Australian TV
Don’t mention retirement: Sam Neill on fame, hating golf and ScoMo’s ukulele skills
The beloved actor gave up a law degree after “catastrophically hopeless results”. Now he’s set to play a lawyer for the first time in his almost 50-year career.
- by Kylie Northover
Latest
The Logies are back after a two-year hiatus. Here’s everything you need to know
After a two-year break, the TV Week Logies are back. So what can we expect from TV’s night of nights?
- by Thomas Mitchell
Who’s the suspect in The Twelve – an artist accused of murder or the jury?
As a roughshod gambling addict doing jury duty in Foxtel’s impressive drama The Twelve, Brendan Cowell poses a very topical dilemma: can someone who does bad things still be a decent person?
- by Louise Rugendyke
Opinion
Pop culture
My life as Paul Robinson, Australia’s longest-running TV villain
I set fire to Lassiters, tried to poison Erinsborough’s drinking waterways, blew up a Jaguar and got married six times. Pretending to be “Paul Robinson” on Neighbours over nearly 40 years has been one of the greatest privileges in my life.
- by Stefan Dennis
What political thriller Total Control predicted about the election, and what it missed
Season two of the ABC drama depicted a parliament awash with independents. But co-creator Rachel Griffiths admits it missed another huge trend.
- by Karl Quinn
Australian news in Mandarin and Arabic? It’s about to hit free-to-air TV thanks to SBS
It’s a rare thing to launch a news service these days. On Monday, SBS launches two – and a whole new channel to carry them.
- by Karl Quinn
Can The Bachelor go back to its ‘glory days’? More importantly, should it?
Who wants to see a show where a cardboard cutout of a man takes various blonde women out for picnics when you can watch people dating while disguised as dolphins and devils?
- by Meg Watson
Logie nominations: Melissa Leong and Tom Gleeson go head-to-head for Gold
After a two-year absence, TV’s night of nights is back. Can Tom Gleeson, a shock winner of the coveted Gold in 2019, prove that lightning strikes twice?
- by Karl Quinn
Teresa Palmer: ‘It was my dream to have eight children, like my nanna’
As a teenager, Teresa Palmer wrote in her diary that she had two ambitions: to be an actor and a mum.
- by Genevieve Quigley
From refugee camp to television star: The inspiring life of Barons’ Jillian Nguyen
Actor Jillian Nguyen’s career is turning the tide within the industry, and as she tells Genevieve Quigley, she’s happy to go with the flow.
- by Genevieve Quigley
Best mates turned bitter rivals: ABC’s Barons takes on ’70s surf culture
New ABC drama stars Sean Keenan and Ben O’Toole as pioneers in the early days of Australia’s surfwear industry, echoing the success of iconic global brands such as Billabong and Quiksilver.
- by Louise Rugendyke