On The Box | The TV Podcast
Join our intrepid team as they explore the wild lands of television.
With a full complement of snacks and spare batteries for their remote controls, we set out every fortnight to discover what's On The Box.
- Update frequency
- every day
- Average duration
- 59 minutes
- Episodes
- 78
- Years Active
- 2017
On The Box 78 – The Netflix Swingers Party
Apparently changing the name from The Million Pound Drop to The 100K Drop has nothing to do with Brexit the devaluation of the pound. In other news, the feud between AMC and Frank Darabont gets a lit…
On The Box 77 - Biscuits, The Queen of Sheba
It’s the last show on our old-style TV, but we’ll be back in the near future with a shiny new flat-screen. In the meantime we’ve got The Witcher, Ladiators (that’s not a misspelling), and Star Trek’s…
On The Box 76 - Superheroes of Eurovision
Our nerves are shaken and our brains are rattled with fake news, Runaways, Inhumans, sexy remakes of religious dramas, musicals, training camps and Great Balls of Fire – the new WWE pay-per-view.
T…
On The Box 75 - Addicted to the Special Meat
While Sony Pictures pick up the TV adaptation of Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Time series, Netflix decide to capitalise on the nostalgia for ‘90s kids shows and also announce a decidedly Western reboot o…
On The Box 74 - Death By Corgi
Television might hit the fan as the Writer’s Guild of America announce a possible strike. Aside from that Ed Sheeran gets a cameo on Game of Thrones, Saturday Night Live do some adverts, and Big Brot…
On The Box 73 - The Great British Chuckle-Off
So Assassin’s Creed gets a TV series, the NFL are changing their rules on adverts, Noel Fielding is going to be a host of Bake-Off and there’s a second attempt at a US version of Top Gear. We’re stil…
On The Box 72 - Iron Lady Versus Bandit Queen
Aside from The Big Bang Theory getting a prequel, we also have a full cast of Inhumans and a slightly annoyed Schwarzenegger.
This week we've been watching Apple Tree Yard, The Nightly Show and Mod…
On The Box 71 - Mel and Sue's Time-Space Adventures
It's been a strange fortnight in television with Kevin Smith wanting to do a show about Spawn detectives Sam and Twitch, American Horror Story getting political and Neil Gaiman's recommendations for …
On The Box 70 - Now With Added Bang Babies
Game of Thrones loses out this week as Conor McGregor is in the fight business. In other news, Kevin Sorbo becomes a supervillain, ESPN does e-sports during the Superbowl, and DC's first black superh…
On The Box 69 - Bryan Cranston's Godzilla Onesie
Television continues to get weirder with BBC's subtitles, superhero musicals, and the The Walking Dead being too violent?
This week we've been watching Not Going Out and The Missing series 1 & 2.
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On The Box 68 – You Can't Be Super Without Supervision
It's the first show of 2017, so we take a look back at some of our TV highs and lows from the previous year.
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On The Box 67 – Schrödinger's Carl
It's been a weird week with possible UFC in GoT, Tom Hardy's bedtime story, ambitions for Strictly, and a Walking Dead college course.
This week we've been watching Black-ish, The Grand Tour and Pl…
On The Box 66 – Resting Blue-Steel Face
As always, television has its ups and downs.
Michelle Yeoh will be in Star Trek Discovery (up), there are troubling rumours about The Apprentice (down), and we look at the trailer for Emerald City …
On The Box 65 – Going Down Duckett's Passage
With the sad passing of Robert Vaughan we lose another TV legend, but the reunification of Mitchell & Webb gives us some hope for the future.
This week we've been watching Ash Vs. Evil Dead season …
On The Box 64 – A Metaphor for Pancakes
Atari are setting up a new TV station. No, really. We're not kidding!
This week we've been watching Meet the Parents, Dekalog and Lucha Underground.
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On The Box 63 – Curly Wencing
Things are getting stranger in TV land with Candy Crush game shows, the possibility of Trump TV, and an online streaming service to help people sleep.
This week we've been watching The Crystal Maze…
On The Box 62 – Meet Emerson Cummerbund
In addition to Porridge, not-really-dead TV presenters and a bunch of trailers, one of us may be an impostor. Or he may just be pretending to be an impostor of someone else whose name we can't rememb…
On The Box 61 – Nuns and Buns
It's all change in TV land with Bake-Off moving to Channel 4, rumours about the new host for Top Gear, and a new host for The Apprentice: You're Fired. We also run through some the best innuendo from…
On The Box 60 – Pound Shop Jackie Chan
The bosses of BBC's Poldark manage to upset their lead actor by making him remove his clothes. In other news, another good movie will be adapted into a mediocre TV series and a ride on a bus is a sur…
On The Box 59 – 1990s Civil Rights Comedy
TV land is always a strange place to visit, and this week's souvenirs include “accidental” racism in Fireman Sam and a sitcom based on the lyrics of Biggie Smalls.
This week we've been watching Rob…