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Boxcutters - An Australian TV Podcast: Mick Molloy’s The Nation starts on Nine

  • Ross · 2 years ago
    Jackie O - fantastic! Why not Jo Stanley and Fifi Box too? And maybe Alan Jones.
  • catbrain · 2 years ago
    Nice one, Josh! I'd forgotten about that Daria ep...

    So, they're basically trying to do The Chaser's War On Everything with a single host and changing guests?

    I don't reckon they'll pull it in a hurry - gotta keep their Australian "drama" quota up.
  • Brett · 2 years ago
    Having been at the shooting of the pilot, there's a couple of things I should mention.

    Jackie O is a late addition - as a replacement for Fifi Box! Personally, I prefer Box over O.

    As for the longevity of the show, the pilot was a lot more punchy than the old Saturday night show, has better talent with more direction and I suspect there's going to be more oversight from 9 management as to content, rather than Mick being given carte blanche by Jamie, as he was for the previous show.
  • dishy · 2 years ago
    It will run until around 2015, because Australia loves crap TV shows. And this sounds like total crap.
  • Ross · 2 years ago
    More shit casting news with Channel 9 announcing Nikki Osborne will be part of the show. As in Nikki Osborne brain dead bimbo QuziMonkey co-host.

    If her efforts on QuizMonkey are anything to go by, the show will be bursting with humour.
  • markymarc · 2 years ago
    i guess in theory, having more shows that dissect media and news is a good thing, (a world with both John Stewart & Colbert is better than just the one?) But the problem is that CH9... are just incapable of making watchable tv. Could be worse - it could have Richard Wilkins.
  • catbrain · 2 years ago
    Well, I'll be giving it a bash because Tuesday nights are pretty vacant on FTA, apart from the police procedurals and serious stuff on ABC/SBS.