You'd be forgiven for switching on The Bachelorette on Thursday night and mistaking it for a re-run of Ben Stiller's classic, Zoolander.

Stars such as Richard Schiff, Allison Janney, Bradley Whitford, Dule Hill, Joshua Malina, and Mary McCormack will work for the White House once more.

The sequel to the eighties series will follow Thomas Magnum's daughter, Lily, as she returns to Hawaii to take up the mantle of her father's PI firm.

Fijians were warned to stay indoors while other residents headed for evacuation shelters. And what were Survivor contestants doing? Trying to make do with a tarp.

After 19 months of analysis, Netflix knows the moment when its millions of users got hooked on shows such as Stranger Things, Narcos and The Get Down.

The 'business mogul' gave Georgia Love a Tiffany bracelet. But she sent it back - with a note.

One Nation senator Malcolm Roberts has accused commentator Waleed Aly of condoning terrorism in a live television interview on The Project that appeared to leave the show's hosts fuming.

​The lawyer for the family of slain child beauty queen JonBenet Ramsey denounced a CBS documentary theorizing she was killed by her brother, Burke, as a 'false and unprofessional television attack' and threatened to sue the network for libel.

Letter of the week

Is The Code broken? The second series of the ABC's contemporary thriller, which has moved to Thursday nights after a strongly received debut on Sunday evenings in 2014, has shed viewers over the first half of its current six episode run.

The best of what's on the small screen this week

The new series is the latest in a growing list of TV dramas based on movies, not all of them terribly old.

During a backstage interview at this year's Emmys, the 67-year-old Game of Thrones author revealed there was a wealth of 'fake history' to mine.

Now Virginia Hausseger has vacated the chair, who will be the next to sit in it?

You can keep The Dame away from the ceremony, but you won't keep her away from her award.

Entertainer Jimmy Barnes was sent death threats after he asked anti-immigration groups such as Reclaim Australia to stop using his music at their rallies, he says.

The latest Netflix documentary tackles sex-assault cases among high school students and the social-media bullying that can follow.

After yesterday's ceremony, actors of colour have won as many Emmys in major categories in the past two years as they had in the whole decade before.

John Oliver was in no mood for Angela Bishop's line of questioning after winning his first Emmy Award on Monday.

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Politicians beware: take on the Jimmy and Magda tag-team at your peril.

You could be forgiven for saying it was a case for Sherlock Holmes.

It was a smooth telecast, even a safe one, but it was also a night for Australian glory as our own Ben Mendelsohn won outstanding supporting actor in a drama series for his work on the Netflix drama Bloodline.

A new CBS docu-series premiering on Monday night threatens to blow open the unresolved murder of JonBenet Ramsey.

Canberra insurance broker Ali King is in the grand final of Zumbo's Just Desserts.