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Actor, director, producer and writer, Graeme Blundell has been associated with many pivotal moments in Australian theatre, film and television. He has directed over 100 plays, acted in about the same number, and appeared in more than 40 films and hundreds of hours of television. He is also a prolific reporter, and is the national television critic for The Australian. Graeme presents movies on Foxtel’s Fox Classics, and presents film review show Screen on Foxtel’s arts channel with Margaret Pomeranz.

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This cult classic is finally available to binge watch

Homicide: Life on the Street still looks innovative and only slightly dated – and is as dramatically satisfying as it was first time around.

Graeme Blundell

FIRST WATCHReview

Talk show host Jerry Springer talks to his guests and audience on the set of The Jerry Springer Show. The show is known for its sensational topics and the fights and arguments that frequently break out among the guests. (Photo by ÃÂ© Ralf-Finn Hestoft/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)

Shameless, heartless and utterly engrossing talk TV

The Jerry Springer Show was tacky at best, tawdry at worst … but there was a liberatory streak.

Graeme Blundell

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AMERICAN PRIMEVAL. Taylor Kitsch as Isaac in Episode 101 of American Primeval. Cr. Matt Kennedy/NETFLIX © 2023

This series should be subtitled: ‘Hell came to the promised land’

This savagely violent survival tale is set within one of the more pitiless and uncompromising periods of American history.

Graeme Blundell

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Missing You. Rosalind Elezar as Kat Donovan in Missing You. Cr. Vishal Sharma/Netflix © 2024.

Return of the long lost ex

Netflix’s twisty Harlan Coben thriller Missing You takes a swipe at love with a woman tracking down her missing fiance on a dating app.

Graeme Blundell

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Jamie Sives and Mark Bonnar in a scene from the TV series Guilt. Supplied by BBC Australia.

A thrilling end to Scotland’s top drama

Shetland’s Mark Bonnar and Game of Thrones’ Jamie Sives return as brothers in Guilt, a wicked parable about the futility of trying to outrun your own past.

Graeme Blundell

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LOCKERBIE -- Episode 101 -- Pictured: Colin Firth as Jim Swire -- (Photo by: Graeme Hunter/SKY/Carnival)

Flight 103: there have been few disasters as confronting as this

This series, starring Colin Firth, charts a man’s dogged quest for the truth about his daughter’s death in the UK’s deadliest terrorist attack.

Graeme Blundell

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Vince Vaughn’s Monkey Business is black comedy at its very best

While away the hours with a pulpy mystery series set in ‘a sunny place for shady people’ and scene-stealing wildlife.

Graeme Blundell

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2024’s TV was surprisingly good. This year will be even better

Old favourites like The Bear, Poker Face, The Lincoln Lawyer, The Last of Us and White Lotus are set to return – but there are surprises in store, too.

Graeme Blundell

FIRST WATCHReview

First Watch: these are the best shows of 2024

The best TV shows to grace our screens in 2024

Rising high above the writers’ and actors’ strikes, streamers delivered a dizzying array of spectacular shows. Add these to your list for summer holiday viewing.

Graeme Blundell

FIRST WATCHReview

Michael Fassbender in The Agency. Picture: Luke Varley/Paramount+

Spy stories are everywhere on TV. Here’s another for your must-watch list

The Bureau remains one of the most viewed, commented upon and appreciated French TV series throughout the world. This new series – with a stellar cast including Michael Fassbender, Jeffrey Wright, Jodie Turner-Smith and Richard Gere – is based on it, and will grip you.

Graeme Blundell

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