Come and take part in Sending a Wave!

Hi all,

Just to let everybody know the team have decided to open up our recording sessions to people who would like to attend and see the show being recorded, and to take part if they would like to.

This weekend (Saturday, 3rd February) we will be putting together a show to go out later in February or possibly early March. It would be great to have a few extra people taking part, so if you would like to join us please send an email to wave@futilityradio.com. As this is a bit of an experiment for us, we will limit it on this occasion to the first four people who contact us.

We record at 2pm in Daventry, Northants, we will send exact directions to anyone who is interested.

We will be recording show 14 and perhaps some additional feature material for a later show, but we are still in the planning stages for that. We record in (practically) real time, so the main show will take about an hour to record. There is a pub two doors away, which is where we can go for a beverage or two afterwards (although if you want to bring some drinks for when we are recording, that is fine too.)

Hope to see some of you there,

The SaW Team

Nathan Fillion attends Sundance Film Festival 2007

Nathan Fillion attended this year's Sundance Film Festival where his film, "WAITRESS" premiered.

In their Sundance 2007 updates, Variety and Screen International have reported that the film has been amongst the first titles to have found buyers and that the film has been picked up by Fox Searchlight for $5M for the worldwide rights.

As many of you are aware, the writer/director, Adrienne Shelly, is no longer with us; she was the victim of a homicide in her New York home last September/October. A 19-year old has been charged with her murder.

Much to the disappointment of Sundance officials, tickets for "WAITRESS" appeared for sale on eBay. One ticket reportedly sold for $385, another reportedly sold for $225 and a third was reportedly listed at $227. On learning of these sales, Festival officials were quoted as saying that they had contacted parties involved and had informed them that the tickets can be remotely deactivated prior to the screening.

The photo is of Nathan attending the Entertainment Weekly Sundance Film Festival 2007 party.

Wendy

February Show

Just to let you all know that there won't be a second show this month, we have recorded one but we don't know if we will all be able to get together in February or not, so we are holding that show back until then.

It was recorded at the Oxford Shindig, and the main discussion topics are the Universal Cease and Decist orders, and also there is news about a new Massive Multiplayer Online Game based on Firefly that is currently in development. The show will be out on Monday, 5th February. Special thanks to the shindig attendees, and Wolf, who recorded an interview for us over the phone.

I am attending the Friday part of the shindig in London this weekend, all of us apart from Mike have been able to rearrange our schedules. Yes, I will be taking the studio with me!

So, see some of you at the weekend!

Oxford Shindig (Last Weekend)

Sorry, meant to post this last week but what with work and stuff never got round to it!

I'd just like to say a huge thanks to everyone who made us all feel very welcome and record a load of stuff for Sending a Wave at the shindig in Oxford last weekend. Personally, this is only the second Shindig I have ever attended and it was really nice to put some faces to the names on the forums and indeed voices to the faces on the Frappr map!

The four of us had a good time (but then Toni always has a good time if she discovers that she is less than 1km from a Lush shop!) - good food, good company. Thank you all also for letting us record the material we recorded at the pub, this will form the main part of show 13, which will probably be out early February, but we will keep you posted.

So again, thanks to Zol, Sarah and Richard for taking part in the show!

Thanks also to Nick Edwards, who was at the Shindig but had to leave before we went on to the pub and did the recording. He has sent us some great feedback, as well as an article about the Firefly Music Project CD Songs from the Black, which we will cover in a show soon, that is in the planning stages as we speak!

Thanks to Zol for the picture of Wendy outside a curiously named shop, although she denies everything!

Finally, most of us are attending the London Shinding on Friday 26th and Saturday 27th, so we will hopefully meet more of you then!

"SERENITY" creates a new first

The BDM has received a somewhat less than illustrious first. A website, Ars Technica, reported that the high-def DVD has had it's coding broken and is now available on the internet as a BitTorrent download. The programmer responsible reportedly hinted about the Volume Key for the HD-DVD encryption coding and has indicated that the same method could be applied to Blu-Ray coding as well. The Motion Picture Association of America has yet to make a comment on this development as part of their ongoing stance to illegal internet downloading/file sharing.

Wendy

Show 12 - January Show - Happy New Year!

Hi everyone,

hope y'all had a fantastic new year. We spent New Year's Eve recording this show, hope you enjoy it, because we had great fun recording it!


First off we'd just like to thank Sonia and Mike for this fantastic picture of Wendy hard at work at B3. Thanks guys, we'll let you know what Wendy says when she sees it.

The last 6 months have gone by in a whirlwind, I can hardly believe we're on show 12 already, it's been such a great ride.

This show is going to look at the past, present and future of Sending a Wave and Futility Radio. We look at what's been said about us, what plans are for the coming year and we make a few announcements!!

We'd like to take this opportunity to thank everyone for listening. To all those that left us feedback we really appreciate it, and we hope to hear from more of you in 2007.

We kick the show off with a basic calender of event's happening in the coming year in the 'Verse. Here's a list of those events with links to the various sites where you can find information.

EVENTS:

Shindigs (Various times); Most details can be found in the social events thread on the UK Browncoats Board, http://forum.cantstopthesignal.co.uk

Conventions; Starfury Events, details can be found on the Starfury website. www.starfury.co.uk
Comic Con, details can be found at www.comic-con.org
Dragon*Con, details can be found at www.dragoncon.org
Browncoat CRuise, deatils can be found at www.browncoatcruise.com

Charity Events; Details for the Charity Screening in May will be announced on this site as they become available.
Big Damned Do, detail for the vent and a link to their website will be announced as soon as we have them, in the meantime please check out the websites of the 3 charities involved. www.equalitynow.org, www.ctbf.co.uk, www.theannconroytrust.org.uk

We also hear from Andrew in Australia presenting a report with a browncoat, from a special location!!

You can download the episode by subscribing to the podcast feed (listed on the right), from iTunes or directly by clicking here.

Hope to see y'all in the Verse soon.

Episode 11 - December Bonus Show - Removed

Hello everyone,

We have recently been contacted by a number of people saying that Jonathan Woodward had requested that his Church of Woodward Service in Burbank not be recorded or posted on the internet. We were not made aware of this until we were contacted today by people who attended, and as such have removed the episode.

We'd just like to apologise to Jonathan and the organisers for this misunderstanding, and would like to ask any listeners who've already downloaded the episode to delete it!

Oops - Unfortunately these things can happen.

Catch y'all next month.