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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.
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.
Get links and notes for the news and reviews we covered this week.
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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.
Thanks for your understanding.
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Mia Cross has started to Twitter. That’s right. The fictional, plagiarising Lolita from Californication is now also pretending to be a real person in the lead-up to the new series of the show that disappointed everybody with its final episode.
Showtime, the cable network in the US that produces Californication has been using viral marketing on the web quite well for some of their programmes. Most notable is the video/SMS campaign for the second season of Dexter.
The thing is, Mia Cross is totally the kind of character who would start on Twitter because their agent thought it was a good and quick way to get a profile without them even understanding the concept of the community or how it works.
Meanwhile, Lost‘s ?ber-invasive conspiracy body, The Dharma Initiative, has been seeking and testing new recruits. Fans of Lost, me included, are excited to get an insight into the organisation that harnessed the magical island’s magnetic energy and ran tests on humans and animals alike. Actually, some of us, me included, are excited just to get a Dharma Initiative ID card.
The question that comes to mind, though, is what are the marketing people thinking this does for a show? Will it build audience directly? Will it strengthen the brand in a viewer’s mind so that he or she becomes an evangalist for the programme? Or is it just throwing crap at a wall and hoping it sticks?
Episode 150 is full of surprises. Keep your eyes peeled here for show notes in the coming days. Did we mention we’ve done 150 episodes? Well, we have. One Hundred And Fifty! Also, we announce the winner of last week’s quiz.
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Also, thanks so much to Nerida for the absolutely delicious cake. Really, one hundred percent delicious.
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The Quiz is Back!
John Richards is our co-host this week and we would be remiss to not mention his website straight away.
We discuss Fringe and John brings in some theme tunes that are so good the shows themselves could not possibly live up to. Brett does not buy some product that turns your girlfriend in to a dog-faced man. Also there’s Pork and News.
You can find news items, shows referenced and some stuff we didn’t get to cover at http://delicious.com/boxcutters/149
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UPDATE: A very big thank you goes out to FeBo for the birthday present.
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Due to circumstances beyond our control, namely 3RRR needing to use the studios that we use for recording the podcast each and every week, episodes 149 and 150 will be recorded on Tuesday nights.
That means they will probably be available for download around 11:30pm Tuesday, AEST.
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