A 5th Anniversary Special, Boltizor spin-off PLUS Season 6 for 2026!
- Tom Denham
- 3 days ago
- 2 min read
To mark five years of adventures of The Glam Gizmo, a special episode has been released to celebrate the milestone.
Strange things start to happen to Lily and Violet one evening in the bookshop on Celestial Avenue during a storm which causes a blackout. To their surprise, Grizzler is out of prison, but he's the least of their worries when they discover an elemental force from another dimension is attempting to break into reality. Soon enough, Lily and Violet are separated and they learn they will have to keep their wits close because not everything is as it seems for Astra is waiting and she's ready to escape the Shadowverse.
On an already mammoth Season 5, Lily (Stefanie Fazzari) and Violet (Chloe Towan) combine forces once again to save Celestial Avenue. This time, they are faced by the barbaric butcher Grizzler (Gregory Caine) and Astra (Joanna Halliday), who is weaving her way out of the Shadowverse into the real world. The episode is a commemorative story to mark five consecutive years of audio from The Glam Gizmo's output, while also beginning a new era.
Not just that, but the villainous Boltizor (played by Anthony Bradshaw) is back in the very first full-cast spin-off to be made in The Gizmoverse.
In THE SERPENT AT THE END OF TIME, Elsie receives an invitation to the Villains Club, a safe house for adversaries, but what waits there for her is less than desirable. Someone has been waiting in the shadows for the right moment to make their return.
This episode is the first in a trilogy of stories that follows Boltizor (Anthony Bradshaw) and Elsie (Lilli Fulwood) on an adventure spanning the dimensions.
"This is the first of an exciting story arc," says series creator Tom Denham, "Anthony always shines in every story he's in, so why not give him the opportunity to take full stage as Boltizor on an adventure for the adversary. Boltizor is going to have to trust people he's just met, but the listeners are already in on who Elsie is from hearing her across Season 5."
Denham continues to add that this is not all we will see materialise in the spin-off realm, "This combination of characters just goes to show how big The Gizmoverse is. And we're absolutely going to hear more. What does Professor Paradox get up to when he's away from Celestial Avenue? What happened between particular stories? These are some of the answers you're going to get."
Season 6 is due to enter production in 2026 as well, with an exciting slate of stories for The Glam Gizmo set to drop across the year.
"Every season seems to outdo the last one we did," says Tom Denham, "but listen out because once again things are tense at Celestial Avenue. Something that was mentioned all the way back in Season 1 Episode 1 is about to make a grand entrance into the series. . . I hope it creates a good scare."
SHADOWVERSE and THE SERPENT AT THE END OF TIME are both available for streaming on all good podcast platforms.