Our 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.

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We’re about to go into the studio to record Special Edition Charley, but before we do, a quiet word in your shell-like ear – we want?your input for our first show of 2009. We’re going to be looking at two shows that revolve around sex in the ’70s, and we want your opinion.

Sex on television – is there too much of it? Is there too little? What works for you, and what doesn’t? What is gratuitous and what is justified? What would you cite as good and bad examples?of sex on television, and why? In your opinion, does television portray sex unrealistically? Unethically? Unyieldingly?

We’ll be reading your comments out on the show (it’s just like CNN!) so feel free to discuss the issue in the comment below, or email us at?hooray [[at]] boxcutters [[dott]] net,?or sms us at 0458 288837 (that’s 0458 BUTTDR. Or even 0458 CUTTER).

Boxcutters – you only get out what you put in. Oh, that sounds rude. And a Happy New Year to you all!

John 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.

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David 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.

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Find out more about Destination Moon.

I was going to bring this up in Pork (or “Brett’s Special Moment” as Josh and I have now renamed it) but we ran out of time…

You may remember back in episode 155 we talked about Louis Theroux, who is now (rather belatedly) playing on Channel 7. They seem to have bought an enormous package of Theroux, covering everything from his first Weird Weekends series running through to his later stand-alone pieces. Well, if you think too much Theroux is barely enough, there’s a book you can read as well…

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The 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.

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You can see Jane Badler singing live at the Spiegeltent in Melbourne.

And if you love the show you can buy the album.

James 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.

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Eureka 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.

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This week we are the Bad News Boxcutters with the Christian Slater vehicle My Own Worst Enemy, there’s a discussion of some of the worst television we’ve ever seen and we’d like you to leave comments with your list, and to top it off there’s also a quick Crap TV.

This week’s Crumpler prize is sensational and the question is a toughy.

Also hear all the television news and pork of the week.

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Yael Bergman from Princess Pictures comes in to talk to us about independent production in Australia. There’s an I Don’t Buy It about country music stars, some shark jumping watch and a whole bunch of news and stuff.

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