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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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TV Reports

Continuing the archive of independent TV reporting (Archive Page 237).

Dubstep Voltron for MetLife

February 11, 2012 by Andrew Girdwood 2 Comments

This advert caught my attention for a whole host of reasons. I’m no fan of dubstep except when it’s assocaited with some pretty awesome YouTube dancing. Colour me surprised when it is Voltron who walks over the hill and begins to dance. That’s quirky. The video finishes with a call to action for Facebook.com/metlife. Can’t […]

Filed Under: TV Tagged With: ads

Wizards of the Coast launch Kaijudo

February 10, 2012 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

Kaijudo is a new Duel Masters franchise from Hasbro and Wizards of the Coast. Wizards of the Coast, of course, being Hasbro’s brand not just for Dungeons and Dragons but for trading card games too. Kaijudo is described as a multimedia franchise. This means expect computer games, toys as well as the trading card game […]

Filed Under: Anime, Games Tagged With: hasbro

Wizards vs Aliens

January 24, 2012 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Doctor Who writers Russell T. Davies and Phil Ford are teaming up to write “Wizards versus Aliens Aliens vs Wizards” for CBBC. That’s the Children’s channel on BBC. The show is being backed by FremantleMedia Enterprises with the goal of taking the 12-part series international. Aliens vs Wizards pits Tom Clarke, a young wizard, against an […]

Filed Under: TV Tagged With: bbc, doctor who, Russell T Davies, Sarah Jane Adventures

Pretty Cure New Stage movie trailer

January 20, 2012 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

There’s no shortage of Pretty Cure movies. Wikipedia counts 9 TV to movie creations and 4 All Star movies. Not bad for the Toei Animation which first aired in 2004.

Filed Under: Anime, Movies Tagged With: anime, trailers

Electric City, Tom Hank’s animated sci-fi, coming to Yahoo

January 9, 2012 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Electric City is a sci-fi animation by Tom Hanks. It’s about 90 minutes long and the PR for it says it’s full of action and sci-fi adventure. Tom Hanks has been working on it for a while. It’s a future of rubble – expect in the Electric City, which survives beyond the end of the […]

Filed Under: Online Shows Tagged With: sci-fi

Axe’s Anarchy Girls comic book ad campaign

January 8, 2012 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

It’s going to be an ad campaign where taking part could get you added to the graphic novel. The novel itself will be drawn as the campaign involves. The crowd, the Axe fans, get to tell the story.

Filed Under: Online Shows Tagged With: ads, Comics

Beez Entertainment to close?

January 4, 2012 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

“BEEZ no longer exists,” says a post on the French site Forum Gundam after Google Translate has had a bash at the text. Sadly, this could be true – the news that Bandai Entertainment would shutter all new anime broke this week. Both Bandai Entertainment and BEEZ are owned by the same company – Namco […]

Filed Under: TV Tagged With: gundam, Namco Bandai

Bandai Entertainment shutters all new anime

January 2, 2012 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

This is gloomy news. Bandai Entertainment will make no more new anime or manga as of next month. This also means that Gosick, Nichijo and Turn a Gundam are cancelled from the anime range and Code Geass: Renya, Gurren Lagann v7, Lucky Star Boo Boo Kagaboo, Mobile Suit Gundam 001 and Tales of the Abyss: […]

Filed Under: Anime Tagged With: Namco Bandai

Watch a clip from the missing Doctor Who episodes

December 12, 2011 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The BBC does not have all the Doctor Who episodes ever recorded. The series is so old it dates back to a time when video tape was very expensive and the BBC actually deleted some of the old espidoes in order to re-use the tapes. Good news. Two more episodes, once believed to be missing, […]

Filed Under: TV Tagged With: bbc, doctor who, Patrick Troughton, william hartnell

The prequel to The Doctor, The Widow and The Wardrobe

December 6, 2011 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The good folks over at the BBC have released a short prequel to The Doctor, The Widow and The Wardrobe. Or, put in another way, the evil people at the BBC are trying their best to create a Christmas Doctor Who riot of unconstrained anticipation. What’s the difference between a Doctor Who prequel and a […]

Filed Under: TV Tagged With: christmas, doctor who, Eleventh Doctor, matt smith

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