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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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The Reward could spawn even more fantasy action

March 17, 2013 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

I had all sorts of praise for The Reward. This is a short animation about two people, rivals at first, friends in the end, who find themselves on a long and dangerous journey. The animation appealed to many RPG classics with action, adventure and mystery. The team behind the Vimeo success have now turned to […]

Filed Under: Online Shows Tagged With: animation, fantasy, kickstarters, Tales of Alethrion

Thor’s Jaimie Alexander as Wonder Woman

March 16, 2013 by Andrew Girdwood 8 Comments

In Thor movie Jaimie Alexander played Lady Sif. Many fans think she’d be a superb casting choice for Wonder Woman. Here’s a fan made photoshop of the actress as Wonder Woman. What do you think? Looks impressive? As it happens Alexander herself as talked about the Wonder Woman role. Here’s what she said about the […]

Filed Under: TV Tagged With: Thor, Wonder Woman

New Doctor Who trailer puts the spotlight on Clara Oswald

March 16, 2013 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The latest trailer for Doctor Who series 7 puts the mystery of Clara Oswald in the trailer. Don’t you remember? Ask the Doctor, describing Clara Oswald as the only mystery worth solving. Along with lots of Clara the new trailer showcases a lot new monsters. We don’t get a glance at the Spoonheads but do […]

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

Lost Doctor Who episode regenerates through animation

March 16, 2013 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

There are Doctor Who episodes missing. The show is so old that it harks back to a time when companies, even the BBC, didn’t see the point in trying to perserve recordings. In fact, the final adventure of the first doctor – The Tenth Planet – is missing its last episode. The good news is […]

Filed Under: TV Tagged With: animation, doctor who, first doctor, Patrick Troughton, Second Doctor, william hartnell

Sherlock series 3 starts filming

March 10, 2013 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Sue Vertue of Hartswood Films, the company behind Jekyll, Men Behaving Badly but most importantly Sherlock, has confirmed filming for series 3 of the BBC show will start this month. Cameras roll on Monday, March 18th but it is expected that the series will film in two parts due to the busy schedules of Martin […]

Filed Under: TV Tagged With: bbc, Benedict Cumberbatch, Martin Freeman, Sherlock

Little Witch trailer

March 10, 2013 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

I suspect this one draws on the same sources of inspiration that helped the Harry Potter stories along. Little Witch is a Studio Trigger production, directed by Yoh Yoshinari and produced by Naoko Tsutsumi. They’ve both previously worked on the Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt series. The anime movie opened in Japan at the start […]

Filed Under: Anime, Movies Tagged With: harry potter, studio trigger, trailers

Anime Limited reveal the anime charts for the UK

March 7, 2013 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Anime Limited, the latest anime buyer and disbutor in the UK, has published the top ten best selling anime titles in the UK in January. In an earlier post they shared the top 10 for 2012 and gave very rough estimates of the number of units shipped. The post suggests demand for Anime DVDs and […]

Filed Under: Anime Tagged With: anime limited, kaze, manga

10 reasons to support International #TableTopDay

March 6, 2013 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Felicia Day’s Geek and Sundry have nominated March 30th to be International Tabletop Day and are asking gamers to support it. Not sure? Here’s 10 reasons why it’s a good idea. 1. You’ll be supporting local businesses This is a great chance for local businesses to attract gaming geeks into the store. This a chance […]

Filed Under: Online Shows, Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Asmodee, Days of Wonder, Felicia Day, geek & sundry, International TableTop Day, Mayfair Games, Steve Jackson Games, Wil Wheaton

The extended Game of Thrones season 3 trailer

March 4, 2013 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

This extended version of the Game of Thrones trailer is about 20 seconds longer than the original. The song featured in the trailer is “Bones” by MS MR. The series starts again on HBO in the States on March 31st, it’ll cross the pond and air on Sky Atlantic a day after. That means it’ll […]

Filed Under: TV Tagged With: Emilia Clarke, game of thrones, George R. R. Martin, lena headey, Peter Dinklage, trailers

Is this what a “Spoonhead” from Doctor Who looks like?

March 1, 2013 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Last night the BBC released a new poster for Doctor Who s7.2. We also discovered the episode, written by Steven Moffat, will be called The Bells of St John and would feature a new monster with the unlikely name the Spoonheads. Spoonheads? Really? Well… perhaps. If you look closely at the poster and study all […]

Filed Under: TV Tagged With: doctor who, Eleventh Doctor, steven moffat, the bells of st john

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