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Erratta
During the news it was said that TV Tonight’s David Knox wrote: “Samantha Armytage had been a seamless fill in [for Anna Coren reported]”.
Actually, this was a quote from an article in the Daily Telegraph. David Knox’s post on the blog was a criticism of the Telegraph article. Boxcutters apologises for the mistake.

Yes the Olympics are still on but we do our best to find television news amongst all the medal action. We talk about Quantum Leap in a bit of Things You May Have Missed as well as a Crap TV and the world’s quickest I Don’t Buy It. The truly excellent John Richards joins us this week with anecdotes and opinions that can help us all.

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Gerard McCulloch joins us to look at the first few days of Olympic coverage, Hole in the Wall and Make Me A Supermodel. Keep a look out for another Postcard from A Show as well as some letters to Boxcutters. Plus news and pork and a couple of chicken related I Don’t Buy Its.

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With Tom Elliot and James Talia we talk a lot about the state of commercial television in general, its past, its future and the way things currently stand.

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Yes, ladies and gentlemens, we have the one and only fabulous Adam Richard with us in the Ross Seat this week. We talk about Celebrity Dog School, Star Dancers and a thousand other shows. Fun and exciting, it’s 142.

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Save Our SBS has been in the news a lot lately with its criticisms of the way Shaun Brown has been running things. We speak to Darce Cassidy from the group about the problems they see with the broadcaster. Queen Josie Parelli sits in the Ross seat this week and we’ve got a bunch of news, pork and an I Don’t Buy It to fill out the rest of the show. It’s a big one.

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James Talia joins us on the phone from the UK with a Boxcutters scoop. Not even Media Watch had the information we have for you on this show. Nerida Haycock sits in Ross’s seat, keeping it warm and us informed. We talk about Press Gang in our youth television series and have a super-tough question in the quiz.

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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.

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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.

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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!