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Brooke Boney announces departure from Today show
Boney has been part of the Today team for five years.
- by Osman Faruqi
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Steve Coogan goes where few actors would dare as sex predator Jimmy Savile
It takes a very brave actor to play a man as irredeemable as the late Jimmy Savile, but Steve Coogan is up to the task.
- by Karl Quinn
ABC’s James Valentine announces cancer diagnosis, will be off-air
The Afternoons presenter shared his diagnosis with listeners on Thursday.
- by Nell Geraets
How a 90-year-old TV legend wooed Ricky Martin
Carol Burnett joins Kristen Wiig and Alison Janney in the colourful soap Palm Royale, which is based on the best-selling book Mr & Mrs American Pie.
- by Michael Idato
At the movies with TV’s most unconventional everyman
From his very first job interview, Jason ‘Jabba’ Davis’ career has been marked by a certain disregard for the way things are supposed to be done.
- by Ben Pobjie
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Retribution is a tangled web in this compelling Scottish crime drama
Fifteen years after the death of her son, Anna Dean (Kelly Macdonald) is fixated on the notion that justice has not prevailed.
- by Debi Enker
New Drag Race Down Under host Michelle Visage teases 'mind-blowing' new season
In a recent interview with 9Entertainment, Michelle Visage expressed her excitement and gratitude for being chosen as the new host of Drag Race Down Under Season 4.
Chemistry can make or break a great romcom – and One Day doesn’t have it
I wish I shared the passion that others seem to have for the new Netflix adaptation of David Nicholl’s book starring Ambika Mod and Leo Woodall.
- by Debi Enker
Wet, cold, miserable and totally unmissable: Alone Australia is back
For its second season, Alone has crossed the ditch to New Zealand. But while the locale has changed, the challenges the 10 Australian contestants face haven’t.
- by Karl Quinn
‘It’s so unlikely, yet so perfect’: Wild child Robert Irwin calls the shots
He’s been on camera for almost his entire life, but stepping into the co-hosting role on I’m a Celebrity … Get Me Out of Here is a whole new adventure.
- by Karl Quinn
Why we’re still obsessed with this small-town mystery
How a tiny outback suburb inspired an award-winning podcast, an HBO documentary, and a TV series “inspired by true events”.
- by Thomas Mitchell