The Point Radio: DEADLIEST WARRIOR Season Two Preview

It’s the ultimate guy fantasy – cowboy fighting ninjas fighting soldiers all to a bloody death. Last year, Spike TV took the concept to the level of a hit TV show in DEADLIEST WARRIOR. The second season is underway and we’ve got your exclusive look at this year’s big battles. Plus GREEN HORNET goes 3-D and we get two more hours of LOST. And be sure to stay on The Point via , RSS, MyPodcast.Comor Podbean! Follow us now on and ! Don’t forget that you can now enjoy THE POINT 24 hours a Day – 7 Days a week!. Updates on all parts of pop culture, special programming by some of your favorite personalities and the biggest variety of contemporary music on the net – plus there is a great round of new programs on the air including classic radio each night at 12mid (Eastern) on RETRO RADIO COMICMIX’s Mark Wheatley hitting the FREQUENCY every Saturday ay 9pm and even the Editor-In-Chief of COMICMIX, Mike Gold, with his daily WEIRD SCENES and two full hours of insanity every Sunday (7pm ET) with WEIRD SOUNDS! CLICK HERE TO LISTEN LIVE FOR FREE or go to GetThePointRadio for more including a connection for mobile phones including iPhone & Blackberrys.    

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Hello, it's Mike Raub. Welcome to The Point where all parts of pop culture come together. It's the ultimate guy fantasy. Cowboys, Ninjas, policemen all fighting it out and now it's a hit TV show as well. Greenhorder gets kicked ahead until next year and you're getting two more hours of lost. It's Friday, April 23rd, 2010. We get to The Point right now. This is The Point. The Point radio. Get The Point radio.

More than likely every eight or ten year old has done it a couple of times. You get all your great action figures, your Cowboys, your Ninjas, your police officers and you have them battle it out well until you have to go to dinner that is. So you take the concept, you throw in technology and what you have is one of the most successful cable shows of last year. Deadliest Warrior on Spike TV headed now into its second season with

a lot of good things planned, at least according to Max. He's the computer expert from the show. Well, more guys, more blood, a better range of history this time I'd say. We're dealing with, you know, not only the really ancient guys, the really modern guys, but we're taking a little bit more time looking at not really medieval, but I'd say early modern guys, guys who think of as being part of the late medieval of Rassoff period, sort

of them and their equivalent, the world over this time around. Yeah, we've got a really interesting fight coming up in, I guess these are all published now so I can talk about them in Ming soldier versus. Working alongside of Max is Jeff, the biomedical engineer who adds well quite a bit of reality to the show and Jeff's pretty psyched for the second season as well. What can I tell you about season two? Oh, well, first thing I can tell you

is that we did get a bigger budget, which means more blood and a bigger bang for everything from cutting a car in half to shoving a pole, about a 12 foot pole into a gel torso to wreck them and have it coming up out of his, you know, beside his head by his car bone, like all the way through his body. And that was something that was done by Vlad the Impaler. The technology in the first season of deadliest warrior was pretty state of the art, but come

on, that's been almost a year ago. So we've got to change a few things. Yeah. Well, I can say we actually are bringing on some interesting new equipment this time. We talked actually to a specific engineer and we actually got this guy and he's invented a motion actuator. So he's actually able to record vibration and movement, which a lot like sound. I mean, yes, sound is a kind of vibration, but he sort of taken the technology to this logical

extension and applied it to actual physical movement and created sort of a motion platform that can record movement and then play it back. And we actually use that in one of the episodes to simulate what it would be like to fight on like a battlefield with, you know, 40,000 horses around you. And that's pretty impressive. TV recently revealed the list of all the great match ups on this new season of deadliest warrior. So we had to ask Jeff,

which one was his favorite? To be honest, I'm really looking forward to SWAT versus GSG nine. I'm just because I got along with the SWAT guys really, really well. They took me out to the shooting range on one of their training days. They gave me a bunch of t-shirts and, and I keep in touch with the guys on Facebook now and they're just really, really good guys. And, but only that they had their own gear. I mean, I don't know if you know

this, but a lot of the SWAT members actually carry their gear in the trunk of their vehicle. Yeah, there's a special locking system and obviously it's all reinforced and stuff like that, but they've got like cold commandos back there. They've got Benelli shotguns back there. They've got their, their tack kit. So their helmet, their night vision stuff, their body armor. I mean, you name it, they've got it back there. And I was just totally

blown away by that. I had no idea that these guys were driving around with that kind of firepower in the trunk of their car, but, but that's how they do it, you know? And that's you know, the reason is, is so that when they get a call, they can respond from wherever they are, including their home. We'll be talking more to Max and Jeff, but in the meantime, if you want to get a sneak peek of what's coming up on this season of deadliest warrior,

check out the list at spiketv.com. It's Friday, April 23rd, 2010. Here's what's going on in pop culture. Movie fans know that the team of Chris McQuarrie and Brian Singer has done some great work like Valkyrie and the usual suspects. McQuarrie also did a little uncredited script work on the X-Men and now they're both together again. As McQuarrie has been hired to do a rewrite on the movie, Jack the giant killer, the movie involving a war between

humans and giants is at the very beginning of the production process. Have you heard about the fact Disney is planning a prequel to the wizard of Oz? The story would center around the wizard before he came to the magical land. Right now, there's names of it are being attached to it. Some rumors, maybe some not. Robert Downey Jr. According to the Hollywood reporters in talks with producers to play the wizard. Her director, Sam Mendes, seemed

to be a pretty big choice for a while, but now the LA Times has another story where they say it could be hairsprays Adam Shankman. Right now, the script is being written by Mitchell Kappner and it's based on a course on a number of L Frank Baum's books. Title of the movie, at least at this point, is the great powerful. Big news from the Cartoon Network, a whole ton of new programs being announced for the upcoming season. Some of

which I think you'll find interesting. How about Mad, a new animated sketch show based on Mad magazine. I guess you'd call it a cartoon version of Mad TV, but this one may be the best. Young Justice, a new animated superhero show featuring Robin, Aqualad, Kid Flash, Superboy, Miss Martian, and other DC characters from the teen years. No word yet on whether that'll be done in the style of Justice League Unlimited or Teen Titans. Also included on

the list Scooby Doo Mystery Incorporated, the Looney Tunes show, and a pretty big promotion involving some shows that will tie into the NBA and turn up in the end, and a giant sports hall of fame for the Cartoon Network. You can check it all out at CartoonNetwork.com. There'll be teases and samples up there over the next few weeks. This comes from the financial world of Bloomberg, but I think it affects a lot more of us. Xbox Live, the folks behind

Peter Cernan and Microsoft are now talking about the idea of launching a new channel or a network that would be exclusive to Xbox Live. The channel would feature original and repeat programming, be geared of course toward a young male audience. Right now nothing is set in stone, certainly no schedule so far for this. But that won't stop us from jumping on right now and doing our own fantasy program lists, right? A lot of people probably thought

it was a comic or a graphic novel already, but Boom Studios will be publishing an adaptation of Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland. It'll come out in June, just in time to coincide with the release of the film on DVD and Blu-ray. That'll be right around June 1st. That'll be out in a number of different disc formats, including a three disc Blu-ray that includes a standard DVD, a single DVD disc, and a Blu-ray version as well. So far the most popular film

of 2010. The film has done about $325 million at the box office and just under a billion dollars worldwide. Here comes director Barry Sonnenfeld, director of Men in Black 1 and 2 with a bunch of good news and yes it involves Men in Black 3. Despite everything else we've heard it looks like Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones will be back in the sequel and of course it's going to be in 3D as well. No word yet about when production would begin or if there's

a script or anything beyond this announcement, but still it's good news. Apparently the decision rested on Will Smith who was deciding between doing MIB 3 and a movie called The City That Sailed. Obviously he made his decision. If you're still basking in the afterglow of the Madonna episode of Glee here's some great news. It looks like there may be a sequel early in the season next year. The episode which attracted 13.5 million viewers and already

has songs in the top 20 on iTunes more than likely was a hit and therefore well you gotta do it again in showbiz. Follow up with air early next season and feature six more songs from Madonna. Right now the Glee people are in contact with Madonna's people and they say talks are going very well. You probably read the reports this week that the American version of Torchwood allegedly headed toward Fox seems to have hit a rather large pothole.

It's not necessarily completely dead but it won't be happening on Fox. The folks at BBC say it's still very much alive and they're shopping it around to other networks. However when you go back to the situation at Fox it looks like it was not necessarily the characters or the tone of Torchwood that forced them away but the pocketbook. Fox is allegedly more interested in producing reality shows that are a lot less to do than scripted television.

Even a show like this it would have been produced in the low cost area of Vancouver, Canada. Meanwhile hopefully the BBC can strike a deal with another American network sometime in the very near future. There have been plenty of rumors about problems on the Seth Rogen Greenhornet film and now the movie's been pushed back for a release date but it's not for the reasons that you might automatically think. It's to accommodate the fact that

the picture will be in 3D and 3D screens are getting more and more popular and filling up pretty quick these days. The film was originally scheduled to come out December 22nd. It's now been moved to January 14th 2011. That's Martin Luther King Day weekend by the way. The filling of the 3D screens isn't only affecting Greenhornet. There's a movie called Priest that has been scheduled for some time. It's been moved from January to March of next

year and while we're on the subject of 3D add to the list the last airbender it is now in 3D and it will be scheduled in theaters on July 2nd of this year. A lot of people feel that the R rating of Kick-Ass contributed to its less than spectacular showing at the box office in recent weeks and now it looks like Scott Pilgrim versus the world the next film that a lot of comic book people feel could be a breakthrough hit

will not be rated R. In fact it's been moved to a PG-13 rating. Interesting when you compare the original material but then again Edgar Wright who's been famous for putting together films that well kind of danced on the edge could be the guy that could make this work under that rating system. Scott Pilgrim versus the world is in theaters by the way on August 13th. Chalk up the total hours of lost programming during the week of May 17th on ABC to 10.

It looks like now on the Saturday before the Sunday when the finale airs ABC is going to rerun the original two hour pilot. That will run on Saturday May the 22nd from 8 to 10 p.m. and of course the next night everything begins with a two hour pre-show recap the two hour finale and then the Jimmy Kimmel after the final rose live special with cast members of lost and others. By the way just for the record the last time the lost pilot was aired

on ABC it was back in February of 2006. This town needs an enema. This is my gold. With all my recent traveling this story slipped through the cracks. It's another indication of how we're all going to hell in a bucket. Last Monday Arizona state legislature voted 31 to 22 in favor of a bill requiring Barack Obama to show his birth certificate to state officials if he runs for re-election. Holy crap why would

anybody over there think these assholes would believe it now? Back in 1964 Arizona senator Barry Goldwater ran into some trouble when people said he wasn't a natural born citizen as required by the Constitution because Arizona wasn't in the union at the time of his birth. Given Barry's spectacular loss the issue was moot. In today's political climate were Goldwater to run as a Democrat he would be hoisted on this very petard.

Well I've saved the state of Arizona some time and grief. I've already emailed a copy of Obama's birth certificate to the bill's sponsor Judy Burgess and I suggest you do the same. jberges at aseleg.gov that's j-b-u-r-g-e-s at a-z-l-e-g dot gov. I suggest you get all your friends to do the same thing. This is my gold at the pop culture channel The Point. Get the point radio. Get the point radio. This is Rick Myers media mercenary talking Dr.

Whom TV. You know who who is don't you? It's the longest running science fiction show on TV premiering in England the day after Kennedy's assassination way back in 1963. Its lead character is the doctor a humanoid time lord with two hearts from the planet Gallifrey whose previous role was like all his people to observe and learn. At the tender age of 900 or so he had enough of seen civilizations make the same mistakes over and over again and set out to vanquish evil with

just his vast knowledge and the time spaceship known as the TARDIS. Since then doctor who has gone through 10 actors in the leading role since time lords upon receiving a mortal wound can regenerate with a new body face and personality though with the same intelligence coming off the most critically successful and popular season of its run that of the 10th doctor played by David Tennant now host of PBS his masterpiece theater the 11th doctor recently made his first full

appearance following the cameo last year after Tennant's doctor's death. The new series also marks the stewardship of the previous series is finest writer Steven Moffat as its new creative force and so far the road has been bumpier than fans might have liked. The new doctor is played by Matt Smith the youngest to ever essay the role and he looks like Frankenstein as envisioned by the Twilight movie makers sporting Robert Pattinson style hair over a Boris Karloff brow and Jay Leno

chin his doctor is surprisingly arrogant self-centered and prone to going off half-cocked he starts the new series by crashing into the garden of a seven-year-old Scottish girl amazing her promising to return in five minutes then making her wait 12 years only to leave her again for another two years after that in the interim this girl has grown up to be fetching sweet smart Amy pond played by fetching sweet smart Scottish actress Karen Gillan and it turns out that she is the

producer's secret weapon at one point in his regeneration the newly formed 11th doctor's scene taken aback that his new incarnation doesn't have ginger hair pond does and at least in the first few episodes it is not the doctor who saves the day it is actually Amy this is either one a cunning way to shift attention from the well-worn doctor for some soon to be revealed reason to make up for the short trip the series has given the doctor's companions in the last 40 years or

three and odd coincidence but there's a reason the show and its many book radio DVD web and audio spin-offs have lasted more than four decades and that's because although supposedly targeted to kids it intrigues the child in all of us with good writing great ideas and real science fiction not the usual sort of dumbed down sci-fi I suggest you Netflix the last four seasons to get up and running with the ninth and tenth doctors and check out number 11 and maybe more importantly a pond on

BBC America every Saturday night this is Rick Myers medium mercenary talking TV listen for my reviews as well as my movie music show right here now if you'll excuse me I'm going to get on my Dalek deflecting gear that puts a cap on our week but come on over for 24 hours a day of pop culture rolling right now on the point radio and you can listen free from any computer iPhone or iPad as well all it takes is a couple of clicks and get the point radio calm in the meantime this podcast

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deadliest warrior and of course the start of the new week right here on Monday