“Tucker And Dale vs. Evil”

For many of our Commonwealth cousins in Calgary, this is somewhat old news as Nathan Fillion had already tweeted that Alan Tudyk was there a little while ago and I believe that Calgary Browncoats have been charged with making Mr Tudyk  feel welcome or feeding him coffee …

For the rest of us though, The Hollywood Reporter have announced that Alan and Tyler Labine (the wonderful Sock in “Reaper”) are the leads in an indie “genre-bending” horror film called “TUCKER AND DALE VS. EVIL”.  A simple tale of everyday hillybilly folk who acquires a ramshacke cabin as their summer home and who get mistaken for a couple of psychotic murderers by a group of teenagers camping in the area.

The good news for us in Blighty is that it already has a UK distributor – yay!

If you wish to read the article at THR.com, you can go to it here.

Our 50th!! Time to celebrate!

    Yes!! We are 50! well… not really but our show has reached this milestone, who could have believed it??

So if you want to celebrate or take a “nostalgic” strole with us you only have one thing to do: download and listen to our 50th episode right here, right now!

ABC starts to promote “Castle” season 2 and Tim Minear runs with Tenctonese

Personally, I’m not totally sure if this is the right place for this, but it certainly made me laugh this afternoon.

My daily news email from The Hollywood Reporter threw this rather fun tidbit for all of us who enjoyed watching the first season of “Castle”:

Mystery novel tie-in set for second season of ABC series

By James Hibberd

June 30, 2009, 11:00 PM ET

As networks brainstorm dizzying high-tech ways to promote shows online and via social networks, ABC is adopting a decidedly retro medium to excite viewers for the upcoming second season of “Castle”: a book.

Because the show’s protagonist, Richard Castle, is a best-selling author of mysteries, what more appropriate tie-in than to publish an actual mystery novel written by the character?

Starting Aug. 10, the first chapter of a novel titled “Heat Wave,” credited to Richard Castle, will debut on ABC.com as a round of on-air repeats lead up to the Season 2 premiere in late September.

The network will post the first half of the book, a chapter a week, for 10 weeks. The full novel will be published Sept. 29 by Disney sister company Hyperion. The story apparently is a stand-alone mystery with cross-over elements to the on-screen story.

The network teamed with Hyperion for 2006’s “Lost” tie-in “Bad Twin” and “The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer,” which tied in to the ABC miniseries “Rose Red.” Both sold quite well. The real author of “Heat Wave” is not being unveiled.”

Any of you who regularly read fan fiction from fanfiction.net, know that there is now an amount of “Castle” fan fic there and one author has been also posting fiction on the official “Castle” forum on ABC.com.

Variety has also reported that Tim Minear will also be working on a new “Alien Nation” project for the Sci Fi Channel (soon to be SyFy or as the Farpoint Media alum have dubbed it “Syphillis Channel”).  Regular listeners to the show know that “Alien Nation” is a favourite of mine and Andrew’s.  If you have never seen the TV show, check it out as original producer, Kenneth Johnson, created a particularly rich universe.  I have every confidence that Mr Minear will equal the standard set.

And the winner is…

Hi!

This is our June show and, as my cunning title seems to indicate, we are revealing who will be THE Voice of Redemption!

But as we are wicked, in all the possible meanings of this word, you will have to listen to the show to find out!

Let me take this opportunity to thank once more all the people who took the time to either enter the “Be the voice of Redemption” competition or to vote for one of the finalists! Merci!!

So… you want to listen to our 49th show? Find it here!

In the show we are also talking about the CSTS taking place in Warwick next weekend, we will be doing show 51 from there! If you want more information about it click here!

And just in case… you are wondering if I made a mistake when I typed the CSTS Warwick show, I haven’t! So you guessed it, this week you will have another show, our big FIVE  ZERO show!

We can’t believe we made it there! Can you? So if you want to celebrate our big 50 show join us later on this week!

Stay shiny!

Unforeseen delays on “Be the voice of Redemption”

Hello!

 

Today was meant to be the day… but due to an unforeseen illness amongst our little crew of Sending a Wave we are unable to record today and therefore our contest result show will not go out today as we promised.

We can only apologise profusely and hope you won’t hold against us the fact that you will have to wait a couple of more weeks before learning who won the competition.

We will try however to put out a bonus show in the meantime to help with the wait….

Sorry.

CSTS on YouTube

If you are still wondering what all the Can’t Stop The Serenity fuss is about and undecided about whether or not to find a local screening or even to take advantage of the Daytona Browncoats’s brilliant ticket giveaway (trip to Florida + Serenity screening = you?)

Here’s a YouTube vid made by Diana Lopez:

Wendy

May Show (2) now available

The second May show (don’t y’all get too used to two shows per month!) is now available.  In it, we discuss some of the good news we have been getting with series renewals recently, and talk to two of the organisers for this years’ CSTS screenings.

We don’t, however, reveal the results of the Browncoat: Redemption competiton – sorry, we want to interview the finalists before we reveal the winner, and we haven’t had time to do that yet.

The show can be downloaded direct from here.

Voice of Redemption Vote Closed!

Well, the votes are closed for our Voice of Redemption competition.  And the winner is…

You’re kidding aren’t you?  You think we’d announce the winner here on the website?  Heck no!  The winner will be announced in a future show.

So watch this space.

Nathan Fillion at Collectormania 15

Showmasters International announced that Nathan Fillion will be appearing at their Collectormania 15 event in Milton Keynes. 

The whole event runs from Friday 5 to Sunday 7 June, but Nathan will only be there for Saturday 6 and Sunday 7 June and besides signing, he will also be doing photo ops.  This will be his first UK appearance since the London Film and Comic Con in 2006.

The event has now outgrown the Milton Keynes shopping centre and for the first time will be held at the MK Dons football ground; entry remains free and Showmasters have laid on free transport to and from the ground.

Besides Nathan, there is a myriad of top line guests such as Ben Browder, Philip Glenister (with The Gene Genie’s Audi Quattro!), Avery Brooks, Burn Gorman and Leonard Nimoy (!) as just a few amongst many.  For full details, please go to their page here.

Networks announce 2009 – 2010 schedules

Over the last few days, the networks have been presenting their 2009 – 2010 schedules and now we have the good news regarding the return of  ”Dollhouse”, “Castle” and “Chuck” – what changes are in store for them?

According to Variety, nothing.  All stay in the same:

“Dollhouse” – Fridays at 21:00

“Castle” – Mondays at 22:00

“Chuck” – Mondays at 20:00

No word as yet to the scheduling of the new “V” series, but as listeners know that the original “V” miniseries and subsequent TV series continue to be a favourite of ours, you can be sure that the moment anything gets announced, we’ll be talking about it.  Incidently, the ubiquitous ACIN recently posted a review of the pilot episode which you can read here.