Celebrating the rise of women in Hollywood
Some of the industry’s biggest female achievers carried the torch for a truer onscreen representation of their place in the world at the annual Women in Film awards in Los Angeles.
Television
Old west makes for sexy TV
Emily Blunt is an English aristocrat displaced and apprehensive in the barren and violent Wild West in Hugo Blick’s The English
Warrant issued for Outback Wrangler star
Celebrity croc-wrangler Matt Wright is facing charges relating to the chopper crash that killed cast member Chris ‘Willow’ Wilson.
Exposed: the rise and fall of Girls Gone Wild
It was peak noughties raunch culture: blind drunk women being coerced into taking their clothes off on camera. What happened to the man who masterminded it?
Is this sport’s biggest scandal?
True crime and sport — Netflix’s two biggest genres — combine in a compelling new series that will have you hooked.
Neighbours finds a new home on Amazon
Neighbours is back like a prematurely killed-off soap opera character.
What’s with our morbid murder fascination?
Frightfully clever Stephen Moffatt returns with the new BBC drama Inside Man, a series that examines the evil inside us all.
Paddington bears brunt of royalties row
First the books, TV and films . . . then tea with the Queen, and now he is at the centre of a bitter High Court drama.
History v his story: who’s to say which Charles is which?
The Crown has been criticised for distorting the facts, but it is handy to know some version of the royals’ story if we are ever to get close to the truth.
Deep dive into the mind of a killer
It’s a true story almost impossible to believe. A chilling new documentary about murderous inventor Peter Madsen is more unsettling than many horror movies.
Slaying the critics: ‘She’s going to be a superstar’
From her breakthrough role in House of the Dragon and double act with Tim Minchin in Upright, 22-year-old Milly Alcock is burning brighter than ever.
After the downfall: Louis C.K.’s comedy revival
He once was described as the ‘Jimi Hendrix of comedy’, then the US performer met a swift comeuppance that excluded him from public life. Five years later, he’s back.
In this odd little series, Kitty Flanagan is irresistible
The much-loved comedian returns — with a host of guest stars — for a new season of her clever but unassuming sitcom, Fisk.
Much ado about Boris: A tragedy
Shakespearean in his incompetence, the former British PM’s appalling handling of the Covid crisis is laid bare in a new satirical drama series.
They’re criticising The Crown but the real story is just as dramatic
Everyone from John Major to friends of Charles have condemned the new series as fiction. Maybe they’ve forgotten how extraordinary the royal revelations of the early 90s really were.
No fun: secrets behind that Targaryen hair
Forget about making dragons look real. A chief hairstylist on House of the Dragon reveals one of the biggest challenges on set actually involves the wigs.
Home is where the hurt is
New ABC drama Significant Others deals with the conflicts that occur between family members, especially when money and property are involved.
‘Like it or not, this is the founding narrative of modern Australia’
In her new series about the frontier wars, Rachel Perkins wants you to be rocked: “It’s time for a reckoning. Are we ready to honestly face the past?”
Acting’s grande dame
Angela Lansbury, who became a household name through her role as a writer-detective in the hit TV show Murder, She Wrote, has died, aged 96.
Raymond Allen: sitcom writer beyond parody
Allen was the one-hit wonder of the sitcom world. After years of having scripts rejected he struck gold in 1973 with Some Mothers Do ’Ave ’Em.
Scooby-Doo’s mystery solved as Velma comes out
Popular cartoon character’s sexuality was an open secret.
How is ‘unwatchable’ Dahmer the no.1 show?
This series about a real-life killer who drills holes in people’s skulls could not be more gruesome. What does it say about viewers that it is trending as No.1 on Netflix?
Mind game of wits and wills
The impressive cast of this cop show turned psychological family drama will reel you in.
Home brew hero
Chickie Donohue risked his life to deliver beer to his friends fighting in Vietnam. Fifty-five years later his story has been made into a movie.
Never-ending stories good enough to tell over and over again
Hungry streamers are cannibalising books, blockbuster films and even other TV shows as demand for serial drama surges.
Gripping drama recalls Bali terror
The horror of the 2002 Bali bombings and the aftermath is graphically dramatised in a new true-crime series.
Frantic call from the past
A young worker in a call centre receives a cry for help that is all too close to home in new BBC drama The Control Room.
‘Beyond disrespectful’: Warne’s daughter hits out at Nine
A furious Brooke Warne slams Channel 9 after it was announced the network will be making an unauthorised biopic about the cricketing legend.
Days of Our Lives’ 57-year run ends in move online
For the first time since 1965, the US soap opera did not appear on NBC this week, as it made the switch to a streaming platform.
‘My rapist thanked me afterwards’
He escaped a career as a doctor for a life in comedy, then left his wife for a man. But it was on a trip to NZ that Adam Kay was almost brought undone.
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