Doctor Who: Legends of a Time Lord

Season 2 Christmas Special: Blackbird

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Blackbird Part 2! The birds are circling, the Doctor is arriving, and Christmas is here.  The Doctor accidentally arrives in 1693 Edwarton Colony, and instead of the peaceful holiday Emily and Daniel were hoping for, the trio are in for another great adventure!

Cast and Crew

Featured in the cast were,
Kylie Howard as Anna
Helen Quigley as Elizabeth
Nathan Simmonds as Benjamin
Matthew McLaren as Bert
Brad Smith as Charlie
Alaisdar Stuart as Ephraim
Scott Stronach as Jacob
Rhys Ptolemy as Josias
Seth Adam Sher as Locke
Gareth Bowley as Reverend Wheelright
Tom Stitzer as Burlingame
Sammy Rey as Emily Whitrose
and
David Maciver as The Doctor

Producer: Waleed Ovase
Writer: Ryan Cassavaugh
Director/Audio Engineer: Scott Stronach

Tony, Dan, and myself (Waleed) would like to thank everyone for listening to Star Trek: Outpost, and supporting it through the past few years.

Please enjoy “Episode 17: Enter the Sovereignty” which has been released a few hours early.

A special message from Tony and Dan will be posted soon.  Again, we’d like to thank everyone for listening to Star Trek: Outpost, supporting it and Giant Gnome Productions throughout the years, it has been greatly appreciated.  We hope to be doing this for many years to come.

Here at Giant Gnome Productions, we’re exceptionally happy that one of our great shows was picked to be a Parsec Finalist.  Tony and Dan have crafted a special message to our faithful listeners.  If you’re going to Dragon*Con, please be sure to scout out Tony and Dan who will be wearing Giant Gnome Productions t-shirts and say hi.  We always love to meet our listeners. As always, thanks for listening.

If you’re coming, please leave a comment, we’d love to hear from you at the convention!

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If Frankenstein and Dracula got together for tea time, what would it sound like?

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Credits

• Written and Produced by: Nick Armstrong
• Frankenstein: Darren Marlar
• Dracula: Mauri Majanoja
• TMZ Guy: Nick Armstrong
• Title Art: Creature Olympics by Telethon
• Intro Song: L’arrivée from La plage de Blâne-est by Ehma (courtesy of http://www.jamendo.com/)

A few weeks ago, I made a trip up to South Dakota from Fort Collins, Colorado.  On my way back, I got a bit lost and headed part of the way toward Nebraska, when I found these two signs.

If you’re a fan of Star Trek: Outpost, you’re gonna get a kick out of it – I couldn’t believe it myself – these two signs only 15 minutes apart.  You just can’t make this up.

Join us as we go on the air with BlogTalkRadio!  Dan and Tony will be there to talk about Star Trek: Outpost on June 4th, 2008 at 8PM Pacific!  In addition, we’ll be having a sneak peek of Episode 3!

That’s BlogTalkRadio on June 4th at 8:00 p.m. Pacific time!

To listen in, go to the BlogTalkRadio website! Here is the phone # that you and your friends can use to ask questions as well: 1 (347) 215-6508

Here’s the URL: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/StarTrek/2009/06/05/Star-Trek-Outpost-beams-in-for-a-chat

Thanks,

Tony, Waldo, and Nick
The Gnomes

A couple of pointers before auditioning:

* We will only accept auditions in CD QUALITY WAV or 192 kbps MP3
* Please when auditioning, make sure there are no pops, hisses, scratches etc in your recording.
* The auditions end: Saturday, May 16th, 2009 for all roles.
* We will accept re-auditions on a per person basis. Please put your best effort forward.
* The email that these auditions should be sent to is: tony@giantgnome.com
* PLEASE – Label the audition files like this: CHARACTERNAME_YOURNAME.MP3/WAV
* If you submit more than one audition, please send them in a zip file.
* Thank you and break a leg!

JENNETH

Any race; any gender. Anywhere from mid-thirties to late sixties. Competent engineer aboard the Pirate Vessel Solar Winds who is respectful and fearful of his/her captain.

LINE 1: As near as I can figure it out, when the discharge hit our shields, it actually drew power from them, and fed the shield energy back into the shield generators. From there, it traveled through connecting systems damaging the connections, rather than actually damaging the equipment itself… I’d suggest spending a week in dock rechecking everything, but we’re good to go for now.

LINE 2: (PUZZLED…HOW DOES THIS HAVE ANYTHING TO DO WITH THE SHIP?) I can’t imagine he doesn’t. Why? But I hope you’re not suggesting we raid …

DS3 SECURITY GUARD

Any race; any gender. Anywhere from low twenties to early thirties. May not be the brightest bulb in the garden, but earnest and helpful.

LINE 1: (CALLING AFTER) A reminder, sirs, that you are entering a restricted zone and all conversations are monitored and recorded.

YOSSARIAN (yo-SORRY-en)

Alien merchant. Gender and age as appropriate to species, but an older, established businessbeing. Harried by the day-to-day stress of keeping a business going under trying circumstances. A good guy, willing to help a friend, but practical and unwilling to throw good resources after bad.

LINE 1: (OVER COMM) Look, Yurrel, I’ll help you in any way I can. After all, some of my cargo was on the Profitable Venture, and now you owe me for it, but I’ve had to rebook everything we had a contract on. If something else comes in the door in the next couple weeks, or one of my other transport jobs runs into a snag, I might be able to throw some work your way, but I need to know what your capabilities are, first.

LINE 2: (OVER COMM) … But only if you have a cargo lined up. And no-one’s going to commit a cargo until you have a ship. Yurrel, we’ve talked about these arrangements many times before over Saurian Brandies. They never end well. (SIGH) Let me ask around. I might be able to find something that will help you start working off your debts.

DERSIK (DER-SICK)

Male, mid 30s-40s. Intergalactic hauler. Low on the rung of commerce. Has more ambition than moxie. Picture one of those smarmy guys from the biker bar down the street.

LINE 1: You’re calling in my marker already? Goshen, look, I knew you were new to the lending industry when I came to you … as a last resort… but I assumed you knew that you have to at least give me a chance to make a few runs on the engine repairs I had done with the latinum you lent me! Remember? The longer you hold my marker, the more interest you earn on the loan.

LINE 2: (TO HIS OWN CREW) Is this translator working right? I just heard the Ferengi say he didn’t want the latinum!

CREWMEMBER #1

MALE, Any age, any species. Even lower on the rung of commerce than Dersik. Less ambition, less moxie, more of a taste for fermented beverages.

LINE 1: (OVER COMM) He can’t come to the Comm right now; he’s sleeping. Besides, we’re supposed to be running silent. It’s getting dangerous out here! Never know when you’re going to be blown out of the stars! Like the Pinch wasn’t bad enough on its own, now we have to deal with phaser-happy pirates!

Nick here – writing at 3 AM Friday morning.  I’ve got a story to tell you.  You might not want to hear it, but I’m gonna give it anyway, for what it’s worth.

I can’t tell you how frustrated I am by this delay.  I wanted so badly to get this miniseries released on time. We’re only pushing back three days, but I feel like I’ve let you – our fanbase, down.  If you can forgive us that, you’ll have Part One of Star Trek: Dimensions – Life Before The Mirror on Sunday.

If you’re a fan, you know there have been delays before.  This time… it’s a bit different.

Waldo has been crazy slammed these last two weeks burring his head in school books to keep his grades up.  Like a dummy I kept asking him if we were on track rather than if he could use a hand, and so we really didn’t communicate all that well to get the project back on track.  Late last night he transferred the files over to me so that I might give post-production (piecing it all together) a shot.

If you follow my personal blog at IAmNickArmstrong.com, you know we’ve had some problems with audio quality for one of the actor’s lines. I’ve been working through most of the night last night (5 AM) and tonight (3 AM) to see if we can correct the audio on our end in an attempt to release on time.  I’ve had a good amount of success correcting the problems, but we’re definitely going to need to re-record that actor’s lines AFTER part one.  But, as you can see from the lack of podcasted episode, that sapped a lot of the production time away that would have been used to put the show together.

I’m going to move forward to release Part One by Sunday, but having to re-record the audio for Georgia’s lines may mean a 15-30 day delay in Part 2… depending on how fast we can get the new lines back and how they sound.  We’re going scene by scene here, making sure it’s all good.  The last thing I’d want to do is come back from a 6 month break and hand you a steaming pile of audio crap.  That’s not how I roll.

Again, as with last time, you have my sincere apologies that we’ve broken yet another deadline promise.  We really are doing the best we can… and if you stick with us, you’re in for a real treat – starting friggin’ Sunday – even if I have to stay up EVERY NIGHT until then.

-Nick Armstrong
Writer, Star Trek: Dimensions

Star Trek: Dimensions – “Life Before The Mirror” mini-series

We’ve kept you all waiting for far too long. Now, the wait is… kind of over.

Giant Gnome Productions is proud to announce a new, 13 part mini-series of Star Trek: Dimensions called “Life Before the Mirror”. A new piece of this mini-series will be released on the 15th and 30th of every month, starting April 30th 2009.

The mini-series examines the lives of the crew of the USS Churchill before the ship’s destruction, and their mission into the mirror universe, as told in Episode 1 “Sacrifice” which was released in August of last year. Each episode will be short in length, ranging from 4 to 10 minutes, featuring an in-depth look into each crewmember through the eyes of the counselor, Georgia Harolds.

Along the way, we’ll learn more about the crew as well as the events that transpired to bring them into the mirror universe.
Join us on April 30, 2009 for the beginning of the journey.

As an aside, we realize that we HAVE kept you waiting for quite some time and that you’ve all shown a great deal of patience for Dimensions. That being said, we’re planning on bringing you full-length episodes starting in Fall 2009.

We’ve said this before. This time, we’re not kidding. You’ll have a monthly full-length feature to look forward to in Fall of ’09 culminating to a complete first season. We’ve sketched out two full seasons so far, and the door is wide-open for a third depending on interest.

We know we set the bar high with “Sacrifice” and the last thing we want to do is let you down. We want to know what you think, each step of the way, with this mini-series. If you don’t like the direction it’s going, let us know. If you think we’re moving too slowly with the mini-series, let us know.

In short – participate! Star Trek is something we’re all very attached to, and we don’t want to put out something you don’t want to hear.
Thanks for listening and thanks for sticking with us!  Feel free to contact us on Twitter with any thoughts, suggestions, or ideas. @ImNickArmstrong and @WaleedOvase

Nick Armstrong and Waleed Ovase
Writer and Executive Producer
Giant Gnome Productions

Happy Saturday!  As you can see, we’ve switched to the WordPress platform, and unfortunately we haven’t gotten our links back up yet!

Never fear!  All the great audio theater will be back up on the site by the end of the weekend.  If we’ve missed something, let us know by commenting on this post!

However, you can still access all the RSS feeds as well as everything on iTunes.  Just search Giant Gnome Productions!!

Thanks for stickin’ with us!

Waleed “Waldo” Ovase

Executive Producer

Stay tuned – new episodes are coming soon. In fact, as an update, Star Trek: Outpost just finished post production on Episode 1 and Episode 2 is heading into full production. We’ll release them very soon! Until then, stay tuned!

Have a great holiday season! We look forward to bringing you some cool content in the coming months!

Whew! ANOTHER MONTH of busy weeks!

You’ve probably also been waiting for Giant Gnome Production’s Premiere Mystery Series: The Adventures of Chris Adam! Never fear, they are near. However due to some unforeseen technical difficulties, The Adventures of Chris Adam will be delayed. We’re sorry for the inconvenience. Please stay tuned to the GnomeCast every two weeks for more information.

Have you Listened to the Public Service Announcements yet? Well..Have you? A new episode is online! Its on Air! Go Listen!!  And for you fans of GnomeCast and Star Trek: Dimensions, check out the Blog and Twitter links located on each show’s page!

Our Official Giant Gnome Production’s Forum is up and running! Go register, and join the fun! We’ll be posting polls, casting call, and lots more up there!!

Looking for Auditions? More Auditions will be coming shortly for Star Trek: Dimensions, and of course The 13th Hour!  Speaking of auditions, check out the auditions for our new series, Star Trek: Outpost! Head to the edge of the Federation where discovery…and adventure…await.

Stay Tuned to the GnomeCast for more information.

Did you listen to the latest GnomeCast? I announced an unreleased audition deadline extension on there! If you didn’t listen you didn’t catch it, and if you didn’t catch it, you missed your chance to audition after the deadline!! A brand new GnomeCast will be online every two weeks.

Stick with us people, we have lots of stuff comin’ your way!

If you have questions or feedback, feel free to contact us at waldo@giantgnome.com.

Thanks for coming to Giant Gnome.com!

Waleed “Waldo” Ovase
Executive Producer