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Archive for June, 2008

Sunday
Jun 29,2008

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.

Wednesday
Jun 25,2008

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 They have withdrawn both sites from sale.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

Boxcutters Episode 138

  • Filed under: Podcast
Tuesday
Jun 24,2008

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:

Write to us.

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.

Boxcutters Episode 137

  • Filed under: Podcast
Tuesday
Jun 17,2008

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.

One Hundred and Thirty Seven

Tell us your favourite kids/young adult TV programmes.

Correction

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!

Boxcutters Episode 136

  • Filed under: Podcast
Tuesday
Jun 10,2008

136 = Lawrence Mooney + Ray Watch + News / Pork(Quiz)

Really that’s all you need to know.

Send us your equations.

The A-List Awards

Friday
Jun 6,2008

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.

Boxcutters Episode 135

  • Filed under: Podcast
Tuesday
Jun 3,2008

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:

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