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22 Nov 2016 - 4:52pm

First Contact interview: Ray Martin

Regular contributor to The Guide Jenna Martin recently sat down with her father, Ray Martin, to discuss hosting the second series of SBS factual series First Contact.
23 Nov 2016 - 4:15pm

What you need to know for the return of Vikings season 4 - Part 2

Before you embark on an epic voyage into the new season, refresh yourself with a cup of mead and these updates
With the second half of season 4 of Vikings ready to debut on SBS from Wednesday 11 January at 8:30pm, it seems like a good time for a refresher on what's been happening on the show. Saving you the trouble of loading up Wikipedia, here's w...
23 Nov 2016 - 3:11pm

Five Things You Mightn't Know About the Sony Hack

When Sony became the target of a serious cyber hack, the world watched on with fascination as the large company was attacked by a political power with an axe to grind.
In November 2014, Sony Pictures Entertainment became more than just a film studio, or a subsidiary of the multinational technology and media company responsible for Betamax, the Walkman and the Playstation over the years. The organisation ...
23 Nov 2016 - 2:50pm

Why all of your favourite movies are becoming TV shows

It feels like a land-grab with TV networks desperately gobbling up movies for small screen adaptations. Sarah Ward explains why they're suddenly so interested.
Less than a week after the trailer for T2: Trainspotting asked audiences to choose life all over again, and only months before the long-awaited sequel to Danny Boyle’s 1996 film starts reaching cinemas, author Irvine Welsh let slip that mo...
23 Nov 2016 - 1:34pm

The miracle of The Life of Brian

Considering the production issues making the movie and the protests over its subject, it's a bona fide miracle the film ever saw release.
Blessed are the cheese makers! It’s a miracle Monty Python’s The Life of Brian got made. It’s the film that started as a joke, had its funding pulled a week before production and was met with the fury of nearly every religious institution ...
23 Nov 2016 - 1:12pm

Reefer Madness: Laughing at the old marijuana propaganda films

The marijuana scare propaganda of the early days of cinema.
Throughout the 30s and 40s marijuana was presented as the scourge of the western world, despite the fact that most people had no idea what the plant actually was, or what it was used for. The reasons for initially banning it are complicate...
22 Nov 2016 - 3:14pm

SBS network stylist Lesley Crawford on States of Undress

SBS stylist Lesley Crawford watched the first episode of SBS VICELAND fashion show States of Undress.
So many fashion shows often keep their hosts at a distance from the audience, like an aloof sense of cool is the only way to present fashion. I love the choice of Hayley Gates as presenter for this show. Her interview style and approach is...
22 Nov 2016 - 3:45pm

Pass me your hyperspanner, we're building Star Trek

Building Star Trek is THE doco for the fan who has seen ALL the Star Trek docos
Star Trek first aired in 1966 and was cancelled after three seasons. In 2016, the show celebrated its 50th anniversary in the wake of multiple television iterations of the series, an animated series, a film franchise and a sexier rebooted ...
22 Nov 2016 - 4:52pm

First Contact interview: Ray Martin

Regular contributor to The Guide Jenna Martin recently sat down with her father, Ray Martin, to discuss hosting the second series of SBS factual series First Contact.
I live ten minutes away from my family home and I reckon I’ve seen my Dad 20 times this year. Because my Dad- Ray Martin- is non-stop. At 72 he’s busier than ever, in and out of the city and the country for work and play. He’s spent most o...
21 Nov 2016 - 4:29pm

Celebrate World TV Day with SBS

All you need is a comfy chair, a television...and probably some snacks
Mark it in your calendar: November 21 is World Television Day, according to a body no less prestigious than the United Nations. Of course, they’re not talking up telly because of the frankly startling range of reality shows or sitcom rerun...