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Nurse Jackie is the new show from Showtime in the US starring Edie Falco. Come Back Mrs Noah is an old show from the late 70s that John once saw. There’s an I don’t buy it and a whole bunch of other stuff to make you laugh, cry and possibly even hit yourself in the nose with a hammer.
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Here is our first pitch competition entry, from ActualChad Productions:
Doug 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 the UK horror series Dead Set
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You can buy Dead Set at Amazon UK
See Doug MacLeod discuss his golden career at Axed! at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival.
This is what the Boxcutters look like when they appear in The Age – warning! Photo!
Chartbusting 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…
Buy Breaking Bad – The Complete First Season
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See Rod Quantock Eats Himself at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival.
All 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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After 30 years at Nine, Ray Martin has quit the network.
With reports of his discontent last year – before the reinstatement of David Gyngell as network chief executive – the snubbing of his pitch for a chat show and the earlier start time for the Sunday programme, it’s not much of a surprise.
Martin began at the network as a reporter on 60 Minutes, continuing as host of Midday and A Current Affair, with any number of special hosting gigs thrown in over the years.
Both David Gyngell and Martin claim it’s an amicable split.
We finish off our coverage of the Fall season with Samantha Who? and Women’s Murder Club and also do a post mortem on the Election coverage. Opinions abound while we talk about Australian drama and the ABC makes an appearance in Crap TV. All of that and a world of TV news for the week. Put it all together and you have Boxcutters Episode 112.
Oh, and we dance on the grave of Coonan’s ministry.
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In the interests of giving new visitors on the blog a bit of a taste of what’s to come in the podcast, we’ve decided to make a little preview for the show that you can listen to right here in the browser, without having to subscribe to the feed.
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Now we’ve seen a full season of Mick Molloy doing a chat show – with a twist – after Micallef got bent around by management at 9; Parky’s been around forever and Denton’s picked up that format and thrown in a tear-jerker question at the halfway point; and Letterman has inspired any number of pretenders from Vizard to Rove, I wonder what the Boxcutters family want in a late night talk show.
What do you want to see in a one hour chat show with a personable host and a musical combo on the side? Should there be a monologue? Should the host do a song from time to time?
Does it need to try to be a comedy or can it be sustained with intelligent conversation? A barrel or wheel? Audience interaction? SMS voting? We’ve come a long way from Don Lane’s barrel but would it still work today?
Any thoughts invited – it’s a blank canvas.
Just in case anyone was hanging out for episode 98 tonight, Boxcutters goes back to its usual recording time this week.
The show will be up late Monday night.
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