This week we are the Bad News Boxcutters with the Christian Slater vehicle My Own Worst Enemy, there’s a discussion of some of the worst television we’ve ever seen and we’d like you to leave comments with your list, and to top it off there’s also a quick Crap TV.

This week’s Crumpler prize is sensational and the question is a toughy.

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Yael Bergman from Princess Pictures comes in to talk to us about independent production in Australia. There’s an I Don’t Buy It about country music stars, some shark jumping watch and a whole bunch of news and stuff.

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James Talia talks to us all the way from London about the Russell Brand/Jonathan Ross/Andrew Sachs controversy and what that means for the BBC. We take a look some TV-related board games that John’s found and have a look at the work of Louis Theroux. There’s some punchy news, the answer to the quiz and some Letters to Boxcutters, too.

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Star and co-creator of Wilfred joins us in the studio to talk about the process of creating a TV show. We also discuss the US show, The Ex-List and in the segment that is now titled Before and After School, we finally look at The Tomorrow People.

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Boxcutters’ very own James Talia has a piece in today’s Australian giving a great insight into what it’s like for journalists far from home but dealing with a story that really hits home emotionally.

It’s definitely worth having a read.

How Croatian authorities failed the Lapthorne family from the Australian.

A few weeks ago I talked about how Brett’s Special Fancy (the internet proxy and not the biscuit) didn’t really work so well anymore and how there was a new option.

It took me a while to hunt through my notes and find what I was talking about but here is a tutorial about using proxy system Hotspot Shield to view Hulu and it may also work for other sites.

Let us know in the comments if this works for you or if you have other ways around this problem.

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All about television means all about television, people. The Life and Times of Tim is an excellent new show from HBO, Review with Myles Barlow is a new show on ABC2 and Worst Week is barely worth mentioning.

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The delightful and talented Scott Brennan joins us in the studio to raise the tone and tell us about his time in TV sketch comedy and the world of advertising voice-overs. We also take a look at US remakes of two shows that were very successful in their home markets. There’s some special and exciting Letters to Boxcutters and the results of last week’s Quiz.

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A little bit of Crap TV, seriously or not as well as some Letters to Boxcutters round out this episode. A quiz question will get you thinking and of course there is a reference to Battlestar Galactica.

You must watch The Middleman as soon as you have the opportunity and tell all your friends.

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Due to circumstances beyond our control, including 3RRR training sessions, we won’t be able to bring you Boxcutters this week.

We will endeavour to bring you as much news and opinion about television via the blog to fill the gap.

Next week it’s back to business as usual with Boxcutters going up onto the internetwebs late on a Monday night.

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