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Debbie SchippDigital News Director

Debbie Schipp is the Daily Telegraph’s Digital News Director, with a background as a sports writer, editor and columnist and TV writer, editor and columnist, and in print and digital production.

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Jess and Ayden Hogan Gold Coast couple on Reno Rumble. Picture: channel 9

The shows you loved and hated

AS we hit the midway point of the ratings year, our TV team pick the biggest hits and misses of 2015 to date.

FOR SWITCHED ON USE ONLY UNTIL JUNE 4, 2014. Danielle Cormack, Wentworth

TV show psychic about prison riots

Melbourne’s prison riots over a smoking ban may have felt freakishly familiar to Wentworth fans. Should authorities pay more attention to TV?

LOS ANGELES, CA - JUNE 06: Kyla Weber (L) and actor Vince Vaughn attend the 14th annual Chrysalis Butterfly Ball sponsored by Audi, Kayne Anderson, Lauren B. Beauty and Z Gallerie on June 6, 2015 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Jason Kempin/Getty Images for Chrysalis Butterfly Ball)

Vaughn gets serious for new role

VINCE Vaughn has ditched the funnyman act for a fearsome criminal in True Detective, and he just may have found his niche.

Evan Jones, Adrien Brody and Kristen Connolly star in Houdini. Picture supplied by Channel Seven

Falling under the spell of Houdini

EVAN Jones on Houdini’s longevity: “He’s like Elvis — you go and see a magic show now and you are going to see stuff like Houdini did”.

EMBARGOED to June 28, 2015. Sunday TV Guides first use: Marg Helgenberger is the new face on Under The Dome. Picture: Supplied by Channel Ten

Change of pace for CSI favourite

AFTER 12 seasons, Marg Helgenberger has switched from CSI to sci-fi and has found a new home in Under the Dome.

STRICTLY FOR SWITCHED ON COVER USE ONLY UNTIL MARCH 1, 2014. REVENGE - ABC's "Revenge" stars Emily VanCamp as Emily Thorne. (ABC/Bob D'Amico) Picture: 7 Channel

Laying down the sword on Revenge

AS Emily VanCamp puts down her sword and calls time on the take-downs, we revisit the Revenge characters we loved, loved to hate and who left us mystified

STRICTLY EMBARGOED to June 21, 2015 SUNDAY TV GUIDE COVER first use. Erika Heynatz for Home and A

How Erika will shake up Summer Bay

ACTOR, model, singer and presenter Erika Heynatz’s new role on Home and Away comes with a secret history that will divide one of the show’s hot couples.

Mark Ferguson - newsreaders from Channels 9,10 and 7 Peter Overton, Sandra Sully and Mark Ferguson unite for Crime Stoppers campaign, pictured in Surry Hills. Picture Craig Greenhill

Is Mark Ferguson next for Seven axe?

AS another woman bites the dust in the man’s world of broadcast TV news, we ask should Sydney anchor host Mark Ferguson go next?

EMBARGOED to Sunday June 14, 2015, Sunday TV Guides first use. Grant Bowler for season 3 of Defiance. Picture: Supplied

Grant Bowler’s big Hollywood break

IT took more than a decade for New Zealand actor Grant Bowler to become an overnight success in Hollywood on the TV show Defiance.

Ian Thorpe, Australian swimmer, during a portrait session at the office of his book publisher Simon and Schuster, Bloomsbury, London on November 8 2012 (Photo by Tom Jenkins)

Thorpie has another confession

IAN Thorpe, who told the world he was gay in a chat with Sir Michael Parkinson, is sitting down for another Q & A with Julia Zemiro tonight.

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