‘The Kates’ are back with a crime-themed Kath & Kim
Deadloch will make you laugh, cry, think and make you move to Tasmania. If you loved Blue Heelers and A Country Practice then cancel your weekend plans.
Television
Is this the cleverest show on TV?
The new series of Utopia brilliantly captures the absurdity of modern policymaking.
‘Hated narcissist’: host throws petrol on brekky TV bin fire
Obnoxious off-camera behaviour, a secret affair, hosts at war and claims of a cover up are threatening the success of one of Britain’s top programs, with a twist even the writers of Morning Wars couldn’t script | WATCH
Censorship battles, big names: this film festival has seen it all
From battles with the government to ambitious directors and Australian premieres, the Sydney Film Festival has generated its share of headlines over 70 years.
From comedy god to architecture guru
Tim Ross, once one of radio’s most successful presenters, shows us why good design matters and how the spaces we inhabit shape the memories of our lives in Designing a Legacy.
Succession finale a good day for horrible people
Even by Roy family standards, the final episode was brutal | Warning: Spoilers
How Succession brought back suspense
Ahead of next week’s finale, all anyone wants to talk about is TV’s most infamous dynasty. Have Shiv, Roman and Kendall killed bingeing and ushered in a new era for streaming?
Sun-drenched escape or isolated outpost? Australia’s largely ignored history
Australia was a magnet exerting a powerful, innately resonating force for the suffering British seeking a better life in the 1950s. Little did they know the people who were supposed to welcome them didn’t really want them.
Kate Box: ‘I love being older’
The Australian actor plays a buttoned-up cop in a lawless town, in the new Amazon Prime series Deadloch.
Pink Ladies replace their leather jackets with woke cloaks
The Grease remake is a social critique of 2023 set in 1954.
The No.1 renovation mistake Aussies make
The Block’s Shaynna Blaze on how to renovate properly, turning 60, her new film and her 120-year-old rural Victorian ‘forever home’.
Nervy drama a worthy follow up to Happy Valley
BBC One’s latest police procedural is a taut, top-notch drama that will cauterise those wounds left by that damp squib final season of Line of Duty.
Unforgotten S5: A desiccated corpse snagged up a chimney
It’s initially thought the corpse died about 60 years ago but then there’s a twist that makes the detectives crack open this cold case.
Seconds after this photo was taken, the world changed forever
Ten years since the Boston Marathon attacks, a gripping new examination of the case has revealed an unlikely hero and a police force out of control, hell bent on vigilante justice.
And the BAFTA for best tea party…
Paddington Bear’s unexpected encounter with the late Queen during Platinum Jubilee celebrations last year is voted most memorable moment.
Confessional: Melanie Bracewell
The co-host of The Cheap Seats on Channel 10 botched the paper run back home and can’t live without antihistamines.
‘Marriage is a cage, except it’s also a deathmatch’
The Great — a scabrously funny, ‘occasionally true’ period drama — returns…and it makes Bridgerton look positively prudish.
Charles and Camilla’s affair has nothing on this
Netflix’s latest royal romp has landed and — unlike The Crown — this one manages to make royals look sexy.
Virginia’s new role as mother hen to acting’s next gen
The star of new SBS murder mystery Safe Home on why it’s her duty to give younger castmates, including Aisha Dee, the space to shine.
Lost for words, US talk shows face uncertain future
Writers going on strike could deal a fatal blow to what used to be must-see nightly viewing.
The film Israel Folau never wanted you to see
Documentary makers are intent on rescuing this red-hot story of clashing beliefs and moral complexity from the quagmire of cancel culture. It’s full of own goals.
MasterChef series in doubt following Zonfrillo’s death
The future of the long-running television series will be decided within days following the shock death of co-host Jock Zonfrillo.
Secrets of the SAS
Rogue Heroes, a series about the origins of British Army’s Special Air Service, is not a show for ageing war buffs nursing romantic legends and gory myths.
Coronation: Everything you need to know
The global broadcast of King Charles III’s coronation is expected to attract hundreds of millions of viewers worldwide. For those tuning in from Australia, here is what you need to know.
Sir Les scandal: ‘We thought we’d get shut down’
Channel 10 presenter reveals how a crew member deliberately hid the only tape of Barry Humphries’ controversial Sir Les Patterson appearance in 1976 to prevent a Television Tribunal investigation.
You no longer need to be attractive to be a star
Well-scripted, multi-season series have given talented actors the opportunity to shine in compelling, layered roles.
‘No place for me’: non-binary star opts out of Emmys
Aussie actor Liv Hewson will not submit for this year’s awards because of the Television Academy’s male and female categories.
Talk show host Jerry Springer dies, aged 79
The daytime TV host whose show featured fist fights and hair pulling died at home in Chicago after a battle with cancer.
Humphries: ‘One of the last TV shows I do’
In Who Do You Think You Are? the late comedian sifts through his family history and discovers a very royal scandal.
Piers Morgan versus ‘royal grifters’
Monarchist blood runs deep in the TV presenter’s veins. Harry and Meghan, however, and their disregard for duty make his blood pressure, ratings and social media likes peak.
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