Books & arts
18 November 2016
Television | The pull of chaos looms over The Crown and The Hollow Crown
Essays & reportage
15 November 2016
A wartime TV series that premiered forty years ago tapped into the mood of the mid seventies
Books & arts
27 September 2016
Television | A new documentary reveals the steely resolve of Barack Obama
Essays & reportage
17 September 2016
Howard on Menzies makes for compelling viewing. But its flaws echo the shortcomings of Australia’s longest-serving prime minister
Books & arts
8 August 2016
Television | It’s best to be in two minds about the Olympics, writes Jane Goodall
Books & arts
18 July 2016
Television | Game of Thrones brings to the screen qualities we associate with Aeschylus and Sophocles, writes Jane Goodall
Books & arts
27 June 2016
Television | Who are these people, and how different are they?
Books & arts
8 June 2016
Television | The audience starred when the national broadcaster went to Tamworth, writes Jane Goodall
International
31 May 2016
Should Netflix and other streaming services be required to promote local content? New developments in Europe are reviving old debates about national culture, writes Ramon Lobato
Books & arts
3 May 2016
Cinema | Has any other film resonated across the decades in so many cultural fields? Brian McFarlane investigates the Brief Encounter phenomenon
Books & arts
24 March 2016
Television | It’s War and Peace’s turn for another BBC adaptation, writes Jane Goodall. But perhaps some temptations should be resisted
Books & arts
8 March 2016
Television | The West created its own narratives in Afghanistan, writes Jane Goodall. A compelling new series shows how reality failed to fit
Books & arts
23 February 2016
Television | The Sunrise controversy raises fresh questions about TV current affairs, high-brow and low-brow, writes Jane Goodall
Books & arts
22 February 2016
Books | Crawford Productions was created in the early years of Australian TV, writes Susan Lever, and its influence is still alive in the industry
Essays & reportage
12 February 2016
How did Australia’s love affair with Netflix begin? In this extract from a new book, Ramon Lobato and James Meese trace the geoblocking debate and its political fallout
Books & arts
2 February 2016
Television | Australia is back at work, and Utopia remains the best guide to what that can mean in practice, writes Jane Goodall
Books & arts
13 January 2016
Music | Not really an opera at all? Andrew Ford disagrees
Books & arts
4 January 2016
Television | Jane Goodall witnesses Sherlock’s return to the world of fogs and hansom cabs
Books & arts
17 December 2015
Television | News anchors are taking on a life of their own, writes Jane Goodall. But are we losing something in the process?
Books & arts
28 November 2015
Television | Free-to-air TV can still shift public debate, writes Jane Goodall. But can it break free of its own conventions?
Books & arts
13 November 2015
Television | What kind of species are we? A night in front of the TV had some answers, writes Jane Goodall
Books & arts
27 October 2015
Television | Jane Goodall watches The Beautiful Lie, Sherlock, Fargo and Homeland
Books & arts
23 September 2015
Television | Monday night’s ABC interviews showed how TV can be dangerous for politicians in unexpected ways, writes Jane Goodall
Books & arts
31 August 2015
Television | Aquarius is a frustrating package of potentially great ideas, writes Jane Goodall
Books & arts
31 July 2015
Television | Crime drama has been tipped upside down, writes Jane Goodall, as the BBC’s Line of Duty and Helen Piper’s The TV Detective reveal
National affairs
16 July 2015
Lost in the fog of the Zaky Mallah controversy are more fundamental questions about the ABC’s role in representative democracy, writes Ramon Lobato
National affairs
23 June 2015
Talks between the Australian Football League, the National Rugby League and the biggest digital companies highlight the pressures on free-to-air broadcasters, writes Brett Hutchins
Books & arts
18 June 2015
The Killing Season highlights the impact of politics on real people‚ and that has its costs for at least one of the participants
Books & arts
25 May 2015
Television | Even without Edna Everage, the sixtieth Eurovision entered hyperspace once and for all, writes Jane Goodall
Books & arts
21 May 2015
What might television look like in a year’s time, in a few years’ time, in a decade? Jock Given, Michael Brealey and Cathy Gray asked…