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You wanted us to review Falling Skies so we did. It’s a humans versus aliens war and we have to work out whether it’s worth watching.
Courteney’s been watching some Australian classic television. She talks about Phoenix in Things You May Have Missed and it causes us to reminisce a bit about the good Australian TV of the past.
Then, while we’re in the mood, we take a look back at Angry Boys and try to work out whether or not it was successful.
Continue reading “Ep 273: Falling Skies, Phoenix” »
Usually when a USA network remakes a foreign series, it pales in comparison to the original. The US’s version of The Office is clearly an exception to that rule, but what about the new version of Wilfred? They’ve brought Jason Gann on board to play the title role, but how does it compare?
In I Don’t Buy It, Brett has problems with McDonald’s.
Continue reading “Ep 272: Wilfred” »
After a short break we return with a review of the ABC’s new sexy legal drama, Crownies. Did we like it? You’ll have to listen to the episode to find out. If we told you here, that would spoil things.
Sue Spencer is the Executive Producer of the long-running investigative journalism programme, Four Corners. Josh spoke her to find out if people still want investigative reporting. Do they? You’ll find out by listening to the episode. That’s how this thing works.
There’s some news in which we’re flippant about death, there’s some hating on MasterChef and religious figures, there’s some things to watch if you were going to.
Continue reading “Ep 271: Crownies, Four Corners” »
It’s quite fitting that we review the show Happy Endings this week because that’s the one we all watched during the week.
John’s done a special Just Don’t Bother about the late 70s failure, Supertrain.
There’s an Amazing Race Minute, an I Don’t Buy It, some Quotes and more mentions of Channel 11 than ever before in any other episode.
Continue reading “Ep 270: Happy Endings, Supertrain” »
Most of this episode of Boxcutters was recorded live at Continuum 2011 on 11 June.
John and Josh wanted to investigate the reasons behind Australia makes so much acclaimed television science fiction and fantasy for children but never attempts to do anything for families or adults.
Sitting on the panel were: Chris Gist, ABC Commissioning Editor in Melbourne;
Philip Dalkin, writer on Sea Patrol and Stingers, amongst others; David Napier, director of K9; and Mark Shirrefs, co-creator of Spellbinder and The Girl from Tomorrow.
It’s an interesting conversation about budgets, audiences, networks and risk taking.
The goose drank wine:
Want to tell us about some outrageous thing we said but shouldn’t have on the show? Go ahead and send us an email.
Photo courtesy of Nalini Haynes, editor of Dark Matter
Thanks to David Ashton.
Part of this episode was recorded at Outland Studios (John’s Loungeroom).
This is a massive show with Lawrence Leung telling us all about his new show Unbelievable.
For the last few months, Channel 7 has had a new show on air called Winners & Losers. We thought it was about time we reviewed it. So we do that. We also watched it.
In news we talk about homophobia and ask who is looking after the children. There’s some Crap TV, One Thing and Toby Halligan is back with Trotters.
It’s a good one and you’ll kick yourself for missing it.
Want to tell us about some outrageous thing we said but shouldn’t have on the show? Go ahead and send us an email. Continue reading “Ep 268: Lawrence Leung, Winners & Losers” »
Remember ages ago when John told us that in New Zealand they were making a show about Norse gods who all lived in modern day Auckland? Well he did and it’s called the Almighty Johnsons and we review it for your pleasure.
John and Josh went to a Channel 9 event where they pretended they wanted to buy some advertising. It’s our first ever undercover investigation. We’re just like 4 Corners or A Current Affair now, aren’t we?
We launch a new segment called Amazing Race in a Minute where Josh has exactly a minute to talk about the Amazing Race.
All that plus News, One Thing, Letters to Boxcutters. What more could you want?
Listen to it:
Also come and see Josh and John speaking at Continuum this weekend.
If you missed out on our last session at ACMI your not going to want to miss us talking about The Muppet Show. You can book tickets now. Continue reading “Ep 267: Almighty Johnsons, Channel 9 Advertising” »
We review the AMC remake of the Danish drama The Killing.
In Good Die Young we look at Terriers.
Our cohost this week is the ever-pleasant and totally ROCKING, Courteney Hocking.
We review the HBO series Game of Thrones.
In Good Die Young we look at Freaks and Geeks
Our cohost this week is copywriter and man-about-town, Glenn Peters.
Television is getting a lot more complicated as new technologies come forward. Last week we tried to cover the AFL rights issue but it’s really complicated. That why we brought in the big guns. Lucy Battersby from the Age and Sydney Morning Herald comes in to explain it to us properly.
In the Good Die Young we look at the very short-lived Lone Star.
There are some letters to Boxcutters as well as If You Watch One Thing.
Also, just in case you missed it, we do a brief run down of this year’s Eurovision final.
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