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Hello and welcome to My Weekly Geekery, the show in which I talk about what's been going
on in my geeky world over the past seven days.
Top story today is that it has been announced that the BBC's arts budget
is to increase by 20 percent, in a speech by director general Tony Hall yesterday.
Several new collaborations have been announced including
with the Tate and the British Museum. Also The Space, the digital service I've talked
about on here before, has received more funding and is to be relaunched in 2014.
Matt Smith shot his final scenes as The Doctor this week
and has already begun rehearsals for his new role as psychopathic serial killer
Patrick Bateman in the musical version of American Psycho. This production will
run at the Almeida Theatre in London
from 3rd December to 25th of January. The fourth film in The
Chronicles of Narnia series, The Silver Chair, has finally been given the
green light.
The Silver Chair is the first of the books not to feature the Pevensie children, and is
set decades after the Dawn Treader.
In other movie news The Fault in Our Stars movie has been given a release
date:
June 6th 2014. The highly anticipated web series,
Emma Approved, by the team behind The Lizzie Bennet Diaries began
on Monday. I like it so far, Emma is sort of pushy and annoying
with good intentions like in the book. It's slightly different to the Lizzie Bennet Diaries in that
it's not
actually really in the form of a video blog, and also we've met Knightley in the first
episode.
I'm not complaining about Darcy not appearing in the Lizzie Bennet Diaries until half
way through the
series, but it's going to be interesting to have Knightly there right from the beginning.
I'm looking forward to the next episode tomorrow. In other web series news,
Project: Library begins on TimH's channel on Thursday,
tomorrow, at 8 p.m. So in conclusion,
this week's episode has been about things that were, or are,
worth the wait. This has been My Weekly Geekery.