The Nine Network has shored up its panel of judges for the 2017 season of The Voice adding US pop singer Kelly Rowland to the line-up.

Single parents are all the rage on shows such as The Bachelor. But what kind of exploitation does this open their children to?

Between the shopping, the gift-giving and the effort it takes to pull that face which blends pleasant delight and charmed indifference, it goes without saying that Christmas is the most stressful time of the year.

Here are our picks for the best TV episodes of the year. It was a tall order to pick just 10.

Delta Airlines says it ejected YouTube star Adam Saleh because he was shouting, not because he was speaking Arabic, which is what he claimed.

Playing Donald Trump on Saturday Night Live is as much censure as impersonation, and he only gets paid $1400 each show, Alec Baldwin tells Sarah Maslin Nir.

Actress Sophie Turner said her character would be calculating in the new season after being disrespected by her brother Jon Snow.

New Year's Day means one thing only: The Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo.

Before Javier Pena signed on as a consultant to the hit Netflix TV show Narcos he made one thing very clear to the producers.

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It's a hard sell even when set to the theme of ABC's 'Play School' and dressed up in tinsel. Luckily Sammy J delivers plenty of mirth.

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The "non-ratings period" is the ideal time for late-bloomers to start streaming.

Our pick of the best of what's on the small screen this week

But where are TV's holiday season classics, like A Charlie Brown Christmas?

Forget about keeping Carols by Candlelight "fresh"; in fact, can we have Ray back?

"Let's end the division and change the date," the campaign's backers say.

Dan Debuf and Maz Compton are moving on after a failed tilt at Sydney's difficult breakfast timeslot.

"I'm sure we'll be down there to abuse the Aussies at some point", promises Grand Tour co-host Richard Hammond.

The Logies can be interesting and marquee names don't guarantee a hit (even on Netflix); what we learnt watching TV in 2016.

An unexpected deadline means I need to postpone lunch with Father Bob. When I phone to explain, he doesn't pull any punches: "I'll probably be dead by then."

At the height of his acting career, the British actor has cited Donald Trump and Brexit among the reasons he has left Hollywood to focus on political activism.

Robert Durst told Los Angeles prosecutors in an interview last year that he was high on methamphetamines during portions of his infamous interview in the 2015 HBO miniseries The Jinx, according to court papers released Friday.

Netflix's new cryptic drama, The OA, arrived almost out of the blue on the streaming service as an end-of-year surprise with little publicity bar a tantalising trailer.

If 2016 felt like a punch in the gut, well you're not alone.

Belinda Eu was the victim of an online dating scam, but sharing her tale via a puppet has given her the thing she craves most – closure.