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television
Books & Arts
Twilight of the Golden Age?
Jane Goodall
1 March 2023
Quantity is trumping quality as services compete for viewers
Books & Arts
The beat of a different drum
Jane Goodall
24 January 2023
A fragment of Edgar Allan Poe’s prose has become a compelling psychological drama
Books & Arts
Behaving badly
Jane Goodall
20 December 2022
With holidays looming, our TV critic reviews three addictive series
Books & Arts
A kind of alchemy
Jane Goodall
22 November 2022
Rationalism and magical thinking contend in
The Wonder
Books & Arts
Boris Johnson, outside in
Jane Goodall
25 October 2022
Kenneth Branagh portrays the former PM’s behaviour with startlingly accuracy. But what’s going on behind the eyes?
Essays & Reportage
Hot, wild heart
Eleanor Hogan
24 October 2022
Despite its extremes, Mparntwe Alice Springs still maintains a grip
Essays & Reportage
Return to Bali
Mark Baker
10 October 2022
A former foreign correspondent watches
Bali 2002
Books & Arts
Casting Mystery Road
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
Landscape of chaos
Jane Goodall
11 December 2021
A thread of wealth, power and celebrity ran through three of 2021’s high-profile season returns
National Affairs
Promises, promises…
Ray Edmondson
8 December 2021
Why has the National Film and Sound Archive suddenly found political favour?
Books & Arts
The outsider
Jane Goodall
16 November 2021
Truths, half-truths and ripping yarns come together in Miriam Margolyes’s
This Much Is True
Books & Arts
Unholy night
Jane Goodall
27 October 2021
Billed as a horror story,
Midnight Mass
audaciously explores an isolated community
Books & Arts
Too much, too soon
Jane Goodall
4 October 2021
Do the makers of ABC TV’s
Fires
have enough critical distance from their subject?
Books & Arts
Wood panelling and shoulder pads
Frank Bongiorno
3 September 2021
The Newsreader
shows an industry, and a country, on the cusp of change
Books & Arts
Saving the furniture
Jane Goodall
3 September 2021
The Chair
’s portrayal of academic life has a blind spot
Books & Arts
Not our system
Jane Goodall
23 August 2021
TV is having trouble explaining the unexplained
Books & Arts
Dracula unlimited
Jane Goodall
30 July 2021
Would Mark Gatiss and Steven Moffat’s latest series benefit from a little more reality?
Books & Arts
What’s not to like?
Jane Goodall
9 July 2021
With just one blind spot, Annabel Crabb is at her best in the ABC’s
Ms Represented
Books & Arts
Who are we?
Jane Goodall
24 June 2021
It’s a question that might best be approached obliquely
Books & Arts
Toora loo rye ay
Andrew Ford
8 June 2021
Music is key to the mystery of ABC TV’s
Wakefield
Books & Arts
Location, location, location
Jane Goodall
1 June 2021
Mare of Easttown
shines among a new crop of visually arresting crime series
Books & Arts
What does it take?
Jane Goodall
30 April 2021
Our reviewer follows Greta Thunberg’s 2019 journey
From the archive
How the light gets in
Jane Goodall
26 February 2021
Television
| Two Danish crime series probe everyday darkness
Books & Arts
Talking about a moral emergency
Jane Goodall
3 February 2021
Television
| The coverage of events in Washington was a study in contrasts
From the archive
Dressing up
Jane Goodall
1 February 2021
Television
|
Bridgerton
isn’t alone. Period drama is back with a vengeance
Books & Arts
Known unknowns
Jane Goodall
14 December 2020
Television
| The highs and occasional lows of
Four Corners
’ coverage of 2020
Books & Arts
The hollow Crown
Jane Goodall
28 November 2020
Television
| The fourth season of the Netflix blockbuster is brilliantly structured but ethically worrying
Books & Arts
October surprises
Jane Goodall
8 October 2020
Television
|
The Comey Rule
reminds us that there’s no such thing as a bombshell in the Trump era
From the archive
Orange man bad!
Jane Goodall
24 September 2020
Is television satire working anymore?
Books & Arts
Local heroes
Jane Goodall
24 August 2020
Television
| The drama is in the detail of this compelling dramatisation of the Salisbury poisonings
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