• 13.5 million people watch lost. Easily wins the night for ABC. Even the Lead-in scores 10 million viewers
• Glee is picked up for season 3 before season 1 even ends
• Neil Gaiman turns in his untitled Doctor Who script. The episode is set to air the beginning of next season
• MTV orders Teen Wolf pilot to series
• Lost finale will be eligible for emmys, despite being too long

• Six months after Brittany Murphy dies, her husband is found dead following a medical aid request
• Morgan Spurlock/Joss Whedon team-up on Comic-Con documentary “Comic-Con Episode Four: A Fan’s Hope”
• Looney Tunes characters return in 3D animated shorts to be released theatrically
• RUMOR: Skrulls are villains in Avengers, leading to possibly Kree/Skrull war or Secret Invasion type story in sequel

• Halo Reach to be released on September 14th

• Apple confirms Steve Jobs will deliver keynote address at WWDC. Expected to be the announce of the iPhone 4G
• Summit City Comic Con
• Orion: The Hunter interview

GeekJerk Reaction: Prince of Persia, Sex and the City 2

• The CW has picked up season 1 of Moonlight to be a companion piece to The Vampire Diaries this summer
• Lost finale expanded to 2 1/2 hours
• Smallville season finale could finally break the “no tights” rule

• X-Men First class being released June 2011. Matthew Vaughn to direct, Bryan Singer to produce, Ashley Miller and Zack Stentz writing from Josh Schwartz draft
• Super 8 – J.J. Abrams Cloverfield-esque super secret trailer hit the screens before Iron Man 2
• Men in Black 3 will be released May 25, 2012 in 3d – Will Smith signed on, Tommy Lee Jones and Josh Brolin in negotiations to play Old/Young Agent K
• Avi Arad producing a Pac-Man “project”…rumored to be a movie
• Rise of the Apes announced for June 24, 2011
• MI4 confirms director Brad Bird for Christmas 2011

• LittleBigPlanet 2 announced for Winter. Create entire games, rather than just levels. Move support limited to “Bonus Levels” and building levels.

• FCC has agreed to allow movie studios to broadcast directly to homes

Geek Jerk Reaction: Robin Hood, Just Wright, Letters to Juliet

• Heroes is being given a 13 episode pickup for season 5 to “go out with a bang”?
• Young Justice on the way from Greg Weisman
• Matt Smith guest starring in a Sarah Jane Adventures serial to be written by RTD
• Legend of the Seeker is now very likely cancelled
• Chuck returns this week

• Marvel Studio plans series of low budget films
• High School Musical star (Vanessa Hudgens) in talks to play Spider Woman?
• Columbia must enter production on Ghost Rider 2 by November 14th, or they lose the rights. Likely moving forward without Nicolas Cage as a result.
• Edgar Wright’s Ant Man finally gearing up for production in December
• Newest Last Airbender trailer is kind of awesome, also 3D conversion

• Batman Arkham Asylum 2 confirms Talia Al Ghul, Two Face, and Mister Freeze
• Starcraft II beta codes available at Gamestop and Amazon by pre-ordering

• Batman Live Action Arena show from creators of Walking With Dinosaurs
• iPhone may have been sold rather than “found”. As a result, criminal charges may be forthcoming.

Geek Jerk Reaction: Furry Vengeance, A Nightmare on Elm Street

Discussion

• Smallville Producers sue Warner Bros.
• ‘V’ Returns March 30th
• Jonny Lee Miller and  Jon Bernthal cast in AMC’s The Walking Dead
• Glee Premiere to run from 9:28 to 10:30 on April 13th
• Lost series finale is titled “The End” airing Sunday May 23.
• Chuck’s original finale with have a game-changing episode, but then there will be the additional 6 episodes
• Fox cancels 24

• Scott Pilgrim vs. The World trailer
• Angela Bassett cast as Amanda Waller in Green Lantern
• Brian K. Vaughan’s future looks bright:”The Vault”, Leterrier may direct “Y”, “Runaways” part of Marvel Studios’ post-Avengers slate, “Ex Machina” and “Roundtable” both in development

• Microsoft to have Natal showing and regular Xbox 360 briefing at E3 2010
• Scott Pilgrim: The Video Game by Paul Robertson with music by Anamanaguchi

• The Wizarding World of Harry Potter opens June 18th

Geek Jerk Reaction: Clash of the Titans, Last Song, Tyler Perry’s Blah Blah Blah

Boxoffice Report:

1. How to Train Your Dragon
2. Alice in Wonderland
3. Hot Tub Time Machine
4. The Bounty Hunter
5. Diary of a Wimpy Kid

Talking Points

• Apologies for lack of site activity
• Geek By Night/Fandomonium gone mostly for good
• The announcement of a new Geekshow Entertainment show
• Merry Christmas! Let us know what you get!

Movies

• Brittany Murphy dies of cardiac arrest
• Iron Man 2 Trailer
• Alice in Wonderland

Television

• Discussion of what we’ve enjoyed to this point
• Discussion of what we didn’t like
• Scott is out of live television watching, into British television
• Discussion of the shows coming up (Lost, Chuck)
• Day One reduced from half season to mini-series

Video Games

• 2010 has a ton of God of War “clones”
• Arkham Asylum 2 announced
• Greenday Rockband announced
• Halo Reach & Mass Effect 2 cinematic trailers
• Microsoft promises “AAA” title every month in 2010
• Early 2010 especially brutal (Mass Effect 2, Bioshock 2, Splinter Cell Conviction, Final Fantasy XIII, Battlefield Bad Company 2, Aliens vs Predator, Dead Rising 2, etc)
• 2010: The year of the MMO for geeks? (Star Trek, Star Wars, DC)

GeekJerk Reaction

December 23rd

• Chipmunks: The Squeakquel

December 25th

• It’s Complicated
• Nine
• Sherlock Holmes
• Up In the Air

December 18-20, 2009

1. This season will be something of a companion piece to Season 1. Executive Producers Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse stated that the show’s overall saga is meant to almost loop into itself thematically, meaning Season 6 will deal with plot (and charecters) the show hasn’t dealt with since Season 1.

2. Season 6 will be light on Dharma mythology.

3. Richard Alpert will get his own episode, which will hopefully unviel his mysterious origins

4. Daniel Faraday, aka The Greatest Charecter Ever, will be returning in some form next season, despite his death at the hands of his own mother

5. Although her fate seemed sealed at the end of Season 5’s finale, Juliet may not be dead. Actress Elizabeth Mitchell will be popping up next season, which means Jack’s plan to blow the Island back to the past may have worked.

6. Claire will be back. Maybe. Sort of.

7. At the panel, a video of a Mr. Cluck’s Chicken Shack commercial was shown, with Hugo “Hurley” Rayes as the chain’s owner/mascot. In the commercial, Hurley speaks of his adventure to Austrialia, resulting in exciting new “outback themed” menu items. This gives further evidence that Jack’s plan worked and the hydrogen bomb explosion prevented the crash of Oceanic Flight 815

8. More evidence; another video was a clip of America’s Most Wanted….featuring fugitive Kate Austin.

9. Lindelof states that not all of the Island’s mysteries will be solved. “Just the ones that matter.”

10. At the very end of the panel, Charlie himself Dominac Monahagn took to the stage, alongside former castmates Josh Holloway, Michael Emmerson and Jorege Garcia. Was he just making a fun little cameo or was this hinting that Charlie will be making an appearnce?

LOST!!!!!!!!!!!

Discussed This Week:

• Missing the Last couple weeks
• Kentucky Weather
• Upcoming Video Podcast
• Final Fantasy XIII
• Batman: Arkham Asylum
• Disney ditches Voyage of the Dawn Treader, Fox picks it back up
• Lost Returns

Box Office Report:

Geek Jerk Reaction:

This Week:

New In Town
Taken
The  Uninvited

Next Week:

Coraline
She’s Just Not that Into You
The Pink Panther 2
Push

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Question for Next Week: Do you play Board Games? If so, which games? If not, why not?

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Lost premieres January 21, 8/7c on ABC

If you have not watched Lost all the way through, this is probably not the episode for you. We free ourselves to discuss spoilers until our hearts are content. And spoilers there are. A large number of characters are discussed in detail, including their motivations, their character arcs, their relationships, and even their deaths.

The end result is an episode that could’ve went on much longer. But the content and discussion we did get was fantastic. Thanks again to everyone that tuned in. If you still haven’t caught one of these shows, you are running out of opportunities. Next week is the E3/Video Game discussion, followed the next week by Comic Book Films. Join us!

*edit* New version of the episode is up, with hopefully improved audio levels.