Keeping up with Kyle MacLachlan
The 64-year-old Twin Peaks actor talks putting on his investigative journalist cap, and starring in Prime Video’s upcoming adaption of the video game franchise Fallout.
Television
This Ripley gets to the chilly heart of Highsmith
Andrew Scott stars as the talented grifter in Netflix’s gorgeous eight-part adaptation of the Patricia Highsmith’s 1955 novel.
What’s in store for Heartbreak High’s ’moral centre’?
Chika Ikogwe – who stars as Hartley High’s beloved teacher Jojo Obah – says season two of the Australian-made Netflix smash hit will surprise.
The Australian actor Robert Downey Jr saw ‘become a star’
Things are about to change for Australia’s dazzling Hoa Xuande. But at 36, the star of HBO’s upcoming The Sympathizer is anything but an overnight success story.
Proof that sophisticated TV storytelling is still going strong
David Chase, creator of The Sopranos, recently declared his hit series’ 25th anniversary should be ‘a funeral’ for the industry instead of a celebration, that TV had been dumbed down by streaming. Maybe he should watch this.
‘No one knew where the jokes were coming from’
The death of comedic TV writer Mike McColl Jones truly ends an era when absolutely anything could have happened next.
5 things to watch this week
Who could blame Sally Wainwright for wanting to write something so fizzingly fun after all the trauma in her hit cop show? Plus, a slept-on Steven Soderbergh comedy.
How Alone Australia gets made
Back for a second season, the producer of the hit reality survival series explains how the show ‘goes against every instinct you have’.
The Wire creator slams ‘submoronic’ bridge collapse conspiracy theorists
The former Baltimore journalist and creator of the hit HBO show called out Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene for suggesting that the collapse of Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge was ‘intentional’.
Four things worth watching this weekend
Whether you’re looking for a sci-fi spectacle or Cillian Murphy in his most romantic role yet, your long weekend watching is sorted.
The biggest thing in TV is coming — and we’ve had a sneak peek
The undisputed number one children’s show in the world is about to drop a feature-length episode and spoiler alert: there will be tears. Melanie Zanetti – the voice behind Bluey’s supercool mum Chilli – takes us behind the scenes.
‘Profoundly entertaining’: Why the government can’t be believed
The Octopus Murders will ensnare you in a bewildering tangle of evidence, political ideas, and delicious scuttlebutt. It’s dark and unsettling and profoundly entertaining.
Cillian Murphy ‘definitely’ returning for Peaky Blinders film
The Oppenheimer Oscar-winner will reprise his role as Tommy Shelby in the film spin-off of the hit BBC gangster series.
Do you ever wonder if you’re becoming Larry David?
No ‘stop and chats’. The stare-down technique. Larry Davidisms are now baked into society, and fans suggest the influence will be enduring – even when many people will never get the joke.
If a bot made a Guy Ritchie gangster series, this would be it
Vinnie Jones? Irrelevant boxing matches? Cannabis? Tick, tick, tick — this Netflix caper is Ritchie by numbers.
Cop it sweet: Aussie stage for Irish GoT star
He loves his life of acting but Ian McElhinney hated his shock death in Game of Thrones.
Sick Jimmy Savile gets the Coogan treatment
Britain’s best-known presenter of TV programs for young people was simply one of the most evil men who ever lived. Does funnyman Steve Coogan capture the extent of his depravity?
Scandi noir queen delves into dark side of Denmark
Sofie Grabol, the Danish star of The Killing, is back in the hard-hitting drama Prisoner, our new crime fix.
This leaves Bridgerton in the dust
Julianne Moore is on delectable form as a scheming 17th century social climber in Mary & George
How hard is it for a relationship counsellor to practise what she preaches?
I’ve had to acknowledge that being in a lifelong relationship with a soulmate hasn’t happened with me. It took a long time for me to go, actually, that’s not a failure.
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