Boxcutters

Continuum is a future-cop procedural from Canada. We pull it to pieces to work out if it’s genius or horrendous. Then we take a trip into the mind of a Bollywood Star contestant in Quotes. Also, there’s a bunch of news and stuff. Notes One Thing Sporting Nation – 7:30pm Sunday, ABC1 References The ACMA […]

Myf Warhurst is famous from the television. That’s why we’re speaking to her. She has a new show called Nice and it’s kind of like her first solo album. We speak to her about the emotional journey. And we look at the ridiculousness of FTA commercial news in Raywatch. There are some great letters to […]

This is a very special episode of Boxcutters, recorded in front of a live audience at the 51st Annual National SF Convention. John Richards and Josh Kinal had a debate (aka a word fight) with the topic “That All Science Fiction Television is Rubbish.” Josh took the affirmative and John the negative. Gasp and be […]

We won’t lie to you. This is one of the best episodes we’ve done*. In Things We May Have Missed we look at the cartoon series Animaniacs and there’s a special Crap TV that no self-respecting Boxcutters listener should miss. Toby Halligan is in with Places We Have Strayed and John Richards brings his usual […]

We’ve been waiting for a show that created some controversy and passion in the studio. From the media that’s been going around HBO’s Girls, we thought we found just the thing. Have we? Also, everybody’s favourite Ben McKenzie comes in to talk about a very merry Things You May Have Missed (pssst! It’s Maid Marian […]

John Richards has been to Sydney to present Outland at Input, an international public television conference. Also, the New York Times says that homosexuality is a lot more acceptable on television than it was 10 years ago. We try to see if that’s true the world over. Notes One Thing Outland – 10pm Sunday night, […]

Creepy stories, trashy TV and the need for a new season of Big Brother are all covered in this special episode of Boxcutters that no parent should miss. Notes One Thing Laid – 9pm Wednesday night, ABC1 Mark Zuckerberg: Inside Facebook – 9:30pm Thursday, ABC1 Insight: ‘Generation XXX’ – 8:30pm Tuesday, SBSONE

Remember that whole Optus vs Telstra, AFL and NFL case that was either going to mean the end of sport forever or the death of the internet? Well, Optus lost last week and we speak to to Lucy Battersby from The Age to find out what the judgement means. Glenn Peters has been watching The […]

Christine Lawrence has made a career out of analysing what people love and hate about television shows, how they work and how they can be better. She used to work for the Nielson company in their TV ratings department. When Josh spoke to her in December she was a Senior Analyst in Programming Research at […]

House of Lies airs on Showtime in the US and stars Don Cheadle, Kristen Bell and Dave Lawson’s brother, Josh. We review and try to work out why some people might not like it. There’s an ad that involves some kind of yodelling. Brett takes a look at that in I Don’t Buy It and […]

We went all the way to Texas and recorded a show live at SXSW Interactive. Kyle Killen is the creator of the new NBC drama Awake. He took time out of his weekend to sit with us and talk about what it takes to make a series in the US and why it seems so […]

Marieke Hardy teaches us all about finishing a series with a cliffhanger and how it has nothing to do with tricking the network into a second series. Courteney Hocking looks at the difference between the Melbourne International Comedy Festival in real life and how it’s portrayed on television. In news we discuss Mark Scott’s direction […]

Till Death Do Us Part, All in the Family and Kingswood Country were all the same show in three different nations. We take a look at the similarities between them and try to work out what they say about the different countries at the times they were made. There’s an I Don’t Buy It and […]

This week we look at a new development in television. It’s part of the whole grammar of drama thing and it’s a fascinating discussion that we don’t want to spoil for you (although the title of the episode will give it away, maybe). Then, following up from last week’s discussion of ABC’s special set-top box […]

Luck is a new show on HBO in the US. It’s created by David Milch so we know from the start that there’s a lot to love and a lot to hate. We try to look at it all. Courteney Hocking’s been looking at the UK series Luther and gives us a rundown on what […]

Ben McKenzie is a bonafide nerd who takes the label to an almost professional level. He talks to us about how the nerd is culturally represented on television with a particular focus on The Big Bang Theory. TV ads are upsetting and confusing as we discover in I Don’t Buy It. Then we have a […]

Frank Woodley comes in to talk to us about doing physical comedy on Australian television and how it really hasn’t been done before. He has a new show starting on ABC1 on Wednesday 22 Feb. Then, Glenn Peters has seen two foreign language series, Spiral and The Killing. He sets them head to head in […]

It’s guestarama this week with Nelly Thomas in to talk about Excess Baggage and how it compares to The Biggest Loser. Paul Ireland talks to us about being a young actor in The Bill and an older actor in Outland. There’s One Thing and Pork and News and what else do you need to know? […]

We talk to Penny Chapman, the producer of the new ABC1 series, The Straits. There’s a review of Grimm vs Once Upon a Time and a Raywatch about Channel 9’s coverage of Australia Day protests. Notes One Thing The Straits: 8:30pm Thursday, ABC1 The Office – BBC version: DVD Raywatch You can play along at […]

Toby Truslove is an actor. You’ll know him from Laid and the soon to premier Outland. He talks to us about the plight of the Australian actor and what he looks for in a role. There’s a whole heap of news and some great Trotters thanks to Toby Halligan. Don’t forget there are still Crumpler […]