Books & Arts
24 July 2019
Television | Does The Loudest Voice let the former Fox News supremo off too lightly?
Books & Arts
19 July 2019
Television | Etched in Bone tells its story with restraint and empathy
Books & Arts
25 June 2019
Television | Four decades on, Soviet scientist Valery Legasov is an unlikely figure for our times
Books & Arts
11 June 2019
Television | Do even the best interviews go far enough?
Books & Arts
28 May 2019
Television | The award-winning comedy series moves back into the mainstream
Books & Arts
6 May 2019
Television | Manhunt captures the strengths of a dogged but gripping police investigation
Books & Arts
17 April 2019
Television | Bigger thinking is needed on the small screen
Books & Arts
26 March 2019
Television | Waleed Aly’s encounters with Scott Morrison and Jacinda Ardern highlighted the strengths and weaknesses of the political interview
Books & Arts
18 March 2019
Television | The different focus and register of season two of Secret City reflects a shift in Canberra itself
Books & Arts
12 March 2019
Television | A new series releases Australia’s past from the familiar black-and-white
Books & Arts
6 February 2019
Television | ABC1’s new current affairs line-up needs to break the mould
Books & Arts
18 January 2019
Television | Mike Bartlett’s take on newspaper rivalry has a special kind of fascination
Books & Arts
24 December 2018
Television | The best three series of 2018
Books & Arts
23 December 2018
Television | The BBC’s big-budget remake illustrates how perspectives have changed
Books & Arts
6 December 2018
Television | This carefully paced adaptation of My Brilliant Friend brings a corner of Naples to life
National Affairs
9 November 2018
As a politician, the former prime minister remains an enigma that Q&A couldn’t crack
Books & Arts
26 October 2018
Television | Doctor Who meets Broadchurch in its latest incarnation
Books & Arts
8 October 2018
Television | Awkward questions are raised by A Very English Scandal and The Assassination of Gianni Versace
Books & Arts
28 August 2018
Television | With just days to gather its material, Four Corners found a way to explore the human impact of power
Books & Arts
9 August 2018
Television | With just one lapse, an exceptional cast has brought to life the anguished world of Edward St Aubyn
Books & Arts
11 July 2018
Television | Behind the stereotypes, ABC TV’s Back Roads reveals a quiet rural revolution
National Affairs
12 June 2018
The man most likely to be Australia’s next prime minister looks best up close
Books & Arts
6 June 2018
Television | The ensemble-driven Mystery Road deserves to be a hit for the ABC
Essays & Reportage
6 June 2018
A wedding, four plays and a TV series — do the British have something to teach us about scrutinising power?
Books & Arts
18 May 2018
Television | In a fraught political environment, The Drum and The Project offer distinctive perspectives
Books & Arts
1 May 2018
Television | Two bold genre-busting crime series meet with mixed success
Books & Arts
19 April 2018
Television | Behind the algorithms, is this just an old-fashioned propaganda outfit with a thick veneer of spin?
Books & Arts
30 March 2018
Television | The crimes might stretch plausibility, but something keeps us watching this prime example of Nordic Noir
From the archive
19 February 2018
Our TV critic reviews the ABC’s two-part documentary Hawke: The Larrikin and the Leader, first screened in February 2018
Books & Arts
15 January 2018
Television | Our reviewer is gripped by SBS’s venture into slow TV
