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Jane Goodall

Jane Goodall, Inside Story’s TV critic, is an Emeritus Professor with the Writing and Society Research Centre at Western Sydney University. Her latest book is The Politics of the Common Good (NewSouth, 2019).

Books & arts Jane Goodall 2 October 2025 A pacey dramatisation of News International’s phone-hacking and influence-wielding leaves the story necessarily unfinished
Books & arts Jane Goodall 4 June 2025 Two American drama series tip-toe around the country’s plight Books & arts Jane Goodall 27 February 2025 Thirty-five years later, Media Watch needs an overhaul International Jane Goodall 19 December 2024 Whatever’s going on in the American skies, the action on the ground is worth exploring Books & arts Jane Goodall 22 November 2024 The Day of the Jackal and The Diplomat reviewed
Books & arts Jane Goodall 9 September 2024 Drawing on experiences of personal threat, three women probe the world of online conspiracies
Books & arts Jane Goodall 12 August 2024 The influential writer and critic seen through the eyes of two friends Books & arts Jane Goodall 18 July 2024 A British writer and a British star have produced a quintessential story rooted in an American TV tradition Books & arts Jane Goodall 10 May 2024 How a shape-shifting journalist turned the Nazis’ techniques back on them Books & arts Jane Goodall 30 March 2024 A major new series about the postwar world poses the inevitable question: has the cold war returned?
Books & arts Jane Goodall 1 December 2023 Fargo continues to turn expectations upside down
Books & arts Jane Goodall 2 October 2023 Like the desks they sit behind, newsreaders have grown in stature as the medium has evolved Books & arts Jane Goodall 24 August 2023 In its attempt to be light-hearted, Kitchen Cabinet has steered into dangerous waters Books & arts Jane Goodall 27 July 2023 The physicist’s own words provide a commentary on conflicting depictions Books & arts Jane Goodall 23 June 2023 Utopia darkens, but Barack Obama takes a sunnier view of what we do all day
Books & arts Jane Goodall 30 May 2023 Succession’s conclusion highlights a paradox
Books & arts Jane Goodall 19 May 2023 A new breed of advisers is helping bridge TV’s gap between reality and dramatisation Books & arts Jane Goodall 12 April 2023 A provincial professor tries to cut through Books & arts Jane Goodall 14 March 2023 Tanya Plibersek’s biographer makes the case for her “strength of understanding and coolness of judgement” Books & arts Jane Goodall 1 March 2023 Quantity is trumping quality as services compete for viewers
Books & arts Jane Goodall 24 January 2023 A fragment of Edgar Allan Poe’s prose has become a compelling psychological drama
Books & arts Jane Goodall 20 December 2022 With holidays looming, our TV critic reviews three addictive series Books & arts Jane Goodall 22 November 2022 Rationalism and magical thinking contend in The Wonder Books & arts Jane Goodall 25 October 2022 Kenneth Branagh portrays the former PM’s behaviour with startlingly accuracy. But what’s going on behind the eyes? Books & arts Jane Goodall 3 September 2022 Director Dylan River, producer Greer Simpkin and casting director Anousha Zarkesh talk to Inside Story about creating an ensemble with chemistry
Books & arts Jane Goodall 11 December 2021 A thread of wealth, power and celebrity ran through three of 2021’s high-profile season returns
Books & arts Jane Goodall 16 November 2021 Truths, half-truths and ripping yarns come together in Miriam Margolyes’s This Much Is True Books & arts Jane Goodall 27 October 2021 Billed as a horror story, Midnight Mass audaciously explores an isolated community Books & arts Jane Goodall 22 October 2021 Signs suggest the pen might no longer be mightier than the sword Books & arts Jane Goodall 4 October 2021 Do the makers of ABC TV’s Fires have enough critical distance from their subject?