100 episodes - 100 reasons to smile.

Big name guests, surprises, enormous givaways… we’ve got none of it. Thats right for ep 100 we just decided to go classic Boxcutters. Three guys eating cake and talking telly. An ep with the lot. One of everything. All our segments are here, including: News, Ratings, a Raywatch actually about Ray (and Mary And Gary), an all time classic on Things You May Have Missed, a very special I Don’t Buy It, a look at new show The Kill Point, an investigation into Media Watch, Quotes, Quiz and of course some Pork.

Thanks to Catbrain for the delicious cake.

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Here’s an interesting piece from Variety that talks about how audiences leave shows mid-season when they take a hiatus, the pressures that involves and how the networks and studios are looking to change that.

In recent seasons, though, auds have been wandering off, sometimes never to return, when a show goes into repeats during its season run. That, along with record low Nielsens for repeats, has the nets embracing the idea of running an entire 22-episode season straight through, with no breaks.

TV shows take extra time for creative process — Variety

“He swore he’d get revenge, even if it took 100 episodes. And here it is, slightly over 99 episodes later and still no revenge. We’re essentially in the clear.”

Tonight on Boxcutters… John’s rotting corpse is discovered, but the post mortem answers few questions. There is mystery and intrigue as the gang assess the full extent of the Damages. A trip to Paris gets Sarah Jessica in trouble; while some questions are answered about the Doctor’s mysterious Master. Meanwhile, Mr Foxtel is in for a shock when one of his closest supports turns on I.Q.

99 Baby!!:

Tell us we know nothing

In derr Freddy (and I don’t know how we missed it) news, AllyourTV.com’s Rick Ellis interviews a studio employee about why he leaked the pilot of Pushing Daisies.

Read about it here.

(via TorrentFreak)

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UPDATE:
Whoops. Thanks to fourthof5 for pointing out that the link was wrong. I’ve fixed that now.

OK, so just to clarify the rules one more time. In the last few years television has gone through somewhat of renaissance, from something that is just there to eclipsing film as the exciting medium for storytelling. The Golden Age of Television is an attempt to try and capture the shows that have been responsible for this renaissance.

The shows have been selected through a mixture of appeal and influence. We have tried to limit it to the past 10 years , because that is when this resurgence has largely come about, however this does lead to difficulties. Generally any show that started before 1997 is out, but there are exceptions. For example Larry Sanders and Seinfeld are both out of the timeframe. Larry Sanders was pivotal in creating HBO as we know it so it is in, where as Seinfeld, while undoubtedly very influential but no so much in creating this ‘Golden Age’ is out. Confused? Excellent.

Obviously it is all very subjective (I mean Firefly??!? Phhhttt, what a joke), and we would love to hear your thoughts and comments. What should be in, what should be out. Tell us how wrong we are. We value your opinion, but remember - the envelope is always right…

THE OFFICIAL amended LIST:

Arrested Development
Buffy
Carinvale
Curb Your Enthusiasm
Deadwood
Entourage
Firefly
Futurama
Friday Night Lights
I’m Alan Partridge
The Larry Sanders Show
Lost
Love My Way
Nathan Barley
The Office
Oz
The Shield
Six Feet Under
The Sopranos
South Park
Weeds
The Wire

And by popular demand:

THE WEST WING!!!!

(the people have spoken)

THE PERIPHERALS:

Heroes (originally in, but tossed out on reflection)
The Newsroom (disappeared from the list at the 11th hour)
Sex And The City (again, unlucky not to be included)
The Games (the greatest Aussie comedy?)

Strap yourselves in for a long and spikey one, people. We’ve got Katrina Mathers from The Wedge in to face the hard questions and then we all do the same during the final and controversial Golden Age of Television. There’s also I Don’t Buy It, Quotes and a short chat about Mad Men.

Help the radio station that helps us so much and click on the 3RRR link in the sidebar to subscribe to that wonderful station during their radiothon and don’t forget about our competition to win a Crumpler bean-bag.

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and spikey (letters to us).

Just in case anyone was hanging out for episode 98 tonight, Boxcutters goes back to its usual recording time this week.

The show will be up late Monday night.

This new show on SBS is an interesting concept poorly planned out. I discussed it at length with Fran Kelly on Radio National this week.

You can listen to it via the internetwebs: Radio National Breakfast (7/8/2007).

This news was from Tuesday (sorry for the delay and thanks to Paul Boxcutter for the heads-up).

Come September, Foxtel will be rebroadcasting Ten’s digital signal which also means they will publish the Ten EPG.

Now we just have to wait for Foxtel to open up their system to allow other pieces of software and hardware to have access and we might actually have a choice over how we watch our television.

Just imagine an openly competitive marketplace. A place where we can buy whichever PVR we want, subscribing to whichever EPG we choose (Ice TV really does have the best service out there), rather than being tied to one system. Alas, I seem to live in a dream world.

Still, I’ve now signed up for an IQ. I’ll be sure to keep the Boxcutters listeners/blog-readers posted on the ups and downs.

via The Age: Foxtel nabs Ten rights

Congratulations to Ice TV which won it’s long running court case against Channel 9 today. Great news for the young Aussie company. Onwards and upwards.