The one hundred percent excellent John Richards joins us as guest co-host this week. We talk about what it’s like to try to get a pilot made and accepted in Australia. There is also heaps of nerdalicious sci-fi and fantasy talk and almost no reality TV coverage. Really!
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Save Our SBS has been in the news a lot lately with its criticisms of the way Shaun Brown has been running things. We speak to Darce Cassidy from the group about the problems they see with the broadcaster. Queen Josie Parelli sits in the Ross seat this week and we’ve got a bunch of news, pork and an I Don’t Buy It to fill out the rest of the show. It’s a big one.
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James Talia joins us on the phone from the UK with a Boxcutters scoop. Not even Media Watch had the information we have for you on this show. Nerida Haycock sits in Ross’s seat, keeping it warm and us informed. We talk about Press Gang in our youth television series and have a super-tough question in the quiz.
It’s all there in 139:
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The past couple of months have been all go go go at Boxcutters HQ so we’ve decided to take a week off. We’ll be back with our big 140th 139th episode on July 7th.
We hope you can find out a way to entertain yourselves until then.
On another note, thanks to Paddy who created a Boxcutters Wikipedia page. Unfortunately it was taken down fairly quickly because, apparently, it didn’t have enough information. Thanks for trying, Paddy.
Anyone who wants to give it another go, please, be our guest. You might want to have a look at some other podcast descriptions on Wikipedia.
Channel Nine will not be moving from its Sydney and Melbourne bases. They have withdrawn both sites from sale.
The Age reports:
The network is now expected to inject capital to digitise its Artarmon Road, Willoughby, studios in Sydney’s north, and the Bendigo Street, Richmond, studios in Melbourne’s east.
When PBL Media listed the properties for sale at the end of last year, institutional developer demand was buoyant, with the two properties at one time expected to have sold for $200 million.
But sharemarket volatility and a slowdown in the residential market changed the dynamic this year. It has been reported that Charter Hall lowered its price for the Willoughby and Richmond sites to about $165 million.
They just can’t seem to catch a break. What is going on with them? Also, it’s obvious from this latest debacle that since the whole PBL Media creation, Nine is being shaken like a piggy-bank trying to get the money out rather than being used to actually make great television.
Source: The Age
This week Toby Sullivan joins us in Ross’s chair to discuss Degrassi and arts programmes. We take a quick look at All Saints and there’s also an I Don’t Buy It to pique your interest.
It’s all there in 138:
You can also win tickets to see Toby’s new comedy laughing show of humour at Trades Hall in Melbourne on July 2. Just email giveaway@tobysullivan.cc to get your laugh on.
What a huge episode of Boxcutters we have in store for you today. Nelly Thomas is our Ross for a day. We have a special surprise phone call, introduce a new segment, talk about Big Brother, Crap TV and have a challenging quiz question for you. All of this is bundled up in blankets of Pork and News.
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Tell us your favourite kids/young adult TV programmes.
TV Tonight tells us that, although Brett said the blog alluded to Matthew Newton being in Mark loves Sharon, it is actually Shane Connor. The Matthew Newton comment was an incorrect assumption from a commentor and not in any way misreporting by TV Tonight. That just doesn’t happen. TV Tonight ROCKS!
136 = Lawrence Mooney + Ray Watch + News / Pork(Quiz)
Really that’s all you need to know.
Bravo TV, who we mentioned a few weeks ago now have a deal with our own Arena, threw their own awards ceremony the other day called The A-List Awards.
Anyway, Lauren Hutton won something called the Beuty Icon or something like that.
You can see her acceptance speech at http://video.bravotv.com/player/?id=259862.
It’s worth clicking on. Trust me.
Make yourself comfortable and strap on your ear-goggles. Wilbur Wilde is back filling in for Ross and James Talia phones in with tales of Europe. 100% world-class excellent Boxcutters coming your way. More discussions about all things television than you could ordinarily hope for.
I hope I haven’t built it up too much… Here it is: