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Fancy winning a part in Star Wars VII?

So, with filming underway for the much anticipated Star Wars Episode VII, Disney and Lucasfilms have launched a new initiative called Star Wars: Force for Change which is devoted to finding creative solutions to the worlds biggest problems.

Anyone can contribute directly at Omaze.com/StarWars for a chance to appear in Star Wars: Episode VII. For each $10 contribution made through the…

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Hemlock Grove Season 2 coming soon to Netflix

Friday, July 11th at 12:01 AM PT is a date for your diary folks. 10 episodes of season two of Eli Roth's Emmy-nominated Netflix original series, HEMLOCK GROVE are due to be released.

“Hemlock Grove” is a supernatural thriller which explores the strange happenings in a small Pennsylvania town. The show focuses on the unlikely friendship between the founding family’s young heir, Roman…

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Preview images released from iZombie

As a lot of the attention recently seems to be focusing on Constantine, Arrow and The Flash, here's a little bit of a preview of one of this year's other new series from The CW, iZombie.

This is the official blurb from The CW about the show: 

Olivia “Liv” Moore was a rosy-cheeked, disciplined, over-achieving medical resident who had her life path completely mapped out…until the…

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ABC announces new shows for 2014/15

With the release of the 2014/2015 primetime schedule ABC has released details of some of the new shows due to be hitting our screens this year. A couple of these shows have definitely caught our attention and we're eagerly looking forward to seeing more. So here's a round up of a the ones we're excited about.

THE WHISPERS

Aliens have invaded Earth by using our most unlikely…

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SFW announces Sylvester McCoy for cycle 6

The Hobbit’s wizard Radagast the Brown and the last of the classic Doctors, Sylvester McCoy is the first guest confirmed for the Sci-Fi Weekender which will take place at Hafan Y Mor, Pwllheli, North Wales 19th – 22nd March 2015.

Sylvester McCoy, the Seventh incarnation of the Doctor will appear at the Europe's biggest residential Sci Fi festival along with an array of exciting guests…

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Future Imperfect

This is an essay by my wonderful NerdVsWorld co-host Brendan.

It was written as a part of his degree and we thought it would be nice to share it with the rest of the world.

In a nutshell it is a comparison of Philip K Dick's novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep and Fear Factory's concept album Obsolete.

Whilst they are both from very different eras and mediums, the…

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The NerdVsWorld List Of Films You Need To See

This list of films is compiled from responses to the thread on our facebook page, plus those suggested by guests on our NerdVsWorld show.

Basically we had to suggest 5 films off the top of our heads that we thought everyone needed to see.

I've removed any duplicates but added the number of times each one has been voted for.

I'll be updating it as and when new films are…

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