Geek Chic

Last updated: 14th December, 2009 03:17pm

Green Day: Rock Band greenlit - finally

by Geek Chic

We've had The Beatles - which was, if you'll forgive the pun, fab - and we've had Aerosmith, AC DC and Metallica which were a little more disappointing, and now it's official: Green Day are getting the Rock Band treatment.

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Last updated: 10th December, 2009 03:00pm

Back to humanity

by Geek Chic

Being Human Season Two is around a month away from airing, and there's much to be giddy about. [this blog - and the stories it links to - contains some minor spoilers]

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Last updated: 2nd November, 2009 10:39am

V for victory?

by Geek Chic

TV and film doommongers are forever moaning that there are no new ideas out there any more. And after this year - when Star Trek was one of the best performing films - you've got to wonder if that's a fair summation of the entertainment industry.

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Last updated: 14th August, 2009 10:45am

Singer takes on Galactica

by Geek Chic

WELL he's taken on the X-Men, and Superman, and even the Usual Suspects, but news of Bryan Singer's latest foray into filmmaking has taken industry insiders by surprise. He's rebooting the reboot of Battlestar Galactica.

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Last updated: 30th July, 2009 10:37am

Jack Bauer to take on Ahmadinejad... Almost.

by Geek Chic

Forget making your Twitter avatar green in solidarity with Iranian dissidents, they have a new protector - in the new season of 24, Jack Bauer will be taking on President Ahmadinejad.

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Last updated: 24th July, 2009 04:56pm

Comic Con shorts - day one

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All the latest geek news from San Diego Comic Con.

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Last updated: 24th July, 2009 12:47am

Saying goodbye to The Middleman

by Geek Chic

It's probably the funniest TV show you've never seen. And for one day only today the cast of The Middleman were reunited after the show's untimely demise to show what might have been.

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Last updated: 23rd July, 2009 01:21am

A whole new world and a working holiday

by Geek Chic

I don't hide my geek light under a bushel. Never have. I'm used to being the pedant arguing about whether Han shot first, why odd numbered Star Trek films are better than even ones. I'm used to being one of the geekiest people in the room. But this week I am in geek Nirvana. Nerd Mecca. The Holy Land. And I am a little frightened to find I am one of the least geeky people here.

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Last updated: 14th July, 2009 01:22pm

Watching the Watchmen... Again. And again.

by Geek Chic

With Zach Snyder's Director's Cut of Watchmen due out impendingly, finally fans will get a chance to see the film as it should have been. Right? Well sort of.

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Last updated: 9th July, 2009 03:09pm

Too much of a good thing?

by Geek Chic

As the BBC devotes an hour of prime time a night to the team from Torchwood for an entire week, Geek Chic asks if we're suffering from overkill.

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Last updated: 24th June, 2009 11:11am

The great summer of films? Perhaps not

by Geek Chic

Several of the big film releases of 2009 have hit our screens already, and so far, barring Star Trek there's been nothing that's really stood out as film of the year fodder. Is this the end of the summer blockbuster?

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Last updated: 3rd June, 2009 01:34pm

Beatles Rock Band? Yeah, yeah, yeah!

by Geek Chic

There are games that, when they're announced, evoke a frisson of anticipation. There are games that, when they're announced, make you think 'hmm, that's a possibility for game of the year'. And then there are games that, when they're announced make you think 'right, I need to book three days off work for when that comes out'. And then, there's Beatles Rock Band.

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Last updated: 30th April, 2009 04:55pm

The wait is almost over

by Geek Chic

J J Abrams' reimagining of Star Trek is set to beam down impendingly - but will it ensure the franchise will live long and prosper?

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Published: 16th March, 2009 12:30pm

Is it the end of an era?

by Geek Chic

It started off as a joke - why would you take a cheesy scifi show from the 70s and remake it as a gritty commentary on the War on Terror? - but as Battlestar Galactica comes to an end after five years on our screens it will leave some big shoes to fill.

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Published: 17th February, 2009 12:30pm

Geek Chic on the Beeb

by Geek Chic

How can it be that we're gearing up for the end of Being Human season one already? And what kind of a world is it in which we live where American series do 22 episodes in a run and we get six? Pah.

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Published: 23rd January, 2009 12:00pm

It's almost time...

by Geek Chic

The wait is almost over. Being Human starts on BBC Three on Sunday night at 9pm. Yay. In the same timeslot as both Lost and new Supernatural. Boo. Talk about making things difficult for yourself.

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Last updated: 9th January, 2009 07:47pm

Russell Tovey 'was in the frame' for eleventh Doctor

by Geek Chic

He may be playing the lead in the BBC's hotly anticipated new genre show Being Human, but Russell Tovey has spoken for the first time at exactly how close he came to being given the keys to the Tardis and the biggest job in scifi.

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