Annual Archives: 2007

New Boxcutters Portrait

We all got together over the weekend and had another photo taken.

At last you can see what we really look like.

After the jump you will see, from left: Ross, Brett and Josh.
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Sopranos Vanity Fair Article

Whoops. I just realised that during Episode 89 I mentioned a recent article published about the Sopranos.

This article appeared in Vanity Fair and not in Variety as slipped through my unfiltered mouth.

Apologies to all involved.

fascinating TIVO developments

Very interesting article about how Packer selling up his share in Nine will lead to the free to air networks finally taking on Foxtel as a whole.

Maybe TIVO won’t as doomed as we first thought.

Odd programming

Tonight SBS are screening a repeat of Sunday night’s Big Love in the Friday night porn slot and have subtitled it Complete and Uncut. Are we to assume by this that the Sunday night eps are being cut? Very disappointing if they are. I can’t remember anything that would require cutting anyway, even at an 8:30 timeslot, but it was a while ago I watched them and maybe I just didn’t notice.

Also, Alias Season 5 finally makes it to our screens Sunday night. Better late than never I suppose. Worth keeping up with if you are a fan, especially towards the end of the series where things come together (although there is no certainty it will last that long on our screens).

Big News from Nine

Two media releases, in quick succession and no doubt related, came from Nine in the past hour.

The first tells us:

PBL Media today announced that Mia Freedman will leave the business this week after twelve months in the position of Creative Services Director for the Nine Network Australia and Editorial Consultant for ACP Magazines.
Mia’s role will now be absorbed by Nine’s Head of Programming, Michael Healy.

And then the second announces:

The Nine Network Australia today announced that a decision had been taken to cease production on its weekday talk show, The Catch Up.
The final broadcast will occur on Friday 15th June, 2007.

Nine moved The Catch-Up to a new timeslot at the start of the week but nothing could save it. The Y&R timeslot still needs something for the stay-at-homes. What will they try next?

Boxcutters Episode 89

A sad farewell to an old friend in Golden Age of Television, an exciting new competition in Pork, we look at new shows including Kick and The Nation, and a dirty farming sequence confuses us in I Don’t Buy It. Plus the regular helping of news in the world of television.

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    BB on CB80s

    It took our European correspondent, James Talia, to track down this YouTube clip from Chartbusting 80s. Here’s me, shoving a Boxcutters plug in before getting down to business with some 80s trivia.

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    Boxcutters Episode 88

    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:

    International Post Express

    Don’t Forget

    There won’t be a podcast until tomorrow due to circumstances beyond our something.

    We mentioned it on the show last week but maybe some people forgot.

    Milch article

    With the much awaited John From Cincinnati less the a week away I thought I’d post this short but revealing David Milch article.

    Especially interesting in regards to his reasons for originally saying he wanted four seasons of Deadwood.

    Fingers crossed about the movies.