The Herald Sun is reporting Eddie McGuire is set to make a shock (their words) return to TV as host of new Channel 9 1 vs 100 whilst remaining CEO.

Apparently after an ‘exhaustive’ search (again, their words) they couldn’t find a single person who can match Eddie’s hosting prowess.

Seems odd. Like we said back in July - it’s his one trump card as CEO “Hey, I’ll host” and this is the third time he’s pulled it out (World Cup Footy Show, Miner’s concert). Be interesting to see how it goes.

Rosie O’Donnel and Donald Trump are having some kind of barney. Is that enough reason for ROD to write some terrible poetry on her blog?

so tiny books
now
express in torn images
my inside

i was raised reading ms magazine
i remember the burning of bras
as women demanded equality
in unison

beauty pageants
where women were paraded around
judged valuable or not
by old white men

it is always old white men

Believe it or not, the poetry gets much worse. Remember when she was just a funny comedian who was said to have molested children (or was that Paula Poundstone? their voices are so similar I get them confused).

See Rosie’s Poem in full via TV Squad

Ars Technica have an interesting article that explains a little bit more about the current situation with the FCC in the states and what they are and aren’t doing.

Apparently they have definitions and guidelines on what is indecent but they can’t share them around because that would be telling.

*sigh*

At 3am Sunday morning The Late Show With David Letterman screens on Channel 9 for the last time.

Then staring 11:45pm Monday night it begins on Channel 10.

This is both good and bad. Unfortunately Channel 10 have squeezed in some useless crap in between the end of the news and Letterman - Cybershak, Live At The Chapel, the god -aweful Joker Poker etc etc. Thursday is the only night it comes on at it’s rightful time of 11:15pm.

Oh well, better than 2, 3, 4am and better at a consistent time each night. Fingers crossed they will see the light and put it earlier soon, but really I can’t complain.

Also, it will be interesting to see which ep they run on Jan 1st. It could easily be the same ep Channel 9 Sunday morning (the previous Friday night show from the states).

Josh Ross questioned whether James Brown had done anything on TV off-air today. Here is one of the greatest moments of charismatic showmanship on TV ever.

Ladies and Gentlemen, Mister James Brown.

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We are joined this week by Tom Elliot who talks to us about Channel 9, our Free Trade Agreement with New Zealand, and a whole bunch of fascinatingly interesting stuff about how television works. Also, we talk a little about the Federal Communications Commission in the US and how they’re ruining everything for everybody.

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It’s that time of year again - Boxcutters Christmas, end of year, review wrap dealie - just don’t mention lists.

Who will win? What will be Number 1? And will you thoughts be the same as ours?

Much content, some special guests, a few old gags, many ordered items and even some of the year’s favourite moments from the ol’ podcast (how could you do a show about telly in ‘06 without some nostalgia?)

It’s all right here:

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Let us know what you think. We would love to hear your views - what was great, what sucked, what rocked your tv world in ‘06: hooray@boxcutters.net

Loyal Listener Lyndal has outdone herself with bringing this item to our attention:

A full bench of the Federal Court yesterday upheld an earlier ruling that Stephen Cooper, the operator of mp3s4free.net, as well as the internet service provider that hosted the website, were guilty of authorising copyright infringement because they provided a search engine through which a user could illegally download MP3 files. The website did not directly host any copyright-protected music, but the court held that simply providing links to the material effectively authorised copyright infringement. –Sydney Morning Herald

via BoingBoing

Marieke Hardy joins us as we talk about stocking stuffers, another bloody countdown show and all the news we can fit into the time we have.

I’d write more but I have to conserve all of my energy for this weekend’s Christmas/New Year Countdown Show (because, if you can’t beat ‘em…).

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Loyal Listener Lyndal sent us this article that details what we can expect from the Firefly computer game. Apparently it’s going to be a World of Warcraft style Massive Multiplayer Thingamajig.

Firefly Reborn as Online Universe (via Wired).