Richard Ferguson

Richard Ferguson is the National Chief of Staff for The Australian. Since joining the newspaper in 2016, he has been a property reporter, a Melbourne reporter, and regularly penned Cut and Paste and Strewth. Richard – winner of the 2018 News Award Young Journalist of the Year – has covered the 2016, 2019 and 2022 federal polls, the Covid-19 pandemic, and he was on the ground in London for Brexit and Boris Johnson’s 2019 UK election victory.

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bringing sexy backReview

Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story. (L to R) Sam Clemmett as Young Brimsley, India Amarteifio as Young Queen Charlotte in episode 102 of Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story. Cr. Liam Daniel/Netflix ÃÂ© 2023

Charles and Camilla’s affair has nothing on this

Netflix’s latest royal romp has landed and — unlike The Crown — this one manages to make royals look sexy.

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STREAMINGReview

Love Me Season 2 cast members, (L-R) Bob Morley, Bojana Novakovic, William Lodder, Heather Mitchell and Hugo Weaving. Picture: Supplied by Binge

Death comes to the best of families

The power of death and its weird, wonderful entanglement with romance and family and new life, is still the driving force behind Binge’s gorgeous Melbourne drama Love Me.

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‘the crimes of colonialism’Review

Annabel Crabb with The Ferrones family from ABC documentary Back In Time for the Corner Shop.

What dirt does Annabel Crabb have on this poor family?

Back in Time returns — but how far can the ABC drag this genre of historical suburban cosplay? Plus, Disney’s new series will have you believing in divorce in a second.

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family’s dirty secretsReview

From left, Paul, Margaret and Alex Murdaugh. Supplied

Legal lion Murdaugh guilty of killing wife and black sheep son

Few crime serials hit Netflix’s top 10 as a verdict comes down. But like the facts in the strange case of disgraced lawyer Alex Murdaugh, you couldn’t script this.

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pommy homageReview

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Poor, ugly people being miserable? We can’t get enough

It’s one of the great mysteries of British television history. Was Nolly Gordon sacked for being a diva, or just too popular? We might finally have the answer.

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unmissableReview

Diane Morgan as Philomena Cunk for Cunk on Earth. London, 11th December 2021. Photography by Jonathan Browning

‘Historian’s’ exquisite BBC mockery blows everything away

Complete ignorance, complete prejudice, and all the self-awareness of a brick. Diane Morgan is turning history on its head. But a warning: You’ll laugh so hard you may injure an organ | WATCH

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it’s a dogReview

A woke reboot that’s actually offensive

Kids’ classic Scooby Doo now features an Indian lesbian, violent murders, gratuitous nudity and ‘sharp’ social commentary. What on earth were they thinking?

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