If you live in the UK you can now order a Zombie Apocalypse for you and your friends, according to Starburst Magazine. You call a group called BuyAGift and sign up to have the experience at one of their locations, which include an abandoned shopping mall and a classic manor house. Actors portraying brain eating zombies do battle with actors portraying zombie survivalists and/or the police, and you get some orientation training and props so you can join in on the side of the living. Sounds like even more fun than those murder mystery dinners.
It was Leonard Nimoy’s birthday yesterday (Happy Birthday, Leonard!), so it seemed like the perfect week to post his video with Bruno Mars on the Lazy Song. If you haven’t seen this one yet, it is wonderfully silly and shows you just how comedic Nimoy can be without even using words.
Today, March 22nd, is Talk Like William Shatner day because it is the birthday of both William Shatner and James T. Kirk. In honor of the event the folks at Think Geek have a Shatner Mask in PDF format they invite you to download for free, print out, wear in public, and take a picture to send them (work safe only, please). They have various Star Trek goodies they are giving away, you can see the prize list and the rules on that page.
SG1’s Michael Shanks, Smallville’s Erica Durance, and The Vampire Diaries’ Daniel Gillies are the stars of the new TV show Saving Hope, where they are all doctors. But Shanks becomes a patient in a coma, walking the halls in spirit form as the others fight to save his life, interacting with the spirits and ghosts of other patients. They have been commissioned for a 12 episode first season, and I like the actors, so I will be checking this out to see how they do with it.
Now that the TV series Chuck is over, Zac Levi’s next project is The Nerd Machine, which is pretty much what you would expect from the name. They threw the must-attend party at the last Comic-Con, and their most recent public presence was at this year’s CES. The key component of their web site appears to be the forum at this juncture, although they do have a respectable number of nerd related videos.
Dave TV has announced that it has signed off on producing season 10 of Red Dwarf, which in fact the Red Dwarf web site has also posted. This is not the total shock and surprise that it could be since Craig Charles (Dave Lister) sort of leaked the information a few months ago at a con. Here is the video Dave is running as evidence that this really is happening.