Sinopsis
Its Television: Dissected TV News, Reviews and Interviews
Episodios
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Ep 176: Bazura Project, Being Human, Foxtel Ads
06/04/2009Lee 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*. RSS feed iTunes or listen to 176 in your browser You can buy Season 1 […]
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Ep 175: Doug MacLeod, Janet A. McLeod, Dead Set
29/03/2009Doug 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 […]
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Ep 174: Rod Quantock, Josie Parrelli, Breaking Bad, Reality Dancing
23/03/2009Chartbusting 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… RSS feed iTunes or listen […]
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Ep 173: Wilbur Wilde, Anne-Marie Peard, Flight Of The Conchords, musical TV shows
16/03/2009All singing! All dancing! Repeated sax offender Wilbur Wilde is our guest co-host, aussietheatre.com‘s Anne-Marie Peard talks about TV shows that sing (warning: Buffy), we review season 2 of HBO’s Flight Of The Conchords, reminisce about Aussie rock shows and Josh Kinal shows his mad teleportation skills. Oddly, no-one mentions Sweet & Sour (except here). […]
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Ep 172: James Talia, bushfires, Dollhouse
09/03/2009James Talia joins us to talk about the way television news covered the Victorian bushfires and we look at the new Joss Whedon show, Dollhouse. There’s also some letters to Boxcutters and all the news we could fit into the rest of the show. It’s good. Listen to it. RSS feed iTunes or listen to […]
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Ep 171: United States of Tara, Terrorist Ringtones, Sunday Night
02/03/2009The United States of Tara is a new show from Showtime in the US starring Australia’s Own Toni Collette. We also bring you an I Don’t Buy It about mobile phone clubs and a Ray Watch about Sunday Night. Listen to the show the rest of the media is all a-buzz about: RSS feed iTunes […]
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Ep 170: Wil Anderson, Privileged, Letters
23/02/2009Wil Anderson joins us to talk about the Gruen Transfer, The Glass House and iced confection. Also, we review the new show Privileged and read out a whole heap of letters. RSS feed iTunes or listen to 170 in your browser Contact us by sending us email or send us an SMS on 0458 288 […]
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Ep 169: Editor Rob Buttery, Eleventh Hour, Count Duckula
15/02/2009Editor of shows including Mythbusters and Bondi Rescue, Rob Buttery joins us to talk about the world of television editing. We do a review of the US show Eleventh Hour and a Before & After School about Count Duckula. You know you want it: RSS feed iTunes or listen to 169 in your browser Contact […]
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Ep 168: Bam Boom! Entertainment, Lie to Me, Underbelly 2
10/02/2009Gillian Bartlett and Donna Lyon from Bam Boom! Entertainment join us to talk about their very unique television jobs. Also there’s a review of the new Underbelly season premier, and the new US show Lie to Me. Also we look at coverage of the Victorian bushfires in a special Raywatch. Get it: RSS feed iTunes […]
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Ep 167: Narrelle M. Harris, Demons, Bigpond Ads
02/02/2009Noted local author of vampire novels, Narrelle M. Harris joins us to talk about the world of the vampire in television. We cover the UK drama Demons. A listener sent in an I Don’t Buy It and we create the word “Skad”. Skad this: RSS feed iTunes or listen to 167 in your browser Contact […]
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Ep 166: Gavin & Stacey, Soap, Dumb Advertising.
26/01/2009An information-packed episode of television goodness comes your way in the form of Episode 166 in which we discuss the UK show Gavin and Stacey, a Things You May Have Missed about Soap, and we look at dumb advertising campaigns and the dumb television reports about them. Also news, pork, letters etc. Get your episode […]
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Ep 165: Dr David Ranson, Leverage, Production Update
19/01/2009We find out all about forensic pathology with Dr David Ranson, Forensic Pathologist to the stars. Also we review the show Leverage which started on Fox8 last Wednesday night. RSS feed iTunes or listen to 165 in your browser Contact us by dropping us email or send us an SMS on 0458 288 837 (0458 […]
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Ep 164: Andy Anderson, Letters, more Andy Anderson
12/01/2009Star of Heartbreak High, Neighbours, Stingers, Salem’s Lot and pretty much everything you can think of, Andy Anderson joins us for an extended chat. There’s also some letters, news and pork, of course Enjoy it immensely: RSS feed iTunes or listen to 164 in your browser Contact us by dropping us email or send us […]
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Ep 163: Swingtown, Number 96, the Bechdel Test
05/01/2009Welcome to the sexy episode of Boxcutters. We talk about the US show about sex in suburbia, Swingtown, and the Australian 1970s soap, Number 96. In between we talk about the Bechdel Test and there’s also an I Don’t Buy It about the most complained about ad of 2008. It’s over here: RSS feed iTunes […]
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Special Epidition Charlie (Many Guests)
28/12/2008Our wonderfully questionable end of year show. This year we have: Gerard McCulloch, Tom Elliot, Nerida Haycock, Wilbur Wilde, Jess McGuire, and James Talia. A lovely shambles of rotating guests and our highlights and lowlights from the television year. Listen to it. RSS feed, iTunes or listen to Special Epidition Charlie in your browser Send […]
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Ep 162: John Adams and The Dismissal
23/12/2008John Adams is a great show from HBO and we talk all about it and strangely compare it to the Australian Kennedy-Miller production, The Dismissal. Boxcutters is all about television and there’s plenty of that in 162. It’s over here: RSS feed iTunes or listen to 162 in your browser Contact us by dropping us […]
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Ep 161: David Ashton & Damaris Baker, Survivors, News Themes
15/12/2008David Ashton and Damaris Baker are composers who, amongst other things created the theme for ABC News Breakfast. We talk about the UK series Survivors and have a bunch of quiz, news and pork. RSS feed iTunes or listen to 161 in your browser Contact us by dropping us email or send us an SMS […]
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Ep 160: Jane Badler (Diana from V), Sons of Anarchy
08/12/2008The woman who played Diana in V, starred in Falcon Crest and Mission: Impossible, appeared in Murder She Wrote, Fantasy Island… The Wonderful Jane Badler is our guest. We also speak about Sons of Anarchy, there’s some letters to Boxcutters and a bit of news and pork. RSS feed iTunes or listen to 160 in […]
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Ep 159: James Talia, Fatty and George, Zoot Reviews
01/12/2008James Talia is returning to Australia and so this is his last appearance as our European Un-Australian correspondent. We cover Fatty and George in Before and After School and there’s an I Don’t Buy It to fill out the gaps. RSS feed iTunes or listen to 159 in your browser Contact us by dropping us […]
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Ep 158: Eureka, Top Gear Australia and a Postcard
24/11/2008Eureka is a show on television and we talk about it because that is what we do. We talk about television. TV News, Top Gear, other shows. If it’s TV we talk about it. Listen to it in one of these ways: RSS feed iTunes or listen to 158 in your browser Take a few […]