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Are you bored of the same old TV shows? Tired of the mainstream? Then check out this round-up of alternative movies and series showing on UK television tonight…

8.00pm Suicide Commando (Movies4Men 2 +1)

A group of Commandos roughnecks must go behind enemy lines on an impossible mission to destroy a secret air field which could disrupt the plans for an allied invasion. Classic Italian war flick starring Aldo Ray.

8.10pm Meteor Apocalypse (SyFy)

A gigantic meteor enters the Earth’s orbit and begins to disintegrate, raining space debris across the globe. Los Angeles is destined to be destroyed within three days, leaving one man in a race against time to find his wife and son before it is too late. Sci-fi thriller starring Babylon 5’s Claudia Christian.

9.00pm Doctor Who (Watch)

In an old, abandoned house, the Weeping Angels wait. Only the Doctor can stop them, but he’s lost in time.

On a windy, overcast Sunday afternoon the 2010 Streamy Awards took over the Orpheum Theater in downtown Los Angeles. Even though the FearNet webseries “Fear Clinic,” directed by Robert Hall and starring genre favorites Robert Englund, Kane Hodder, Danielle Harris, and Lisa Wilcox, stood alone to represent our favorite genre, that doesn’t mean there wasn’t a gaggle of horror-related goodies to indulge in while working the red carpet event before the show.

Before the Streamy Awards were under way, Dread Central’s red carpet team of Heather Wixson and Brian Smith had the opportunity to catch up with some new faces in horror as well as some of the genre’s most beloved personalities.

Since we never want to deprive our readers of any sort of awesomeness, Dread Central has cooked up two videos from the Streamy Awards red carpet event. The first video is chock-full of interviews.

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Most of the-world-is-being-destroyed! flicks don’t have budgets like 2012 or The Day After Tomorrow, so I didn’t expect much from the special effects in Meteor Apocalypse. And to give the creators of the film some credit, the effects weren’t That bad. You know what I mean; they weren’t Superboy; The Complete First Season bad. Unfortunately though, the plot Was that bad…and I usually love these types of movies; even the ones that border on being completely asinine.

The film begins with a botched attempt by the government to destroy a massive meteor on course to blast into our planet, breaking it into hundreds of smaller meteors which still blast into our planet. David Dematti (Joe Lando, of Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman fame) is home with his wife and daughter when the first meteors strike. David is called into work, and once he arrives he discovers his co-worker foaming at the mouth.

You have heard the premise of a meteor shower heading to earth, which is sure to bring man's destruction, before. This type of event killed the dinosaurs, so this could happen to mankind too, right? This plotline has been tried before by Armageddon and others, but here The Asylum adds in some bad acting and a low budget to get the job done. Yes, this reviewer is getting jaded by all the poor quality pictures cascading across these eyes. However, some viewers might find some interest in the one line synopsis for The Meteor Apocalypse, which just released yesterday. A trailer is provided below and at The Asylum website. View both before the world ends through a cosmic rock shower!

A synopsis for The Meteor Apocalypse:

"A gigantic meteors enters Earth's orbit and begins to disintegrate, showering the entire planet with debris' (The Asylum).

Release Date: February 23, 2010 (DVD).

Director: Micho Rutare.