Wil Wheaton Announces New TV Show

An anonymous reader writes "Wil Wheaton just announced a new TV show he's hosting and producing. It'll air on SyFy this summer, starting May 27th. Here's how he describes it: 'The Wil Wheaton Project is a weekly roundup of the things I love on television and on the Internet, with commentary and jokes, and the occasional visit from interesting people who make those things happen. It's sort of like Talk Soup for geeks, with a heavy focus on those hilariously bad paranormal reality shows (in fact, that's where the whole thing started a year ago, but as we worked on the show more and more, we discovered that there were lots of scripted paranormal shows that provided a ton of comedic material. When we expanded to cover the scripted shows, we discovered that nobody was doing a show like this that was just focused on the genre shows that nerds like us love, and we decided that we'd make that show because of reasons.)' He adds, '... if I read correctly between the lines during our meetings with the Syfy executives, this is just the beginning of the network formerly known as Sci-Fi returning to its science fiction roots, which is awesome.'"

Comments

Oh, it's on SyFy?

[Minwee]

Then it's either wrestling or it will be cancelled before the end of the season.

As much as I would like to see WilW succeed with this, I just can't picture him doing this while wearing a luchador mask.

Re:Oh, it's on SyFy?

[Intrepid imaginaut]

Wil's alright, the hardcore surf-the-web-using-lynx brigade don't like him or anyone else that can't solder a circuit board using spittle and two random household items, but he's got a certain cachet among the midrange nerdies who grew up on ST:tNG.

Re:Oh, it's on SyFy?

[DocSavage64109]

Nerds hate him.

The media think nerds love him, so they keep trying to market him as some sort of elite nerd. The same goes for all the other "nerd" "celebrities" - from Felicia Day to Adam Sessler / Morgan Webb to Olivia Munn.

Dude. You need to chill out a little. Would you rather go back to the nerds portrayed in "revenge of the nerds" or all the fake uber-nerds on every NCIS / crime fighting show there is? At least these people are real.

Re:Oh, it's on SyFy?

[QilessQi]

Actually (to answer the AC), Wesley Crusher was the annoying one, mostly due to the Mary-Sue-ing scriptwriters, and the fact that no one really wanted to see a teenage boy on the bridge of the Enterprise no matter who was playing him. Wil Wheaton was just an actor, all grown up now, and apparently a pretty nice guy. And when a little girl asked him a question about being bullied for being a nerd, he responded like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

So: famous Trek actor, nice guy, nerd-friendly, and he tours with Jonathan Coulton. Lots of folks like him. As for everyone else, well, haters gonna hate.

Re:Oh, it's on SyFy?

[Anonymous Coward]

So you're claiming that the guy who invented a holiday for playing board games isn't really a nerd? http://www.tabletopday.com/

Re:Oh, it's on SyFy?

[Jason Levine]

Wait. All nerds hate Wil Wheaton? Is it a contractual obligation to hate him? I happen to like the guy. Does this mean I need to hand in my nerd card now? I *knew* I should have read the fine print when I signed the Standard Nerd Contract!

"nerds like us"

[kruach aum]

I don't know if I'm a nerd like us any more. I mean, I have an obsessive knowledge of trilobite fossils, and given a random sentence from any of the Harry Potter books I can tell what book and chapter it is from, but I don't feel like I belong with these kinds of people. What's left for me? What am I? How did pop-culture steal my identity?

Shameless promotion

[tooslickvan]

An "anonymous reader" submitted this? Yeah right. You're not fooling anybody, CleverNickName.

Anonymous?

[amicusNYCL]

An anonymous reader writes

We know it's you, Wil.

You should be nicer to Hwil Hwheaton.

[QilessQi]

Hwil Hwheaton seems like a nice guy.