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Jean Smart on her biggest fear while filming Hacks’ latest, critically acclaimed, season
Like the character she plays in Hacks, the 72-year-old actor is enjoying a late-career surge, but nothing will stop her from hitting the supermarket.
- by Michael Idato
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Australian drinking water now allows a carcinogen at 140 times the US rate
Twenty-year-old Amara Strande’s deathbed crusade pushed the US to slash the levels of cancer-linked forever chemicals considered safe in drinking water.
- by Carrie Fellner
Why Carrie Fellner spent nearly a decade chasing the story of ‘forever chemicals’
From Williamtown, to Minnesota in the US and Wreck Bay on the NSW South Coast, Fellner has tracked the toxic trail of destruction left by a corporate giant.
Mark Ruffalo on the ‘evil’ company that poisoned every person on the planet – then kept it secret
The Hollywood actor will feature in a new Stan documentary exposing how 3M’s “forever chemicals” have sparked a worldwide contamination catastrophe.
- by Michael Idato
The best new shows to stream in April
Our guide to the best of what’s on the streamers and free-to-air this month.
- by Craig Mathieson
Why we’re still obsessed with this small-town mystery
How a tiny outback suburb inspired an award-winning podcast, an HBO documentary, and a TV series “inspired by true events”.
- by Thomas Mitchell
The best TV shows to stream in October
Our guide to the best of what’s on the streamers and free-to-air television.
- by Craig Mathieson
Half-yearly report card: the best pop culture of 2023 (so far)
What you should have watched, listened to, read and clicked on in the first half of the year.
- by Robert Moran and Melanie Kembrey
From Game of Thrones to playing a ‘Ten Pound Pom’: Faye Marsay is a star on the rise
The actor didn’t have to reach far to work out how to play a young post-war mother. “The character reminded me of my grandma, Mavis,” she says.
- by Latika Bourke
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Streaming
It’s sold 12 million copies. Now The Tattooist of Auschwitz is coming to TV
The bestselling novel The Tattooist of Auschwitz is coming to the screen. And the woman adapting it expects controversy to follow.
- by Karl Quinn
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Streaming
Will the government finally force Netflix and Co. to make Australian content?
Much is expected of the federal government’s National Cultural Policy announcement on Monday. But one big question is around the future of streaming in Australia.
- by Karl Quinn
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