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David Meddows
David MeddowsFeatures Writer

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

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WEEKEND TELEGRAPHS - 7/10/20MUST NOT USE BEFORE CHECKING WITH WEEKEND TELEGRAPH PIC EDITOR JEFF DARMANIN - Santa Clause visits kids at David Jones in the Sydney CBD store this afternoon. L to R, Matthew Nader, Jacob and Zoe Hipolito and  Santa. Picture: Sam Ruttyn

Massive changes to Sydney kids’ Santa photos

Sydneysiders face a very different Santa photography experience this year, with major retailers revealing what children can expect and whether they’ll be able to sit on Saint Nick’s knee.

Entertainment
Junior MasterChef Australia judge Melissa Leong

MasterChef judge’s hope for COVID lessons

Living in Melbourne and with a painfully close connection to the struggling hospitality industry, Melissa Leong knows only too well the deep impacts of the continuing health crisis that has swept the globe. But she is confident something good will come of it.

QLD News
Chris Hemsworth signs four-movie deal with Netflix.

Hemsworth’s homegrown mega movie deal

He worked magic as Thor in the Marvel movies and now Chris Hemsworth is set to do the same for the state’s screen industry, with cameras tipped to roll in Queensland on a new Netflix film as early as November.

TV
***EMBARGOED FOR JAN 04 TV SHOWS TO WATCH IN 2020 SPECIAL***Ben Mendelsohn stars in new HBO drama series, The Outsider, screening on Foxtel. Picture: Supplied/HBO

51 TV shows getting us through COVID

Aussies have spent most of 2020 glued to the television due to the global health crisis. So we’ve pulled out the top 51 shows that have kept us going through this crisis and still have the legs to go the distance. WHAT TO WATCH

NSW
(FILES) In this file photo taken on August 20, 2020 Defendant Joseph James DeAngelo looks on in the courtroom during the third day of victim impact statements at the Gordon D. Schaber Sacramento County Courthouse on August 20, 2020, in Sacramento, California. - A US former policeman dubbed the "Golden State Killer" apologized to his victims August 21, 2020 as he was handed multiple life sentences for a brutal decade-long crime spree that terrorized California. Joseph James DeAngelo Jr, 74, who confessed to 13 murders and dozens of rapes in the 1970s and 1980s under a deal to avoid the death penalty, sat impassively behind a face mask in the Sacramento courtroom as his sadistic crimes were listed. (Photo by Santiago Mejia / POOL / AFP)

Why serial killers have changed the way they hunt

One of the investigators instrumental in the arrest of the Golden State Killer believes his reign of terror would have ended sooner if we had the forensic science of today. But while technology has changed the way we hunt serial killers, the nightmare is never over, writes David Meddows.

Entertainment
Binge everyday superhero cartoon by Chris Wahl

What’s your superhero power?

Superheroes swap their capes for cardigans, spandex for scrubs and X-ray vision for, er, Zoom calls in a new cartoon series celebrating the real-life legends of recent months. Can you relate?

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