Internet pirates steal talent
AUSTRALIANS love good movies and TV shows, but are we loving them to death?
Television
Haunting beauty
THOSE seeking action and adventure can take their pick of Life of Pi, last year’s Oscar-winning Argo or Tim Burton’s remake of Planet of the Apes.
Classic noir thriller
IF you were confronted with the words sewer, penicillin and Ferris wheel, what response would spring to mind?
Killer instinct
A TELEVISION biography of Paul Keating offers a revealing portrait of the loved and loathed former prime minister.
Notes on a scandal
TV editor Lyndall Crisp selects Bankers: Fixing the System as her pick of the week on pay television.
Beauty for Seven’s reality show
THE geeks shall inherit the ratings. Seven’s Beauty and the Geek popped last night for its best capital-city audience of the year.
Malaise goes on for Ten despite launch
TEN’S failure to launch list grew on Monday with breakfast program Wake Up debuting with only 52,000 metro viewers.
Luther cops some flak
TV editor Lyndall Crisp selects Luther as her pick of the week on free-to-air television.
A country boy at heart
TV editor Lyndall Crisp selects Paddock to Plate as her pick of the week on pay television.
The Sapphires shines
THE last Australian film to be a box-office hit overseas was Crocodile Dundee, and before that, on a smaller scale, The Man from Snowy River.
Spook spoof perfect for Atkinson
I WAS never sure whether Johnny English (Saturday, 10.45pm, Seven) was a brilliant spoof of the Bond films or a half-baked farce.
In the line of fire
A NEW investigative documentary offers a compelling explanation of the JFK assassination.
Fast-tracking leaves gap in Seven’s week
THE Seven Network had a rare loss as its US series Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD was “rested” in the US.
Viewers rise and retire with Seven
SUNRISE recorded its best audience for the year on Tuesday in the week prior to Network Ten’s breakfast relaunch.
Douglas’s dark debut
ONE of the surviving stars of Hollywood’s golden era, Kirk Douglas, now 96, lives in retirement in Florida.
Price is right for Rush
I HOPE Geoffrey Rush fans, of whom I’m one, won’t mind my saying he reminds me more and more of Vincent Price.
Women behaving badly
MOVE over Tony Soprano, Don Draper and Walter White, the anti-heroines are the rising stars of screen drama.
Going for the doctor
THE 50th anniversary episode of Doctor Who will be a global event, simultaneously screened in 75 countries including Australia.
Ordinary people
DRAMA series Redfern Now takes viewers straight to the fragile hearts of its characters.
ABC, multichannels score but Nine wins
AUDIENCES moved to the multichannels last night as both Nine and Seven recorded channel shares below 20 per cent.
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