Episode 56 – TV Shows You May Have Overlooked

The Untitled Geek Podcast

SHOW NOTES

Guest(s): Joe

Drink of the Show: Hadouken Shot

Ingredients:

• 3/4 oz Blue Curacao
• 3/4 oz Fireball Cinnamon Whiskey
• Splash of Bacardi 151

Mix Curacao and Fireball in a shot glass. Put a little 151 on top and light it on fire. Cover the shot to extinguish and drink! (We didn’t do the 151/fire part)

Drink Rating (out of 5)

• Adam: 4
• Tev: 4
• Joe: 4

Topic: TV Shows You May Have Overlooked

Shows: Ray Bradberry Theater, New Outer Limits, Chuck, Black Books, Traveler, Peep Show, Duckman, Huff, Spaced, Farscape, Lexx, Jericho, Supernatural, Alfred Hitchcock Presents

Television

What we’ve been watching: Hollywood Treasure, Archer

News:

• Nielson reports drop in number of TV households
• Hulu may requires a cable subscription
• Star Trek: TNG season 1 on blu-ray gets a date: July 24th

Books

What we’ve been reading: The Graveyard Book, Neil Gaiman (From the Dust Returned, Ray Bradbury)

Tech

News:

• Microsoft invests $300M in B&N Nook
• Study suggests that not enough sleep activates fat genes
• RIM introduces Blackberry 10
• Target to stop carrying the Kindle
• Apple patents touchy feelly technology
• Brand Loyalty no more
• TSA on the lookout for surgically emplanted bombs
• Renting your phone is probably a bad investment
• Subscribe to Adobe CS6 and save?

Video Games

What we’re playing: Mass Effect 3, Legend of Grimrock, Triple Town

News:

• Contract-subsidized Xbox coming soon?
• THQ ditches budget ValuSoft division
• Oxford study treats post-traumatic stress with Tetris

Movies

What we’ve been watching: Diving Bell and the Butterfly, Buckaroo Banzai, High Lonesome: The Story of Bluegrass Music

News:

• Disney gets Henry Selick to direct The Graveyard Book

Break Music:

• Spiderman (cover), Douglas Mitchell

End Music:

• Commander Shepard, Miracle of Sound