Here’s a weird one; Ladbrokes Bingo ran a survey to investigate romances and love in a few favourite cult TV series. Here’s what they dug up. Ross and Rachel from Friends were the nations favourite couple to come from TV and film (23%), closely followed by Jack and Rose from the Titanic (17%) and Han […]
TV show news, trailers and reviews
Welcome to Geek Native's TV section, your guide to the best of the small screen. From epic fantasy series and sci-fi sagas to the latest superhero shows, we cover the television that fuels our geek passions. This is your hub for news, reviews, and a whole host of trailers to keep you ready for the next big premiere.
Our TV coverage has a special focus on Anime, with a dedicated section for the latest news and reviews from Japan. We also explore the ever-growing world of Online Shows, including the popular 'Actual Play' series where tabletop adventures come to life on screen. Whatever you're watching, you'll find it discussed here.
Netflix’s Daredevil trailer
This trailer popped up online while I was out of the country a week ago. In that time it’s had over 1,000,000 watches. This suggests Netflix is on to a winner with its set of four superhero series. Daredevil, perhaps because of the movie rather than despite it, may be the strongest of the titles. […]
How much would cost to make a real Dalek? [infographic]
The Horror Channel in the UK is showing plenty of Doctor Who and loves the monsters. They commissioned this investigation and resulting infographic on how much it would take to research and build an actual Dalek. Kedal mutation was not covered.
Power up again: A review of Dragon Ball Z – Battle of Gods
Battle of Gods is the first Dragon Ball adventure in a decade. The action picks up right at the end of the plot arch and after Goku has managed to defeat Majin Buu. A new power has awoken – Beerus. Okay, strange names are part of the Dragon Ball Z saga but this one even […]
Attack on Titan: No Regrets previews
Based on the “A Choice With No Regrets” visual novel, No Regrets is an Attack on Titan Levi side story. As you’d expect the manga keeps the focus on Levi and acts as a prequel to the main story. The side story will be bundled with the 15th and 16th episodes of the main series.
Animatsu hit the ground running with 11 launch titles
Animatsu Entertainment Ltd is a new UK based company that will specialise in the distribution and production of anime. Mainly anime, that is, as the new company will also look at Japanese TV titles and live action productions. Animatsu was formed late last year after COO Jerome Mazandarani left Manga UK along with Andrew Hewson. […]
Competition: Win Giovanni’s Island
Giovanni’s Island is a full length anime movie that tells the story of the Russian occupation of strategic Japanese islands after World War II. This is an important event that many people in the UK don’t even realise happened. Geek Native was lucky enough to see the movie at Scotland Loves Anime and the review […]
Marvel actually did this: Ant-sized trailer for Ant-Man
I don’t really know what to make of this teaser trailer. Does it tell us anything about the film? Not really. Effectively, this is a marketing push to announce that the Ant-Man trailer is coming on the 6th of January. It also does a pretty good job of reminding us that Marvel’s Agent Carter is […]
10 of the best anime from 2014
This post looks back at the 12 months of 2014 and at the anime Geek Native has blogged about. We’ve reviewed old shows and new, we’ve had movies, episodes and whole series to look at. The titles here aren’t restricted to what was published in 2014 but to what we wrote about in the year. […]
The 2015 Thunderbirds are Go trailer
2015 will be the 50th anniversary of the classic Thunderbirds are Go TV series. ITV have a reboot for CITV on the way which will air in 2015 and use a mix of live action models and CGI. Fonejacker’s Kayvan Novak will be Brains, David Menkin both Virgil and Gordon Tracy, Ramus Hardiker will be […]
