The Point Radio: SyFy Close Encounter Of The Geek Kind

In comics, team-ups are cool and on TV they are way cool. It’s a close encounter of the geek kind when ALLISON SCAGLOTTI and NEIL GREYSTONE team up for crossovers on WAREHOUSE 13 and EUREKA. They fill us on how a chance meeting at ComicCon began the process, plus Tarantino on…THE SHADOW? Well, maybe! 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 at 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 close encounter of the Super Geek kind. And we'll tell you how it came about for Warehouse 13 and Eureka. In the meantime, Quentin Tarantino on The Shadow. That's scary.

All that and more on Friday, August 6, 2010. Let's get to The Point right now. This is The Point. The Point radio. This is The Point radio. Crossovers on TV shows are not a new thing, but when they do happen, they're still, well, very cool. Especially when it shows that already carry a certain amount of cool.

Like the ones on the Sci-Fi channel Eureka and Warehouse 13. This current inter-show team up involves Neil Greystone from Eureka and Alison Scagliotti from Warehouse 13. And we asked both of them how it actually came about. So I believe that the nugget of the crossover idea began when Neil and I met at last year's Tom Tom Tom Tom, Tom Tom Tom, in 2009. I watched the Eureka panel moderated by Josh Gates, which was hilarious.

And then at the Sci-Fi party, I marched up to Neil and I said, Neil, I have to be friends. And he said, okay, sounds good. And we were in technical from that moment on. We kind of had this immediate quirky chemistry where we were finishing each other's sentences and delivering punchlines at the same time. Yeah, that was weird that first time when we just made the same joke and we kind of stopped.

We're like, we just made that joke at the same time. And we just made the same movement for that joke, too. That's weird. You know, we have the same sense of humor. We did it on set, too. And it really, you know, our chemistry played so well in life that I think our respective showrunners and, you know, the good people over at Sci-Fi realized what a commodity it could be to blend these shows that I think one really believes existing in the same universe.

And so here we are, Claudia and Fargo at the center of this awesome crossover event. One year later. Both Allison and Neil's characters are late additions to the established shows. For me, it's just sort of if it's one of those awesome things where I was actually only contracted to be in seven episodes a season. It was really sort of a sort of tertiary character in Eureka.

And they just sort of kept on chucking me in to the point where, you know, now I'm all episodes. My character is running global dynamics and it's just it's kind of a nice thing to, you know, work hard and try to do the best job you can and have that noticed and have them continue to, you know, employ me. Awesome. And for Allison. And on my side of things, I mean, similarly, when I joined the cast in season one, I came in late. I showed up in episode four and I'm really by brute force that Claudia was an outsider who sort of fought her way in and had to figure out where she fit within this group, but has become such an integral part of the family that she's sort of everyone's little sister, little nerdy sister.

And that really mirrors, I feel my evolution as sort of an actress out and about trying to, you know, try to belong to something, finding her way onto the show and developing such a second family with this amazing cast in Peru. So I've been really lucky to play a girl really close to myself. And there's a personal side to it as well. You know, portraying Claudia's increase in responsibility is really just what you're seeing is like me coping with becoming a series regular for the first time and sort of navigating what it means to be, you know, the fourth leg of a table. And supporting something with three other people and needing to be a unique sort of member of a team.

I'm really, I'm bringing the truth of what it's like to be nervous on a job. It's all the honest outs and nerves that you're going to see. So how does the whole inner show plot thing work? So, Fargo comes to the warehouse to update our computer system. Little does he know that much like all the artifacts, the warehouse has an organic human element that it's not as simple to upgrade.

It's just a new plug in. So the warehouse fights back because we discovered that an important component of the computer system is half of a man's brain. So we have Renee over from WAAH from Space Nine. Guessing is the warehouse agent whose brain was compromised. And we Claudia and Fargo connect in the warehouse and put their heads together to sort of save the day and avoid the bits of Eureka Gack out to kill them.

And Neil really, I gotta tell you, I'm gonna gush a little bit because I've watched the episode twice now. Neil hits it out of the park. I'm so glad that he's so featured in this episode because he's really fantastic in it. And I predict that this episode is going to be a fan favorite. And then basically, I guess, you know, Fargo obviously has a little bit of a little bit of a crush on Claudia and starts.

I guess he starts making the purple goo that the warehouse uses. Fargo decides to start making a version of that in Eureka and invites Claudia over to come pick up a batch. And then science happens and mystery happens. And Claudia helps save the day and solve some puzzles that are happening and explosions happen and sparks and stuff. And it's a really fun episode.

There's more coming up, including a scoop on how Allison is working hard with the Internet to campaign to bring a certain comic book character to the big screen. In the meantime, catch episodes of Warehouse 13 and Eureka, the crossover episodes too, running on the Sci-Fi channel. Or you can catch up on what you've missed at Sci-Fi.com. The Flight Radio! It's Friday, August 6, 2010. Here's what's going on in pop culture.

According to a source called The Hollywood Cog, matters have changed on the re-adaptation of the shadow property onto the big screen. David Slade has been involved as the head of the project. He took over from Sam Raimi after the picture change studios going from Sony to Universal. And Raimi was planned to remain on board as a producer. Now it appears Slade may not be directing the film and that Quentin Tarantino has been attached not only as a director, but also as the co-writer.

No official word yet from Universal. Maybe it's an over enthusiastic production staff and maybe it's true. But down in New Orleans there's word coming out of the streets. There's serious talk about a second and a third Green Lantern movie. People involved with the Warner Brothers movie now shooting in New Orleans where it's a stand-in for Green Lantern's home of Coast City are so confident that they say it's almost a slam dunk to have a Green Lantern 2 that'll be scheduled either for the summer or the Christmas season of 2012.

Depending upon what DC decides to do with a Flash movie. And a third Green Lantern movie would then be shot back to back with a second for release sometime in 2013. He's a name definitely familiar with successful superhero animation. Now he's coming to Ultimate Spider-Man the new show being designed for Disney XD. The adaptation of the Marvel series by Brian Michael Bendis.

His name is Paul Deeney and he'll be involved with a new series along with a lot of others that include Joe Casey, Joe Kelly and more. Deeney joins the series which is destined to debut like we said on Disney XD in 2011. In a long time Hollywood tradition of if it works well then let's do it again. NBC has just bought a spec script for a series called Zombies vs. Vampires. It's described and we're quoting here as a fun buddy cop procedural.

It's set in a world where zombies are part of society, they're controlled with medication. And one of the two leads in the series is secretly a vampire cop. Nothing else done on this one so far. No writers, directors or any other schedules so far. Just a spec script. In the wake of True Blood, Vampire Diaries, The Gates, Being Human and Walking Dead. Is there room for one more?

Here's something about that Ridley Scott movie. No not the Alien prequel. The other one. The one based on classic science fiction writer Joe Haldeman's 1974 novel called The Forever War. Right now Scott has hired David Webb Peoples who worked on Blade Runner, Lady Hawk and Unforgiven to write the script for the movie. It's about elite soldiers in an intergalactic war and how they deal with time travel, a side effect of super fast space travel that causes them to age

much more slowly than their friends and family back on earth. The only other piece of the puzzle here is that Fox 2000 will be the studio where Scott produces the film. It's one of those great human interest stories that you can talk about with friends and family who know you're interested in comics but don't necessarily know why. An anonymous family in the south was saved from foreclosure when while they were packing up the house they had to abandon. The one they've lived in since the 50s

they discovered a chest of drawers inside some old comic books one of which was Action Comics number one. Through Comic Connect they're brokering the sale of the comic for a little over well they're hoping to get a lot of money about $250,000 although some sources are saying tops of one million dollars is what the latest sales for Action Number One has been. The copy has been graded very good fine and right now goes up for auction with Comic Connect later

this month. Radical Comics has a graphic novel on the way called Oblivion created by the director of Tron Legacy Joe Kaczynski and that has been acquired by Disney for a possible upcoming feature film. According to the Hollywood Reporter, Kaczynski's relationship with the Disney studio helped to facilitate that deal which is said to be somewhere in the seven figure range. In the meantime, Radical will publish a hardcover version of Oblivion said to be in comic stores in November.

The end of Twilight Countdown begins which is probably a good thing to both sides of that movie controversy. Stephenie Meyer's Twilight Saga Twilight Breaking Dawn Part Two hits theaters in November of 2012. Part One of course hits theaters coming up in a couple of months in November of this year the November 18th to be exact. There'll be a year between that and the finale of the entire franchise with Bill Condon directing both parts and of course all key cast members appearing

all the way until the end. The following program contains scenes and language of a frank and explicit nature. Viewer discretion is advised. Weird scenes inside the gold mine. Go ahead, be crucified, see if I can. This is my gold. Every once in a while a person dies leaving a really fascinating story in his wake. This as they say is one of those stories. Mori Yohai, the creator of the cheese doodle snack, died earlier this week. The 90 year old had also

been involved in the creation of a number of successful snack products including tipsy doodles, melba toast, cheese waffles, and king cone ice cream cones. He was a marine pilot based in the South Pacific during World War II. In his later years Yohai became interested in Jewish mysticism and poetry and wrote a poetry book that interpreted the Torah. He also founded New York's Sephardic Jewish Film Festival.

Mr. Yohai also supported many conservation and environmental causes through his foundation and in his spare time was an accomplished photographer. He also kept a photograph of gourmet cook and former wartime spy Julia Child eating a bag of cheese doodles. Evidently cheese doodles was Ms. Child's favorite snack product. So the next time you bite into a cheese doodle, take a second to think about the Renaissance man who created it. This is

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