We hope you’re all keeping safe out there! Here’s your weekly dose of nerd news to keep you company, we can’t be with you physically but we can talk at you digitally!

* China bans Animal Crossing ( https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2020-04-11-china-bans-sale-of-animal-crossing-new-horizons-after-it-becomes-a-haven-for-hong-kong-protesters )
* Rob Lowe to play Joe Exotic ( https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/04/11/rob-lowe-joe-exotic-ryan-murphy-tiger-king-adapation/ )
* More people have watched Tiger King than Stranger Things 2 ( https://www.slashfilm.com/tiger-king-ratings/ )
* Geek of the week, Tim Brooke Taylor ( https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-52262490 )
* Also Geek of the week, Honor Blackman ( https://www.darkhorizons.com/r-i-p-honor-blackman/ )
* Not Geek of the week, Linda Tripp ( https://www.detroitnews.com/story/obituaries/2020/04/10/linda-tripp-whose-tapes-exposed-clinton-affair-dies/111532926/ )
* Amber Heard facing three years in prison ( https://www.ibtimes.com/amber-heard-could-face-3-years-imprisonment-if-found-guilty-faking-evidence-2953787 )
* The Butthole Cut returns ( https://www.darkhorizons.com/cats-butthole-saga-takes-a-dark-turn/ )
* With a trailer ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mx0NLGcL6pI )
* The next Mars Rover will be a helicopter ( https://www.teslarati.com/nasa-mars-helicopter-perseverance/ )