Ok Go Does The Theme from The Muppet Show!
Anyone that’s a regular reader of the site will know that here at GeekTown, we love the Muppets. We’re also quite big fans of the musical combo Ok Go! So when we discovered as a preview for the new Muppet’s Green Album, Ok Go had teamed up with with our fuzzy little friends on a new video, it was fairly enevitable we were going to post it. I give you ‘The Theme from The Muppet Show‘ as performed by Ok Go… (You should also check out The Fray covering ‘Mahna Mahna’.)
Sky Living Have Chucked Chuck Season 5?
Chuck Chucked?
I’d been passed a rumour of this news a few days ago, but I’ve been trying to get some sort of response myself from Sky to confirm it. Despite the wall of silence from the press office, their Twitter account and their Facebook, finally the Sky Living Help Forum stepped up and confirmed it…
Sky Living ‘have NOT acquired the rights for the final season of Chuck’.
UPDATE: A further email from Sky explained a bit more saying “Unfortunately, we have not acquired the rights for the final season of Chuck. Whilst we appreciate this is frustrating to loyal viewers there are some great new series coming to Sky Living this autumn and unfortunately we have limited space in the schedule. On balance we decided that whilst Chuck has been a great asset to the channel, we need to focus our resources elsewhere.”
It’s not very clear if there should be a yet on the end of that, and they do say ‘this is still under review’ but as of right now (Sept 2011), Chuck’s final season does not have a home on UK TV…
As it is ‘still under review’, i’m sure the nice folk at Sky Living would love to hear from you if you feel you’d like to see Chuck Season 5 in the UK.
Why not tell Sky Living your thoughts by contacting Sky Living on Twitter, or on Facebook, and letting them know if you would like to be able to view Chuck in his final outing on TV in the UK, preferably in a timely fashion (i.e. Oct/Nov this year), and not 9 months from now…
Review: Cowboys and Aliens
Cowboys and Aliens (Ford & Craig)
Sitting in my impro class last Friday, the teacher commented that sci-fi and horror are the movie genres most frequently made, and the fact that if your a hot girl, you will gain male fans who will watch you in anything. At the time of writing, Olivia Wilde (Ella Swenson) and her cat-like eyes are ranked #3 on imdb’s starmeter.
With sci-fi & the western both being genres which dominate our collective interests, it’s surprising no one has done it (this directly anyway!) before. Sure, you can argue Star Wars is a space western, but there are few movies that have genuine wild west cowboys on Earth battling aliens.
Cowboys and Aliens opens with Jake Lonergan (Daniel Craig 
alone outside a town with the cheesy name Absolution, not knowing who he is or how he got there. For the next two hours, the audience is taken on a ride through an invasion of aliens in the Wild West to discover his identity. In keeping with our 21st century need for instant action and gratification, director Jon Favereau installs the first fight scene 2 minutes into the movie. Favereau then keeps the action going with multiple sources of danger lurking all around Absolution, not the least of which from local wealthy rancher Woodrow Dolarhyde (Harrison Ford and his son Percy (Paul Dano).
The script does a good job of meshing these two genres and creates a fun, entertaining experience. However, the concept for this movie screams for simple mindless fun and the writers should have left it at that. Unfortunately, about half way through, they decided the movie needed some depth and a message. Of course, what would a western be without Indians, but in this case, the script uses them to teach Lonergan a lesson about his past, which in turn gives him the information he needs to go on and fight against the aliens in order to save the earth. This is the classic Hollywood cliché of a person needing to go through great trials and suffering in order to triumph over self as well as external obstacles and dangers. My other issue with the script is that while Woodrow Dolarhyde is introduced as the town villain, even going so far as to tie one of his workers to two horses as he interrogates him, Dolarhyde’s conversion to ‘the good side’ happens so quickly that it is not believable.
The film, however, is superbly cast and Favereau elicits excellent performances from his actors, including the young and adorable Noah Ringer. And by putting Indiana Jones and James Bond together in a film loaded with action, how can you miss? Especially since they are hot. And guys, you will definitely ‘appreciate’ Olivia Wilde. SPOILER ALERT: In one scene, she is wearing very few clothes. You might want to wear a bib. Just saying…
6/10 Looses points for it’s cheesy attempt at a deeper meaning.
Spooks 10th series to be it’s last!
Spooks to end after 10 series.
I can’t say I’m totally shocked by this news, but Kudos have announced that the superb Spooks will come to an end with it’s 10th series.
CEO and Creative Director of Spooks production company Kudos said “we didn’t want to get to the point where the BBC said, “We don’t really want another one, we wanted to kill it off in its prime”, which I can totally understand. Better to end your own show than have a network cancel it on you.
I love Spooks, and (like a number of Kudos’s productions) it’s been a flagship drama for BBC1. I’ll be very sad to see it go, but 10 years is a good run, and as they are the one’s stopping it, they’ve promised the story will come to a proper end, and not be left hanging.
Now we know it’s Spooks last season, i wonder if any of the old hands may pop up again?..
Well, those that haven’t been killed in some horribly brutal way…
One thing you can say for Spooks, like 24, none of the key characters were safe from being removed in some inventive (and sometimes grizzly) way!.. You had Danny Hunter (David Oyelowo) - Executed, Colin Wells (Rory MacGrego) – Hanged, Fiona Carter (Olga Sosnovska) – Shot by ex-husband, Zafar Younis (Raza Jaffrey) – Killed by terrorists, Adam Carter (Rupert Penry-Jones) – blown up in a car bomb, Ben Kaplan (Alex Lanipekun) – Throat cut, Connie James (Gemma Jones) - Killed defusing a nuclear bomb, Jo Portman (Miranda Raison) - Shot by fellow officer Ros Myers (Hermione Norris)… who was then herself killed in an explosion! Out of all of them though, it’s Lisa Faulkner’s character Helen Flynn literal face-to-face encounter with a deep fat fryer that still haunts me!
Lara Pulver joins Spooks
Not all the cast left in body bags though. Some actually managed to walk away… albeit not always of their own free will. Tom Quinn (Matthew Macfadyen – last seen in Series 3 Episode 2) decommissioned (basically for growing a conscience), Zoe Reynolds (Keeley Hawes – last seen Series 3, Episode 6) – messed up an undercover op and was sneaked out of the country to hide in Chile, Malcolm Wynn-Jones (Hugh Simon – last seen Series 9, Episode 3) – Retired and Tessa Phillips (Jenny Agutter – last seen Series 2, Episode 9) - fled the country after sabotaging an operation. I’d love to see Tom or Zoe back for a guest spot, although i suspect it’s rather unlikely.
I’d say its also a fair bet Lucas North/John Bateman (Richard Armitage – last seen at the end of Series 9) is also probably still alive after his vanishing act from a roof last season, but we’re may not see him as Richard is currently off being Thorin Oakenshield in The Hobbit.
Adding to series 9′s returning cast are Lara Pulver (Robin Hood, True Blood) playing new section lead Erin Watts, and Geoffrey Streatfeild (The Other Boleyn Girl) as new IT guru Calum Reed. Also popping up this series are Alice Krige (Borg Queen in First Contact) and Jonathan Hyde (Titanic, The Mummy).
Spooks Series 10 will air in the UK in the Autumn 2011 (usually Sept).
WIN ‘Quarantine 2: Terminal’ on DVD!
Win Quarantine 2 on DVD
We’re giving you the chance to grab a copy of the brand new zombie-horror; ‘Quarantine 2: Terminal’ when it’s released on 15 August.
We have 3 copies to give away to lucky GeekTowners, so that they can sit on (or behind) the sofa and watch the body count climb, as the passengers and crew of Flight 318 fight to stay alive.
This sequel, directed by John G. Pogue, picks up where the first film finishes – with the discovery that the undead virus hadn’t been contained and is spreading on the now-doomed flight out of Los Angeles.
As the clean-up crew puts a new quarantine in place at a disused airport terminal – to what lengths will people go to stay in the world of the living?
‘Quarantine 2: Terminal’ is released on DVD (cert 15) on Monday 15 August (RRP £12.99), courtesy of Sony Pictures Home Entertainment.
2 Ways To Win ‘Quarantine 2: Terminal’ on DVD
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The competition closes on August 15th 2011 and is open to UK residents aged 18 or over. There will be 3 winners picked from entries on geektown.co.uk and Twitter. By entering this competition, you are agreeing to the rules of this competition. Full rules can be read here.
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A Town Called Eureka is cancelled…
Eureka - Cancelled!
It seems the US SyFy Channel just don’t think they are quite hated enough by fans after cancelling Stargate Universe. So to really upset people, they’ve now decided (after the traditional brief denial), to cancel Eureka.
SyFy US had originally annouced they were going to shorten Eureka season 6 to just 6 episodes, which at least would have given the show time to wrap things up… But then they though:
…actually, screw that! How are we going to keep are rep as the US’s douchiest TV channel if we give a show a chance at a proper ending! We’ll just cancel Eureka season 6 all together… Send out the usual sob story press release. You know, the “difficult business decision” blah blah “very grateful to amazing cast and crew” etc, etc…’ one. You should know the drill by now!
So, there’s a Christmas episode and 12 episodes of season 5 coming in 2012 – plus the rest of season 4 we haven’t seen in the UK, and that’s your lot…
Eureka season 4b starts at SyFy UK tonight at 9pm.
I know you might be thinking ‘so why are you promoting the show tonight?’… Well, i think its fine to vent at SyFy UK, but it’d be a bit unfair to go blaming them for the US cancelling the show… I bet the SyFy UK guys would have saved it if they could, but they have about as much control over what the US SyFy network does as we do!..
