We were planing on covering Drive on next week’s Boxcutters. Unfortunately there is this news from TV Guide:

Multiple sources confirm that Fox has axed the Tim Minear creation after less than three weeks on the air. I’ll go out on a limb and say the show’s crappy ratings were to blame.

I’m a big fan of Tim Minear’s work, especially on Angel, Firefly and Wonderfalls. He seems to have no problem getting shows off the ground but keeping them on the air is another story entirely.
That being said, Drive was fraught with problems in both story-telling and casting. It’s not a huge surprise.

It’s Boxcutters Episode 82 SHOW OF MYSTERY!!!

What is happening this week? Are there any segments? If so, what? I Don’t Buy It? Crap TV? WHO KNOWS!

And what about guests? Maybe there are and maybe there’s not. What about inflamed rhetoric?

You will have to listen in to find out.

It’s all in Boxcutters Episode 82 SHOW OF MYSTERY!!!

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Last week we heard about a possible Surprise Surprise rehash. Now it appears Channel 7 is going ahead with the Naomi Robson talk show.

It can’t be a coincidence can it? ‘Yes, sure Naomi, you can do your own Springer/Oprah style chat show’ snigger, snigger, snigger.

What other explaination could there be? Surely Channel 7 can’t seriously be considering about a Naomi fronted talk fest.

HUGE guest in the studio this week, with the voice of television, the one the only MR PETE SMITH!!

Fantastic special guest. We delve into just a small sample of his incredible, four decade career.

Plus News, Quotes, Raines, good and bad cooking shows, factual inaccuracies, blah, blah, blah

but Pete Smith!! Wow.

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More to my report this week on the Chaser’s serious complaint, I came across a little something in the Australian which I’ve not been able to find in their online version.

It started out talking about their pranks being newsworthy and finding their way into the nightly bulletins before they get a chance to air them on the show proper - this happened with the West Coast Eagle mascot more than a week before it turned up on the Chaser.

The article goes on to talk about the Chaser podcast being number 1 on iTunes Australia and how the download doesn’t include a number of items from the version that went to air:

The Marcus Einfeld sketch is missing due to him being subsequently charged for 13 criminal offences;

The Qantas ad pisstake; and

Andrew Hansen’s musical tribute to Naomi Robson, Goodbye Plastic Face.

The article also talks about the Mercedes Corby suit against TT, et al., stating that Jodie Power has been named in the suit and that Stuart Littlemore QC is Corby’s barrister. Did I mention this could get interesting? As a former host of Media Watch (before it was a crippled piece of dross), with a particular focus on the ethics of tabloid TV, Littlemore’s involvement should make it even more so.

Updating the story about a new show coming up in the US but didn’t have the details to hand:
Melissa George has signed on to a new US drama called In Treatment, from Entourage producer Mark Wahlberg and Noah Tishby. She’s departed the new project from Sex & the City author Candace Bushnell, Lipstick Jungle, after her character was re-written as a 40 year old.
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And on the back of the Quotes segment this week:
Eboni Stocks, the winner of the second series of Australia’s Next Top Model, was removed by security from a Darlinghurst, Sydney bar after allegedly punching a female patron in the face. ANTM isn’t a show I’ve had the pleasure to partake in but, having heard Josh’s offering, now I’m not so surprised to hear about this.
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Rove, Quotes (from Australia’s Next Top Model), Footy Classified, I Don’t Buy It (lite) and the Logies are all part of this fantastic milestone episode.

Don’t believe us? Check it out for yourself.

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I doubt we’re going to be able to cover this in much depth on the show this week so here are the nominations for all the categories in the 2007 Logies.

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Just a quick housekeeping update…

I’ve just upgraded the WordPress install to 2.0.10 - from 2.0.4 (who knew if you didn’t pay attention for a couple of weeks they’d release 6 new upgrades?) - but I don’t think there should be too much difference for readers. If anyone has a problem, let us know on the usual email. I think I’ve updated the permissions for all the right directories that need it but I may have missed something - hey, it’s happened before.

The other thing is that I’ve adjusted a setting in the admin section so we shouldn’t be seeing any more pingbacks in the comments sections. Mostly they were spam anyways - with a few in just the last few days so maybe we’d popped up on the radar for those pingback comment spamming arseholes - so there should be very little loss there.

That is all.

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