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Gotham Pilot Podcast Year One E01 – Gotham TV Podcast Episode 18

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Show Notes

Gotham premiered on Channel 5 in the UK on October 13th at 9PM and on RTÉ2 in Ireland on Monday January 26th 2015 in Ireland and is now available on Netflix and Blu-Ray and DVD. So We’ve finally been able to see the episode and share our thoughts with you. Our episode begins with some Gotham News from back in 2014 when we saw the episode first.

Gotham News

  • We’re not going to talk about ratings much on our show as they generally come out much slower in the UK but ratings for the pilot in the US were pretty high with about 8 million on the night of September 22nd. The audience increased by 50% when DVR watching over the subsequent three days was included. Making the total audience for the show 12 million if out maths is accurate.
  • As we’ve discussed on a past episode Harvey Dent is coming to Gotham and the actor who has been cast to play him is Nicholas D’Agosto. We know him from his turn as one of the ill-fated kids in Final Destination 5. He’s a lot younger than we’ve seen the character on screen before making it very possible that we’ll seen the character on screen before making it very possible that he’s a young lawyer working his way up the ranks of the legal system in Gotham. Hopefully we’ll see a lot of interplay between him and Jim Gordon as they try to clean up the city together.

DC Connected News

  • The Teen Titans joins the expanding list of DC properties being developed as a TV show. Variety reports that TV channel TNT are close to a deal on producing “Titans”, the show would center on Dick Grayson, the former Robin who emerges from Batman’s shadow to become Nightwing and the leader of a fearless band of heroes who include Starfire and Raven. Looks like it might be a show relevant to our interests.

FEEDBACK

We discuss lots of feedback on episode one at the end of the review. If you want to send us your thoughts or suggestions you can send them to our new address [email protected]
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 17 episodes. We will be covering all the news and info that came from our trip to New York Comic Con in another episode up this week and the next review episode will be up next week.

Derek & John
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Date recorded: 14/10/2014
Date published: 15/10/2014
MP3, 1h 50mins, 128kbps, 100.2 MB

Gotham TV Launch – 22 September – “The Legend Reborn” Preview

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Gotham launches on American TV network Fox and Canadian TV channel CTV on the 22nd of September 2014. While we know the show will air on Channel 5 in the UK we’ve yet to get a release date. Another European broadcaster Canal Plus in Spain have announced that they will broadcast Gotham within one day of the US broadcast on the 23rd of September so hopefully we won’t be far behind.

To celebrate the launch of Gotham iTunes now allow you to subscribe to the full season of Gotham on their US and Canadian service. For US€29.99 or CAN€49.99 you get the full season of 16 episodes and a special exclusive behind the scenes video. In addition, iTunes have put up a complete 21 minute preview of the show called “The Legend Reborn”. This preview is split into four parts and has been released on YouTube. Watch all four parts of “The Legend Reborn” below:

Part 1 – Mythical Beginnings

In this part we hear of the genesis of the idea of Gotham from Bruno Heller, Danny Cannon, Geoff Johns and members of the cast. We see more of the interplay between young Detective James Gordon (Ben McKenzie) and his Gotham guide, partner Harvey Bullock (Donal Logue). We also get to see more information about the villains of the show such as Oswald Cobblepot (Robin Lord Taylor) and Fish Mooney (Jada Pinkett-Smith) and a sneak peak of four new Characters to Gotham.

Part 2 – A City on the Edge

This second part gives us our first introduction to two members of the Major Crimes Unit of Gotham City Police Department, Renee Montoya (Victoria Cartegena) and Crispus Allen (Andrew Stewart-Jones). It also introduces us to the wider cast of the show such as Jim Gordon’s partner Barbara Kean (Welsh actress Erin Richards) and some of her background and connections in the city.

Part 3 – Behind the Shadows

This part of the documentary gives us some details of how the city of New York plays it’s part in the creation of Gotham. We get our first look at the primary set for the show, the Gotham City Police Department precinct office. This epic set is two stories tall and took over ten weeks to build. We also see some of the visual effects and special effects that will be used in the first few episodes of Gotham

Part 4 – Heroes and Villains

The final part of the documentary includes some of the footage that we have seen in the past providing some more detail on the characters and how the show will see the development of the two sides of the battle for Gotham before the existence of the Dark Knight.

Check the videos out and then come back and listen to episode 14 of our podcast where we discuss some of the information releases in these videos.

Derek & John

New footage in SDCC Gotham TV Trailer

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A new Trailer for Gotham was released along with a fan competition on Fox.com. The competition gives the option to create a new poster for the upcoming TV show Gotham or to recreate a scene from the new trailer below to win a trip to New York to watch the official premiere of Gotham.

The new trailer includes footage that looks like it’s taken from later in the season including our first mention of Arkham Asylum, Bruce Wayne’s assertion that he’s just testing himself with a burning candle to his hand and Robin Lord Taylor being picked up by two frat boys who tell him he looks like a certain aquatic flightless bird. Take a look at the trailer below and if you are in the United States enter the contest here or the video contest on the facebook page here

Also at an interview with IGN.com Ben McKenzie confirmed the appearance of the previously unannounced Gotham kingpin Sal Maroni. Previously played by Eric Roberts as the pretender to the throne left behind by Carmine Falconé this time they’ll both exist in Gotham together. We’re excited.

We’ll be talking all about the new trailer, competitions and the panel in our podcast tomorrow.

Gotham TV Podcast Meets Gotham Addicts – Zero Year Episode 11

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Show Notes

Derek and John return for Zero Year, Episode 11 of Gotham TV Podcast, we discuss all the Gotham news from the Television Critics association Summer tour 2014. We also invite some very special guests to the show this episode. We’re joined by Candace and Sophia of Gotham Addicts to talk all about how they started out developing their fan community with Sons of Anarchy, also starring Donal Logue (Harvey Bullock on Gotham), some of the fun times they’ve experienced, they’re initial impressions of Gotham and why they started Gotham Addicts.

We hope you enjoy this chat with other fans as much as we did.

News

Gotham News discussed on this episode

⦁ Bruno Heller talked about Ivy Pepper’s character on the show and how she may develop into Poison Ivy over time.
⦁ The introduction of Arkham Asylum and psychiatrist Doctor Hugo Strange.
⦁ Other assorted news from the Television Critics Association (TCA) summer tour 2014.
⦁ Shawn Lunn gives a great overview of the Gotham news from the TCA’s in his blog.

As always thanks for listening. Later this week we will be talking about all the news and details of Gotham surrounding San Diego Comic Con.

D&J
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Date recorded: 22/07/2014
Date published: 23/07/2014
MP3, 61 mins, 128kbps, 56.1 MB

“Gotham Central – Unresolved” – Zero Year Episode 10

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Show Notes

Derek and John return for Zero Year, Episode 10 of Gotham TV Podcast, with a review of the “Unresolved” story arc in the comic series “Gotham Central” by Ed Brubaker, Greg Rucka and Michael Lark and covers issues #19-22. Unresolved sees a divisive former member of the M.C.U. with a large reputation assist colleagues with an old cold case, “the locker room bombing”. This draws out a dangerous and persuasive trickster from down the rabbit hole of Arkham Asylum and his unknown and unexpected accomplice.

The review is full of spoilers so if you haven’t read the comics, grab a copy from your local comic book shop or you can read it digitally at Comixology and join us. Let us know your opinion on the story and we’ll discuss any feedback on the next episode.

News

We begin by discussing some of the news that has come out since the last episode.

Gotham News

⦁    BREAKING NEWS Gotham’s premiere and launch date this Fall was announced. Gotham episode one will air in the USA on 22nd September 2014. We are beyond excited by this news and can’t wait until the broadcasters and other premiere dates will be announced for other regions…fingers crossed this will be very soon!

⦁    In Gotham casting news, Carol Kane was cast as Gertrud Kapelput, the mother of Oswald Cobblepot (Robin Lord Taylor), in a recurring role for Gotham. Kyle Massey has also been hired in a recurring role. Massey will play a neglected kid called Macky who lives on the streets of Gotham.

⦁    The World Premiere screening of the Gotham pilot will take place at San Diego Comic Con on Saturday 26th of July from 8 to 11pm. As part of the gigantic international event, it will include loads of exclusives for the upcoming slate of the a Warner Bros. Television and DC Entertainment shows and will be hosted by Stephen Amell who stars as Oliver Queen on Arrow. Along with the full premiere of Gotham, the complete screening of The Flash pilot, exclusive footage from Episode 1 of Constantine and Season 3 of Arrow,  it will also feature appearances from various cast and producers from the TV shows.

⦁    Alan Brennert, the creator of the character Barbara Kean, has said he will boycott the TV show Gotham over a despute over equity for the use of the character on the TV Show. We hope all involved are able to resolve the situation soon.

DC Connected Universe News

⦁    Writer, director and podcaster Kevin Smith took to twitter to take the opportunity to deny the rumours which stated that he was the writer of a leaked draft ghost script for Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice, supposedly written at the request of Warner Bros. Pictures to put fake spoilers online. Understandably, Kevin Smith also took the opportunity to promote his actual work with the 5 completed scripts he has produced in the last 12 months and his upcoming movie TUSK out in October.

⦁    Brandon Routh will return to the DC universe as The Atom in season 3 of Arrow it was announced. After his stint as Superman/Clark Kent in Brian Singer’s Superman Returns, Brandon Routh now has the opportunity to play Ray/The Atom who can alter the size of his body as well as other objects.

As always thanks for listening. Next time we will be talking about the big one – San Diego Comic Con 2014 – with some special guests.

D&J
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Date recorded: 10 & 11/07/2014
Date published: 13/07/2014
MP3, 88 mins, 128kbps, 80.9 MB

Gotham Trailers, Clips and Videos

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Since the start of May fans of the upcoming TV series Gotham have, in addition to interviews with the cast and characters, been treated to a host of video releases, including trailers and clips that are beginning to tease out the tone, direction and characters of the show scheduled for this Autumn.

The release of the official extended trailer for Gotham started it all off in early May and started a buzz about the show with fans enjoying and scrutinising the trailers, including ourselves with our “Gotham First Full Trailer Breakdown” episode of Gotham TV Podcast. This was soon followed by a “First Look” from the official Gotham website and trailers from other TV networks as screenings of the pilot episode of Gotham began to gather more excitement and generate momentum around the show. We then got to see a short but tantalising villains snap-shot from Fox Networks which was awesome and got ourselves even more excited about the show and now we’ve seen the companion video to Villains entitled Heroes, there’s no new footage present but seeing Jim and the young Bruce Wayne together as the city closes around them is worth watching.

Whilst most of the footage is from the pilot episode, there are some great shots of the City of Gotham and some iconic glimpses laid bare in the current releases for the Gotham TV show. We are certainly expecting new footage from the series soon, as the big comic cons are on the horizon and filming for the show is continuing apace in New York (aka Gotham). So, Gothamites, we have pulled together the current trailers, clips, snap-shots and other videos below and on our new YouTube Channel for you all to enjoy. We will of course add to this as more trailers and clips are released.

Gotham | Exclusive Preview (Warner Bros. UK, Channel 5 UK)

Official Extended Trailer | Gotham | Fox Broadcasting

First Look | Gotham

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REoELMS5tXc

Villains | Gotham

Heroes | Gotham

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlsuG1paO04

Bruno Heller introduces the Worlds of Gotham

https://youtu.be/6chG-0bIxe8

One Crime Will Unite Two Partners | Gotham

https://youtu.be/9iy6dQ769oI

Ben McKenzie and the Cast Talk Gotham | DC Entertainment | DC All Access

Gotham Trailer Pilot | CTV Broadcasting

 

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Gotham Cast and Creator Interviews

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The anticipation surrounding Fox’s upcoming 16-episode series Gotham is seriously on the up and the excitement is certainly building for the TV series.

Over April and May this year a rake of different promotional events have taken place from release of the Gotham pilot trailer to the TV Upfronts for Fox and the Canadian broadcaster CTV. Only a couple of weeks in to June and pilot screenings have begun to take place in New York and L.A. for international buyers who have had some great initial impressions and high hopes for the show.

There have also been some insightful and thoughtful interviews with a number of the cast. Below we’ve pulled together some of the interviews with members of the Gotham cast and creators for you, Gothamites, to check out.

Ben McKenzie, Donal Logue, Robin Lord Taylor and Corey Michael Smith chat about Gotham’s premiere at San Diego Comic Con 2014 prior to the event with Marissa Roffman at givememyremote.com.

Ben McKenzie, Donal Logue, Robin Lord Taylor, and Cory Michael Smith on the Show’s Comic-Con Premiere – See more at: https://www.givememyremote.com/remote/2014/07/22/gotham-ben-mckenzie-donal-logue-robin-lord-taylor-and-cory-michael-smith-on-the-shows-comic-con-premiere/#sthash.A84yZriJ.dpuf
Ben McKenzie, Donal Logue, Robin Lord Taylor, and Cory Michael Smith on the Show’s Comic-Con Premiere – See more at: https://www.givememyremote.com/remote/2014/07/22/gotham-ben-mckenzie-donal-logue-robin-lord-taylor-and-cory-michael-smith-on-the-shows-comic-con-premiere/#sthash.A84yZriJ.dpuf

Robin Lord Taylor discusses his role in Gotham as Oswald Cobblepot (aka the Penguin) with James Hibberd from Entertainment Weekly

Cory Michael Smith riddles away about Gotham in this interview with Craig Byrne of KSiteTV

Ben McKenzie talks Gotham with James Hibberd from Entertainment Weekly.

Bruno Heller chats with James Hibberd from Entertainment Weekly answering questions on the Batman prequel and claiming that the “Show will surpass the films”.

Camren Bicondova and David Mazouz talk with Eric Goldman from IGN on how it was for these two youngsters to play the younger versions of Selina Kyle and Bruce Wayne.

Donal Logue discusses his character Harvey Bullock with Brent Hankins from Nerd Repository and about the upcoming conflict in Gotham.

Director Danny Cannon discusses his involvement in Gotham with Daniel Fienberg from HitFix giving an insight in to Gotham without the Batman and hinting at the introduction of a further villain.

Bruno Heller and Danny Cannon discuss their unique take on the world of Batman with Eric Goldman of IGN and delve further in to their version of a young Bruce Wayne and his journey to becoming the Batman.

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“Gotham Central Review Part 2 Issues 11-18 – Zero Year E05

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Show Notes

Following on from the review of issues 1-10 of Gotham Central in our last podcast (episode 4), Derek and John return for Zero Year, Episode 5 of Gotham TV Podcast, with a review of issues 11-18 of the comic series “Gotham Central” by Ed Brubaker, Greg Rucka and Michael Lark.

News Links

We begin by discussing by giving a whole-hearted thank you to Ben and Daniel of Welcometolevelseven.com for spreading the word about our podcast to their Agents. If you haven’t checked it out we highly recommend you can listen to their excellent unofficial Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. and Marvel Universe podcast here

Here’s the news we talked about on this episode:

  • Fox US are expected to announce a launch date for Gotham between the 12th and 14th of May.
  • John Stephens, former writer on the O.C., will get to work with Ben McKenzie again as he’s been given a 2 year contract with Warner Brothers which includes a role as executive producer for Gotham.
  • We discuss the casting of Ray Fisher as Cyborg in Batman/Superman and discuss the official announcement of a Justice League film to start filming directly after Batman/Superman.

Competition

⦁ Check out details of our competition for a signed print of the Penguin by Matthew J. Fletcher on our website here.

This Week’s Feedback

We discuss an iTunes review from Ailby and some feedback from Ben Avery and Daniel Butcher on our previous episodes.

Gotham Central Review

The full comic series “Gotham Central” looks at the Gotham City Police Department and the difficulties and challenges faced by its detectives at work and on the streets fighting crime in Gotham City. The shadow of the Batman and his foes hang heavy over the officers of the Major Crimes Unit.

In this fifth podcast we review issues 11-18 of the Gotham Central series that include the story arcs “Daydreams and Believers” (issue #11), “Soft Targets” (issues #12-15) and “Life is Full of Disappointments” (issues #16-18). From the hiring of a temp in the Major Crimes Unit to the beginnings of a new case the series charts the relationships of the detectives in the G.C.P.D. and the events that impact on them. With a well-known villain on the loose in Gotham the detectives are truly on the front line of the war on crime. The review is full of spoilers so if you haven’t read the comics, grab a copy from your local comic book shop or you can read it digitally at Comixology and join us. Let us know your opinion on the stories of these arcs or your thoughts of the 40 issue comic series so far. We’ll discuss any feedback on the next episode.

As always thanks for listening. Next time we will be taking a brief break from the review of Gotham Central comic series and will be talking about the first of Christopher Nolan’s Batman trilogy “Batman Begins”. Get watching and we’ll talk to you in two weeks.

Intro music for the show is Crime Scene Part 1 by The Afghan Whigs

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Gotham TV Podcast
Genres: TV, Comics, Fantasy, Crime, Batman, Drama, Operatic Soap, DC

Date recorded: 28/04/2014
Date published: 01/05/2014
MP3, 125 mins, 128kbps, 78 MB

“Gotham Central Review Issues 1 – 10” – Zero Year E04

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Show Notes

Derek and John return for Zero Year, Episode 4 of Gotham TV Podcast, with a review of the first 10 issues of the 40 issue comic series “Gotham Central” by Ed Brubaker, Greg Rucka and Michael Lark.

News Links

We begin by discussing some of the news that has come out since the last episode.

⦁ DC have begun their celebrations of Batman’s 75th Year in comics. We discuss what this means to us and the sad news of the death of Lorenzo Semple Junior, one of the creators of the 60s Batman series. You can check out DC’s official #Batman75 website here.

⦁ The creator of the Batman Animated Series, Bruce Timms, has released his animated short tribute to Batman at 75 “Strange Days”. Check out his two minute celebration here.

⦁ Warner Brothers Games Montreal will be releasing the first and only one player Downloadable content for Batman Arkham Origins on the PC, Playstation 3 and XBox 360. The Mr. Freeze centric add on “Cold, Cold Heart” will be released in the US on the 22nd of April and the UK on the 23rd of April. Check out the trailer here.

⦁ In other gaming news the Playstation Vita game Batman: Arkham Origins Blackgate has been remastered and re-released for download on the Playstation 3 and XBox 360.

⦁ We discuss how our predictions of the release of the official cast photos by Gotham turned out. *spoilers* not great.

⦁ We discuss the casting of Edward Nigma and two big characters from the Gotham Central comics series, Renee Montoya and Crispus Allen. It’s like we planned it.

Gotham Central Review

The full comic series “Gotham Central” looks at the Gotham City Police Department and the difficulties and challenges faced by its detectives at work and on the streets fighting crime in Gotham City. The shadow of the Batman and his foes hang heavy over the officers of the Major Crimes Unit.

In this fourth podcast we review the first three story arcs of the Gotham Central series that include “In the Line of Duty” (issues #1-2), “Motive” (issues #3-5) and “Half a Life” (issues #6-10). The review is full of spoilers so if you haven’t read the comics, grab a copy from your local comic book shop or you can read it digitally at Comixology and join us. Let us know your opinion on the story and we’ll discuss any feedback on the next episode.

As always thanks for listening. Next time we will be talking about the next three arcs of the “Gotham Central” series (issues #11-18). Get reading and we’ll talk to you in two weeks.

Intro music for the show is Crime Scene Part 1 by The Afghan Whigs

D&J
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Genres: TV, Comics, Fantasy, Crime, Batman, Drama, Operatic Soap, DC

Date recorded: 11/04/2014
Date published: 16/04/2014
MP3, 121 mins, 128kbps, 74 MB