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Dave and Gray are back for Geektown Radio Episode 489 with a packed week of TV, film and entertainment news, including the Oscars 2026 winners, Firefly returning as an animated series, two lost Doctor Who episodes recovered, Buffy’s reboot stalling at Hulu, and Michael Sheen taking over House of Games.

They also review a pile of shows this week, including Young Sherlock, Star Trek: Starfleet Academy, The Capture, Solar Opposites, Gone, The Secret Genius, Vanished, The Floor, Hijack, Down Cemetery Road, How To Get To Heaven From Belfast, Scrubs, Ted and 9-1-1: Nashville.

On the film side, they break down the biggest Oscars 2026 talking points, including One Battle After Another leading the winners, Sinners making a huge impact, Jessie Buckley winning Best Actress, Michael B. Jordan taking Best Actor, the first ever Casting Oscar, the first female cinematography winner, and a rare tie in Best Live Action Short.

There is also plenty of TV news, including the stalled Buffy reboot, a possible Fallout 3 remaster, Riz Ahmed’s new Prime Video comedy Bait, a Stewie-focused Family Guy spin-off, and the latest renewals, cancellations and pick-ups.

Plus, they look ahead to next week’s TV highlights, including Invincible Season 4, Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man, Saturday Night Live UK, Crookhaven and more.

Listen now for Oscars reactions, TV reviews, sci-fi news, British telly chat and the usual Geektown mix of geeky chaos.

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Young Sherlock, Outlander Season 8, Life Is Strange casting, and a very suspicious set of Firefly reunions lead the news in Geektown Radio Episode 488.

Dave and this week’s co-host run through what they’ve been watching recently, including horror chatter, social media film discoveries, and a chronological deep dive into The Last of Us Part II. Dave also checks in with Young Sherlock, the ITV drama Gone, the final season of Outlander, and the new game Aethus.

In the TV news this week:

• The Bear will end with Season 5

• ITV detective drama Ridley has been cancelled after two series

• Miss Scarlet will conclude with Season 7

• Apple TV has cancelled Palm Royale

• Channel 4 has axed The Inheritance

On the renewal side:

• High Potential renewed for Season 3

• Doc renewed with another rare 22-episode order

• The Night Agent renewed for Season 4

• 9-1-1 renewed for Season 10

• 9-1-1: Nashville renewed for Season 2

• Little House On The Prairie renewed for Season 2

• The Dyers’ Caravan Park returning for Season 2

Elsewhere in TV news:

• Richard Osman will step down as host of House of Games

• The BBC has picked up I, Jack Wright Season 2

• The Devil’s Hour Season 1 premieres on ITVX this April

• HBO Max’s UK launch will include Adult Swim hits like Rick & Morty, Robot Chicken, Primal, and DC’s Harley Quinn

Casting and development news includes:

Treasure Island

Paramount+ and MGM+ are developing a new TV adaptation starring David Oyelowo as Long John Silver and Hayley Atwell as Bess Hawkins.

Life Is Strange

Prime Video’s adaptation of the hit Square Enix game has cast Maisy Stella as Chloe and Tatum Grace Hopkins as Max.

Lovejoy

See-Saw Films is developing a new TV adaptation of the classic antiques detective novels.

And finally… the Firefly mystery.

Nathan Fillion has been posting videos reuniting with original cast members including Gina Torres, Morena Baccarin, Sean Maher, Summer Glau, Jewel Staite and Adam Baldwin, teasing that “something is happening.”

It’s not a convention, podcast, or crossover appearance… so the speculation is officially running wild.

Co-Host

Together

Good Boy

Hoppers

Talk To Me

The Barbarian

The Last of Us Part II (chronological playthrough)

Dave

Young Sherlock

Gone (ITV)

Outlander – Season 8

Aethus (Game)

A Woman of Substance – Channel 4

Scarpetta – Prime Video

Solar Opposites Season 6 (Final) – Disney+

This Close – ITVX

Virgin River Season 7 – Netflix

Madison (Yellowstone) – Paramount+

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This week on Geektown Radio, Dave is joined by Domingos for a packed episode covering returning favourites, intense new dramas, and a huge industry shake-up.

• The Dutchman (2026) – A modern adaptation of the 1964 play starring André Holland, Kate Mara, Zazie Beetz and Aldis Hodge.
• Paradise – Season 2 (Hulu) – The conspiracy thriller expands beyond the bunker.
• Only in the Land – Arsenal Women’s Champions League documentary.
• Unveil: Jadewind (Netflix) – Lavish Tang Dynasty historical drama.
• Gone (ITV) – Psychological thriller starring Eve Myles and David Morrissey.
• Scrubs – Revival Season – Zach Braff, Sarah Chalke and Donald Faison return.
• Vanished (Prime Video) – Kaley Cuoco stars in a tense disappearance mystery.
• Plus catch-ups on Red Eye S2, Star Trek: Starfleet Academy and more.

• Renewals for Industry, Doctor Foster and Robin Hood
• NBC renewal bubble breakdown
• Paramount moves to acquire Warner Bros after Netflix bows out
• Ryan Coogler’s X-Files reboot lands a Hulu pilot
• Rockford Files casting update
• Ghosts UK heading to the big screen
• Nathan Fillion teases something Firefly-related

Listen now for all the latest TV news, reviews and industry updates.

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Dave is joined this week by Darryl from Hollywood North News for a packed episode covering the February BAFTAs, a tribute to the late Eric Dane, fresh show impressions, a report from the London Anime & Gaming Con, and a full run of UK and US TV news.

Darryl brings early thoughts on Talamasca: The Secret Order, the new Netflix entry in the Anne Rice universe, and whether it works if you haven't seen the other shows. He's also been into Cross Season 2 on Prime Video and reports back on whether it lives up to the first. There are impressions from The Night Agent Season 3, and some thoughts on Ryan Murphy's The Beauty that may save you some time.

Dave breaks down the February BAFTAs in full, including the biggest upset of the night in Best Leading Actor, why Marty Supreme's 0-from-11 night made history for the wrong reasons, and the moment involving Tourette's campaigner John Davidson that dominated post-show coverage — and why the BBC's handling of it was the real story.

There's also a heartfelt tribute to Eric Dane, who passed away on 19th February 2026 at the age of 54 following his battle with ALS. Netflix has released his episode of Famous Last Words, and it's well worth your time.

On the TV news front: UK cancellations, renewals including Can You Keep a Secret? and The Floor, an ABC renewal status update, Peter Krause eyeing a new NBC pilot, first-look photos for S.W.A.T. Exiles, Robert Carlyle joining Line of Duty Series 7, and the first original cast member confirmed for the Fox Baywatch reboot.

For more information on motor neurone disease, visit mndassociation.org and myname5doddie.co.uk in the UK, and targetals.org in the US.

⏱️ Timestamps

00:00 – Intro and welcome back 00:18 – Talamasca: The Secret Order (Netflix)

04:37 – Cross Season 2 (Prime Video) 09:41 – London Anime & Gaming Con report

14:45 – The Night Agent Season 3 (Netflix) 17:28 – The Beauty (Disney+)

19:53 – BAFTAs 2026: winners, upsets and the John Davidson moment

28:20 – Tribute to Eric Dane

33:53 – Dave's weekly catch-up: Starfleet Academy, The Rookie S8, Watson, Matlock S2, The Lincoln Lawyer S4

38:29 – Cancellations: You Bet, Jeopardy! UK, Virdee, No Strings Attached

40:06 – Renewals: Can You Keep a Secret?, The Floor, The Mistletoe Murders, The Night Agent S4 writers room

42:10 – ABC renewal status round-up

45:03 – Peter Krause and the Protection pilot for NBC

48:17 – S.W.A.T. Exiles: photos released, still no broadcaster

51:18 – Robert Carlyle joins Line of Duty Series 7

53:05 – David Chokachi joins the Fox Baywatch reboot

56:02 – Highlights for next week on TV

59:00 – Outro and where to find everyone

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Language doesn’t just describe culture.

Sometimes, it creates it.

In the Season One finale of Geekstorians, Dave explores the hidden history of geek language — how fans invented their own slang, references, in-jokes, and shorthand, and how that language quietly shaped modern geek culture and the internet itself.

From handwritten letters in the back pages of early science-fiction magazines, to fanzines, conventions, badges, and costumes… from Monty Python quotes and The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, to arcade slang, tabletop role-playing games, online gaming, text-message shorthand, memes, and chat rooms. This episode traces how fandom learned to communicate long before social media existed.

Along the way, we explore how shared language helped fandom survive moral panics, cancelled shows, shifting technology, and changing formats, not through manifestos or rules, but through jokes, references, and community shorthand.

Geek culture didn’t just grow around stories.

It grew around conversations.

This episode marks the end of Season One of Geekstorians. All ten episodes, plus the Christmas special, are now available.

If you’ve enjoyed the series, please consider rating, reviewing, or subscribing. It really helps the show find new listeners. You can also share your thoughts on Season One over at Geektown.co.uk or on social media.

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Stephen Amell leads a Baywatch reboot.

David Boreanaz headlines a Rockford Files revival.

Apple takes full control of Severance.

Marvel drops Wonder Man.

Welcome to Geektown Radio Episode 485.

Gray joins Dave this week to break down the biggest TV and streaming news, including Fox’s new Baywatch series with Stephen Amell as Hobie Buchannon, NBC rebooting The Rockford Files with David Boreanaz, and ITV picking up Stephen Amell and Minnie Driver crime drama The Murder Line.

We also cover:

• HBO Max launching in the UK and Ireland

• Sky bundling Netflix, Disney+, HBO Max and Hayu

• Apple Studios acquiring Severance in-house

• The final 90-minute chapter of Good Omens

• Renewals for The Assassin, Off Campus, and FOX favourites including Doc and Animal Control

• Netflix cancelling Terminator Zero

On the reviews side, we talk Marvel’s Wonder Man, Star Trek: Academy, 9-1-1, Watson, and the new game Star Trek: Voyager – Across the Unknown, which lets you rewrite Voyager history.

Plus ITV dramas, Netflix thrillers, The Traitors Ireland, and what to download for a long-haul honeymoon flight.

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What We’ve Been Watching

Gray:

• Betrayal
• Loot
• Dinosaur
• Hijack
• FBI
• Death in Paradise
• Mock The Week
• His & Hers
• Black Ops
• Heated Rivalry
• English Teacher
• The Traitors Ireland
• Secret Genius
• Schitt’s Creek

Dave:

• Star Trek: Voyager – Across the Unknown (Game)
• Wonder Man
• Star Trek: Academy
• 9-1-1
• Watson

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TV Renewals, Cancellations & Pick-Ups

Cancelled:

• Terminator Zero (Netflix)
• The Fortune Hotel (ITV)

Renewed:

• The Real Housewives Of London (Hayu)
• Off Campus (Amazon)
• The Assassin (Prime Video)

FOX Update:

• Doc
• Murder In A Small Town
• Best Medicine
• Memory Of A Killer
• Animal Control
• Going Dutch (on the bubble)

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Coming Next Week

• The Night Agent Season 3 – Netflix
• The Last Thing He Told Me Season 2 – Apple TV
• Walsh Sisters – BBC One
• Paradise Season 2 – Disney+
• The Lady – ITVX

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Toys were never just toys.

In this episode of Geekstorians, Dave traces the rise of the Plastic Empire — the moment when action figures, model kits, bricks, and collectibles stopped being side products and started becoming entire universes.

From the Star Wars Early Bird box that accidentally rewrote the rules of merchandising, to the 1980s cartoon-toy industrial complex, moral panics, and the birth of gender-segmented aisles, this is the story of how plastic shaped imagination, identity, and fandom itself.

Along the way, we explore LEGO’s uneasy relationship with licensed worlds, Gunpla’s transformation of fandom into craftsmanship, Warhammer’s hobbyist ecosystems, the rise of collector culture and shrine shelves, the collapse of toy superstores like Toys “R” Us, and how blind bags, loot-box logic, and digital skins quietly gamified collecting.

Finally, we look at the strangest evolution yet — a future where fans no longer wait for companies to make their toys at all, but design and print their own.

Because the Plastic Empire didn’t disappear.

It decentralised.

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Geektown Radio returns after its longest break, with Dave and Matt back for Episode 484 to catch up on months of TV, film, gaming, and industry news.

Matt talks about revisiting The Last of Us Part II using the new chronological mode and how it reshapes the story, alongside reviews of films including Honey, Don’t! and Hamnet.

Dave runs through what he has been watching, including Fallout Season 2, Hijack, The Night Manager’s long-awaited return, The Witcher Season 4, The Lincoln Lawyer, early impressions of Star Trek: Academy, and the new Muppet Show anniversary special on Disney Plus.

The episode features a major TV news round-up, with renewals and cancellations across Netflix, CBS, Apple TV, and HBO, including Black Mirror being renewed again and The Pitt racing ahead to Season 3.

There’s also discussion of HBO Max launching in the UK, Prime Video developing a Fallout Shelter reality series, casting news for Amazon’s God of War adaptation, HBO developing a Baldur’s Gate TV series with Craig Mazin, and why a Blake’s 7 reboot could be one of the most intriguing genre projects in development.

Plus upcoming TV highlights for the week ahead and what’s coming next for Geektown Radio and Geekstorians.

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Anime is everywhere now. Streaming platforms, cinema screens, fashion, music, TikTok, gaming. But it didn’t arrive in the West through studios, marketing campaigns, or corporate strategy.

It arrived through fans.

In this bumper-length episode of Geekstorians, Dave uncovers the real, messy, rebellious story of how anime travelled from post-war Japan to British living rooms and American college basements. It’s a journey that begins with lone animators and wartime propaganda films, explodes into giant-robot fever, and eventually spreads across the globe through mail networks, tape-trading rings, fan-subtitling groups, Channel 4’s late-night experiments, the chaos of SMTV: Live… and one film that hit like a cinematic meteor: Akira.

This is the tale of the people who carried anime by hand, copying tapes at 3am, mailing fanzines in brown envelopes, hosting screenings in overheated hotel rooms, building early websites on dial-up, and refusing to let shows like Gundam, Yamato and Macross slip into obscurity.

It’s the hidden history of how a scattered, passionate, wildly inventive fandom reshaped global pop culture, long before the industry realised the world was watching.

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In the 1980s, Dungeons & Dragons became the focus of one of the most unusual moral panics in modern history.

A tabletop role-playing game built around imagination, storytelling, and collaboration was suddenly accused of promoting occultism, psychological harm, and even violence. Dice were framed as sinister objects. Rulebooks were treated like dangerous texts. And ordinary teenagers playing fantasy games found themselves caught in a storm of fear and misinformation.

In this episode of Geekstorians, Dave from Geektown unpacks how D&D was pulled into the wider Satanic Panic, and why it became such a powerful symbol of adult anxiety about youth culture, imagination, and control.

The story begins with a missing student and a media myth that refused to go away, then follows the rise of anti-D&D campaigners, sensationalist talk shows, and made-for-TV dramas that blurred fiction and fact. Along the way, we explore how moral crusades spread, how “experts” were created for television, and how a game about fantasy became a real-world scapegoat.

But this is also the story of what actually happened around the gaming table, and why Dungeons & Dragons endured attempts to ban it, blame it, or brand it dangerous. Long after the panic faded, the game went on to influence video games, television, film, and modern fandom itself.

A deep dive into the Satanic Panic, moral hysteria, and the unlikely survival of one of the most influential games ever made.

I’m Dave from Geektown.

And this is Geekstorians.

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