There is a heck of a lot of great TV on the air right now. Maybe too many good shows. This week on the Televised Revolution: In Review podcast we sort out the state of all that is television.

Up for discussion:

• The return of Game of Thrones
• New Starz Mad Men homage Magic City
• Prue’s less than flattering thoughts on Best Friends Forever
• Dan falls in love with Adventure Time
• And Dan goes ga-ga for Aaron Sorkins The Newsroom

As always, we’d love to hear back from you on anything we’ve chatted about on the podcast.

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On the podcast this week, we get serious…about television. While the debate over an Australia network tender process may not be the sexiest tale you’ll hear all week, you will be excited when we deliver the exciting news about the return of Yes, Minister. But wait? There’s more? Calm down Bucko, we also have a discussion about the diminishing ratings of US cable drama The Killing.

As always, we also offer some TV highlights and sprinkle a little bit of magic throughout the podcast.

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This week we kick off the brand new Televised Revolution: In Review podcast. Reviewing TV shows as they go to air. Host Dave Owen is joined by a panel of regular Televised Revolution contributors, which includes Prue Martin and Dan Barrett. For those familiar with The 400 Club Podcast, you’re in familiar territory. To those new to the panel, welcome aboard.

Up for discussion this week:

Mad Men (s05E01) – 05:15

2 Broke Girls (S01E19) – 13:15

Community (S03E12) – 20:18

30 Rock (S06E13 & S06E14) – 25:46

Key & Peele (General discussion) – 27:05

The question of the week also gets a look in as the panel discuss the gaps in their TV knowledge that they wish to fill.

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As TV profits fall, pressures on networks to perform increases, and opportunities for multi-platform distribution arise, expect TV in Australia to get a whole lot more advertorial. This week saw Channel 9 launch their new datacasting service ‘Extra’, providing a similar mix of advertorial and infotainment content as seen on 7′s datacast channel TV4ME. No longer can networks truly afford to be a prestige service and rebuke advertising platforms such as this. Instead, they are being embraced and Extra / TV4ME is really just the start of what’s to come.

This week on the Televised Revolution podcast, Dan and Simon discuss:

• The launch of Extra and its ‘Twitter For Bogans’ messaging service.
• Nine prepare for an Olympics 3D channel.
• WIN ditch Freeview.

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Firing at full strength, Televised Revolution is back this week with a corker of a podcast. As each of us battle through our personal demons ranging from cigarette addiction to an addiction to the popular smart phone game Draw Something, we sit and talk television.

On the podcast this week we discuss:

• Channel 9?s financing.
• The return of Larry King to TV by way of an interesting IPTV service.
• Samurai Pizza Cats is finally released on DVD.

We also have a chat with the guys from cult TV show Danger 5 about the DVD release of their show.

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We have something a bit different on Televised Revolution this week. Usually we try and provide some commentary on the biggest TV-related news stories of the week, provide some TV highlights, and point out a few interesting issues related to the medium. This week we’re dropping that to take you into the belly of the beast.

The ABC is a multi-platform media giant in Australia. It has significant influence across TV, Radio, and Online. It also drives a lot of the innovation that we see in the Australian marketplace. Brisbane is the home to a brand new building for the ABC that brings into it staff working across all three platforms. It’s a purpose-built facility that was designed to ensure all three platforms are able to work together as part of the same harmonious entity.

On this weeks Televised Revolution, the manager of the project to build the new ABC South Bank (Brisbane) studios, Mike McGowan, takes us on a tour of the new building. He highlights some of the more interesting aspects of the building while also taking us through the key areas that may be of interest to Televised Revolution listeners.

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With podcast episode 52 we’re celebrating our first anniversary (please, just don’t look at the dates and expect them to sync up to anything that resembles an actual year.

To celebrate, we bring former 400 Club Podcast host Simon Band out of mothballs and we do what we do ‘best’: we review TV shows.

We discuss:

• Unsupervised
• The Walking Dead
• The Talking Dead
• NBC comedy lineup (Parks & Recreation, The Office, and 30 Rock)

The Danger 5 webisodes and episodes of the bona fide series can be viewed at the Danger5 site. Also, Dan’s interview with the creators of Danger 5 can be heard here.

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With the Queensland State Election on the horizon, it got us thinking about the coverage that this receives on the night. The TV networks usually all carry dedicated election coverage and trot out interesting panels and guests to position themselves as the most reliable channel in news.

Here at Televised Revolution, we’re generally pretty impressed with the coverage that Channel Nine put together for State and Federal elections (switching over to the ABC for commentary by Antony Green, of course). But, what goes into producing election coverage? We have a chat this week with the Executive Producer of the Channel Nine election night special Brendan Hockings.

We also discuss:

• Controversy at Channel Ten’s The Circle.
• Subscription TV via IPTV set to increase.
• The Prisoner remake Wentworth.
• The cancellation of Terra Nova.

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If the past few weeks have been anything to go by, Australian TV is going to be massive in 2012. We’ve seen an onslaught of interesting TV shows made locally that have high aspirational artistic intent.

On the show this week Dave and Dan look at:

• Danger 5 (S01E01)
• Miss Fishers Murder Mysteries (S01E01)
• Woodley (S1E01)
• The Straits (General discussion)

This weeks podcast is double length, but worth it as we look at some TV shows that are very worthy of your time and attention.

The Danger 5 webisodes and episodes of the bona fide series can be viewed at the Danger5 site. Also, Dan’s interview with the creators of Danger 5 can be heard here.

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It’s pretty easy to dismiss the Telstra T-Box as a gimmick device at the same level as Telstra’s T-Hub and the various other similar devices that serve as gateway devices for consumers lacking savviness. The device does continue to evolve on a software level, providing greater functionality with each upgrade. 2012 will likely be seen as the year that Telstra get heavily involved in transitioning towards being a content distributor. Telstra have dabbled with distributing content ever since the early days of Bigpond Cable, with the T-Box serving as the current iteration of those efforts. It’s also the iteration that will serve as a transitory technology to move their analogue media consumers toward their digital services on the horizon.

Cnet offer a good review of the T-Box HERE.

This week saw the introduction of functionality to the T-Box which allows users to stream video and audio files from external storage devices. It’s not a new idea and lots of people already have that functionality via other devices connected to their TV’s. But, it will have people using their T-Box a whole lot more.

On Televised Revolution we discuss the new T-Box functionality, the launch of Channel Ten’s new Breakfast program, this weeks Academy Awards, and discuss just how good Australian TV productions have been of late.

At Televised Revolution, we look forward to receiving your mail and check us out on the Twitter. You can also find the podcast on iTunes (please leave us a review, it helps people find the show).

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