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TV News, Reviews and Interviews
Make yourself comfortable and strap on your ear-goggles. Wilbur Wilde is back filling in for Ross and James Talia phones in with tales of Europe. 100% world-class excellent Boxcutters coming your way. More discussions about all things television than you could ordinarily hope for.
I hope I haven’t built it up too much… Here it is:
TV reviewer and columnist for the Age, Jim Schembri joins us as our special co-host. We also speak to Marc Edwards from Ice TV about what’s going on with the whole Channel Nine lawsuit. It’s a great show with information and laughs a-plenty.
We’re reinventing television while talking about it:
This week the wonderful Queen Josie, formerly of Chartbusting ’80s, is our guest host with lots of talk about life in community television, Australia’s Got Talent and what the networks are doing.
For those interested in seeing the first 3 season recap that Justin was talking about in this week’s episode, this is it here.
All the fun of the fair with Justin Hamilton as our guest co-host. Of course we discuss Lost and Channel 10 screwing with footy fans. We ask the question: Are the networks losing money? But we don’t have any answers.
Episode 132 is better than…
What did you do on your summer holidays?
David Knox, James Talia, the Logies, the Fuglies, Big Brother, Canal Road: all of these things go into making a wonderful episode of Boxcutters.
It’s Episode 131!
Check out what David Knox reckons at TV Tonight.
This week the lovely Nelly Thomas joins us as co-host while Ross is still away. We talk about the start new series of Big Brother and the end of So You Think You Can Dance, all garnished with a lovely sprinkling of News, Crap TV, Quiz and Pork.
Episode 130:
80 minutes of nonstop Boxcutters with Courteney Hocking who regales us with tales of working in a network television call centre. We review Saxondale and there’s also a Raywatch and an I Don’t Buy It to keep you on your toes.
129 the goose drank wine:
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“Some things I know and some things I don’t.” – John Monad
What I do know is that John from Cincinnati starts screening on Showcase this Monday at 8.30pm, around the time many of us here experience the earliest rumblings of our weekly granola cravings. This show has divided audiences, and my reaction to it is similarly mixed. I reckon there are some absolute gems here (some characters, lines, performances) but the overall “plot” will leave many unsatisfied.
Make up your own mind and deliver your verdict here.
This week Wilbur Wilde joins us as a special guest co-host. Of course we talk about working on Hey Hey It’s Saturday as well as a review of the Canadian show, jPod, and the answer to our very difficult quiz question.
Where the Wild(e) things are:
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