Podcast Episode # 44 - Taters and Grits [ 59:54 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

We’ve got a special episode for you this week. We have an interview with Jennifer Lambe and Baha Baydar from Hal-Con, a Science Fiction / Fantasy / Comic / Anime convention that will be held in Halifax, Nova Scotia  October 2010. We discuss some of their celebrity guests as well as some of the fund-raising events they have coming up between now and October. And if that’s not enough for you, we also take a look at a mini-series on AMC which re-imagines a classic show from the 1960s.

• The Prisoner (02:01 – 27:18)
  
• An interview with  from Hal-Con (27:25 - 54:04)

If you want to find out more about Hal-Con head over to their website and follow them on Twitter and on Facebook.

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With Comic-Con in full swing this weekend, we though we’d take a look at some of the many trailers being promoted at the con.

The Prisoner

AMC is premiering this new six part mini-series this fall which is a remake of a British show from the sixties. AMC has posted a nine minute (!) trailer to promote the show. It looks like they’ve secured quite the cast with Jim Caviezel and Sir Ian McKellen starring. You can pop over to AMC’s site to see even more videos for the show.

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