Welcome back to Virtual Pizza, the show where we devour the digital world, one slice at a time.

News 10-20 years ago, Hollywood were desperately trying to make films out of TV Shows (Mission Impossible, Charlies Angels, The Saint and The Fugitive). Now the tables have flipped and with the huge success of shows like Hannibal, Fargo and Bates Motel, the new trend of turning movies into TV shows continues with recent announcements  that Scream, Westworld and The Devil’s Advocate are following suit. The latest to jump on the bandwagon is Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Television, who are redeveloping the Tom Cruise movie Minority Report.  News that Matthew McConaughy is being courted for Josh Boone’s remake of the Stephen King miniseries The Stand. Favourite time of year with new shows starting after the summer break. Homeland returns with its 4th season, where I’m hoping that we can finally move on from the whole Brody issue

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Syfy has recently released  first look at its zombie TV series Z Nation. From the trailer, it looks like the plot will revolve around the attempt to deliver the one man famed for surviving a zombie bite to the authorities.

http://youtu.be/iqbHm6RTHHM Theres been some welcome 2nd season Renewal news for Del Toro’s disease-slash-vampire show the Strain, Damen Lindelhof’s rapture-based The Leftovers and after just 2 episodes, the time traveller-slash-highlander saga, Outlander 

http://youtu.be/hkizwJUiVjA Finally, the BBC has reported that when a Doctor Who fan created his own unofficial title sequence for the show and put it on YouTube, the producers saw it and liked it so much that they decided to use it for the new series, which begins on the 23rd August http://youtu.be/oXOBHnWiinY

Interview with Matthew and Robert from YAP Audio.

And that brings us to the recommendation of the week, which is no surprise, its the excellent Aftermath Shout outs All the podcasters I met at UKPOD14 last weekend - they’ve inspired and encouraged me to get back behind the mic.  I’ll hopefully be bringing some of them onto Virtual Pizza in the future