This week was a total mess but we did manage to talk about Human Giant, not buy Optus ads and read out some wonderful letters.

Enjoy the chaos:

• RSS feed
• iTunes
• or listen to 188 in your browser

Contact us by sending us email or send us an SMS on 0458 288 837 (0458 CUTTER)

Don’t forget that you can buy Human Giant - The Complete First Season from the Boxcutters Store.

If you want to get more of a taste, check out some embedded action after the jump.

Continue to the show notes »

Quite simply one of the best guests we’ve ever had on the show, Genevieve Lemon is honest, hilarious and an award winning actress. East Bound and Down is a new comedy from some of the people responsible for Funny or Die and we review it for your aural pleasure.

• RSS feed
• iTunes
• or listen to 187 in your browser

Contact us by sending us email or send us an SMS on 0458 288 837 (0458 CUTTER)
Continue to the show notes »

Peter Moon and Brendan Luno, co-creators of Whatever Happened to That Guy? join us for a very extended chat. Also, we talk about the new TV series, Kings.

Here you go:

• RSS feed
• iTunes
• or listen to 186 in your browser

Contact us by sending us email or send us an SMS on 0458 288 837 (0458 CUTTER)
Continue to the show notes »

This week: Peter Lane, former Chairman of Channel 31 in Melbourne talks to us about the state of community television in the move to digital; producer Sue Taylor sets our mind at ease about 3 Acts of Murder; and we discuss movies about TV shows from a horrible future where we can only enjoy watching people die.

Also we have the answer to last week’s quiz and a whole bunch of news (and a rant about the whole Chaser thing).

• RSS feed
• iTunes
• or listen to 185 in your browser

Contact us by sending us email or send us an SMS on 0458 288 837 (0458 CUTTER)
Continue to the show notes »

Better Off Ted is a half hour comedy from ABC in the US. It’s funny. We talk about it. In Before and After School we look at Monkey. Also, Brett has problems with the Age’s TV guide and we take a quick look at the SBS celebrity sports quiz show, Squiz.

Better Off Boxcutters:

• RSS feed
• iTunes
• or listen to 184 in your browser

Contact us by sending us email or send us an SMS on 0458 288 837 (0458 CUTTER)

SBSTWO launches tonight. In case you haven’t seen it, here’s the promo they’ve been running:

At least they’re not lying about what it’s going to be. More of the same. How does a television network that is already supposed to be fulfilling a special need, provide more specialised content?
Considering the recent criticism of SBS’s new direction, perhaps SBSTWO will be the channel we all expected SBS 1 to be.

Marc Fennell joins us to talk about portrayals of television in film. We talk about the UK detective drama based on a Swedish set of novels starring Kenneth Brannagh, Wallander (just in case you were confused about which Kenneth Brannagh featuring, UK detective telemovie series based on Swedish novels we were talking about).

It’s here:

• RSS feed
• iTunes
• or listen to 183 in your browser

Contact us by sending us email or send us an SMS on 0458 288 837 (0458 CUTTER)

Continue to the show notes »

James Talia comes in to talk to us about the world of network news and the changes therein. Also, we review the second season of season 2 of Ashes To Ashes and discuss this week’s Eurovision song contest.

• RSS feed
• iTunes
• or listen to 182 in your browser

Contact us by sending us email or send us an SMS on 0458 288 837 (0458 CUTTER)

You can help support Boxcutters by buying yourself something pretty - like the book Nul Points that John mentioned in this week’s show - from the You Do Buy It stores.

Also, we’ve got new t-shirts, t-shirts, t-shirts!
Continue to the show notes »

This week Josh speaks to Leo Laporte, Brett talks about Ten Years Younger in Ten Days and we discuss the US show Party Down.

It’s a corker. Listen to it:

• RSS feed
• iTunes
• or listen to 181 in your browser

Contact us by sending us email or send us an SMS on 0458 288 837 (0458 CUTTER)

You can help support Boxcutters buy buying yourself something pretty from the You Do Buy It stores.

Also, we’ve got new t-shirts, t-shirts, t-shirts!

If you’d like even more Boxcutter action - and who wouldn’t? - here are a few other shows you may enjoy:

The Podcraft - Jade Gulliver’s show about podcasting - is usually a tight half hour. Not this week. Really, it’s like a bonus episode of Boxcutters as the fabulous Jade tries to get a word in edgeways. It’s sixty minutes talking about television - teacher, mother, secret lover. Warning: podcasts about podcasts may break the internet.

That Podcast Show says some lovely things about us, and they’re American so it feels like Hollywood. Listen to the lovely Daniel and Jana by clicking here.

Josh flies the Boxcutters flag as guest on episode 20 of The Fool And The Opera, Joy Melbourne’s opera show (hosted by the fantastic Dan Vo).

And don’t forget you can see what the boys would look like if they were awkwardly holding televisions by clicking here. Oh, and buy some T-shirts. It’s better than going nude.