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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.

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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.

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Star of Kath & Kim, Comedy Company, Let the Blood Run Free and, most recently Can We Help, Peter Rowsthorn joins us in the studio to discuss his extensive career.

We also get a chance to talk to him about one of the nominees for Greatest TV Character of All Time, Matron Dorothy Conniving Bitch.

It will make your life better!

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Rajendra Roy is the head film curator for MoMA in New York and we have a little discussion with him about what Television actually means.

John talks about The Doctor as one of the Greatest TV Characters of All Time.

Brett and John have an argument about politics that gets really boring but ends in a hilarious bit that makes it really worth listening all the way through for.

Don’t forget to let us know about your list of the greatest TV characters of all time.

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We really say the word “box” about 50 times in this episode. We can be so infantile sometimes. Those are the times we like the best.

We look at Daria as a contender for the Greatest TV Characters of All Time.

Nelly talks about her new PVR.

And there’s some other stuff.

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We’re recording this week’s Boxcutters episode a couple of days earlier because of various Monday night commitments.

Therefore, if you want to call us to talk about Daria Morgendorfer or any other character you think should be listed in the Greatest TV Characters of All Time, you need to do so before 2pm Saturday to get in for this episode.

+613 9016 9269 will get you some voicemail goodness. Leave a message after the beep and we’ll pick it up.

If you’re on Skype you can just search for Boxcutters and you’ll find us.

Yes. We finally review How to Make it in America. “About bloody time,” you all shout in a wondrous chorus.

Also, John goes through why he chose Lynda Day for his choice to include in the list of Greatest TV Characters of All Time.

We had a lot of fun putting this one together. Probably more than you’ll have listening to it, but give it a go anyway.

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To help you get your true emotions off your chest and to help us get a better understanding of who you think is the Greatest TV Character of All Time, we now have a phone number you can leave a message on.

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All messages left on the Boxcutters Hotline are likely to be played on the podcast so be aware that you might hear your voice coming back to you.

Also, we’re only able to do things like have a phone number because of the wonderful people who donate to Boxcutters. So if you feel like really helping us out, please click on one of the donate buttons to the right. You’ll be taken to a secure PayPal payment system and you can use your credit card.

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Call us before 3pm Monday (AEST) if you want to leave your thoughts about The Doctor or Lynda Day, who we’ll be covering this week.

This is turning into a massive operation. We have created a provisional list of the Greatest TV Characters of All Time taken from your suggestions over the last two weeks and our own personal top tens. You can hear all about how we’re putting the list together and our continual investigation about what makes a truly great TV character.

We’ve also got the usual bunch of News, Pork, One Thing and Letters.

Listen up. It’s golden.

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Correction – 8 June, 2010

It was Serbia who won Eurovision 2007 with a horn-rimmed glasses and comfortable shoes wearing, rumoured lesbian, not Spain.

Also, the title of the Greg Fleet vehicle is Die on Your Feet, co-starring Alan Brough.

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So here we go. This is in no way the final list. These are just the finalists we’ve all chosen from our own brains. We’re waiting on all of you to get us all of your lists.

Send them to us or leave them as comments in the blog and next Monday on the show we’ll announce the schedule for revealing the full list, complete with explanations.

Please try to limit your lists to 10 each. We know it’s really hard. We’ve all done it. The order will be fairly arbitrary but the most repeated characters will get extra weighting towards the top of the list.

Now, without any fanfare at all, here we go:

Nelly

Omar Little (The Wire)
Shirly Schmidt (Boston Legal)
Tracy Jordan (30 Rock)
Lynne Postlewaite (D-Generation, Fast Forward, Big Girls Blouse) And here’s a Youtube snippet for those who can’t remember.
Darlene (Roseanne)
Toby Ziegler (The West Wing)
Calamity Jane (Deadwood)
Janice Soprano (The Sopranos)
Ruth Fisher (Six Feet Under)
Coach Taylor (Friday Night Lights)

Josh

Agent Dale Cooper (Twin Peaks)
Endora (Bewitched)
Vic Mackey (The Shield)
Karen Walker (Will & Grace)
Matron Dorothy Conniving-Bitch (Let the Blood Run Free)
Lynda Day (Press Gang)
Daria Morgendorffer (Daria)
Omar Little (The Wire)
Al Swearengen (Deadwood)
Hank Kingsley (The Larry Sanders Show)

John

The Doctor (Doctor Who)
Liz Lemon (30 Rock)
Bernard Black (Black Books)
Don Draper (Mad Men)
Nate Fisher (Six Feet Under)
Lisa Simpson (The Simpsons)
Emma Peel (The Avengers)
Lynda Day (Press Gang)
Gene Hunt (Life on Mars)
Professor Quatermass (the Quatermass serials – not because he’s interesting, but because the success of the character was important and would shape TV for years to come)

Brett

Reginald ‘Bubbles’ Cousins (The Wire)
Eric Cartman (South Park)
Dr Perry Cox (Scrubs)
Chris Stevens (Northern Exposure)
Oscar the Grouch (Sesame Street)
Simon Adebisi (Oz)
Alex P. Keaton (Family Ties)
Al Swearengen (Deadwood)
Joan ‘The Freak’ Ferguson (Prisoner)
Jim Halpert (The Office (US))

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Tag Archives: Greatest TV Characters of All Time

Ep 240: The Greatest TV Characters of All Time

Ep 238: Claire Hooper, The Election & The Mole

Ep 237: Peter Rowsthorn, Let the Blood Run Free

Ep 230: Rajendra Roy, The Doctor

Ep 229: Daria, Nelly’s Magic Box

Call us now about Daria

Ep 228: How to Make it In America

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Ep 227: Provisionally the Greatest TV Characters of All Time

Correction – 8 June, 2010

Anticipation of the Greatest TV Characters

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