Vertigo’s popular comic series, Sandman, is once again being consider for a TV adaptation as Warner Bros. is trying to acquire the rights to air it on TV. If successful, they have plans to have Supernatural creator Erik Kripke to take on the project and also air it on CW network. Throughout the ’90s there has been many attempts to adapt the series into live action via film or TV and has never passed through the planning phase. HBO was once close but due to rights issue, the planned mini-series never happened.

While I’m up for some good television and hearing many good things about the Sandman story, I wouldn’t mind checking it out. My only worry is that WB is aiming to air this on CW. As of now, most of the shows on CW are aimed for female audience, hence getting rid of shows like Everybody Hates Chris, Reaper, and their number one watched show, WWE Smackdown! I guess you could say, I have a bad feeling on how they may want to take on the story. Anyway, how do y’all feel about this? Any of you excited for the possibilities of a TV show or does the news upset you?

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As fans of the television show Buffy The Vampire Slayer know, in every television show, video game or movie, there must be a “big bad.” Some nemesis that is so powerful and so outweighs the characters, that you simply must watch/read/play to find out how good can triumph.

Frankly, and I’m sure I am not the only one, but good tends to win a hell of a lot more than evil.  And there is only one bad guy who is the biggest and the baddest.  He is the ruler of the underworld – Satan.

So, this top ten list will be devoted to depictions of Satan in movies, television shows, and video games. The beauty of these lists are that they are subjective. My #1 may not be yours, so feel free to chime in through the comments section below and let me know what your list would be.

Let’s start the countdown, shall we?

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It’s no secret (except to maybe you newbies) that we here at nerdbastards are super excited about AMC’s upcoming The Walking Dead series, based on the wildly acclaimed comic by Robert Kirkman. The comic itself is a rich, smart, character driven story about what happens when a group of people are forced to survive in a world ruled by the dead. It’s filled with great moments of suspense, psychological terror and gut wrenching loss. The live-action series is set to deliver to do the same. As a sign reassuring quality it is being produced by AMC, who are the fine folks that have brought us both Mad Men and Breaking Bad (best shows on televisions right now). That and the premier episode is being directed by Frank -FUCKING- Darabont (The Green Mile). Even if you have never read the comic or for that matter a fan of Zombies, this show is poised to rape your face.

Now, the premier episode hasn’t even aired yet (Oct. 31st Release) but AMC is sure as shit feeling confident that the show will be a success, as they have officially green lit a second season (Woo Hoo!). Although the first season will be 6 episodes, the second has been upped to 13; happily, there’s obviously plenty of source material for the show to work with

The AMC Television Series stars  Andrew Lincoln (Love Actually) Jon Bernthal (The Pacific), Sarah Wayne Callies (Prison Break), Laurie Holden (The Mist), and Emma Bell (Law & Order). The show follows a group of survivors, led by police officer Rick Grimes, traveling in search of a safe and secure home after a zombie apocalypse.

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WARNING: THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS FOR THE NEWEST EPISODE OF “TRUE BLOOD”

Well folks, I’m back from my three week vacation (Special Thanks to Rachel Hill for taking the review reigns)! And after watching the last three episodes in quick succession – what a ride this season has turned out to be.

But enough about the old stuff, let’s get on with what happened on tonight’s second last episode of season three.

First off, I know I have said it before, but I love Pam in every episode she appears in. She really got to kick some ass in the opening, didn’t she?

This episode was all about characters spilling their secrets and exposing true motives, and almost every character had a moment, which is difficult with such a large cast of characters.

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It appears fans of Doctor Who just got hit with a time splitting revelation from Steven Moffat, lead writer and executive producer of the series, at the Edinburgh International Television Festival. Doctor who is going to be split into two parts (gasp!). The upcoming season, next year, will be split into a 7-episode spring arc and a 6-episode autumn storyline. Rest assured, this is not to screw with loyal Doctor Who fans (myself included).

Steven Moffat let it spill that this break isn’t part of a mid-season hiatus, but to split the series into two distinct storylines:

“Looking at the next series I thought what this show needs is a big event in the middle [...] I kept referring to a mid-season finale. So we are going to make it two series – seven episodes at Easter building to an earth-shattering climax, a cliffhanger we could never normally do because it would be too long before it came back. An enormous game-changing cliffhanger that will change everything. The wrong expression would be to say we are splitting it in two. We are making it two separate series [...] With an Easter series, an autumn series and a Christmas special, you are never going to be more than few months from the new series of Doctor Who [...] Tart that I am, we will now have two first nights and two finales, twice as many event episodes as we had before.”

Moffat also disscused his future with the Doctor Who series, stating he won’t be leaving the show “for a while yet”. He even gave a special glimpse to those at the festival for the upcoming Doctor Who Christmas Special, guest starring Michael Gambon (Dumbldore!) and Katherine Jenkins (a Welsh mezzo-soprano). With the Series keeping the Doctor’s companion, now married, in the mix along with her husband Rory, what can we expect from the next season. Is Amy going to have a stronger role in the series? Will they kill Rory again? Will the show say “screw it!” and throw in a time traveling threesome? No one knows for sure but all will be answered in the coming year (come on threesome)

source: theguardian

It’s finally happened! They’ve blended in sports with a Nerdbastard retrograde science! Imagine Star Wars mixed into The Olympics, by way of  a competitive edge to their using a blaster. Clumsy and random no more! These blasters may not be able to shoot through trooper armor, or well, even a piece of of paper, but these “laser guns” will open up a wide range of new and improved technology that can be used down the road and prove The Olympics can change with the times.

According to the BBC News, athletes competing in the pentathlon at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London will shoot laser guns rather than the traditional air pistols used in past games. The switch reduces cost, for one, since laser guns won’t use ammunition or air cartridges when fired. It will also make the sport safer, and, in turn, open it up to new venues, both indoors and out

I am now totally psyched and ready for them to take Olympic Fencing and throw in lightsabres. Yes this will certainly lead to a few deaths; but you know what that means? RATINGS people!! RATINGS!!!

Huh, for a moment there I almost forgot about the oozing suck that was the final episode of LOST. While, some may look upon the spiritual finale as a beautiful pitch perfect ending, I am not one of those people. I invested six years of my life to this show and all I got was this lousy afterlife! Oi, I’ll have to save my rant for when I am drunk and feeling particularly vengeful. Instead lets address the whole flashsideways story arc of the final season. Sideways not being a flashback, flash-forward or an alternate timeline. More of a what would have happened if Oceanic flight 815 didn’t crash on the island but instead landed in Los Angeles. Of course, it was a little more complicated than that. And, like everything else on LOST it’s meaning wasn’t clear. Rather than just debating what WE think, let’s hear Matthew Fox’s opinion.

Here’s what Fox had to say during Newsweek’s Emmy roundtable:

“There are certain religious beliefs, spiritual ideas, that when you die, you have to remember your own death in the moment of your death, you have to remember all the people that brought you to that, all the people that were most important to you, bringing you to that moment. And essentially that’s what the entire Sideways was, I believe, in the sixth season. The moment that Jack was dying he was being reunited with all the people that had brought him to his death so he could move on to whatever was next. I thought it was pretty beautiful. Very spiritual. I’m not necessarily a religious person.

Well, that certainly settles that then. Now if someone will kindly explain, Who built the four toed statue and what does it mean? What’s up with the hieroglyphics in the temples? Why can’t women on the island have babies? If the smoke monster can’t leave the island, then how did he appear as Jacks dad in the hospital in L.A.?  What was up with the frozen wheel? Why don’t the rules of time travel apply to Desmond? Why did those returning to the island have to recreate  the circumstances of their first arrival? What was up with the magic light house? What is the nature of the light? Why weren’t Micheal, Walt, Lapidus or any of the other characters at the church? FUCK!

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Hey bastards. I’m excited and I just can’t hide it. Why? Because AMC has released the official four minute-plus long “Walking Dead” teaser trailer from San Diego Comic-Con. Forget the shaky cameraphone footage that leaked out of Comic-Con, this is the real deal!

Additionally, a debut time and date of October 31 at 10/9c has been announced, along with word that the first episode has been expanded to 90 minutes.

The Frank Darabont produced and directed pilot based on the Image Comics series by creator Robert Kirkman, Tony Moore and Charlie Adlard kicks off a 6-episode run on the cable network. Word has it season two has already been greenlit.

The AMC Television series stars Andrew Lincoln (Love Actually

), Jon Bernthal (The Pacific), Sarah Wayne Callies (Prison Break), Laurie Holden (The Mist), and Emma Bell (Law & Order). The show follows a group of survivors, led by police officer Rick Grimes, traveling in search of a safe and secure home after a zombie apocalypse.

(Post by nerdbastards contributor Nick Bungay- Twitter @NickBungay)

Was your mind blown seeing the likes of Zoidberg and Professor Farnsworth in bed together on Futurama last week (spoiler)? Well no worries, it was just Fry and Leela in their bodies the whole time (like Freak Friday, just not as horrible). For those that didn’t catch the episode, the whole crew was effected and a little machine was to blame for the switcharoo. The machine, however  couldn’t  switch the same mind and body twice, so they had to figure out a way to rotate minds with other characters until everyone had their own mind back. Naturally it was science that came to the rescue to solve the mystery and place everyone back into their rightful bodies. Yet isn’t this impossible to be actually done? Thank to Futurama writer Ken Keeler, this theorem was not only created, it was proven!

Ken Keeler, PhD in mathematics, ended up writing and proving an entirely new theorem (and what have you done lately, huh?) based withing the group theory. A full explanation of the theorem can be found here

After taking a small look at the theorem and actually writing in down, I still for the life of me, can’t figure it the hell out (30 minutes wasted). Did this really need to be done for the sake of the episodes plot? Well, no. They could have just put gibberish and left it alone. That’s not how these writers of Futurama roll. It does, however deserve some kind of reward for what lengths some people go to for something they love doing. Hey, maybe they’ll give him an executive position with the FOX network for this fantastic nerd act of nerd Valor. They can at least give the man a little extra in his paycheck for the extra work.

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HELL YEAH!! The Dream comes back after almost 20 years of scandal. “The Pee-wee Herman Show,” opening next month in downtown Los Angeles at Club Nokia theater. With 11 actors, 20 puppets and Mr. Paul Reubens back in the saddle as Pee Wee, I want you to scream when I say “It’s About Fucking Time” AAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!

In this months Playboy Pee Wee got the Huge interview spread and finally opened up after all these years.

On his public masturbation charge: In the event of a trial (which never happened), an expert researcher was going to testify he’d never seen a person masturbate with a nondominant hand. “I’m right-handed, and the police report said I was jerking off with my left hand. That would have been the end of the case right there, proof it couldn’t have been me.”

The most disturbing thing about this entire article is the pics of him as his  a nearly 60 year old man!! He has remained almost entirely the same for all these years, he was born in 1952! The article is astounding for anyone who was a fan of Pee-Wee. Right here is all the info on his return to the stage! For only a 10-week run, I gotta be the first in line!! Here’ some show info, click on the Link in the paragraph to find tickets!!!;

Big, bold and uniquely fabulous, The Pee-wee Herman Show is a stage play with music that reunites Pee-wee (the one-and-only Paul Reubens) with the beloved Playhouse gang – Miss Yvonne, Mailman Mike, Cowboy Curtis, Jambi the Genie, Pterri, Conky, Chairry and many more! This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to see Pee-wee’s Playhouse come to wacky, unpredictable life!