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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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TV Personality Ray Meagher for Australia Day

Anzac story gives Alf new-found youth

IT’S not often that 70-year-old Home and Away mainstay Ray Meagher finds himself the youngest guy on a set.

STRICTLY embargoed to April 19, 2015 Sunday TV Guides first use. Deadline Gallipoli's Sam Worthington. MUST CREDIT: Matt Nettheim

Worthington’s pride in war baby

SAM Worthington was so impressed with the script for Deadline Gallipoli he turned executive producer as well as actor in order to tell the story.

Why Lynch is as Gleeful as ever

AS Glee nears it series end, actress Jane Lynch reflects on shooting the emotional final scenes and the acid-tongued Sue Sylvester.

Harrold (Ian Smith) arrives back on Ramsay Street. Neighbours actor Ian Smith back on the Ramsay Street set. Supplied by Channel 10

Harold Bishop’s best Neighbours memories

AS Neighbours celebrates 30 years on our screens, Ian Smith who played fuddy-duddy Harold Bishop looks back at one of Australia’s most loved TV shows.

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Radio personality Stan Zemanek, host of the TV show Beauty And The Beast" with (L-R) Maureen Duval, Lisa Wilkinson, Jeanne Little and Johanna Griggs.

Stars who changed TV forever

ON the eve of the ASTRA Awards, we look back at some key personalities and shows over the last 20 years that changed TV forever.

REVENGE - "Execution" - Nothing is off limits as Emily and Victoria are dead set on destroying each other. Lives will be lost and fates will be altered, but who will rise victorious?, on the season three finale of "Revenge," SUNDAY, MAY 11 (10:01-11:00 p.m., ET), on the ABC Television Network. (ABC/Colleen Hayes) EMILY VANCAMP Picture: Supplied

Revenge’s Emily as you’ve never seen her

THE game may have changed, but nothing is off limits in Revenge, as Emily Thorne and Victoria Gracen are dead set on destroying each other.

*Use this for online* EMBARGOED to March 1, 2015, Sunday TV Guide magazines. Alfre Woodard and Katherine Heigl in State Of Affairs. Picture: Supplied

‘I chanted at the White House’

STATE of Affairs star Alfre Woodard gets to play the American President in a new TV drama, and she reveals where she got her passion for politics.

EMBARGOED to March 1, 2015, Sunday TV Guide mags first use. Allen Leech for Downton Abbey Season 5. Picture: Supplied

How Downton opened doors for me

ALLEN Leech — a.k.a. Tom Branson from Downton Abbey — couldn’t get “a dog to bark” in LA before he got a role on the TV drama. Now he’s in-demand.

STRICTLY EMBARGOED to February 22, 2015 SUNDAY TV GUIDES COVER FIRST USE: Jessica Capshaw stars in Grey's Anatomy. Picture: SUPPLIED / Bob D'Amico

More in store for Grey’s lesbian duo

GREY’S Anatomy star Jess Capshaw has revealed what’s in store for the show’s lesbian couple and what role Geena Davis will play on the TV drama.

STRICTLY EMBARGOED to February 22, 2015 SUNDAY TV GUIDES FIRSTUSE: Peter O'Brien and Rebecca Gibney in Winter. Picture: Supplied by Channel Seven

O’Brien reveals: ‘My bond with Gibney’

THEY first starred together in The Flying Doctors in the 1980s and are now reunited in Winter — what is the secret behind Peter O’Brien and Rebecca Gibney’s on-screen chemistry?

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