A day late yes, but choc-full of chocky goodness.
This week the man JT, our International Correspondent James Talia joins us live from far away. There are more adventures from the Golden Age of Television. There’s Quotes. And Brett takes us through the weird and wonderful searches that bring people to Boxcutters.
Plus heaps of News, and a helping of Pork.
88 – Late but great:
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Rob Boxcutter says:
Do you know how hard I was yelling “Steven Berkoff!” at my mp3 player just now? I think I busted a vein in my temple.
Homosexual_Hater says:
I dont know why I give a fuck, but are any of the aussie networks gonna screen The Riches. I mean i’ve downloaded all 13 eps on bittorrent but I wanna know when my Mum can see this show.
Homosexual_Hater says:
By the by, I thought Molloy’s show sucked arse big time. Very bad. Jackie O is just a disgusting whore, and five minutes into the show they had this pathetic fucking skit with some poor bitch pretending to be Paris Hilton in a shit awful accent. They had this Bin Laden sketch a few mins in, that went way too long. Totally sucked. I wish I had high def though, I can’t figure out if Peter Garrett has eyebrows or not.
Homosexual_Hater says:
“a sexual or fecal act”
Homosexual_Hater says:
at tv links, which I am sure you all visit frequently… you can watch brass eye eps in streaming flash.
I watched the whole season of dexter in streaming because I my hard drive is nearly full.
http://www.tv-links.co.uk/
catbrain says:
Re FCC ruling: this is the same sort of stuff we went through in Australia some years ago – verb v. noun/adjective/interjection – except no one here gave enough of a shit to take it to court. Those Amurrcans sure have some funny sensibilities.
Re timeshift/ad viewing: Are you telling me that iQ sends back info about how I watch a recorded program, ie: at which points I ffwd?? If that’s the case, I’m going home to check my contract because I don’t recall seeing anything in there about that.
As for when the laws changed here about recording programs, call me a cynic but it probably coincided with Foxtel’s iQ rollout.
Josh – you’ve got magic underpants??
Re UK TV licences: Good question about tv via PC, Brett – and the answer appears to be “yes”
*Awesome – a prize for a wrong answer! Next you’ll be telling me that I’m a great singer and should go on Australian Idol. (I do appreciate it, though, and I was genuinely surprised. cheers!)
Finally, I apologise… it’s my fault that people searching for Georgie Parker are coming to the blog, but it’s Brett’s fault for the toplessness.
dishy says:
I found boxcutters when I Googled “boobies”.
catbrain says:
I’m really confused now… what do sea birds have to do with television?
Rob Boxcutter says:
Have a look at the top result when you Google “semi-solid pensioners pork”!
fourthof5 says:
Jericho Saved. All those nuts have done the trick and CBS has renewed the show for 8 eps. Thats at least time to finish the arc properly and give the show a proper conclusion.
Brett says:
Rob – I laughed – though you don’t want to include the quotes when doing the search.
catbrain says:
Well, thank you very much, RB, for leaving me with the indelible image of lemonparty
(for anyone not familiar with it, Google at your peril and definitely NSFW – you have been warned)
*scrubs eyes with sandpaper*
H_H, I agree that the skits on The Nation were particularly lame, although I actually expected Jackie O to be worse.
Adam D says:
The Nation is awkward but has promise. Shades of Micallef Tonight. It’s safe, in that it leans on reliable performers like Akmal (weird Emma’s dad joke notwithstanding) to give it some tang. Molloy and Jackie O don’t exist in the same universe, fact. It’ll find its feet and get progressively better until 9 axes it next week.
7 and TiVo – ugh. ‘Hey publics, buy our crippled technology and be happy!’ DRM is baby-killing evil incarnate.
MoBo says:
I agree. The Nation ‘s skits were laboured, the Osama one painfully so. Jackie O wasn’t as spew worthy as I thought she’d be (I have refused to buy DVD movies that I wanted to buy simply because they have the ‘recommended by Kyle and Jackie O’ stickers), but she had nothing original to say. I did have a laugh at Stephen Curry’s McClune interview but I can’t imagine that being funny week after week. As with the opening “news” bit – it’s a one trick skit done over and over.
Good luck Mick, but I’ll be surprised if it surpasses the eight episode run of The Mick Molloy Show.
Adam D says:
The Mick Molloy Show took a week or two to get going, but it had Mick’s brand of comedy all through it. It flowed better too, even in that first episode that wound up the crankies.
This time it’s less laidback-larrikin and more variety-host-for-hire, which is just weird. Like when Bob Dylan joined the Travelling Wilburys.
Um, I feel like I’m watering a dead plant.
Ross says:
The Nation reminded me of a one man The Panel. I too didn’t hate Jackie O as much as I expected – although I suspect someone somewhere will be up in arms about their laughing at Lohan’s trying to kill herself. It was patchy but ok. And MoBo is right hackney comic ‘news’ has been done to death.
I think I was just happy “Quizmonkey babe” Nikki Osbourne didn’t get to do anything but look awkward over the closing credits.
Not a patch on the original Mick Molloy Show; that was great as I remember. Much better cast too with Bob Franklin and others (exactly who escapes me right at this moment).
Brett says:
Original MM show – Pendo doing sports – can’t remember his real name, Dave O’Neil – doing candy bar reports from memory… and of course, Largest Living Things with Paul Hester and dreadlocked Barry on bass. (Little known fact, Barry worked in the kitchen of a cafe I used to go to until a visit from the health dept saying he couldn’t do that with his hair…)
To compare with the pilot there are some curious differences…
The Fifi Box/Jackie O switch – if I had to watch her roll her fucking eyes once more I was going to lose it.
Akhmal looked tired and old – might have just been a big night out on Monday…
There was NO interview on the pilot. My theory was that 9 mgt insisted that he do it and then, chatting to an old 9 insider today, I heard that with Micallef’s show on 9, they forced him to do the interviews and they wouldn’t be surprised if the same thing happened with The Nation.
The Peter Garrett interview was horrible – sycophantic bullshit full of Dorothy Dixers that even Garrett seemed completely uncomfortable with, no matter that it was a massive opportunity for a free kick. Molloy is NOT an interviewer – especially not a political interviewer.
A number of the inserts were used in the pilot, including the Osama party – cringe – and the nasty Lavinia – once more with passion… please? Steve Curry had done the same thing with another celeb – I SO hope he does something different next week.
As long as Mick doesn’t fake piss on the set, I think they’ll run this out to its full contract length and probably renew it. I saw an ad last night for the return of Comedy Inc. If they can bring that back, they have to let Mick run…
Adam D says:
That would explain why the flow was all weird.
Without the interview there’d have been room for something a bit more sensible. That Lisa McCune thing would have been been better placed in the middle of the show.
Meh, first nights are always a bit clunky. I get the feeling Molloy Boy and 9 will constantly be pulling in different directions until the show is axed next week.
Josh says:
I can pretty much guarantee you that an episode of Comedy Inc is cheaper than an episode of The Nation.
Adam D says:
Comedy Inc has proven operating costs, too. It’s the kind of thing an executive could throw a ball of cash at and not think about all year. The (Sydney) Footy Show audience reliably stayed on to watch it, and there’s extra revenue from the Comedy Channel re-runs (although I could be wrong about this).
Contrast that with The Nation, which (a) is going to need a few more fundamental changes, (b) has unknown longevity and (c) is in a higher profile timeslot. It’s got risk written all over it, regardless of how well it did on its first night (9’s claiming it beat Numb3rs in Melbourne and hit the 16-39s pretty squarely).
Adam D says:
Whopps, I should research properly: 7 creamed it.
Ross says:
Channel 9 are advertising for Comedy Inc audience members even as we speak*.
*This is an observation on advertising, not a comment that Molloy is in trouble already…
dishy says:
Rob:
Your search – “semi-solid pensioners pork” – did not match any documents.
I don’t get the joke.
Rob Boxcutter says:
Sorry dishy, it needs to be without the quotation marks. Just semi-solid pensioners pork.
Ross says:
By the way H_H – to answer your first comment – I haven’t heard anything about anyone picking up The Riches here. My guess is it will pop up on Foxtel at some point but not free to air, but that is just a guess.
Great little show The Riches. Got better and better right up to last week’s finale, with layer on layer of complications and mess. Looking forward to season 2.