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John and Josh take you into the past with this look at our review of The Prisoner from 2005. John offers up some lovely “making-of” secrets. Then we listen to what Brian Nankervis had to say before he became immortalised in our Pork intro.
A trip down memory lane:
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This week was a total mess but we did manage to talk about Human Giant, not buy Optus ads and read out some wonderful letters.
Enjoy the chaos:
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If you want to get more of a taste, check out some embedded action after the jump.
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Quite simply one of the best guests we’ve ever had on the show, Genevieve Lemon is honest, hilarious and an award winning actress. East Bound and Down is a new comedy from some of the people responsible for Funny or Die and we review it for your aural pleasure.
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Continue reading “Ep 187: Genevieve Lemon, East Bound and Down” »
Peter Moon and Brendan Luno, co-creators of Whatever Happened to That Guy? join us for a very extended chat. Also, we talk about the new TV series, Kings.
Here you go:
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Continue reading “Ep 186: Peter Moon and Brendan Luno from “Whatever Happened to That Guy”” »
This week: Peter Lane, former Chairman of Channel 31 in Melbourne talks to us about the state of community television in the move to digital; producer Sue Taylor sets our mind at ease about 3 Acts of Murder; and we discuss movies about TV shows from a horrible future where we can only enjoy watching people die.
Also we have the answer to last week’s quiz and a whole bunch of news (and a rant about the whole Chaser thing).
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Continue reading “Ep 185: Peter Lane, Sue Taylor, TV That Kills” »
Better Off Ted is a half hour comedy from ABC in the US. It’s funny. We talk about it. In Before and After School we look at Monkey. Also, Brett has problems with the Age’s TV guide and we take a quick look at the SBS celebrity sports quiz show, Squiz.
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SBSTWO launches tonight. In case you haven’t seen it, here’s the promo they’ve been running:
At least they’re not lying about what it’s going to be. More of the same. How does a television network that is already supposed to be fulfilling a special need, provide more specialised content?
Considering the recent criticism of SBS’s new direction, perhaps SBSTWO will be the channel we all expected SBS 1 to be.
Marc Fennell joins us to talk about portrayals of television in film. We talk about the UK detective drama based on a Swedish set of novels starring Kenneth Brannagh, Wallander (just in case you were confused about which Kenneth Brannagh featuring, UK detective telemovie series based on Swedish novels we were talking about).
It’s here:
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Continue reading “Ep 183: Marc Fennell, Movies about TV, Wallander” »
James Talia comes in to talk to us about the world of network news and the changes therein. Also, we review the second season of season 2 of Ashes To Ashes
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Continue reading “Ep 182: James Talia, Ashes to Ashes, Eurovision” »
This week Josh speaks to Leo Laporte, Brett talks about Ten Years Younger in Ten Days and we discuss the US show Party Down.
It’s a corker. Listen to it:
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