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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).

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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 and discuss this week’s Eurovision song contest.

You can help support Boxcutters by buying yourself something pretty – like the book Nul Points that John mentioned in this week’s show – from the You Do Buy It stores.

Also, we’ve got new t-shirts, t-shirts, t-shirts!
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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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Also, we’ve got new t-shirts, t-shirts, t-shirts!

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What do you need to know? Important Things with Demitri Martin is a tv show we review. On top of that, some really important news and some less important pork. This week’s quiz is a corker and the prize is a Crumpler Laptop Bag!

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You can help support Boxcutters buy buying yourself something pretty from the You Don’t Buy It stores.

Also, we’ve got new t-shirts, t-shirts, t-shirts!

Here are the television Bafta winners.

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Freeview have a new ad out and we don’t buy it. Also we look at why television of yore might not stand up to today’s viewers. There’s some CrapTV from Channel 10 and we (try to) tell you what to watch

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Marc Fennel and Dan Ilic come in to talk about Massage My Medium, their comedy festival show about the end of television as we know it. We review the Canadian comedy/drama Slings & Arrows and have some Crap TV, the quiz and tell you what to watch if you watch one thing.

Get it here:

You can buy Slings & Arrows – Season 1 from the Amazon US store.

Try out our new Boxcutters stores available in NTSC (the US store) and PAL (the UK store). Between the two of them you should be able to get your hands on everything we talk about on the show. Also, every time you buy, you help Boxcutters stay alive. And no, there’s no way we’ve found to do this with an Australian store as yet.

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This week, Alexandra Tynan, the designer of the Cybermen, joins us in the studio to talk about costume design and creating a science fiction icon. Also, we have a couple of I Don’ts Buys Its sent in by listeners (see the clips below).

There’s some great Doctor Who stuff available at Amazon UK:

Remember that every time you make a purchase through the Boxcutters site, you help Boxcutters survive.

Also, check out our US-based store for some excellent TV recommendations.

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Lee Zachariah and Shannon Marinko from the Bazura Project come in to discuss the controversy surrounding their Logies/TV Week correspondence. We also review the UK series Being Human. Brett doesn’t buy Foxtel Ads and Kerry Armstrong makes a special appearance*.

You can buy Season 1 of Being Human at Amazon UK.

* Kerry Armstrong does not actually appear.

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Doug MacLeod has written everything from The Comedy Company to Dogstar, and joins us to look back on his career. Janet A. McLeod is our special co-host, Josh Kinal makes a special phone call, there’s special news, special letters and no pork. No pork at all. Oh, all right, there’s a bit.

Also we review the UK horror series Dead Set.

You can buy Dead Set at Amazon UK.

See Doug MacLeod discuss his golden career at Axed! at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival.

This is what the Boxcutters look like when they appear in The Age – warning! Photo!

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Chartbusting 80s‘ Josie Parrelli is our co-host, Australia, You’re Standing In It‘s Rod Quantock is our guest, we review AMC’s new meth-cooking drama Breaking Bad
, Josie talks about reality-based Dancing, John has a rant about BSG, Brett is inscrutable. All this, plus news and pork! You lucky, lucky people…

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See Rod Quantock Eats Himself at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival.

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Category Archives: Podcast

Ep 183: Marc Fennell, Movies about TV, Wallander

Ep 182: James Talia, Ashes to Ashes, Eurovision

Ep 181: Leo Laporte, Party Down, Ten Years Younger in Ten Days

Ep 180: Important Things with Demitri Martin, Cadbury Ads, No Logies

Ep 179: Freeview, Revisiting Old Television, Shame on Henrie Stride and Channel 10

Ep 178: Marc Fennel and Dan Ilic, Slings & Arrows, Crap TV

Ep 177: Alexandra Tynan, Gloria Jeans and Ingham Chicken Ads, Ladette Quotes

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Ep 176: Bazura Project, Being Human, Foxtel Ads

Ep 175: Doug MacLeod, Janet A. McLeod, Dead Set

Ep 174: Rod Quantock, Josie Parrelli, Breaking Bad, Reality Dancing

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