Episode 151 - Give Me a "B"

On this episode we celebrate the golden bane of the geek lifestyle, B movies and B TV. Yes, these are the shows that might not win any Oscars or Emmys, they are near and dear to our hearts in their less-then-perfection. Enjoy

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Turtle Going BOOM!!!. . .Awesome!

Paramount Pictures is teaming with Michael Bay and Bay’s Platinum Dunes Production Company to produce a new live-action Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles film. The idea is to reboot the live action TMNT franchise, which New Line inaugurated in 1990. Bay will potentially be responsible for two key Paramount franchises, the Transformers, and now the Turtles, which Paramount’s sister company Nickelodeon acquired last October. According to Deadline Hollywood, Bay and his team will be meeting with writers over the next few weeks to lay the foundation for the rebooting of the franchise.

Starz Gets Torched

Starz Entertainment, BBC Worldwide, and BBC Cymru Wales will produce a new 10-episode Torchwood series which will air on pay channel Starz in the U.S. and on BBC in the UK. The new series will premiere in the summer of 2011. Series creator Russell T. Davies will lead the writing team; Jack Barrowman will star as Captain Jack; and Eve Myles will star as Gwen. The cast will also include “new faces,” according to the announcement. Storylines will widen to include settings in the U.S. and around the world.

He Ain’t To Old for this Shit, But He Might Be Too Black

Derrick Comedy member and star of NBC’s Community Donald Glover has started a campaign on twitter to get an audition for the role of Peter Parker in Marc Webb’s 3D Spider-Man Reboot. The comic actor is encouraging fans/followers to retweet the hash tag #donald4spiderman. The #donald4spiderman tag is popping up on over 100 new tweets every 60 seconds.Seems like a lot of people on the internets think its an inspired idea. Someone has even created a Donald Glover for Spider-Man Facebook fanpage.

Bullets, Bracelets and Breast-Whisperers

Did all the buzz lately about Green Lantern, Captain America, Thor and other big-screen comic-book adaptations make you forget about the Wonder Woman movie that's been in the works for forever? Jennifer Love Hewitt, star of the recently canceled Ghost Whisperer, hasn't — and she wants to win the screen role of the Amazonian superhero. "I'm fighting so hard," she told msn. "I think Warner Brothers is getting ready to make Wonder Woman, and I really want to play Wonder Woman. I am obsessed with Wonder Woman." So what do you think? Should Hewitt get the role? Or would one of the other possible stars whose names have popped up in the past—from Megan Fox and Eliza Dushku to Sandra Bullock and Beyonce Knowles—be better in the role?