Film & TV production
After 62 years in showbiz, Ron Howard’s brother Clint is only warming up
Clint Howard has done it all, from Star Trek to Seinfeld. It’s little surprise he’s now a homeless preacher on The Bold and the Beautiful.
- by Ben Pobjie
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How Martin Freeman went from The Office to an intense, troubled cop
Before playing the morally compromised Chris Carson in The Responder – a show full of violence, trauma and moral ambiguity – Freeman was an international star.
- by Ben Pobjie
The dark side of Australian football’s ‘great sporting fairytale’
Featuring Craig Foster and superfan Ian “Dicko” Dickson, Came from Nowhere tracks the rise of divisive A-League club Western Sydney Wanderers.
- by Bridget McManus
One and done: 12 great TV shows that truly were one-season wonders
From My So-Called Life to Firefly, the modern era of TV is littered with shows that were cancelled way too quickly.
- by Craig Mathieson
‘It can be tricky’: Celeste Barber on mocking celebrities now that she is one
To make it even weirder, some of the people she ridiculed in the past have become good friends.
- by Michael Idato
‘I belong in every room I’m in’: The Bridgerton creator on what drives her self-belief
Shonda Rhimes was told to “just make the shows you want to make”. No one was expecting it to be the hugely successful Regency period drama.
- by Decca Aitkenhead
Politics, punk and race: The new TV series examining Britain’s volatile 80s
Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight goes back to the 1980s of his adolescence in his new series This Town, inspired by the rise of the 2Tone music genre.
- by Kylie Northover
‘Out for numero uno’: Anne Edmonds, Lloyd Langford take on Taskmaster
Can Australia’s best-known comedy power couple survive the inspired silliness of Taskmaster Australia?
- by Ben Pobjie
From Cousin Greg to a wonderful WAG, these are the TV spinoffs we’d love to see
If Elsbeth, a character first seen in The Good Wife, can become the star of her own show, then surely the odious Cousin Greg from Succession can too.
- by Debi Enker