Green Guide
Breathless: gripping drama shows a Spanish hospital on life support
Ethical issues abound as medical staff debate whether to go on strike, but this series also has a soapie side.
- by Tom Ryan
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With Kevin’s help, Grand Designs’ new local host shows his credentials
A professor of architecture, Anthony Burke has an unpretentious bounce and cheer that make him ideal for the Australian edition of this prestige series.
- by Ben Pobjie
Amp up the Marvel hubris 12 per cent and you’ve got The Franchise
With creatives from Succession and Veep, this movie set satire perches uneasily between the current reality and plausible excess of superhero film making.
- by Craig Mathieson
Here’s one they made earlier: Previous shows by current TV hit makers
If you need a new binge, try dipping into the back-catalogue of some of this year’s hottest TV creators.
- by Craig Mathieson
In Eve of Destruction, Shaun Micallef evokes the spirit of Parky
The zany framework of the comedian’s show - asking guests about an impending disaster - provides revealing moments.
- by Debi Enker
Monsters: the Menendez true-crime saga doesn’t know when to stop
The second season of Ryan Murphy’s biographical crime anthology, about Lyle and Erik Menendez’s murder of their parents, is a series of unspeakable horrors.
- by Craig Mathieson
Bracing authenticity makes this a show romcom fans will want
Nobody Wants This pairs a sex podcaster with a “hot rabbi” in a story that mirrors the writer’s life.
- by Debi Enker
‘George’ on the big change that means Seinfeld couldn’t be made today
Jason Alexander, the actor who played George Costanza in the hit ’90s sitcom, says many of the show’s storylines wouldn’t be possible now.
- by Michael Idato
Could your marriage survive if you were apart for four years?
Created by Mithila Gupta, whose credits include Neighbours, Bump and Home and Away, Four Years Later tracks a romance tested by distance.
- by Lenny Ann Low
Why Amazing Race is the best reality show ever
This long-running reality colossus succeeds because wherever you put people, ultimately we’re all the same.
- by Ben Pobjie
Grantchester has a new vicar. You guessed it – he loves solving crimes
Where would Detective Inspector Geordie Keating be without men of the cloth to help solve the village’s steady flow of murders?
- by Ben Pobjie
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