Ep 253: Oprah is in Australia
Okay. Really, all anybody has been talking about for the last two weeks, it seems, is how Oprah is in Australia and Julian Assange is not.…
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Ep 252: The Walking Dead, Peter Hitchener
We get to speak to the extraordinarily delightful Peter Hitchener, newsreader for Channel 9 Melbourne, about how he just gives and gives to his viewers. After…
Ep 238: Claire Hooper, The Election & The Mole
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…
Ep 226: James Talia, Eurovision, Bechdel Test
James Talia joins us to discuss the recent controversy over Channel 7 news and the former NSW Minister for Transport. We review this year’s Eurovision coverage…
3D Television in a World First
Channel 9 announced this morning that they will be airing the State of Origin series in 3D. That will make it the first time a sports…
Bloodshed, horror and sensationalism
This afternoon Channel 9 announced a new show starting this Sunday. Not sure if they were planning this before Carl Williams was killed but it’s definitely…
Ep 213: Winter Olympics coverage Peter Campbell [Foxtel] & Giaan Rooney [Channel 9]
It’s like going to the fights and having a hockey game break out this week on Boxcutters as we tie up the trans-Pacific phone lines, talking…
Winter Olympics Coverage: A Shambles?
Earlier today we received a barrage of text messages from Alex Boxcutter complaining about the poor Winter Olympics coverage on Channel 9: No aussies in event…
Ep 195: Tom Elliott, Flash Forward, The Lost Room
We have a week full of broken rules of time and finance with: Tom Elliott inventing the flux capacitor giving us some rational explanations for the…
Go! It’s an instruction for tedium
I really love what the free to air networks have done with digital television. The offering from Channel 9, Go!, is a remarkable piece of television…