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Gotham Season 2 UK Release date announced.

UPDATED: 28/12/2015

Channel 5 have officially announced the launch date of season 2 of Gotham in the UK and Ireland. The show will return on Monday the 11th of January at the later time slot of 10PM. This later slot on a Monday night takes the show out of a ratings battle with Walking Dead which airs at 9PM on rival channel Fox TV UK. Also included in the announcement was that all 22 episodes of the TV show will air with no breaks to the end of Season 2. You can hear our reviews of the first four episodes of Season 2 from episode one here Gotham Damned If You Do Podcast or subscribe on iTunes for the show at gothamtvpodcast.com/itunes

Channel 5 has also released a brand new creepy season 2 trailer for the show.

ORIGINAL STORY: In a surprising message on their Twitter and Facebook page Channel 5 have announced that the Gotham Season 2 UK release date has been moved from the originally announced Autumn 2015 slot to some time in 2016.

Gotham: The Rise of the Villains, as Season 2 of the successful TV show has been subtitled, launched in the United States on Fox and in Canada on CTV with overall positive reaction from fans of the show.

No reason for the unexpected move has been provided. Gotham Season 1 is currently showing on Netflix in the UK and Ireland and the show recently finished it’s run on RTÉ2 the national broadcaster in Ireland. It’s understood that Channel 5 own the exclusive broadcast rights for Gotham so UK Gothamites may have to wait a long time to catch up with their favourite characters.

We will update this story as soon as we know what this means for our coverage of the show.

In the meantime have a listen to our brand new interview with Drew Powell who plays Butch Gilzean on Gotham to keep going until we have some further news.

The original tweet is below

“Gotham Season 1 Episodes 1 – 10 Revisited” – Gotham TV Podcast Episode 30

Show Notes

With our friends in the USA and Canada sitting down to watch Episode Eleven of Gotham, we at Gotham TV Podcast look back at the first half of the series and discuss our thoughts about the over arching elements and connected stories so far. We also replay our interviews with Robin Lord Taylor, Ben McKenzie, Donal Logue, Danny Cannon, Sean Pertwee and Erin Richards which we recorded at New York Comic Con in October 2014. We hope you enjoy them if you haven’t heard them before.

Thanks as always for listening, while we wait for the second half of the season to air in Ireland and the UK on Channel 5 in March we’ll be discussing some more connected comics to Gotham. We hope you’ll join us and continue to send us feedback to [email protected].

Derek & John
Gotham TV Podcast

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Date recorded: 06/01/2015
Date published: 08/01/2015
MP3, 1h 44 mins, 128kbps, 95.5 MB

Channel 5 Announces UK Air Date for Gotham TV Series

Channel 5 have today announced they will broadcast the big autumn TV show Gotham very soon. The show has been received very well in the US on the 22nd of September with very high ratings and generally well received reviews. Channel 5 will show the pilot episode of the show on Monday the 13th of October 2014 at 9PM and we’ll be watching every episode.

Gotham tells the story of young Detective James Gordon (Ben McKenzie, The O.C., Southland, Batman: Year One) a former resident of Gotham City who returns after more than 10 years away to join the Homicide Unit of the Gotham City Police Department. His partner in the G.C.P.D. is street savvy Detective Harvey Bullock (Donal Logue, Vikings, Law & Order: S.V.U., Sons of Anarchy) a detective with connections to underworld characters including Nightclub owner Fish Mooney (Jada Pinkett-Smith, The Matrix Revolutions, Scream 2, Collateral), a character newly created for the show. In Fish’s employ are Oswald Cobblepot (Robin Lord-Taylor in a break out performance) a well-known character from the comics who will eventually become crime boss The Penguin and her right hand man Butch Gilzean (played by Drew Powell who previously worked with Ben McKenzie on Southland).

Other members of Gotham City Law enforcement include Detectives Renee Montoya (Victoria Cartagena) and Crispus Allen (British actor Andrew Stewart-Jones) who we at Gotham TV podcast had the pleasure of interviewing recently you can listen to the interview in the player below. As members of the Major Crimes Unit they have a distrustful relationship with anyone outside of their tight knit partnership including Detective Allen’s former partner Harvey Bullock. Captain Sarah Essen (Zabryna Guevara) heads up the Gotham City Police Department providing guidance for the team. The detectives work closely with the intelligent yet inscrutable Edward Nygma (Cory Michael Smith) another character well-known to comic book and Batman fans as the future Riddler.

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With the help of his fiance Barbara Kean (Welsh actor Erin Richards), Jim Gordon will try to navigate the dangerous mob run streets of Gotham to investigate the murder of 12-year-old Bruce Wayne’s (David Mazouz, Touch) aristocratic parents Dr. Thomas and Martha Wayne.

Left in the care of his butler, former soldier in the British SAS Alfred Pennyworth (British Actor Sean Pertwee, Dog Soldiers, Event Horizon) the young Bruce Wayne will find it difficult to grow up without guidance.

The city of Gotham and it’s characters from young Selina Kyle (Camren Bicondova),  mob boss Carmine Falcone (John Doman, The Wire) to his rival Salvatore Maroni (David Zayas, Dexter) will make a great backdrop to what we expect to be a fascinating look at the time in Gotham before the Batman and what led a young man with a score to settle to don a cape and cowl to patrol the streets of this lost city.

Join us after the premiere of Gotham on Channel 5 on the 13th of October for our review of the episode. If you want to listen to our podcasts that have been leading up to the release of the show so far and give background information on the major players from comic book appearances to events with the cast you can listen here or subscribe in iTunes. You can send us your thoughts on the episodes at [email protected]

We’re getting very excited to see what Gotham has to offer we’ll be attending the Gotham panel at New York Comic Con on the 12th of October 2014 for some final news before the season starts in the UK and Ireland on Channel 5.

Derek & John

“Zero Year Continues” – Gotham TV Podcast Episode 17

Show Notes

With our friends in the USA and Canada sitting down to watch Episode one of Gotham, we at Gotham TV Podcast look at the latest news from the series and connected DC universe as we wait for the mid-October release in the Ireland and the UK on Channel 5. Zero Year, Episode 17 of Gotham TV Podcast also looks at and reflects on what we can expect in the upcoming series of Gotham, talks about October’s New York Comic Con (N.Y.C.C.) and draws the winner out of the hat for the Penguin poster by Matthew J Fletcher.

Gotham News

  • The 22nd September is finally upon us and our friends across the Atlantic in the USA and Canada. Today is the day when all the waiting comes to an end and everyone in North America, via Fox and CTV, finally gets to watch episode one of Gotham. We hope it is everything they want from the show and more over the coming weeks. Don’t worry we’re not too far behind as over in Ireland and the UK Channel 5 airs Gotham from mid-October. Enjoy the Gotham premiere parties.
  • Tonnes of interviews out there with the cast and crew including our own interview with Victoria Cartagena and Andrew Stewart Jones but this one that Show Creator Bruno Heller did with Digital Spy caught our eye. He discusses the possibility of DC Universe Cross Overs. You can read the full interview with Digital Spy here.
  • The build up to the premiere of Gotham also saw the release by Fox of more character videos and snippets. The videos showed and expanded on some of the more well-known trailer scenes including the famous “There will be light…” scene from Jim Gordon (Ben McKenzie) and also explored some of the other main characters such as Barbara Kean (Erin Richards).
  • Hot on the heels of the series premiere, Gotham will also be at New York Comic Con on Sunday 12th October for a special video presentation and Q&A session. Gotham TV Podcast will be there to follow the events as they unfold from New York.
  • After our Episode 16 roundtable discussion with two of the newer Gotham podcasts last week we also took part in a question and answer session about Gotham with podcasters at the Assembly of Geek. You can check the Assembly of Geek Podcast out here.

DC Connected News

  • Also at New York Comic Con will be a number of other DC features including Constantine (Saturday 11th October), Special Guest Stephen Amell who plays Oliver Queen on WB’s Arrow will at the event for the weekend.
  • DC Entertainment and Comic panels looking at Batman’s 75th Anniversary (Saturday 11th October) and the new comic series Batman: Gotham Rising (Friday 10th October) and much much more.

FEEDBACK

  • Elizabeth D-V has asked us to share a discussion point with our listeners. Who do you think will appear on Gotham who has yet to be announced. She’s said she wants to wait to get the tone after a few episodes but if any other listeners want to send in their suggestions you can send them to our new address [email protected]
  • Our Zero Year Competition to win a Penguin poster by Matthew J Fletcher is now finished and we revealed the winner on our show The poster will be winging it’s way to the winner very soon. Have a listen to find out if it’s you.

Thanks so much to all of our listeners for their feedback it’s great to have the support so far and we hope you keep sending us your feedback as Gotham ramps up.

As always thanks so much for listening and all your interactions over the last five months. We have just over a month left until Gotham launches in the US hopefully it won’t be very long until we get to see the show in Europe and keep up the coverage.

Next time we’ll be on the road with all the coverage of Gotham and the DC Connected universe at New York Comic Con.

D&J
GothamTVPodcast

If you have any questions or comments you can contact us any of the following ways:

You can email us at [email protected]
@gothamtvpodcast on Twitter
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Date recorded: 22/09/2014
Date published: 23/09/2014
MP3, 35 mins, 128kbps, 32.2 MB