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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.

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Doctor Who: The first clip from The Day of the Doctor

November 8, 2013 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

This is the first clip of The Day of the Doctor, the 50th Anniversary Special. It’s called Paintings and features Matt Smith as the 11th Doctor and Jenna-Louise Coleman as Clara. Notice the 4th Doctor scarf behind them, though.

Filed Under: TV Tagged With: clara oswald, doctor who, Eleventh Doctor, fourth doctor, Jenna Coleman, matt smith, the day of the doctor, trailers

Microsoft turns to anime to help promote Internet Explorer

November 8, 2013 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Watch the anime first and then have a think about what it means. Okay, it came from Microsoft Singapore so it had an audience used to anime. That said this ad for Internet Explorer has gone global. This shows just how wide anime’s appeal has become. It also shows just how influential geeks are. I […]

Filed Under: Anime, Cool Tech Tagged With: ads, anime, microsoft

Daredevil, Iron Fist, Luke Cage and Jessica Jones TV shows all coming to Netflix

November 7, 2013 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Marvel has announced a multiple, original, live-action adventure superhero shows will come to TV – via Netflix. The first series will be Daredevil. Jessica Jones, Iron Fist and then Luke Cage. We’re told the original programs will take Netflix members into the gritty world of heroes and villains of Hell’s Kitchen, New York and that […]

Filed Under: TV Tagged With: daredevil, disney, iron fist, jessica jones, luke cage, marvel, netflix

The Power of the Kings: A review of Guilty Crown (part one)

November 6, 2013 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Part One of Guilty Crown is the first 11 episodes of the science fantasy series from Square Enix and Production IG. The show is not yet on Crunchyroll but Manga UK will release the first DVD and blu-ray pack in the UK on the 18th November. Funimation has the license in the States. Guilty Crown […]

Filed Under: Anime Tagged With: manga uk, Production I.G, reviews, Square Enix

Creativity Kills: Interesting ways to slay your foes in D&D

November 3, 2013 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Warning; NSFW language in places. This is a year old video from CrossPlatform ActionSquad in which they reminisce on murderous adventures, lucky dice rolls and players hacking through the zombie threat in unexpected ways. This is the first CrossPlatform ActionQuad video I found and it’s worthy of the share. I’ve hit the subscribe button. There’s […]

Filed Under: Online Shows, Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Dungeons & Dragons, humour, zombies

Stick with it: A review of Horizon in the Middle of Nowhere

November 3, 2013 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

I found Horizon in the Middle of Nowhere incredibly confusing and almost frustrating to begin with. It looked like an incredibly cosmopolitan collection of students in training and apparently running the city. By “cosmopolitan” I mean we had mechs, witches, naked but not anatomically complete incubus, sports stars with eyes in their hats, buxom school […]

Filed Under: Anime Tagged With: manga uk, mecha, reviews

An Invitation to play Xbox One

October 26, 2013 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

We’ve featured the first official ad for Sony’s PS4 “Perfect Day” here on Geek Native. Let’s take a look at what Microsoft’s Xbox One team are up to. I don’t know if it’s the first official ad but it’s an early on. It also takes a similar approach; using key games to grab your interest. […]

Filed Under: Cool Tech, TV Tagged With: ads, microsoft, titanfall, xbox, xbox one

Samurai Kings – Sengoku Basara: The Last Party

October 23, 2013 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

Sengoku Basara began life as a Capcom video game franchise and has characters named after real people from the Sengoku era of Japan. The series spawned two anime seasons in which the various samurai warlords and their armies faced off a larger army led by a more powerful warlord. Sengoku Basara: The Last Party is […]

Filed Under: Anime, Movies Tagged With: capcom, manga uk, Production I.G, reviews

Ghost in the Shell: Arise “Ghost Pain” review

October 21, 2013 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

“Ghost Pain” is the first episode of the re-imagined Ghost in the Shell OVA. It may be one of only four in the series as each episode is intended to receive a limited cinema release in Japan a month before the Blu-ray release. Ghost in the Shell features a new voice cast. We also have […]

Filed Under: Anime Tagged With: funimation, ghost in the shell, Ghost in the Shell Arise, reviews, scotland loves anime

Dealing with death through doppelgangers: Hal movie review

October 21, 2013 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

Hal is a movie about a robot who becomes human as part of an outlandish attempt at “robot therapy”. In this instance we’re dealing with someone who’s not been able to cope with the death of a loved one and has withdrawn from the world. The robot “Q01” doesn’t just become human – they become […]

Filed Under: Anime, Movies Tagged With: reviews, robots, scotland loves anime

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