‘This show will have you thanking God you’re not American’
Painkiller proves the fascination and horror the US opioid crisis induces is as strong as ever. But you might need sedating after watching Matthew Broderick ham it up this badly.
Painkiller proves the fascination and horror the US opioid crisis induces is as strong as ever. But you might need sedating after watching Matthew Broderick ham it up this badly.
Michael Parkinson hated snobbery about his background, as he revealed in a meeting of two Yorkshiremen over lobster thermidor and a perfectly chilled Chablis Premier Cru ’94.
I am not shy to admit that I love trash – television that is – and it turns out the classics are sustainable elements of entertainment.
Crime novelist Elmore Leonard’s US Marshal Raylan Givens is granted permission to inhabit another TV series. The results are stellar in Justified: City Primeval.
Midnight Diner is the ultimate comfort viewing. Part food show, part melodrama, this Japanese anthology series takes place in a late-night restaurant, open only from midnight till 7am.
Since childhood Anson Mount was driven to take his place in the captain’s chair.
The documentary, Nothing Compares, which charts the meteoric rise of a young, abused Dublin woman who was thrust into stardom as swiftly as she was condemned to exile.
While tennis stars are generally boring, don’t let that put you off Fifteen-Love – this series has all the ingredients of a gripping drama.
The resurgence of great white sharks has forced communities to deal with a new kind of violence.
Angus Cloud, the American actor best known for his role as Fezco in the HBO teen hit series Euphoria, had recently lost his father.
Sonia Kruger has taken out the top prize at the 2023 Logie Awards. ‘I have to compose myself, I’m not used to being on TV,’ the star quipped | FULL WINNERS LIST
Australian stars have backed the Hollywood strikes, warning the historic picket line assault on the big studios will have a trickle-down effect on Australian film and TV productions.
Thank heavens we can get the likes of Sigourney Weaver to star in huge Australian productions. She just needed to watch a few more episodes of Home and Away first.
The ceremony, originally scheduled to take place on September 18, could now be pushed as far back as January next year.
Only Murders in the Building returns for a third season, plus a forgotten gem from the writer of Happy Valley.
Presenter Julia Zemiro on Andrew Denton’s surprising role for her on The Money or the Gun in the 1980s.
The hit series inspired by US crime journalist Michael Connelly’s novels rolls through the hipster streets of LA for a second season.
With her star power, middle-class roots and, of course, that voice, 90s sitcom celebrity Fran Drescher’s blunt appeals are galvanising the actors’ union in its labor battle.
This beguiling Western thriller told from the perspective of Indigenous people is based on Tony Hillerman’s mystery series about two Navajo cops.
With star power on their side, writers and actors seem to be winning, for now, in the epic tinseltown divide over ‘generative AI’ and money.
You couldn’t get more different ‘blokes’ than singer George Michael and Arnold Schwarzenegger, but as their new TV shows highlight they approach life in a similar way.
Marta Dusseldorp plays a woman who is uprooted from her life with her two children and hidden in a mysterious place as two Russian killers hunt her down in Tasmanian series Bay of Fires.
The first combined Hollywood actors’ and writers’ strike in nearly 60 years covers all American commissioned work, regardless of where the production is being filmed.
From a vampire hit to a nailbiting hijack and a fresh spin on Sweeney Todd, we are welcoming a surprising new wave of scary television.
The big names ‘left to write their picket signs’ once film and TV actors voted to join screenwriters in their first simultaneous strike in over 60 years.
A prolonged strike involving writers and actors could mean Hollywood’s pipeline of fresh shows and movies will thin.
Unlike the smug, self-congratulatory, depressing slog that was The Idol, I Hate Suzie is smart and excruciating fun.
The final season of Succession dominated with 27 nods, but an ongoing writers’ strike and potential actors’ strike are casting doubt over the event itself | FULL LIST
Kidman will star as a senior CIA supervisor in Yellowstone producer Taylor Sheridan’s upcoming espionage thriller.
Tony Abbott and Peta Credlin will join forces in a new Sky venture, eight years after Credlin last served as the former PM’s chief of staff.
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