Friday Night Lights
FRIDAY Night Lights is a series ostensibly about sport in a small Texas town.
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Hoarding objects a soothing escape
THIS is almost the last episode of this modest but usually enthralling series.
Inside the Actor’s Studio
FROM Zipper Hall, at the Colburn School, Los Angeles, comes the portable Actor’s Studio.
How Not to Live Your Life
LAST time I sat in the TV editor’s chair I reviewed this slight British comedy favourably.
Vacation, Vacation, Vacation
DO we really need to see Kirstie Allsopp and Phil Spencer checking out romantic locations together?
Tread carefully when you enter this world
THIS is the brilliantly stylish BBC adaptation of Michel Faber’s novel of depressingly squalid Victoriana.
Seeing is believing
AS a latecomer to this program, I find myself struggling to figure out who is dead and who is living, who can see whom and why.
Life as a Nazi’s daughter
THIS is a beautifully made documentary about Monika Hertwig, the daughter of Nazi concentration camp mass murderer Amon Goeth.
Holidays in Afghanistan
WHY anyone would want to visit a war zone as a demonstration of extreme tourism is beyond me.
Will Lucy’s spiritual journey ever end?
THIS is the final episode of Judith Lucy’s Spritual Journey: surprising, often caustically funny but also strangely touching.
Slide
THOSE who find the sight of teenagers groping for their identities compelling may enjoy this well-made local drama.
Fake or Fortune?
FOR a team dedicated to unearthing fakes in the art world, the language used by the two presenters here is decidedly overblown.
The Voice
NINE’S digital backwater Go! has unearthed American upcoming talent program The Voice.
Trains, action and damsels in distress
THERE’S been much recent debate about the ABC and its outsourcing of programs and the axing of several long-running popular shows.
Combined ratings block Nine’s success
THE finale of The Block might have been the most-watched program but it was not enough to hand the Nine Network a ratings win.
Secret Millionaire USA
THERE is something touching about this program that goes beyond rich people writing cheques for deserving poor people at the end.
Suits
THIS legal comedy-drama series manages not to take itself too seriously.
The outlaw returns, again
THE Ned Kelly story inspired one of the world’s first feature films, a novel, a series of paintings, a string quartet and various other films.
Posthumous glory for last but not least
IN all the tributes to Googie Withers I saw no mention of her appearance in Shine, Scott Hicks’s film about the pianist David Helfgott.
50 years of the Lost Patrol
FOUR Corners notches up a half century of holding a mirror to Australian society. The results reflect well on the original vision.
The week’s best television
PREVIEWED: Conquest of Everest, Is Everything We Know About the Universe Wrong?, Underbelly: Razor, Fake or Fortune, Robert Blecker Wants Me Dead, True Blood.
Those were the days, clear and simple
THE excellent Bill Collins is presenting Easter Parade, one of my favourite musicals, at 7.30pm this Saturday on Fox Classics.
Sellers as you never see him
STEPHEN Hopkins’ film may be the first biopic about a celebrated entertainer to portray its hero as wholly contemptible.
First time for everything
EDGY local drama Slide is set to ride its outrageousness into our hearts and demand our affection – even while it is offending us.
Family reunion turns to chaos
AS imperiously focused as its opinionated lead character, No. 2 (Saturday, 2am, Seven) is the confident, insightful 2006 directorial debut of playwright Toa Fraser.
MGM flicks get top Marx for trying
FANS of Groucho Marx can relive his comic genius with a 24-hour marathon of some of the cinematic gems he made with his brothers Chico and Harpo.
The week’s best television
REVIEWED: Hubble’s Amazing Rescue, Suits, Deadwood, Cutting Edge: Power Surge, Japan Tsunami: How it Happened, Ingrid Betancourt: 6 Years in the Jungle.
The week’s best television
REVIEWED: Louis Theroux: Ultra Zionists, Cutting Edge: Science Under Attack, Modern Family, The Gruen Transfer, The Invention of Dr Nakamats, Misfits.
The cycles of time on a cosmic scale
SIMPLE slogans and visual symbols thrive on television so it’s rare for science shows to grab big numbers of viewers.
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