Boxcutters

What a BIG week in TV it has been. Channel 9 are slashing and burning news people all over the place and now talking about cutting pay packets as well. Possibly because they were a little jealous about all the attention they were missing out on, channel 7 has got in on the redundancy act […]

The engine is primed and ready to fire – it’s time to rev up this week’s Boxcutters. Josie Parelli and Jeff Jenkins from Chartbusting 80s are our very special guests this week. We get loaded and have a good time in the studio and we’ve got some spectacular results for the viewers of our video […]

Number 36… that’s a quarter gross of Boxcutters. Jump in before we go all the way! This week on Boxcutters we: Take a swipe at a couple of TV commercials in I Don’t Buy It; Get a rundown on the biggest ratings winners so far in 2006; Talk about money and what was left out […]

Middle age has treated us well, or so it would seem from listening to our latest episode including: All the news you can handle; Jess McGuire is back with Big Brother updates; Ross tries to get the name of Things You May Have Missed changed while we talk about Deadwood; Letters to Boxcutters returns thanks […]

Live from Beaconsfield, Tasmania, it’s Boxcutters! On the show this week: We take a look at the second least representative audience poll on TV’s night of nights – the Logies; Raywatch dissects the goings-on with The Great Escape at that gold mine in Beaconsflied, Tasmania, along with speculation of how much the boys are going […]

The Fates have sniffed the winds of change and three minds and voices combine to announce the dawn of an era. Buildings crumble and networks prostrate themselves before the feet of three individuals, collectively known as Boxcutters. This week we bring you: All the news we can fit in 30 minutes; Extended discussion of the […]

It’s a huge week in reality TV this week with BB06 locking a bunch of strangers in the house and the Biggest Loser finally being decided tonight. Our super-sexy reality correspondent, Jess McGuire, takes a moment out in a busy Sydney pub to give us the rundown on what’s happening in Big Brother land; We’ve […]

We had a short week this week – with the interstate game last Friday and playing again today, which is Wednesday – I think the guys out there put in really well and it’s fantastic to see they were the best team on the day. News in the first quarter was unbeatable in defence. Shows […]

This week on Boxcutters we learn an important lesson about saving your work on computers. I refuse to go through the whole process again so here is the order of the show: News; Ratings; New Australian shows thus far this year; A look at clichéd ads in I Don’t Buy It Some Raywatch; Letters to […]

Last week the Green Guide had a piece on podcasts and Boxcutters was not mentioned. We urge all listeners to write to the Green Guide and tell them how great this show is. Send your letters to greenguide@theage.com.au and do not forget to mention your street address and daytime phone number. This week on Boxcutters […]

Recorded live… from Melbourne, Australia… it’s BOXCUTTERS episode 28. We’re joined by a very special new member of the family for the first time. She’s funny. She’s intelligent. She’s gorgeous. She’s got the longest legs I’ve ever seen. She’s Jess McGuire and she’s got more salacious gossip than 5 National Enquirers put together. I Don’t […]

From the current home of the Commonwealth games comes another leg in the sport that is Boxcutters. Let’s see what goodies we’ve got for you this week… The games really haven’t been the ratings bonanza for channel 9 that they hoped – or promised – and we take a long hard look at the coverage […]

The games kicked off last night with the military precision that’s reminiscent of any episode of Boxcutters… like this one. We talk about the Commonwealth Games Opening Ceremony – one hour of killer content sqeezed into four hours of air time. Senator Helen Coonan unveiled a discussion document on the proposed new Australian media laws, […]

Sometimes the weeks just fly by. You decide if this is one of those. Ross is away this week and sitting in his seat is the amazingly beautiful Marieke Hardy. Be soothed with the idea of us filling your ears with all the TV related News you can handle. Our discussion of the ratings this […]

Remember when your mother used to tell you that these jokes always end up badly? Here is living proof. This week on Boxcutters you can hear the wonders of: Our discussion on how Nine digs itself deeper into a ratings hole; Those basketball playing cars are back in I Don’t Buy It; Ross points the […]

This week on Boxcutters we talk and talk and talk. For example: we cover the coverage of the winter games on 7; Josh brings us some Raywatch contenders; there’s news that two new hosts are required to make up just one Eddie McGuire. We talk about Garry Lyon and James Brayshaw and footballers, in general, […]

We plan to tell you what to do with a drunken sailor earlie in the morning but first, here’s some stuff about TV. This week on Boxcutters you can hear: Some quality news (both kinds, good and bad); An interview with recent Late Show with David Letterman intern Daniel Burt; Crap TV sees Ross take […]

Twenty-one today, twenty-one today… That’s right, it’s our 21st episode this week so watch us go as we step into podcast adulthood. Apart from the regular stack of TV news, we also take a look at the impending appointment of Eddie McGuire to head job at channel nine, even as they run around the office […]

Like a group hug from a bunch of strangers, Boxcutters is simultaneously comforting and disturbing. Not sure what we mean by that? Then have a listen to this episode and hear: All the news about television from the week; A big discussion about the new 9 logo and the watermark; Those morning news shows and […]

God help us, we were only 19. This week, on a special Australia Day episode of Boxcutters, we bring you all the goodness you can expect from the upcoming week on TV. There is also: a special 30 minutes of news; discussions on Lost and Prison Break, which both start this week; Ross discussing his […]