Australian TV
Need a good TV show to watch with the kids? See these tried-and-tested options
What can you watch that will keep everyone, including grown-ups, happy these school holidays? Our critics have some new, old and classic TV and film ideas.
- by Lenny Ann Low, Kerrie O'Brien and Craig Mathieson
Latest
New Underbelly series tries to fill the gaps in Melissa Caddick’s story, but raises more questions
The one thing you might know about the Melissa Caddick story is that we don’t really know much about the Melissa Caddick story.
- by Kristen Amiet
Inventing Melissa: how the Underbelly TV series imagined what happened
When the missing conwoman walked out the front door of her Dover Heights mansion in Sydney’s eastern suburbs in November 2020, never to be seen again, it was a story ripe for the screen.
- by Louise Rugendyke
Want to strike up better conversations? Try these expert tips
Few of us are ever taught the art of talking and two-thirds of us find it challenging because of shyness, social anxiety or learning difficulties.
- by Jane Hutcheon
Analysis
Please Explain podcast
Everybody needs good neighbours, now Neighbours needs good friends
Today on Please Explain, culture editor-at-large Michael Idato joins Nathanael Cooper to look at Neighbour’s history, impact, and its future.
- by Nathanael Cooper
Analysis
Analysis
The end of Neighbours? The numbers don’t (quite) add up
Neighbours still pulls one million viewers a day in the UK. So, how come the UK’s fourth-biggest soap opera got axed?
- by Michael Idato
Opinion
Guy Pearce
To Neighbours, with love
The long-running – and soon to be axed – soap’s effect on our cultural consciousness is as indelibly Australian as Sunnyboy stains on a white Bonds singlet.
- by Kate Halfpenny
Analysis
Analysis
Sign of the times as UK slams door on Neighbours
The show has been a staple of Australian television drama and cultural exports. But the reasoning behind Channel 5’s decision to cancel it is sound.
- by Michael Idato
Exclusive
City life
‘Intimidating presence’: Has Home and Away outstayed its welcome at Palm Beach?
The show has called Summer Bay home since 1988, but now faces a revolt from the residents of real-life Palm Beach who claim a local park has been turned into “a giant film set”.
- by Andrew Taylor
Blue skies and extended family lure Natalia Cooper back to Perth
The Nine reporter and presenter returns to the West Australian bulletin on Tuesday night after 10 years in Sydney including a stint travelling around the world for the Today show.
- by Peter de Kruijff
Brides of Christ, the drama that continues to resonate 30 years later
The creators, writers and stars recall the making of the six-part drama, and the profound impact it had on their own and viewers’ lives.
- by Michael Lallo