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television
Books & arts
Compulsory viewing
Jane Goodall
10 April 2020
Our critic’s selection of the best of locked-down television
Books & arts
Getting too close
Jane Goodall
23 March 2020
Television
|
Stateless
points to the dangers of the quest for empathy on the screen
Summer season
Homeland insecurities
Jane Goodall
28 February 2020
Television
• At heart,
Homeland
is a drama of loyalty and betrayal
Books & arts
Reshaping the current affairs landscape
Jane Goodall
5 February 2020
Television
| Renewed flagship programs highlight the strengths and weaknesses of ABC current affairs
Essays & reportage
Inflammatory exchanges
Jane Goodall
7 January 2020
Was the climate debate pushed off course by a misconceived strategy of persuasion?
Books & arts
Things fall apart
Jane Goodall
19 December 2019
Television
| Our critic’s selection of the best 2019 viewing
Books & arts
Every-night Clive
Jane Goodall
28 November 2019
Television
| Binge-watching with polymath Clive James, who died this week
Books & arts
There is always a sequel
Jock Given
22 November 2019
Books
| As Disney+ sets out to teach Netflix and others about streaming video, the chief executive of Walt Disney’s company shares lessons learned on the way to the top
Books & arts
Centres of gravity
Jane Goodall
8 November 2019
Television
| A mid-season shift of gear takes
Total Control
into different territory
Books & arts
Suspension of disbelief
Jane Goodall
1 October 2019
Television
| The makers of
Unbelievable
tell Marie Adler’s story with tact and care
Books & arts
What makes the rich different
Jane Goodall
9 September 2019
Television
| Wealth is a means rather than an end in the second season of
Succession
Books & arts
Doing the dirty work
Jane Goodall
24 July 2019
Television
| Does
The Loudest Voice
let the former Fox News supremo off too lightly?
Books & arts
Coming home
Jane Goodall
19 July 2019
Television
|
Etched in Bone
tells its story with restraint and empathy
Books & arts
Eventually the truth catches up
Jane Goodall
25 June 2019
Television
| Four decades on, Soviet scientist Valery Legasov is an unlikely figure for our times
Books & arts
Softly, softly
Jane Goodall
11 June 2019
Television
| Do even the best interviews go far enough?
Books & arts
A setback for The Letdown
Louise Merrington
28 May 2019
Television
| The award-winning comedy series moves back into the mainstream
Books & arts
By the book
Jane Goodall
6 May 2019
Television
|
Manhunt
captures the strengths of a dogged but gripping police investigation
Books & arts
Off the money
Jane Goodall
17 April 2019
Television
| Bigger thinking is needed on the small screen
Books & arts
A tale of two prime ministers
Jane Goodall
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
A change in the atmosphere
Jane Goodall
18 March 2019
Television
| The different focus and register of season two of
Secret City
reflects a shift in Canberra itself
Books & arts
A new immediacy
Jane Goodall
12 March 2019
Television
| A new series releases Australia’s past from the familiar black-and-white
Books & arts
Reality bites
Jane Goodall
6 February 2019
Television
| ABC1’s new current affairs line-up needs to break the mould
Books & arts
Smiling villainy
Jane Goodall
18 January 2019
Television
| Mike Bartlett’s take on newspaper rivalry has a special kind of fascination
Books & arts
Far horizons
Jane Goodall
24 December 2018
Television
| The best three series of 2018
Books & arts
What is civilisation anyway?
Janna Thompson
23 December 2018
Television
| The BBC’s big-budget remake illustrates how perspectives have changed
From the archive
Ferrante’s dangerous genius
Jane Goodall
6 December 2018
HBO’s carefully paced adaptation of
My Brilliant Friend
brings a corner of Naples to life
National affairs
Would the real Malcolm Turnbull please stand up?
Jane Goodall
9 November 2018
As a politician, the former prime minister remains an enigma that
Q&A
couldn’t crack
Books & arts
Asking the right questions
Jane Goodall
26 October 2018
Television
|
Doctor Who
meets
Broadchurch
in its latest incarnation
Books & arts
Scandal as tragedy
Jane Goodall
8 October 2018
Television
| Awkward questions are raised by
A Very English Scandal
and
The Assassination of Gianni Versace
Books & arts
Sound and fury, light and shade
Jane Goodall
28 August 2018
Television |
With just days to gather its material,
Four Corners
found a way to explore the human impact of power
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