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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: Cold War trailers UK vs US The top 5 things I learned about gamers working on Standard Action London Anime Con gears up for another year Doctor Who: The connection between Clara and the Autons Top 5 lessons I learned as a webseries producer in the nerd world

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Doctor Who: Cold War trailers UK vs US

April 13, 2013 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Tonight’s Doctor Who is Cold War and together BBC America and BBC have released a bunch of teaser clips. Watch the ones below and see if you can spot the difference. The BBC also released pictures, taken by Adrian Rogers, for sites like SFX.co.uk. I couldn’t but help notice SFX.co.uk used the file name “GOT […]

Filed Under: TV Tagged With: clara oswald, doctor who, Eleventh Doctor, Jenna Coleman, matt smith, Second Doctor, trailers

The top 5 things I learned about gamers working on Standard Action

April 11, 2013 by Guest Writer Leave a Comment

Tara Pratt is originally from Edmonton, Canada, and plays Wendy the Sorceress in Standard Action. You can often catch her on stage performing in Vancouver, and on screen in some of our local productions, most recently the hit show Fringe, and Emily Owens, M.D. Her favourite colour is purple, she’s a huge Star Trek: The […]

Filed Under: Interviews, Online Shows Tagged With: standard action

London Anime Con gears up for another year

April 8, 2013 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

This year the London Anime Con will run from 20th to the 21st of July. The convention will be held at the Rocket Complex London Metropolitan University and the early signs are the con is nicely balanced. The convention lists some pretty impressive sponsors; Game.co.uk, Sfx, Yelp, Bandai Namco and plenty of others. At the […]

Filed Under: Anime, Geek Stuff Tagged With: anime, cosplay

Doctor Who: The connection between Clara and the Autons

April 8, 2013 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The very first episode of new Doctor Who featured some old villains known as the Autons. The episode is called “Rose” and the Autons appear as show window dummies, who attack Rose. The next day Rose is reported missing (as she’s run off with the Doctor). In the fourth episode of the first series, Aliens […]

Filed Under: TV Tagged With: Christopher Eccleston, clara oswin, doctor who, Eleventh Doctor, Jenna Coleman, matt smith, Ninth Doctor, rose tyler, steven moffat

Top 5 lessons I learned as a webseries producer in the nerd world

April 6, 2013 by Guest Writer Leave a Comment

Joanna Gaskell is originally from Victoria, Canada. She is the producer and the writer of Standard Action, and plays Edda the Elf Barbarian. You can see her in the board game review series Starlit Citadel Reviews, catch her in the upcoming Gamers: Hands of Fate movie, hear her voice in new animated TV show Animism, […]

Filed Under: Interviews, Online Shows, Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: standard action

Doctor Who: The Rings of Akhaten previews

April 6, 2013 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Coming up next are two preview trailers for Doctor Who: The Rings of Akhaten. This episode airs today (6th of April) in the UK and North America and tomorrow in Australia and South Africa. The videos are very short, typical to a Moffat era preview, but if you consider the “Coming up next…” clips to […]

Filed Under: TV Tagged With: clara oswin, doctor who, Eleventh Doctor, Jenna Coleman, matt smith, steven moffat, trailers

Joanna Gaskell: Elf barbarians and loyal geeks could put insipid network TV under pressure

April 2, 2013 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

[Back this Campaign] Standard Action is a webseries that follows a disparate group of heroes and would-be adventures in what’s clearly a roleplaying setting. The first season enjoyed tens of thousands of views on each episode. This Kickstarter has been launched to support season 3. Joanna Gaskell created the series, produces it and starts as […]

Filed Under: Online Shows, Sites Tagged With: kickstarters, standard action

Doctor Who: Clara and 23 [spoilers]

March 31, 2013 by Andrew Girdwood 4 Comments

If you’ve not seen The Bells of Saint John, the first of part 2 of season 7 of Doctor Who then this post contains spoilers. For the rest of us; this post is just speculation. Here’s the prequel to The Bells of Saint John; make sure you catch the girl’s name. Run you clever boy […]

Filed Under: TV Tagged With: clara oswald, doctor who, Eleventh Doctor, Jenna Coleman, matt smith, steven moffat, the bells of st john

Hyperdimension Neptunia trailer

March 31, 2013 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The anime for the Hyperdimension Neptunia RPG has a trailer. The official site says that Masahiro Mukai is directing and Hitomi Takechi the designs used in the RPG for anime. The RPG was developed by Idea Factory and shipped by SEGA. It was a PS3 exclusive in Europe and the game itself is take on […]

Filed Under: Anime Tagged With: trailers

Questions after The Bells of Saint John [spoilers]

March 30, 2013 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

Doctor Who has returned to our screens in the run up to the 50th anniversary. As expected in this episode the eleventh Doctor manages to catch up with someone called Clara. This post contains spoilers and speculation. We ask some of the questions that have risen as a result of the new plot and share […]

Filed Under: TV Tagged With: amy pond, clara oswin, doctor who, Eleventh Doctor, Jenna Coleman, matt smith, River Song, rose tyler, steven moffat, the bells of st john

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