Character diversity a television drama hit
Popular shows such as Mystery Road: Origin and Heartbreak High show that people want to see diversity on screen, says federal agency Screen Australia.
Television
Succession is finally happening on Succession… where to from here?
The king is dead. The kids are ‘not serious people’. Tom and Cousin Greg should rise up and ‘The Disgusting Brothers’ should be crowned over the next seven episodes. Here’s why.
What would you do if a machine could reveal your destiny?
Chris O’Dowd is in fine form in this Apple TV+ comedy about a small-town husband whose happiness is upended by the arrival of a mysterious machine.
JK Rowling to produce ‘decade-long’ Potter series
A Harry PotterTV series is officially moving forward at HBO Max, with author JK Rowling set to executive-produce the series.
The brutal ‘Bondi Cleanse’ made Celeste Barber and broke Netflix
Wellmania, starring Celeste Barber, has launched like a rocket and is the detox Australian television so desperately needs.
‘This is not what I thought my career would look like’
Melanie Lynskey, the star of Yellowjackets and The Last of Us, on the cannibal hit and why actresses no longer have an expiry date.
Brooke Shields refuses to play the victim
A new documentary on Brooke Shields; an existential crisis framed by a road rage incident; a send off to Ryuichi Sakamoto, and everything else worth watching this week.
Are we watching TV’s greatest character actor?
Quickly becoming TV’s master dissembler, Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul star Bob Odenkirk takes on another challenging role in Lucky Hank.
Aussie star to lead first Netflix pilot
The streaming giant has ordered its first-ever pilot, with Australian star Samara Weaving set to lead to comedy series Little Sky.
The spy series topping the Netflix charts
A good old-fashioned political thriller, vicious housewives, a Yakuza caper, and everything else worth watching this week.
Death comes to the best of families
The power of death and its weird, wonderful entanglement with romance and family and new life, is still the driving force behind Binge’s gorgeous Melbourne drama Love Me.
Six reasons to stay home in April
From spy thrillers by the Russo brothers to Australian romantic dramas, here’s our guide to the best shows streaming on Binge, Netflix, Prime Video and more this month.
What does Succession’s fashion say about wealth?
Stealth wealth is back in fashion as the Roys return for a stylistically rich fourth season.
Adult morality meets The Office
The archetypal ruthless office boss and a Gen Z gaming company collide in this twisty little comedy thriller.
MH370 doco: facts, conspiracies and 3 main theories on mystery
The plane’s disappearance was one of those tragedies that asked us to confront our own fears of death and annihilation. It all begs the question: who was the abhorrent mind behind it?
Addictive survival show gets the Down Under treatment
Ten Australians will be dropped in the Tasmanian wilderness, battling it out for a $250,000 cash prize.
Succession resumes with the stench of death
Showrunners promise Succession will ‘go out strong’ … so why does it feel like we’re about to watch another (albeit fictional) dysfunctional family organise a funeral and coronation?
The Australian millionaires fronting Shark Tank
Five top Australian entrepreneurs and CEOs will front Network 10’s revived Shark Tank Australia as judges and investors.
Star takes strong position on sex ‘choreographers’
The Australian actor says that their presence on set makes her ‘anxious’.
What dirt does Annabel Crabb have on this poor family?
Back in Time returns — but how far can the ABC drag this genre of historical suburban cosplay? Plus, Disney’s new series will have you believing in divorce in a second.
‘Hard, stoic … killer’
We’re grateful for the return of famous lawyer Perry Mason and his world of swaggering corrupt cops, wonderful cars and whiskey by the gallon
Teen angst and cannibalism make for a compelling thriller
Yellowjackets, a gruesome series set across two timelines, is among four great shows to watch this week. But don’t waste your time on Netflix’s latest offering.
Cancelled men are my favourite vice
Two of the world’s most polarising blokes – both perilously close to causing a little too much offence – are back in the spotlight with lucrative TV projects.
No thoughts, just Bake Off
A baking show fit to scroll your phone to, and everything else worth streaming this week.
America must face up to Nazi past
The US and the Holocaust is the most important work to date in the career of celebrated documentarian Ken Burns.
Why Hugo Weaving won’t watch the Oscars
As the actor returns to the small screen for Love Me, he reflects on the golden age of television – and whether anyone has time to watch it all.
‘It still hurts’: Chris Rock slaps back at Smith
Chris Rock showed hurt and indignation as he addressed Will Smith’s Oscars slap, saying it was about Smith’s wife’s infidelity, not his joke about her hair.
Legal lion Murdaugh guilty of killing wife and black sheep son
Few crime serials hit Netflix’s top 10 as a verdict comes down. But like the facts in the strange case of disgraced lawyer Alex Murdaugh, you couldn’t script this.
How YouTube became an ungovernable Frankenstein
Its leadership exists in a near-constant state of crisis but its creators show how readily humans can outwit machines. YouTube’s chaotic rise to world domination is one hell of a story.
The spy who snagged me
A seemingly honourable father is seduced into the secret service and forced to choose between his country and those he loves.
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