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Come and see Josh Kinal host a night of motorcycles, guns and hospital-related drama with the ever intelligent Clementine Ford and Andrew Murfett discussing the ins and outs of Sons of Anarchy.
It’s another ACMI Live in the Studio session and tickets are available now.
We will have no patch wars but Josh might have some Boxcutters iron-on patches to give away if you want to start your own MC.
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 and her Merry Men)
Continue reading “Ep 306: Girls and 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.
Continue reading “Ep 305: Public Television Conferences and Homosexuality” »
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.
Continue reading “Ep 304: Why Big Brother Returns” »
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 Voice and he tells us why he loves it so much.
Unsupervised is an animated show from FX in the US. Is it good or bad? Will you like it? Who knows? We try to help you make a choice by discussing it at length.
Continue reading “Ep 303: Unsupervised, Optus, The Voice” »
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 Spike TV. Together we look at how statistics can change TV shows.
We are touched in the emotions by some Letters to Boxcutters as well as our second in-studio guest donor, Nichole O’Duffy. If you meet her, tell her how wonderful she is.
Continue reading “Ep 302: Spike TV and Nielson Ratings explained” »
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 then there’s also a Crap TV.
That should be enough for you.
Continue reading “Ep 301: House of Lies, Yodelling” »
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 difficult to make something good.
Awake airs 9:30pm, April 11 on W in Australia.
Did we mention it’s our 300th episode? As you’d expect, there are some very special guest appearances on this show as well.
Continue reading “Ep 300: Kyle Killen, Live in Texas” »
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 to ABC reporters and how Foxtel is merging with Austar and what it means for nothing.
Continue reading “Ep 299: Marieke Hardy, Comedy Festival” »
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 a discussion on Sherlock.
John was sick when he recorded the bits that we weren’t there for, so please excuse his raspy tones.
We’re sorry for the delay on getting this episode to you. Really. It turns out that Austin is quite the town for distractions and slow internet connections. Or no internet connection at all.
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