Only 3 weeks into the Tower of Babble Podcast and we already have a host that's gone MIA. Its just Julian and Daniel on this episode as we discuss a little more Star Wars: The Clone Wars and the Daytime Emmy's, Marvel news from all the studios, the marriage between EA Star and Star Wars and lastly we give our impressions on Iron Man 3 in the Topic of the Week.

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TV

Star Wars: The Clone Wars gets nominated for Daytime Emmy's

Outstanding Special Class Animated Program - George Lucas, Cary Silver and Athena Portillo
Outstanding Performer in an Animated Program - Jim Cummings as Hondo Onaka, David Tennant as Huyang and Sam Witwer as Darth Maul
Outstanding Directing in an Animated Program - Dave Filoni, Kyle Dunlevy, Brian Kalin O'Connell, Steward Lee and Bosco Ng
Outstanding Achievement in Music Direction and Composition - Kevin Kiner
Outstanding Achievement in Sound Mixing (Animation) - David Acord and Cameron Davis

TMNT also recieved a few nominations

Young Justice received a nod as well - Sound Mixing

Dave Filoni talks about drawing Tie fighters. Possibly points towards the direction of the next Star Wars animated series

Movies

Touching on what we spoke about last week - Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver are confirmed for Marvel's The Avengers 2

Doctor Strange Movie in the works for Phase 3, says Feige

Feige Downplays Daredevil Reboot

Falcon seen in set photos from Captain America: The Winter Soldier

Fox's Fantastic Four reboot casting buzz:

Chronicle's Michael B. Jordan for the Human Torch
Girls' Allison Williams for Sue Storm

First photos of Rhino from the set of Amazing Spider-man 2

Star Wars Episode VII set to start filming in 2014

Abrams wants John Williams back

New The Wolverine poster with Silver Samurai - Japanese style painting.

The Wolverine CinemaCon Trailer

Kitty Pride photo from Bryan Singer

Jurassic Park 4 Returns to Isla Nublar

New Men in Black and 21 Jump Street

Tom Cruise Returns for Mission: Impossible 5

Hans Zimmer's Man of Steel Theme. Available on SoundCloud

Games

EA announces exclusive deal to develop Star Wars games. First Games to appear no sooner then April 2014

DICE, Visceral Games and BioWare are said to be working on titles

Madden NFL 25 not coming to Wii U

Sony teases new game announcements

Battlefield 3's Premium service earns $120 million

MGS4 was too big fit on XBOX 360

Nintendo announces its plans for E3

Injustice DLC confirmed: Batgirl (Dans not happy about it)

Comics

Talking about House of M

Topic of the Week

Iron Man 3 impressions

Jan 5, 2026

SSSW - Year in Review 2025 + Visions Vol 3

With the back half of 2025 being relatively quiet from a Star Wars perspective, it's hard to remember that 'Andor' wrapped up it's two season run and blew us all away THIS year. Never mind that 'Skeleton Crew' also wrapped up in 2025! Julian and Rachel, using the help of this handy Starwars.com article as reference, look back at the year that was in Star Wars. Overall, despite things slowing down content-wise, 'Andor' alone makes it a stellar year, and with new movies on the horizon and a new animated series set to drop in 2026, there's still plenty to be excited about going forward. If that wasn't enough, join us as we explore 'Star Wars: Visions - Volume III', posing the question: has the Star Wars anime concept run it's course?

Dec 24, 2025

Bonus Episode - ToB Film Club - Surviving Christmas (2004)

Happy holidays ToB Fans! Completing a string of 3 straight publicly available Film Club episodes, commemorating the show's relaunch, we finish with our annual tradition of doing a Christmas movie for December. This year, with Matt joining the show it was his choice. He went with a movie from the mid-2000s that he's revisited time and again - 'Surviving Christmas'. A Ben Affleck vehicle that comes from a rocky era of his, just one year removed from 'Gili'. Fortunately, it features a strong supporting cast, with both Catherine O'Hara and the late James Gandolfini stealing the show and preventing this from being a complete disaster. Devoid of any type of strong holiday message, we spend much of the movie indulging Affleck's character's obnoxious desires, and despite some funny moments peppered throughout and a relatively strong third act, the tonal inconsistency and unlikability of the main character leave this movie mired in mediocrity. See you all again in 2026!

Dec 17, 2025

Episode 202 - Could Things Be Worse?

It is often said we're living through "unprecedented times", and I must admit that it rings true when reading the news. Normally, we're fortunate enough to be discussing the frivolous world of entertainment - shielding us from much of the dower nature of the the modern world. Unfortunately, that does not mean we are immune - this week proves there's still plenty of bad news in the entertainment world to go around. And while we try to focus on the fun stuff, sometimes the bad stuff threatens things we love, like creators, and movie theatres, and therefor must be called out. As such, Matt and Julian spend the front half of the show talking about the Netflix/WB deal, and the Disney's investment in AI. Pick your poison on that one. However, stick around, as things take a turn back to the fun as the latest in film and tv news is covered, including discussions about a new '28 Years Later' movie, a new 'Men in Black', 'Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair', and 'Stranger Things',. All this and so much more on this week's Tower of Babble Podcast!

Dec 11, 2025

Bonus Episode - Warner Bros. Sales Chaos - Daily DVR

Julian joins Axel and Andy on The Daily DVR Podcast to wring out all the angst surrounding the impeding sale of Warner Bros. and their myriad of assets, including HBO, to Netflix. With Paramount still sniffing around this is far from done but all of it is far from good for fans of movies and TV.

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