Television Crossover Universe

Next Saturday, May 14, the TVCU Crew  will be recording episodes 23, 24 and 25 of the Television Crossover Universe podcast from Castle Wolfenstein on the Grand Guignol Network.  In Episode 23, Robert , Ivan , Chris and James will be talking with Dave Elliott , creator of the Weirding Willows comic book, which presents a new take on some classic fairy tales. In Episode 24, Robert , Ivan , Chris and James will be talking with filmmaker Jesse Thomas Cook. Jesse Thomas Cook is a producer, known for Monster Brawl (2011), Scarce (2008) and  Septic Man (2013). In Episode 25,  Robert ,  Ivan ,  Chris  and  James  will be discussing filmmakers who create shared universe by linking unrelated films with certain recurring elements. New episodes of the show are released every Tuesday.  You can check out the latest episode at the link provided in the upper right hand corner of this page. And please join us o...

Next Saturday, April 2, the TVCU Crew  will be recording episodes 17 and 18 of the Television Crossover Universe podcast from Castle Wolfenstein on the Grand Guignol Network.  In Episode 17,  Robert ,  Ivan ,  Chris  and  James  will be talking with Murray Ewing , author, poet, blogger, podcaster, and musician.   In Episode 18,  Robert ,  Ivan ,  Chris  and  James  will be talking with author  Peter Rawlik , author of such Lovecraftian works as Reanimators and the Weird Company. New episodes of the show are released every Tuesday.  You can check out the latest episode at the link provided in the upper right hand corner of this page. And please join us on  Facebook  to discuss the episodes.  Feel free to join us before the show to post any questions you have for our guests, and then feel free to join us after the shows to provide feedback.

I don't do well with change. This crossovers thing started off as a hobby.  It was a bunch of notes in a pile of 5-subject notebooks.  I mostly kept these notes to myself.  Occasionally, I would bore a friend or family member with them. When the technology became available, I started moving my notes from notebooks to word documents.  But they were still my private notes, created from research that I usually conducted late at night when I couldn't sleep. When the social media age came about, I used the MySpace blog to share some of my weird ideas about crossovers.  They weren't well read, and they were hard to reference in archives. But one person did seem to find my MySpace blog, because Win Scott Eckert, whose website I had been addicted to for years, contacted me and sent me an invite to join a group of likeminded individuals. I found that there were people in that forum who enjoyed my ideas, and had similar ideas.  So five years ago, I created ...