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David Meddows is an entertainment writer for The Sunday Telegraph, specialising in television, streaming and movie features.

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SUNDAY TELEGRAPH - INSIDER COVER SHOOT - EMBARGOED FOR AUGUST 5TH - Pictured is one of the stars of the upcoming Australian movie Escape and Evasion, Hugh Sheridan. Picture: Tim Hunter.

‘We have to tell the hard stories’

Australian film and television need to start telling the bold stories we’ve shied away from in the past if it is to survive, says Packed To The Rafters and House Husbands star Hugh Sheridan.

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Actor Lisa McCune in scene from TV program

The death and rebirth of the Aussie cop show

THE death of the great Australian cop show was almost as mysterious as some of the plots played out on the small screen. But the good old crime drama has been resurrected, it’s just in a shiny new body.

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HOLD FOR SUNDAY TELEGRAPH PIC DESK----Natalie Bassingthwaighte and Maggie McKenna in Melbourne, for Sunday Telegraph, Alex Coppel

Maggie ‘stoked’ to be playing Fanny Brice

MAGGIE McKenna was still 30 years from being born when Barbra Streisand won an Oscar for playing Fanny Brice in Funny Girl. So it’s only fitting she will play a young Brice in the upcoming musical.

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Bernadette Field, daughter of former Cockroaches lead singer Paul Field, who died from SIDS in 1998.

Dad‘s face told me my baby girl had died

WHEN former Cockroaches lead singer Paul Field saw his father’s face, he knew something was very wrong. He was on tour in Queensland when the horrific call came in that would change his family’s life.

TV
Billy Bob Thornton in a scene from Amazon series Goliath.

Why Billy Bob won’t talk about Trump

In the same week Robert De Niro made headlines around the world for his “F… Trump” outburst, Oscar-winning actor Billy Bob Thornton told Insider he believes celebrities like himself don’t really have the political chops to be lecturing the masses.

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Pauline Field with daughter Bernadette and son Luke. Bernadette died from SIDS in 1998. Picture: Supplied

Dad‘s face told me my baby girl had died

WHEN former Cockroaches lead singer Paul Field saw his father’s face, he knew something was very wrong. He was on tour in Queensland when the horrific call came in that would change his family’s life.

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