What's on TV
She was once a Wiggle, now Emma Watkins is ready for an older audience
The former Yellow Wiggle has left pre-schoolers behind, helping teens manage the family budget in Teenage Boss: Next Level.
- by Nicole Elphick
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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
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: Other shows from your favourite TV creators
If you need a new binge, try dipping into the back-catalogue of some of this year’s hottest TV hit makers.
- 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
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
Zan Rowe wanted one guest on Take 5. They finally said yes
Dannii Minogue finally opened up to the popular ABC presenter on her music talk show, where famous guests reveal their top five songs.
- by Bridget McManus
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
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