Sometimes throwing everything you have at a show only makes for a louder crash when it fails.

There's never been so much good TV. But how on Earth are you supposed to find the time to watch it all?

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60 Minutes has continued its self-destructive tick-tock, tick-tock in 2016 by pushing the "detonate" button with a story on Roxy Jacenko.

This is what the prime-time schedule looks like when you've run out of cat videos.

The second half of 2016 has plenty of strong dramas to counter-balance the sugar-rush of competition shows we've seen so far this year. Here are 11 of the best.

The new season of ABC conspiracy thriller The Code casts Canberra in a shadowy light. 

Apart from working two days as a chippie, Andy Sutherland and his mate Ben had no renovation experience. Until they were cast on The Block.

The Seven Network looks set to finish the 17 days of the Games with a feather in its cap and not too much red ink on its ledger.

In Genova, Colin Firth is handed the perfect screen role.

Line of Duty season 2 knits a fiendish plot.

Game of Thrones and Tunnel actor Stephen Dillane admits he doesn't have the stomach for the brutality of the shows he makes.

What presenter Ben Milbourne lacks in polish he makes up for with enthusiasm.

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The finale was disappointing for a multitude of fans over the number of questions left unanswered, with no guarantee of a second season from Foxtel.

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The show has enlisted both FBI detectives and forensic experts who threaten to blow the lid on the 20-year-old unsolved murder.

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Wednesday night's episode showed just how manufactured reactions and emotions on the Network Ten reality show have become.

Once upon a time when an actor was swept up in a scandal and sacked, he would withdraw into the shadows and hope to ride the storm out.

At 71, Kerry Vincent is the unlikely poster girl of an even more unlikely TV genre: cake decorating.

Judy Davis to play legendary Hollywood gossip columnist Hedda Hopper

The show's first same-sex wedding provides plenty of drama but that's far from the only reason to watch the third season of Married At First Sight.

It's a far cry from the romantic impression created by sweeping gowns, extravagant dates and a hunky bloke. Former contestant Megan Marx describes appearing on The Bachelor Australia as 'super, super weird'.

Homeland fans can relax: a sixth season is due in January and Quinn is alive.

Adriano Zumbo is back on screens with his own show in Just Desserts, where 12 amateur dessert-makers compete for a $100,000 prize.

British actor Kit Harington has revealed his initial disappointment over his character's development after being brought back from the dead.

Is the answer to the imminent hole in our television viewing once Game Of Thrones ends George RR Martin's new book series, Wild Cards? It's a bit hard to know since Universal Cable Productions has yet to begin scripting, but science-fiction book nerd Katie Hires has high hopes for the series.