‘Neagley’, ‘Marvel’s Midnight Suns’, ‘Lanterns’, and the possibility of ‘24’ bringing Jack Bauer back for another very bad day!

Domingos kicks things off with Prime Video’s ‘Neagley’, discussing how the ‘Reacher’ spin-off gives its leading investigator a distinct identity while retaining the action and humour that make the franchise so enjoyable. He also reviews the fourth season of ‘Ted Lasso’, as AFC Richmond’s women’s team takes centre stage, with some new faces maki...

Dave is joined by Darryl from Hollywood North News for a packed week of TV, film and gaming chat. Darryl has been watching ‘Murder in a Small Town’, discovering ‘Bones’ for the first time, catching up with ‘Furies’ and ‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’, and checking out Bob Odenkirk’s action comedy ‘Normal’. He also reports back from the VS Fighting XIV tournament in Birmingham.

Dave has finished ‘Ludwig’ series two, ‘Supergirl’ and the first season of ‘Stuart Fails to Save the Universe’. He’s also working through ‘Dark Matter’, keeping up with ‘Slow Horses’ and ‘Lanterns’, and building a pirate settlement in ‘Corsair Cov...

Gray returns from his extended summer break to join Dave for Geektown Radio Episode 502, complete with tales of marriage, honeymooning, marking exams and a slightly worrying new padel obsession!

Gray attempts to condense more than 80 completed shows into a manageable update, including Ludwig, Bookish, Vigil, Lanterns, Taskmaster, SNL UK, Mock the Week and Live from the Lycett Arms.

Meanwhile, Dave reviews the opening episode of Slow Horses Season 6, the latest season of Reacher, its new spin-off Neagley, Apple TV comedy Brothers, the fourth season of Trigger Point, and tactical strategy game Star Wars: Zero Company.<...

After an extended summer break, Geektown Radio is finally back for Episode 501, and Dave is joined by Matt from Entertainment Talk for a suitably bumper return show!

Matt kicks things off with his thoughts on ‘Toy Story 5’, having somehow already watched it five times, along with the long-delayed ‘Coyote vs Acme’ and new game ‘Life is Strange: Reunion’.

Dave, meanwhile, has spent the break working through a mountain of television, including ‘House of the Dragon’ Season 3, ‘Silo’ Season 3, ‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’, ‘Ghosts Australia’, ‘Interview with the Vampire’, ‘Reacher’, ‘Outer Banks’, ‘Dark Matter’, ‘Lanterns’ and the wonderfully bonkers ‘Stuart Fails To Sav...

On this episode of Geektown Talks To…, Dave Elliott sits down in person with composer Fil Eisler for an eighth interview, five years after their last conversation.

Fil has created the music for a huge range of film and television projects, including Revenge, Empire, UnREAL, Thunder Force and The Desperate Hour. His latest work includes Netflix’s Outer Banks, CBS dramas Fire Country and Sheriff Country, and the fantasy film Momo.

During the interview, Fil discusses bringing Outer Banks to an end after five seasons, how its music grew alongside the Pogues, and the unusual inst...

WARNING: This interview contains major spoilers for the final season and series finale of ‘The Boys’.

On this episode of Geektown Talks To, Dave Elliott chats with Emmy-nominated sound effects editor and sound designer Russell Topal about bringing the gloriously violent world of ‘The Boys’ to life.

Russell joined the Prime Video series for Season 4 before returning for its fifth and final season, earning an Emmy nomination for his work on the series finale, ‘Blood and Bone’. He discusses the challenge of inheriting the show’s established sonic identity, developing the sounds of its superpowers, and ensuring t...

This week on Geektown Talks To…, Dave Elliott sits down with Graham Yost, showrunner of Apple TV’s acclaimed sci-fi drama ‘Silo’.

With Season 3 approaching its finale, some of the huge questions hanging over the series are finally beginning to get answers. Graham talks about the challenge of making those answers as satisfying as the mysteries which came before them, and why Hugh Howey’s original novels gave him confidence that the story could deliver on its promises.

We also discuss the challenges of adapting the second novel, keeping Rebecca Ferguson’s Juliette at the centre of th...

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 cult...

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 au...

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 ende...

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...

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...

This week, Dave chats with author David Crichton about his new novel, ‘The Avengers: Death in Downing Street’, which returns John Steed and Emma Peel to the wonderfully stylish and eccentric world of the classic 1960s television series.

And, just to avoid any confusion following the latest ‘Avengers: Doomsday’ trailer, we are talking bowler hats and leather catsuits here, not Marvel superheroes.

David and Dave also have a little history together, having worked at the same design agency in a previous life. They discuss David’s journey from account handler to published author, and how a lockdown...

Cosplay began as something gloriously handmade: fans turning up in costumes because they loved a story enough to carry it into the room.

But somewhere between the early science fiction masquerades, Star Wars armour builds, convention photo galleries, viral cosplay, professional creators and the rise of organisations like the 501st Legion, something shifted.

The costume was no longer just a costume.

It became proof that a franchise mattered.

In this episode of Geekstorians, Dave looks at how cosplay grew from fan-made performance into one of the most visible forms of franchise...

In this episode of Geektown Talks To, Dave chats with cinematographer, director and filmmaker Boris Mojsovski, whose work includes Netflix’s Harlan Coben thriller ‘I Will Find You’, along with ‘Rabbit Hole’, ‘12 Monkeys’, ‘Titans’, ‘The Lost Symbol’, ‘The Madness’ and more.

Boris talks about growing up around film sets, initially trying not to follow the family path into filmmaking, and how photography, writing and directing eventually pulled him back behind the camera. He also discusses the unusual position of being both a cinematographer and director on long-form television, and how that helps shape the visual identity of a series.

We then di...

This week on Geekstorians, we travel to Middle-earth, not as tourists, but as slightly suspicious historians with a map, a torch, and some concerns about licensing agreements.

In 1998, Peter Jackson walked into New Line Cinema with a fantasy epic most of Hollywood considered impossible. What followed became one of cinema’s great gambles: three films, shot back-to-back, built in New Zealand by artists, craftspeople, performers, technicians, and people who apparently did not believe sleep was legally required.

But this episode is not just about how The Lord of the Rings became a miracle.

It...

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 begin at the 2003 Academy Awards, where Spirited Away won Best Animated Feature without sanding itself down for Hollywood. From there, we rewind to the late 90s, when Dragon Ball Z exploded on Toonami and taught a genera...

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’s Astronomical concert inside Fortnite. To some, it looked like a clever pandemic workaround. But for players, this was not a sudden novelty. Fortnite had already become a venue, a stage, a soci...

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 technology aspirational. Comic-Con became an industry stage. Iron Man and The Dark Knight helped turn superheroes into serious blockbuster business. The Big Bang Theory brought geek references into prime-time sitcom culture. And by 2012, “geek chic” had reached the...

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 extraordinary test of asking audiences to follow a talking raccoon and a sentient tree into space.

Then we follow the machine to its greatest achievement: Infinity War and Endgame. Two...

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 to ask what they all have in common. Why do so many geek culture landmarks seem to emerge from bad decisions, broken systems, institutional indifference, and accidents that really should have e...

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 Behind The Scenes, Geektown Talks To, the Webby-nominated Geekstorians podcast, lots of convention coverage, countless streaming service rebrands, and more cancellation trauma than is probably healthy.

To mark the milestone, Dave puts Matt and...

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’ drifted into cinemas as a modest Coen Brothers oddity before fans turned The Dude into something far bigger, stranger, and, somehow, semi-spiritual.

This is not a story about films that were secretly massive hits all along...

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 also dives into Spider-Noir, with Nicolas Cage leading the live-action series, and talks about why the black-and-white presentation feels like the right way to watch it. There is also chat ab...

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 bigger than a struggling network sci-fi show. It became a constituency. A culture. A future people wanted to believe in.

Dave traces the franchise from NBC’s infamous letter-writing campaign and the death-slot third season, thro...

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 tackle the heat, the crowds, the press room, and as many panels as one person could physically manage!

In the episode, Dave chats about the MC...

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 online.

It wasn’t a trailer. It wasn’t part of a polished marketing campaign. It wasn’t even supposed to be public. But once the footage hit the internet, the reacti...

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’, the surprisingly intriguing cosy crime series starring Sarah Drew, which is available in the UK on ITVX, along with Jackie Chan action thriller ‘The Shadow’s Edge’, and indie drama ‘The Bearded Girl’.

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 didn’t just flop, it effectively shut Batman down for years.

But that failure turned out to be the point.

This episode explores how the collapse of Batman & Robin gave Warner Bros. the one thing 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 praise for its big swings, compelling storylines and excellent payoff. He also wraps up Invincible Season 4, which continues to deliver brutal action, strong character work and plenty of Viltrumite chaos.

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 Hell’s Kitchen. She also returned for season two, shooting half of the episodes, including the opening two, as the story pushed further into the conflict between Daredevil, Wilson Fisk, and a city under...

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’s Corrupted Blood incident, when a raid debuff escaped into the wider game and created a plague across major cities. What looked like a game bug became something stranger: an accidental model of how people beh...

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, only for things to go in a very different direction. He also reviews Project Hail Mary, praising its scale, ambition and sci-fi ideas, while also checking in on th...

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 territory of Saint-Pierre and Miquelon, just off the coast of Newfoundland, the series follows Arch as she is partnered with Donny “Fitz” Fitzpatrick, played by Allan Hawco, after Fitz is sent to the island f...