Ten finds a Wonderland but Nine bats on
VIEWERS were a little less enamoured of the cricket for the start of the fifth Ashes test in London than for previous matches.
Television
Seven tops as Nine’s souffle wobbles
THE X Factor and the solid Australian drama Winners & Losers propelled Seven to another nightly win on Tuesday as Nine’s Bake-Off fell.
X Factor bubbles to top of talent pool
THE X Factor jumped to the top of the pile again last night with its best Monday ratings since its launch week.
X Factor prevails but Nine’s got talent
SUNDAY night’s talent contest tightened last night with Australia’s Got Talent adding more than 200,000 viewers in a week.
Sun-drenched film noir
MANY who’ve seen Ivan Sen’s fine new small-town police thriller Mystery Road have compared the film loosely to Roman Polanski’s Chinatown.
Jim Crow justice
KEN Burns tells the tale of five young men wrongly convicted of a brutal rape.
Back in the family
UNTIL he played Ted Kramer in 1979 family drama Kramer vs Kramer, Dustin Hoffman had drifted away from his buttoned-down character in The Graduate.
Ten hits ratings high with Offspring finale
ENTERTAINMENT programs on Ten and ABC1 trumped Nine and Seven last night in a reversal of fortune for the third and fourth networks.
Dame Kiri’s Downton Abbey stage fright
AN OPERA singer who performed at royal weddings and the Rugby World Cup opener might, perhaps, have become blase about appearing on a television program.
More than 1.5m tune in to election debate
IN the television ratings battle between The X Factor and Australia’s Got Talent, the winners were Kevin Rudd and Tony Abbott.
Moving tale from rural Australia
AMONG Australia’s most gifted filmmaking talents is Ivan Sen, whose new film noir Mystery Road is touring national film festivals.
A week of Hitchcock
INNOCENCE is the middle film in Jan Hrebejk’s loose trilogy encompassing sin, forgiveness, responsibility, blame and punishment.
Running blind
RIGHT and wrong blur in a new police series set in a crumbling Detroit.
Ten beats Nine on Offspring bounce
TEN turned in a rejuvenated performance in Wednesday night’s TV ratings, edging out Nine thanks largely to a big audience for Offspring.
Local shows keep Seven’s numbers up
THE Nine Network was down on Tuesday night as The Great Australian Bake-Off and The Bible went off the boil with viewers.
No food, no clothes in TV’s new frontier
NAKED and Afraid is America’s most extreme TV show. It’s the wilderness as rehab – but has it taken the reality genre too far?
Doctor Who? It’s Peter Capaldi
THE Scottish actor swears he will not be channelling Malcolm Tucker.
Peter Capaldi named twelfth Doctor Who
PETER CAPALDI, the actor who created one of the meanest, sweariest, most irascible characters in television comedy, is the new Doctor.
Oscars go for safe over saucy
TV host Ellen DeGeneres will host the 2014 Academy Awards, as the show’s producers appear to beat a retreat from this year’s racy performance.
Flight from Iran
YOU’D be hard-pressed to make up the improbable true story of the escape dramatised last year in Argo.
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