Big show. Brian Nankervis from Rockwiz joins us via the telephonic machine to talk about his involvement in TV history. We each take a turn in getting angry through some Crap TV, reviews of Penn & Teller: Bullshit and the Lady Voldemort. Our ending is very APT and compelling. Listen for clues and help solve the mystery.

That’s Boxcutters: Episode 45… or is it?

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Yes, we said it was the new Aaron Spelling show but we meant it’s the new Aaron Sorkin show.

Sorry for the slip up.

Have you been wanting to send in a picture of what you look like but weren’t sure how to use our “special camera”?

You can find it here. Thanks very much to South Park studios for helping the Boxcutters Family come together.

Here is what we look like and what some of our listeners look like.

In shocking news for Dave fans this week, channel 9 will cease to show The Late Show with David Letterman from Monday night. We want you, the loyal Boxcutters family members, to take part in our letter writing campaign to stop them taking off Dave. Check back soon for details on where to send your submissions - and feel free to forward them to us so we can show them here on the blog.

Besides that travesty, we’re talking about the Ricky Gervais penned and starred-in episode of The Simpsons, Ross gives us an update on his full collection of Simpsons figurines, we talk about Rock Star pSupperpnovap and we have double-doses of our regular segments, Crap TV and I Don’t Buy It and just a single-shot of Quotes and Strangely Compelling Content.

All that and more on our two-up episode 44 so get downloading now!:

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As with every week, this was a big one in television. Most notably the Emmy nominations came out this week. Brett looks at ads past their used-by date in I Don’t Buy It. Ross wonders about why Channel 10 are such derr-brains in Crap TV. Also, Josh loses his cool and moves further away from his goal of being Fonzie.

Sit on it, Potsy:

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This week I managed to make it through to the end of the Dinner Party Inspectors so I can enlighten you all.

The event was a small black tie dinner hosted by an 18 year old Oxford girl to honour the election of some conservative toff to some office position at the university. The whole affair was nothing more than a display of terrible arrogance the likes of which can really only be demonstrated by over-privileged British university student tossers.

At the end of the episode the two Inspectors wrote a letter to the hostess thanking her for the invitation and then criticising her for a few of the things she did poorly. There was absolutely no face-to-face advice or even meeting on screen between the hostess and the Inspectors. I suppose that’s why they’re the Dinner Party Inspectors and not the Dinner Party Helpers.

It is a ridiculous show and is of the sort I would ordinarily turn off but there is something strangely compelling about it.

I’m guessing that, like most people on Sunday night, I set my alarm to wake me up in time for 3:25am just in time for kick-off in the world cup final. My calculations were based on all the other times that the SBS coverage began half an hour before the match.

Of course for the final they decided to change their behaviour and start an hour before the game. Ordinarily not a problem but that half an hour could have been spent with some precious sleep. The last thing I wanted to do was start falling asleep half way through the second half.

It’s not a huge complaint. A couple of cans of Pepsi Max got me through but only just.

Pull your socks up SBS (in 4 years).*

^{*Actually, SBS did a fine job and should be commended. I’m just so used to whinging about the state of television that it didn’t feel right to not be able to find anything wrong at all with their coverage.}

Looking forward to Tuesday’s Ricky Gervais penned Simpsons?

So was I…

Unfortunately it appears to have been bumped for yet another useless hour long Big Brother special, presumably to squeeze more unwanted housemates in place of the turkey slapping duo booted out last weekend.

It goes without saying how much this sucks, and what contempt it shows for everybody else other than the 2 or 3 remaining BB06 fans.

But don’t despair, The Wedge is still on at 8. I wonder what hilarious trouble that inarticulate sportsman has got himself into this week.

RB

Well, 10’s marketing team hasn’t missed a beat…

The new promo for their show (previously Renee’s Getting Married) now freezes and a red line crosses out Renee and writes in Yasmin.

So it’s Yasmin I guess, unless she runs off with an ex boyfriend between now and when the show kicks off.

RB

I mentioned a workaround to get onto the Showtime web site in this week’s show.

The first result that came up when I googled ‘anonymous proxy’ was The Cloak. I plugged in the address - www.sho.com - and I’m in. It’s easy as.

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