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In this end of year special the guys talk about the cancellation of Stargate Universe and the take some listener questions.

Week That Was

The End League, All Star Batman, The Return of Bruce Wayne, Batman Inc, Scott Pilgrim vs the World and Voyage of the Dawn Treader

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The second part of our interview with Merlin co-creator Julian Jones

Enjoy and Happy New Year!

After two episodes in October and none in November, the North East accents, squabbles and over-the-top jingles return with North East Geek Feast episode 7!

STARTER - Daniel and Lily welcome geeksyndicate.co.uk writer, Matt Pease (and a bit of microphone hiss), to the Feast to review The Amazing Spiderman 648 and 649. After 101 issues of ‘Brand New Day’, these issues start the new ‘Big Time’ regime on the Spidey books. But what will these three fans of the Wallcrawler make of the new direction?

PALATE CLEANSER - A very different ‘Retail Review’ this episode. Normal service will resume next time.

MAIN COURSE - In the second instalment of ‘Adventures in Geekdom’, David Garrick experiences his first comic convention when he visits the MCM Expo in London (which I here is somewhere a bit south of Durham).

Featuring interviews with the people behind Draw The World Together, Rainbow Orchid, My Cardboard Life and the Orbital Comics shop.

Dessert - The premiere edition of ‘Ultimate Crisis of Comics’. With all the comics in the universe being wiped out of existence, Matt Pease is given the opportunity to save 4 single issues to treasure forever - and one issue he would make sure gets destroyed. What will he pick? Well, listen and find out…

Find NEGF on Facebook to get involved in future episodes or email Daniel and Lily at [email protected]

Find the presenters and guests on Twitter @comicsdaniel, @terracottalily and @matpease.

Find previous episodes of NEGF at http://northeastgeekfeastshow.mevio.com

Welcome to Episode 5 of The Naked Geek hosted by David Monteith

For the 2nd year running, The Naked Geek delivers an alternative Christmas speech.

Today's inspiration comes from The Sword of Shannara by Terry Brooks and Dr Fate from DC Comics by J M DeMatteis & Shawn McManus

For those who have bought the Geek Syndicate iPhone app I have included the first chaoter of Sword of Shannara

Music: Here Comes Santa Claus by the Ramsey Lewis Trio

Drink: Well it's not whiskey

Episode 3. Simply Having A Wonderful Christmas Time! Here it is, the long awaited (by some) episode 3. See what Rich and Ben have in their festive sack for all you lucky people! Any feedback/recommendations can be sent to[email protected] or to twitter.com/Richnerd

Join the guys in their final show of 2010. This episode, we discuss some of the big news - including a look at Drake's Deception and Amaechi previews Dead Space 2.

Our main this week is a look back at the games of 2010, we pick our favourite games from a variety of categories before settling on The Next Level Game of the Year.

The review this month is Tron Evolution - find out what Barry and Ant thought of the game.

Hope you all have a great Christmas and an even better New Year. See you next year.

Time for a another stroll through the deadly maze of geekdom with your hosts Dave and Barry.

News

Marvel relaunch Crossgen titles

Fantastic Four to become Three

Fan Poll picks it's movie Wonder Woman.

Week that Was

The Indifference Engine.

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In the first of a two-part interview we catch up with Julian Jones, writer and co-creator of the hit BBC show Merlin. In this part the lads fire their own questions at Julian and in the second part (out next week) they pitch some of the fan questions that have been sent in for Julian.

There are discussions galore on Merlin and Arthur, Morgana's turn to the dark side, Julian's thoughts on season 3 and more. Stay tuned for part 2 to learn what will become of the Knights of the Round Table and some thoughts on the Gwen/Arthur and Lancelot relationship and more.

Be warned if you've not seen all of season three there are spoilers abound in this interview...you have been warned

Enjoy!

FEEDBACK: A HERO’S CALLING

His wife and his Tech Support must face a global outbreak of superpowers without Feedback’s help when he is sequestered in the Lair for a television show. Meanwhile Feedback finds himself isolated and alone, struggling to find out if he is still the man he thought he was.

Written by Alan White, Elizabeth Delaney, & Robin Carlisle

Post-Produced by Alan White

with original scores by David A. Krause and Jeffery Wayne Kirkpatrick

Based upon the character concepts created by

Matthew Atherton, Sarah Blevins, Darren Passarello, Chris Watters and Steel Chambers

Featured in our cast are:

Georgette Perna as BARB

Kim Gianopoulus as MEGAN

David A Krause as JOE, The PRODUCER, and NICK Richardson

Tiffany Braford (bray-ford) as Francine the ANNOUNCER

Alan White as PROFESSOR CHATHAM

And Robin Carlisle as ROBIN

Along with;

Elizabeth Delaney as AMBER

Timm “The Jester” Gillick as the MUGGER, and … the DARK ENFORCER!!

Colin D. Snow as BREAK BREAKOUT

Paeter Frandsen as PRE-FETCH

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M.J. Cogburn as WOLF-GIRL

Our cast of regulars were;

Steve Anderson as ALEXANDER FORTHRIGHT III

Mark Kalita as JOHN BLACKTHORN

Elie Hirschman as CONSOLE

Oliver Tull as OUTSOURCE

Andrey Kuznetsov as REBOOT

Mike Winters as VITO, The VENDOR, and TOM

Zack Fester as CODEC

Natasha Laythrup as MILLENNIUM

Perry Whittle as NEUTRINO

Brandon Cole as FREAKOPAEDIA

Tanner Karns as ROUTER

Jeffrey Wayne Kirkpatrick as CLUSTER

And Tim O'Donnell as BACK-UP

A special thanks go to the hosts of “Just Another Fanboy,”

Steven Orr, who portrayed the WAITER

And Karen Orr as the HOMELESS WOMAN

You can find them at www.justanotherfanboy.com

BrokenSea Audio Productions was honored to have as our special guest stars;

Darren Passarello as NITRO

Chris Watters as MAJOR VICTORY

Sarah Blevins as SARAH

And our hero--

Matthew Atherton as FEEDBACK!!

Join us next time for “Double Take,” Episode 5 of “FEEDBACK: A Hero’s Calling”

Earlier in the year Dave and I caught up with Mark Valley the star of the hit US show Human Target.

Thanks to my computer dying I thought I had lost the interview (we lost dave halfway through the recording as you will hear) but after a whole lot of tinkering and some luck I've manged to recover the interview for your listening pleasure.

Be warned this was recorded before season 2 aired so there's not a lot of questions on season 2 although we do get to chat briefly about what Mark believes we can expect from Chance in season two.

"Wassail! Wassail! All hail the Wassail! Wassail! wassail! all over the town,Our toast it is white and our ale it is brown;Our bowl it is made of the white maple tree;With the wassailing bowl, we'll drink to thee. Like a works do in a 1970s sitcom the combined workforce of Dissecting Worlds and Scrolls continue to demolish popular panel games in the seasonal spirit. Well seasonal spirits, and I don't mean in a Dickensian way, Featuring:

• Points for punditry with opinion fest Geeking Talk
• A tricky round of Call My Bluff with bastard son of Frank Muir Matty
• Guess Who hosted by Phil
• Limericks from Gazbox
• More insights into the rock and rave lifestyle of The Inklings
• Daleks and more.

The wait is over. The time is now.The Teen-Titans of the Geek Syndicate Network have come together in a bumper sized two-part special of podcasty goodness. Celebrating the Christmas holiday in traditional fashion the Troublesome Twosome from Dissecting Worlds and the Questionable Quartet from Scrolls cast off all pretense of being rational people, get drunk and play stupid party games. A little too much is revealed about some, more questions are raised about others and at least one fabulous song is brutally murdered before your horrified ears.Skits, Christmas messages, insults from a famous guest-host and limericks from an actual fan round off the VERY BESTChristmas Crossover special on the GSN that we have ever made, EVER (or your money back).Apologies in advance to the makers of Just A Minute, Never Mind the Buzzcocks and Mornington Crescent for the outrages we have committed in Part 1 - I'll let Kehaar do the grovelling for Part 2.Here are some made up quotes from some real people -'All my christmas wishes just came true. I particularly liked Saruman's letter to Santa.' (C. Lee)'Imagine taking something you really like and, and adding something else you really like to it, and mixing them up all together and then WHOP! dollopping them out onto two plates. Well that's like this innit. But in your ears.' (J. Oliver)'It's like, the best idea ever dude.' (K. Reeves)'Laugh? I nearly shat!' (W. Shatner)'It's the worst idea in history.' (S. Schama)