2010 UK Air Dates for Cult Shows

As we head into Feb of 2010 a number of our favourite shows are finally starting to come back to the screen, so I thought a list of air dates might be handy to a few of you out there!

If there’s any more show’s you’d like uk air dates for, just leave them in the comments and i’ll see what we can find out!

UK Air Dates for Cult Shows in 2010

24, Day 8 – Sky 1 – 9pm, Sun 24th January 2010.
First 2 episodes will be back to back at 9pm and 10pm!

Caprica, Season 1- Sky 1 – 9pm, Tues 2nd February 2010.

Lost, Season 6 - Sky 1 – 9pm, Fri 5th February 2010.

Supernatural, Season 5 – Living TV – 9pm, February 10th 2010.
First 2 episodes will be run back to back.

Legend of the Seeker, Season 2 - SciFi Channel – 8pm, Mon 15th February 2010.
NOTE: The first 4 episodes are running nightly on the 15th to 18th February at 8pm, and then will run weekly on Thursday nights at 8pm from 25th Feb.

True Blood, Season 2 - FX – February 26th 2010.

House, Season 6 (continued) - Sky 1 – March 7th 2010.

Fringe, Season 2 (continued) - Sky 1 – March 9th 2010.

Bones, Season 5 (continued) - Sky 1 – March 2010.

Stargate Universe, Season 1 (continued) - Sky 1 – April 2010.

V, Season 1 – SciFi – (unconfirmed) Late March/Early April 2010.

Doctor Who, Eleventh Doctor, Series 1 - BBC1 – 3rd April 2010 (13 episodes)
I’ve given up trying with Series numbers on Who. It’s Series Five of new Who, but DW Mag are referring to it as Series One… Although if your proper old school, it’s also series 31…

Ashes To Ashes - BBC1 – April(ish) 2010.
Last series of Ashes to Ashes, promising to answer questions and round off the Life on Mars/Ashes to Ashes story (8 episodes).

Smallville, Season 9 – E4 – Best guess at the moment is ‘when E4 can be bothered…’ (usually around May 2010 if they’re true to form)… and they have the gall to complain about people downloading episodes, when it started airing in the US in Sept 09!
Trying not to go off on another major rant about E4 and their ridiculous scheduling policies…

Primeval, Series 4 & 5 – ITV – 2011.
Filming is due to begin in Ireland in March 2010.

Red Dwarf - Dave – 2011.
Due to go into production at some point in 2010.

Posting this for it’s muliple levels of utter awesomeness. ‘JOHN WILLIAMS IS THE MAN!’ A Star Wars-themed four-part a cappella musical tribute. Written and performed by Moosebutter (music by John Williams…)

Click here for your ‘Joss Whedon is My Master Now! t-shirts.

If your wondering about the themes used (in order of appearance):

• Close Encounters of the Third Kind
• Indiana Jones
• Superman
• E.T.
• Jaws
• Jurassic Park
• Indiana Jones (reprised)

Has to be some of the closest footage of UFOs released! Can’t believe new crop circles are appearing all the time on this guy’s UK farm…

Robot Chicken is ba-ba-baw-baaack! Season 3 of the toy murderin’, attention’ span shatterin’ TV series comes to DVD on the 25th January 2010.

No cow is too sacred, no star too celestial to escape the Robot Chicken treatment. Created by Seth Green and Matthew Senreich, Robot Chicken Season 3 delivers 20 fifteen?minute episodes of fastly-paced sketches featuring an impressive list of vocal talent from creator Seth Green and an impressive cast of Hollywood names.

In its native USA, Robot Chicken has gone on to become Adult Swim’s highest rated original show, winning an Emmy© for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Animation in 2006 and 2007. It was recently nominated for two more Emmy© awards for the Robot Chicken: Star Wars Episode II special.

The People Behind The Poultry

All of this mayhem started over a love of toys. Having worked throughout the comic book industry, Matthew Senreich rose through the ranks at comic bible Wizard to become editor of their Toy Fare publication. While attending the annual Comic Con in San Diego he ran into actor Seth Green (Austin Powers, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Family Guy) and a friendship blossomed over their mutual love of action figures. An idea was struck to take a knowing swipe at everything from Star Wars to George Bush by animating their beloved toys – every man’s dream right? But where did the obscure title come from? Seth Green explains, “Um, “Robot Chicken” was a dish from the Chinese restaurant where we ordered take?out.”

Robot Chicken, Season 3

Highlights from Robot Chicken Season 3 include Sarah Michelle Geller pedaling a Japanese yeast infection cream; Albert Einstein and his wife have couple’s therapy and Governor Schwarzenegger investigates the illegal immigration issue with Speedy Gonzales and Dora the Explorer.

Special features

Chicken Nuggets – Gag Reel – VFX Comparison – Alternate Audio – Deleted Animatics – Deleted Scenes – Studio tour – Video blogs – Commentary on all 20 Episodes

adidas Originals is kicking off 2010 by welcoming you to the neighborhood, the street where originality comes to life as artists, athletes, and celebs celebrate their style. Everyone’s invited to our street corner along with some special guests, who traveled from a galaxy far, far away to launch a year’s worth of celebrations.

2009 was a pretty good year for the sci-fi film. Not only did it produce the movie that’s well on the way to becoming the highest grossing movie of all time, but also some great little sci-fi gems that you may have overlooked. So heres GeekTown’s top 5 list of sci-fi movies from the last 12 months:

GeekTown’s Top 5 Sci-Fi Movies Of 2009

Watchmen

5. Watchmen

Watchmen got a fairly mixed reception on release. Yes, it did lose some of the weight of the Moore/Gibbons source material, but considering the number of people that had said it was ‘unfilmable’, and the directors that had been attached to the project and given up, I think Zack Snyder did an decent job with it. Maybe it wasn’t a unique as the comic book fans wanted, but Zack still made a very complex graphic novel into a perfectly fine, engaging superhero movie.

Avatar

4. Avatar

Currently on it’s way to sinking Titanic as the highest grossing movie of all time, James Cameron proves once again with Avatar that he doesn’t know how to make a non-smash hit movie. The lush visual world Cameron creates on Pandora, and the groundbreaking CGI work used to create the Na’vi set a new benchmark for special effects in film.

For our full review of Avatar and the Avatar premiere, click here.

3. Moon

Moon

Moon is probably the least well know of the films in this list, but is well worth seeking out on DVD/Blu-ray if you haven’t seen it yet. Duncan Jones makes a stunning directorial debut, in a clever film that has far more in common with the distopian sci-fis of the early 70s rather than your Avatar style blockbuster. The film is practically a one man show for the lead Sam Rockwell, who turns in a performance that (if there’s any justice) really should gain him an Oscar nomination.

Created for the tiny sum (in filmic terms) of $5 million, Moon proves you don’t need a massive Hollywood budget to create impressive, intelligent sci-fi.

For our full review of Moon click here.

2. District 9

District 9

District 9 was another of those films that crept up through the summers massive blockbusters of giant robots and pointy clawed mutants to slap them around the face and show you didn’t need a massive budget to make great sci-fi. Shot for a modest $30 million, Neill Blomkamp made a stunning feature length debut by adapting one of his earlier film shorts, Alive in Joburg, to create District 9. Taking on the themes of apartheid and translating them into a sci-fi setting Blomkamp creates a wonderfully intellegent and brilliantly original movie. The film is also a feature debut for lead Sharlto Copley (soon to be seen as ‘Howling Mad’ Murdock in the A Team movie), who manages the difficult job of taking his character Wikus van der Merwe, who really shouldn’t be all that like-able, and make you feel sympathy for him.

Not got round to seeing District 9 yet? We have copies on DVD and on Blu-ray to give away! Click here to enter the competition!

1. Star Trek

Star Trek

Like a lot of Trek fans, when it was announced that they were planning on rebooting Star Trek, a shiver ran up my spine… You can’t recast Kirk! You can’t recast Spock!.. Well, turns out you can. And very successfully too! JJ Abrams managed the seemingly impossible task of updating Trek without annoying Trekkers/Trekkies, and still bringing non-Trek movie goers to the franchise. By the simple but ingenious idea of creating an alternate timeline, thereby leaving the original universe intact, every body’s happy, and JJ has a whole new Star Trek universe to do whatever he likes with.

Zachary Quinto turns in a performance of Spock that nearly ‘out Spocks’ Leonard Nimoy (who also appears as ‘Spock Prime’). Chris Pine manages to still convey a very Kirk-like attitude, but without trying to imitate the unique Mr. Shatner. A mention also needs to go to Karl Urban’s brilliant portrayal of Leonard ‘Bones’ McCoy which at times felt like he was actually channeling DeForest Kelley.

JJ Abrams achieved the seemingly unachievable in reinvigorating the Star Trek franchise without alienating existing fans and stomping over it’s rich lineage, and for that, we say ‘Live Long and Prosper’.

Click here to read our full review of Star Trek, and here for our coverage of the Star Trek premiere.