Books & arts
19 May 2015
Extract | After decades of stage and screen success, John McCallum and Googie Withers struck out in new directions in the late 1960s, writes Brian McFarlane
Books & arts
8 May 2015
Television | “Poverty porn” it isn’t, but the aims of Struggle Street still worry Jane Goodall
Books & arts
5 May 2015
Television | Jane Goodall reviews the BBC’s Wolf Hall
Essays & reportage
10 April 2015
Once studio executives start citing illegal downloads as a measure of success, it’s clear the relationship between legal and illegal has changed, write Ramon Lobato…
Books & arts
7 April 2015
Television | There’s plenty to enjoy about Stephen Oliver’s survey of TV humour, writes Jane Goodall. But how uniquely Australian is the phenomenon…
Books & arts
1 April 2015
Vera Brittain’s Testament of Youth, now in its second screen version, recounts a remarkable life amid the upheavals of a century ago, writes Brian McFarlane
Books & arts
2 March 2015
Television | Jane Goodall reviews Fortitude and the second series of Broadchurch
Books & arts
28 January 2015
Television | Science broadcaster Brian Cox navigates the line between two kinds of uncertainty, writes Jane Goodall
Books & arts
8 January 2015
Television | With a third season of Masters of Sex screening this year, Susan Lever charts the highs and lows of a TV drama inspired by real events
Books & arts
16 December 2014
Monday night’s coverage from Martin Place is a reminder that live-to-air television is now an integral part of our emergency-response system, writes Inside …
Books & arts
26 November 2014
What if you ditched the whole marketing bonanza, asks Jane Goodall, and had nothing but the talent?
Books & arts
10 November 2014
Brett Evans talks to award-winning Indigenous screenwriter Steven McGregor
Books & arts
30 October 2014
The thirtieth anniversary of SBS’s Dateline is a chance to consider some often-unreported truths, writes Jane Goodall
Books & arts
28 October 2014
Cultural policy and trade policy are pulling in different directions, writes Nick Herd. Ten’s Offspring could be one casualty
Books & arts
30 September 2014
With SBS viewers seeing 1960s America through the eyes of television and the ABC profiling four Australians who fled to London to join the decade’s ferment, the sixties…
Books & arts
27 August 2014
Five decades after viewers first encountered the Tardis, a new Doctor goes to air. But how much has really changed?
Books & arts
29 July 2014
The centenary of the first world war has begun, writes Jane Goodall, but Australia’s public broadcasters are still feeling their way
Books & arts
2 July 2014
Three police shows axed in just one year. For some observers, it seemed like much more than a coincidence, writes Jock Given
Books & arts
8 June 2014
Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey is an important chapter in the evolution of how we learn about science, says Martin Bush. But it’s far from being the last word
Books & arts
6 June 2014
Jane Goodall reviews two new documentaries about wildfires
Books & arts
20 May 2014
What is the cost of feeding our national appetites? Jane Goodall watches ABC TV one Monday night
Books & arts
5 May 2014
Despite the overheated judging panel, So You Think You Can Dance deserves to live on, writes Jane Goodall
Books & arts
15 April 2014
Jane Goodall reviews Janet King and Dead Point
Books & arts
22 October 2013
Is there anything the National Broadband Network can learn from the thirteen-year transition to digital TV? Yes, says Jock Given
Books & arts
2 October 2013
The film and TV landscape has changed forever. Annabelle Sheehan reviews a timely guidebook
Books & arts
5 September 2013
Kerry O’Brien’s interview with Clive James was about as good as it gets
Books & arts
27 August 2013
Widely watched and highly profitable, Chinese Central TV is also in many ways dysfunctional, writes Kerry Brown
Books & arts
29 July 2013
Annabelle Sheehan reviews a new account of the revolution in American TV that began on HBO
Books & arts
16 August 2012
Digital media users may be easy to track but they can be very hard to follow, writes Jock Given
Books & arts
23 March 2012
Ramon Lobato reviews the latest batch of high-concept crime dramas