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Did you miss us? Well, we’ve returned anyway so deal with it.

One way you could deal with it is by enjoying this wonderful episode in which Riley Boxcutter gives us an exclusive report on the Rally to Restore Sanity (aka the March to Keep Fear Alive). For the first time ever there is a video podcast (which will come to this very website shortly at some stage).

Also, there’s discussion of Weeds, androgynous 4 year olds and the excellent Courteney Hocking sits in the Nelly Thomas chair for a night to recreate scenes from Single White Female.

This week’s question: Does Courteney or Toby do a better Nelly impersonation? Let us know in an email.

Are you looking for us somewhere else? Maybe Facebook or Twitter?

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Last September, in Melbourne, science fiction fans came from all over the world to hear us interview two of the writers of the new series of Doctor Who, Paul Cornell and Robert Shearman.

You can feel like you were actually there by listening to this episode. You will miss all the visual jokes but you’ll be able to hear the audience laugh and then you can laugh at the same time and just imagine what’s happening on the stage.

We talk to them about what it means to write for such an iconic TV show, how it’s affected them and I’m sure someone mentions Daleks at some point.

Enjoy it:

Share your memories of AussieCon, Doctor Who or meeting John Richards by sending us a friendly email.

Next week: We’re still on a break and don’t have anything planned so just listen to this episode again.

In the meantime, you can find us on twitter and facebook. Also, Paul Cornell is on twitter.

Special thanks to David Ashton from Sample and Hold for all of his wonderful audio engineering help on this episode. Very special thanks to Danny Oz for the use of his photo.

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When I, Josh, was in the US earlier this year, I stopped by the house of a pair of web-based film makers to talk about the definition of television.

Kim Evey and Greg Benson are two of the people behind the very successful web series, the Guild, but they also produce their own stuff with Mediocre Films and LKG Productions.

We had a great time and then they kicked me out.

All by myself:

Feel free to complain about the sound quality by sending us an angry letter.

Next week: It’s our Dr Who AussieCon WorldCon Constravaganzwho!

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Brett has some Crap TVs that he needs to offload on us all. The fact that one of them may have been a misnamed Raywatch will go without saying because it doesn’t change the episode really. And who actually understands the definitions of these segment titles anyway? We may as well call the whole show Bucket of TV and be done with it.

Also, reaching into the bucket, I pull out some very brief descriptions of new shows with bad titles from the US Fall Season including Blue Bloods, Raising Hope and The Whole Truth.

John Richards arrives right near the end of the show (retrospective spoiler alert) and tells us what it means to have a show in “pre-production”.

Then Brett spends some time trying to cut 10 minutes out of the show because we can see no reason for anyone to listen to us reach into the Bucket of TV for almost an hour and a half. You won’t hear that bit in the show because we cut it out. One thing Brett can tell you is that no one is going to hear about Grand Final after parties nor the suggestion that the L in AFL stands for Libel.

Enjoy the fruits of our waffle.:

And then, please, let us know what you think and should we change the title?

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Is 3D ruining our sports coverage? We take a look at Channel 7’s coverage of the AFL Grand Final and wonder what has changed.

Toby gives us a rundown on what Strictly Speaking is all about.

There’s also some Letters to Boxcutters and an I Don’t Buy It to sink your teeth into (or sync your teeth with if you have those new “smart teeth” that also work as a personal organiser and can download apps etc).

Listen to it here:

And then, please, let us know what you think.

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With poor Nelly away sick, the wonderful Geraldine Hickey comes in to take her place for a week.

Brett doesn’t buy an ad for a genealogy website.
We start talking about what television actually means and how the very concept is changing and where it’s going. That’s going to be a long journey but we’ll have a fun time along the way.
Also, there’s a Rule of One, a letter or two and one thing to watch this week.

Get it and listen to it:

And then, please, let us know what you think.

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This week we finally reveal who is number 5 in the Boxcutters Greatest Characters of All Time (there’s a clue in the title of this week’s episode but don’t tell anyone).

Also there’s a review of the new CW series Huge from some of the creators of My So Called Life.

Josh does a Rule of One review of Hellcats.

Brett and Josh bond over a shared I Don’t Buy It.

Some excellent and poignant Letters to Boxcutters lead to some lessons learnt during the episode by our newest member of the Boxcutters family, Toby Halligan.

Say hello to your new friend:

Send us an email about all the things we asked you to this week.

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Yes, the rumours are true. Boxcutters has been around for five years. You’d think we’d have quit by now but no, we are very bad at learning lessons.

To celebrate our podcast longevity we give you a gift. In fact we give you the greatest gift. We reveal to you, in this very episode, the Greatest TV Characters of All Time. We go through the official and final, no correspondence will be entered into, top 10 with its pros and cons and put in our two cents’ worth.

To everybody who came to the Boxcutters vs Dr Who writers panel at AussieCon, you all get a special mention.

There’s a bunch of news, we read out some letters and mix it up with some pork.

Episode 240: my brain hurts a lot.

Send us an email about all the things we asked you to this week.

This episode is supported by IceTV, giving Boxcutters listeners three special offers, including 30% off a 12 month subscription. Find out more at icetv.com.au/boxcutters

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We review Rubicon and John talks about Margot Leadbetter in the Greatest TV Characters of All Time.

None of us were paying much attention.

Send us an email about all the things we asked you to this week.

This episode is supported by IceTV, giving Boxcutters listeners three special offers, including 30% off a 12 month subscription. Find out more at icetv.com.au/boxcutters

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blackcopwhitecop To top off what has already been a really busy week full of too much information, we bring in Claire Hooper from Good News Week to talk about the election night coverage.

Remember the extreme game show / early reality series The Mole? Well, Brooke Marshall was the winner of series 2 of that show and she comes in to give us a bit of a 10 year retrospective on what reality was like back then.

There’s a whole bunch of news and some pork as well so get into it.

We might not have a government but we do have episode 238 of Boxcutters.

Send us an email about all the things we asked you to this week.

This episode is supported by IceTV, giving Boxcutters listeners three special offers, including 30% off a 12 month subscription. Find out more at icetv.com.au/boxcutters

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Ep 247: Weeds, Rally to Restore Sanity

Ep 246: Paul Cornell & Robert Shearman at AussieCon4

Ep 245: Kim Evey and Greg Benson

Ep 244: US Fall Season 2010, Pre-production

Ep 243: Grand Final, Strictly Speaking

Ep 242: But what is television?

Ep 241: Huge, Hellcats, Basil Fawlty

Ep 240: The Greatest TV Characters of All Time

Ep 239: Rubicon, Margot Leadbetter

Ep 238: Claire Hooper, The Election & The Mole

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