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Why can an adaptation reproduce the characters, costumes, lore and famous moments, yet still feel completely wrong? The problem may not be fidelity, but whether the people rebuilding the story understand what is holding it together.

Hollywood loves an established world.

The maps already exist. The characters have names. The famous scenes are waiting. The fans are already emotionally invested. On paper, adaptation should be the safest...

Streaming was supposed to free television.

No schedules. No missed episodes. No VHS tapes with the ending accidentally recorded over by Coronation Street. Just an endless library of stories waiting whenever you wanted them.

For a while, it felt like liberation.

But once television became something delivered through a pipe, the pipe became more valuable than the programmes moving through it. Netflix went from DVD-by-mail upstart to dat...

This week, Dave chats with author David Crichton about his new novel, ‘The Avengers: Death in Downing Street’, which returns John Steed and Emma Peel to the wonderfully stylish and eccentric world of the classic 1960s television series.

And, just to avoid any confusion following the latest ‘Avengers: Doomsday’ trailer, we are talking bowler hats and leather catsuits here, not Marvel superheroes.

David and Dave...

Cosplay began as something gloriously handmade: fans turning up in costumes because they loved a story enough to carry it into the room.

But somewhere between the early science fiction masquerades, Star Wars armour builds, convention photo galleries, viral cosplay, professional creators and the rise of organisations like the 501st Legion, something shifted.

The costume was no longer just a costume.

It became proof that a franchise mat...

In this episode of Geektown Talks To, Dave chats with cinematographer, director and filmmaker Boris Mojsovski, whose work includes Netflix’s Harlan Coben thriller ‘I Will Find You’, along with ‘Rabbit Hole’, ‘12 Monkeys’, ‘Titans’, ‘The Lost Symbol’, ‘The Madness’ and more.

Boris talks about growing up around film sets, initially trying not to follow the f...

This week on Geekstorians, we travel to Middle-earth, not as tourists, but as slightly suspicious historians with a map, a torch, and some concerns about licensing agreements.

In 1998, Peter Jackson walked into New Line Cinema with a fantasy epic most of Hollywood considered impossible. What followed became one of cinema’s great gambles: three films, shot back-to-back, built in New Zealand by artists, craftspeople, performers,...

Anime did not cross into Western culture in one clean movement. It arrived in fragments, through edited TV dubs, bootleg tapes, playground obsessions, fansubs, late-night downloads, and eventually legal streaming platforms.

In this episode of Geekstorians, Dave picks up where Season One’s ‘The Anime Underground’ left off, following anime’s journey from cult import to global mainstream force.

We begin at the 20...

Video games didn’t just become bigger than film, music and TV. They became places people went, watched, gathered, spent money, and built memories inside.

In this episode of Geekstorians, Dave from Geektown looks at how gaming quietly became the largest entertainment industry on Earth, and why nobody really announced it.

The story begins in April 2020, when millions of people attended Travis Scott’s Astronomical concert in...

In this episode of Geekstorians, Dave looks at the strange five-year window when geek culture stopped being something fans used to find each other, and became something companies used to find them.

Beginning in 2007, the episode follows the moment geek identity moved from comic shops, conventions, video rental shelves and school computer labs into the mainstream marketplace. The iPhone made technology aspirational. Comic-Con became ...

Season Three of Geekstorians begins with the moment geek culture stopped knocking on the door and started owning the building.

In this episode, Dave looks at the rise of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, from Marvel’s desperate rights situation and the gamble of Iron Man, to Kevin Feige’s phase-planned architecture, the genre trick that kept the films from feeling like a production line, and the extraordinary test of asking...

This week on Geekstorians, we bring Season 2 to a close with ‘Nothing Went To Plan’.

Across the season, we’ve looked at films that nearly vanished, companies that collapsed under their own weight, shows that survived cancellation, fandoms that refused to let go, and the strange ways failure can become an origin story.

In this shorter reflective finale, Dave steps back from the individual stories to ask what they all...

It is a very special episode of Geektown Radio this week, as Dave celebrates Episode 500 with regular co-hosts Matt and Gray for The Great Geeky Hall Of Fame Pub Quiz!

Geektown Radio officially launched back on Tuesday, 20th January 2015, although Dave had already recorded 32 interview podcasts before the weekly show began. Since then, there have been hundreds of episodes, specials, Geektown Behind T...

This week on Geekstorians, Dave from Geektown looks at three films that did not behave the way Hollywood expected.

‘The Rocky Horror Picture Show’ arrived as a box office failure before midnight audiences turned it into a ritual. ‘Blade Runner’ opened to confusion, studio interference and mixed reactions before becoming one of science fiction’s most debated landmarks. And ‘The Big Lebowski’ ...

Dave is joined by Matt for Geektown Radio Episode 499, with this week’s show led by chat about breakout horror film Obsession, the opening episodes of Spider-Noir, Russell T Davies drama Tip Toe, and spy series PONIES.

Matt kicks things off with Obsession, which he calls one of the best films of 2026, praising its slow-burn setup, sharp horror concept and one scene that completely floored him. He also dives into Spider-Noir, w...

This week on Geekstorians, we’re boldly going into one of the strangest survival stories in geek culture: Star Trek, the franchise that has been cancelled, revived, mismanaged, overextended, rebooted, and pushed through nearly every major shift in modern entertainment.

Born in 1966, cancelled in 1969, and kept alive by fans who refused to accept that decision, Star Trek became something far bigger than a struggling network sci...

This week, Geektown Radio heads to MCM Comic Con London for a special episode recorded around one of the UK’s biggest pop culture events, which took over ExCeL London for a packed weekend of TV, film, games, anime, comics, cosplay, panels and general geeky mayhem.

Dave went down to the convention for the weekend, although sadly Darryl had to drop out after being struck down ill, leaving Dave to tackle the heat, the crowds, the...

This week on Geekstorians, we’re looking at the leak that punched a hole through Hollywood’s gates.

For years, Fox had Deadpool sitting in development limbo. Ryan Reynolds wanted to make the film properly. Director Tim Miller had test footage. The fans knew exactly what they wanted. The studio, however, remained unconvinced.

Then, in July 2014, fifty-two seconds of Deadpool test footage appeared online.

It wasn’t a t...

Dave is joined by Darryl on this week’s Geektown Radio as they chat through the latest TV, film and gaming news, along with the shows and games they’ve been watching recently.

Darryl kicks things off with a look at ‘High Potential’ Season 2, the crime procedural starring Kaitlin Olson, which continues to deliver those fun “clever outsider helps the police” vibes. He also reviews ‘Mistletoe M...

In Season 2 Episode 6 of Geekstorians, Dave digs into one of the strangest turnarounds in blockbuster history.

After Tim Burton redefined Batman for the big screen, Warner Bros. slowly pushed the franchise away from gothic weirdness and towards something brighter, louder, more commercial, and far more toy-friendly. The result was 1997’s Batman & Robin — a film so spectacularly misjudged it didn’t just flop, it ...