Culture
TV & radio
The controversial lawsuits that could end reality TV as we know it
Chaos has always been what drives reality TV but it could also be the reason the genre, as we know it, might be over.
- by Nell Geraets
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Can 12 weeks change your life? An Olympian and his son are put to the test
Duncan Armstrong and his son Tom put longevity science to the test in Dr Nick Coatsworth and Tracey Grimshaw’s medical show Do You Want to Live Forever?
- by Bridget McManus
Opinion
Film & TV production
What makes Bridgerton so bingeable? It holds men to women’s beauty standards
The one thing we’ve learned over decades of watching actors arrive on the world stage and be labelled heart throbs is that the burden of attractiveness rests much more easily on men than it does women.
- by Zoya Patel
This under-the-radar Netflix show is ‘like Monkey on steroids’
Critics have likened this humble detective turned judge to a Chinese Sherlock Holmes. If you liked a certain vintage 1980s series as a kid, this is for you.
- by Stephen Brook
Netflix made us wait a month for more Bridgerton. Was it worth it?
The first half of season three reached all sorts of heights. But with the same old secret and a resoundingly boring man now at the centre of the story, how can it continue pleasing us?
- by Nell Geraets
‘Burning rage’: Is this Australia’s answer to I May Destroy You?
Lucy Coleman wanted to put a different kind of woman on Australian screens. She just didn’t expect it to happen this way.
- by Louise Rugendyke
Gracie Otto on making a documentary about her dad's dementia
Gracie Otto explains what it was like for her father Barry Otto to receive his dementia diagnosis while she was making Stan Original Documentary, Revealed: Otto by Otto on Today Extra.
ABC banks on Catherine Murphy and Tony Armstrong to rescue Monday nights
The popular pair will co-host Monday’s Experts, a sports entertainment panel show that is taking the place of Q+A.
- by Louise Rugendyke
The remake of Presumed Innocent contends with fascinating, new perspectives
With a script by David E. Kelley, Scott Turow’s 1987 bestseller has been cleverly remade with Jake Gyllenhaal as flawed family man and compromised prosecutor ‘Rusty’ Sabich.
- by Craig Mathieson
‘I felt this glass ceiling’: Why this star had to leave Australia to make her name
She’s been acting since her teens but Cleopatra Coleman finally gets her star turn in the riveting new series Clipped.
- by Robert Moran
Dumb and dumber: These characters are why TV is sometimes called the idiot box
Deliberate stupidity has fallen out of fashion on TV, but we can still celebrate the brilliance of these seven buffoons.
- by Ben Pobjie