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  • David Bromley sprays paint towards the camera

    ‘David Bromley runs this town’: are there hidden depths to the popular, divisive Australian artist?

    If you think you’ve never seen his work: you definitely have. A documentary about the ubiquitous painter reveals the tragedy behind his compulsive creation
  • Celeste Barber

    The Way We Wore: Celeste Barber’s ABC docuseries takes on Australian fashion’s hits and gaffes

    The three-part series serves as a beginner’s guide to an undervalued industry and argues Australians have always had a sense of style
  • Composite image featuring Alison and Rowan from The Great British Bake Off, Lego Masters, The Great British Sewing Bee, Britain's Best Woodworker and The Great Pottery Throwdown

    Pottery, woodwork and The Great British Bake Off: how joyful gentle hobbies took over television

    Fourteen seasons in, Bake Off has inspired an entire extended TV universe, where kind people showcase their passions and inspire us to pursue our own
  • Olivia Swann and Todd Lasance in NCIS: Sydney

    NCIS: Sydney – its take on Australia is all pubs, Aukus and murderous snakes

    It’s the first time the long-running franchise has set a series outside the US – and, aside from alarmingly frequent naval deaths, the show streaming on Paramount+ is having a lot of fun
  • A screenshot from Pedestrian's new TV channel of milk being poured into a woman's mouth that's full of breakfast cereal

    Welcome to Pedestrian TV, Australia’s new youth channel. Warning: it just might break your brain

    The 24/7 programming toggles between surreal and profane sketches and alt-comedy clips, in an experience best suited to the very stoned
  • Michael Gudinski and Kylie Minogue in 1994.

    Ego: The Michael Gudinski Story – a portrait of a legendary promoter (and self-promoter)

    Featuring everyone from Kylie Minogue to Ed Sheeran, a new documentary celebrates the late Mushroom Records founder who was both ruthless businessman and ultimate fan
  • A man and a woman sunbathing in Triangle of Sadness

    From Triangle of Sadness to Below Deck: why we love watching super-yachts that sink the rich

    In a recent boom of chaos-at-sea entertainment, the 1% get the comeuppance they so often avoid on land. And it’s delicious
  • Composite image of Puss in Boots, Jenna Ortega as Wednesday Addams and Alisha Weir as Matlida

    From Wednesday and Matilda to NYE fireworks: the best things for children to watch this weekend

    Exhausted by the festive season? You’re not alone. Here’s a bunch of films and streams to keep kids of all ages occupied around Australia
  • Marc Fennell stands behind a crown set with an enormous round diamond that sits on a pedestal in a darkened room

    Stuff the British Stole: Marc Fennell’s TV series wades headfirst into colonial quagmires

    The hit ABC podcast makes the leap to the screen with objects that speak directly to the current upheavals in the UK’s corridors of power
  • Dora and Phillip in Old People's Home for Teenagers.

    Old People’s Home for Teenagers review – I’m not crying, you’re crying

    In a new iteration of the hit show, older adults are brought together with teens for an experiment that highlights the vulnerabilities of both groups – and of us all
  • Stephanie Wood, whose Australian Story episode, Fake, aired on the ABC on 14 March 2022

    ‘He cast himself as a Bear Grylls-type hero’: what makes us vulnerable to online dating cons?

    An Australian Story episode on online dating con artists gave reviewer Jenny Valentish a jolt: she’d once been duped by a guy like this too
  • A still from Lake Mungo, 2008.

    Lake Mungo: has Australia completely forgotten about its scariest and best homegrown thriller?

    Little trace is left of this 2008 indie movie in its home country, despite it developing a cult following overseas for being truly terrifying
  • Shaad D'Souza

    Have You Been Paying Attention?: how the TV quiz show became appointment viewing

    Shaad D'Souza
    Imbued with a refreshing sense of fatalism, this strange, frothy show has no bearing on the world outside. Shaad D’Souza couldn’t ask for anything more
  • Hi, Mom.

    I took my parents to see the Chinese film Hi, Mom. I wasn’t prepared for the tears

    Bec Zhuang
    As the credits rolled on Jia Ling’s hit comedy, Bec Zhuang saw her father crying for one of the first times in her life
  • Below Deck cast in season seven

    I turned to reality TV to escape during the pandemic – until reality caught up

    Wendy Syfret
    Of everything the pandemic has taken, shows like Below Deck deserve the least of your tears. But the value of soothing television shouldn’t be dismissed
  • Erik Thomson as chef Easton West in Aftertaste

    From Burnt to Aftertaste: why can't we get past the 'angry white male chef'?

    The ABC’s new comedy may not be a redemptive tale but surely it’s time we gave our food fictions a bit more diversity and hope?
  • Tennis player Nick Kyrgios on ABC TV’s new show, Reputation Rehab

    Reputation Rehab: can reality TV rescue public figures from a lifetime of cancellation?

    From Nick Krygios to Abbie Chatfield, the ABC’s new show aims to give makeovers to those maligned by the public
  • Stuart Harrison, Milton Terrace, Sydney, in a still from Restoration Australia’s third season

    Restoration Australia: an easy watch about heritage glow-ups or another coat of whitewash?

  • A still from the first episode of SAS Australia, Series 1, 2020, based on the UK program SAS WHO DARES WINS

    SAS Australia: we are all Schapelle Corby crying at Merrick Watts getting punched in the nose

  • Lewis Mulholland and Christie Whelan Browne in Loving Captivity

    Loving Captivity: a sweet, tech-savvy web series about love and dating in quarantine

    Christie Whelan Browne and Lewis Mulholland star in a refreshingly innovative – and optimistic – pandemic show
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