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How claims against one of the world’s biggest authors have scuttled screen productions
Studios and streamers have become skittish about projects based on Neil Gaiman’s work after sexual misconduct allegations.
- by Garry Maddox
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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
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
Netflix loses first battle in $170 million Baby Reindeer defamation case
The Scottish woman who outed herself as the real-life “Martha” has a reasonable chance of succeeding in her defamation claim, a US judge has ruled.
- by Karl Quinn
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Pop culture
Third time’s a charm: How Industry quietly became the best show on TV
Once considered a risky investment for HBO, the network’s sexed-up series about the world of high finance is finally blowing (and growing) up.
- by Thomas Mitchell
From stealth wealth to ‘orgiastic madness’: Style rules in Industry’s finance world
The costume designer behind hit HBO show Industry breaks down its fashion choices.
- by Lauren Ironmonger
More than 20 years after Neighbours, Jesse Spencer returns to Australian TV
He spent more than 400 episodes on the Ramsay Street cul-de-sac, now Jesse Spencer is back for Last Days of the Space Age.
- by Louise Rugendyke
Mormon Wives: How a TikTok scandal became a record-breaking reality show
The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives isn’t just TikTok drama on a slightly bigger screen. It’s an exploration of a religion evolving in real time.
- by Nell Geraets
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
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