​Ben Mendelsohn has pulled off a shock win at the Emmys, snatching an award from under the noses of redhot Game of Thrones favourites Kit Harington and Peter Dinklage.

As the critically exalted television series Transparent begins its third season, its genesis – that excruciating, illuminating, beautiful moment when Mort Pfefferman (Jeffrey Tambor) transformed into Maura – seems ever further and further away.

The Wrong Girl could well be 2016's answer to The Secret Life Of Us.

Just like the outcast he plays on the plot-twisting TV drama Bloodline, Ben Mendelsohn will be a rank outsider at the 68th Emmy Awards.

Viewers weren't laughing after the presidential hopeful appeared as a guest on the Tonight Show.

The Emmy Awards this year will feature a bumper crop of shows and performances worthy of gold.

Tim Verlinden said he has no plans rekindle his romance with Gogan now that Strahan has chosen Alex Nation.

A trio of design experts embark on the considerable challenge of finding Australia's most enviable abodes.

The critically exalted Transparent returns with an elegy about rebirth and mourning.

Fans of The Bachelor Australia have turned on Richie Strahan, calling him an "idiot" for choosing single mother Alex Nation during Thursday's finale.

Former prime minister John Howard has some advice for a prime minister with a one-seat majority.

The director's debut feature, released 30 years ago, is getting the Netflix series treatment.

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When US presidential candidate Donald Trump looks in the mirror, he says he sees a man of 35 looking back at him.

Richie Strahan has declared his love for Melbourne single mother Alexandra Nation in a surprise ending to The Bachelor Australia.

This true-crime tale is a cracking hour. Which is a shame, because it should have been six.

We can't be certain about either chaos theory or the laws of inevitability but as Nic Cage's teacher reckons, "shit happens".

Australian-born dancer, choreographer and director Wade Robson claims he was groomed by the Jackson organisation from the age of five.

TV industry news: Family Ties heads to the stage; networks push back against license fees, jobs for the less-abled.

He's got a few filming locations under his belt to compare us to but rising star Sean Keenan has fallen well and truly in love with Brisbane.

Skippy, Bert, Gra-Gra ... only Australia could produce television icons with such curious names. As Australian TV turns 60, we've lined up 20 questions to test your mettle.

The US Olympian who concocted a story about being robbed in Rio is shamed by the two men who stormed the stage during a live TV appearance.

Lately it's seemed a case of another week, another Netflix original. Surely, they can't all survive? Actually, they can't, as we've just discovered..

Which of the final three potential suitors will be getting the chop?

• COMMENT

As second farewells go it was a decent one, if not as transcendently joyous as the farewell at the end of last season.