December 2024
Next year, broadcasters are going all in on ‘bit dirty’ reality TV
Some of the biggest franchises of the genre have languished for years, with audiences fading. Now major networks are hoping for a big revival.
- Sam Buckingham-Jones
February 2024
This woman is the Kardashians’ secret business weapon
Until she appeared on a popular TV show she was the most successful self-made British businesswoman that Britain had never heard of.
- Laura Craik
December 2023
Paris Hilton v the Crunchy Tradwives: a modern parenting story
The reality TV star is not so different from many of you, it turns out, as she baulks at changing her child’s nappy.
- Monica Hesse
September 2023
- Opinion
- Weekend Fin
‘My years in the Labor Right primed me to compete in The Bachelor’
I found surprising parallels between politics and reality television when I became a contestant in the hit Channel 10 dating show.
- Alisha Aitken-Radburn
March 2022
Drive to Survive: Warts-and-all Netflix doco gives F1 a boost
Who knew television viewers liked snarky, sweary, scheming whingers?
- Tony Davis
February 2021
Testy Trump quits actors guild; union replies in two words
Donald Trump sent the US actor’s union a long letter explaining his reasons for quitting after more than 30 years of membership before a disciplinary hearing that might expel him. The union’s response was short and to the point
September 2019
Big tech undervalues Australian content
Love Island and MasterChef generate millions of social media views, but don't get the ad revenue reward from YouTube to match.
- Max Mason
July 2019
Bear Grylls comes out... as Christian
The adventurer says it's one of the bravest things he's ever done.
- Peter Stanford