Mr Selfridge is still a man about town, cheap television on Discovery and a classic French movie.

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.

Zoe Foster Blake was initially optimistic then lost hope that her bestseller The Wrong Girl would make it onto TV, she tells Kate Waterhouse.

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.

• ANALYSIS

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.

Unlike the former American football player, it was The People v. O. J. Simpson that cleaned up at the 68th annual Emmy Awards.

"We are united in liking each other and respect each other," Andrew Bolt says.

The face of ABC TV News in Canberra has quit.

• COMMENT

I know little of the Real Housewives franchises, beyond the basic "follow some women who aren't really housewives with a camera" premise.

As Aidan Turner explains, his character might not go looking for trouble, but he always seems to find it.

Jamie Lee Curtis can't seem to escape hospitals. When she made her film in debut, in 1978, playing a serial killer's almost victim Laurie Strode in John Carpenter's horror masterpiece Halloween, it was followed up in 1981 with Halloween II, a sequel which deposited the bruised, battered and stalked Laurie into a hospital. Now, as the second season of the horror comedy/drama Scream Queens unfurls itself, Curtis finds herself back in the hospital ward.

• ANALYSIS

Public opinion on the ABC's Howard on Menzies: Building Modern Australia documentary has mostly been damning, with many taking to Twitter to suggest that former Prime Minister John Howard is rewriting history.