The show’s satire of super-wealth is framed through many of Sheakeapre’s great tragedies: Hamlet, Othello, Romeo and Juliet, and King Lear.
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Technological advances that lead to fairer, more accurate calls are often seen as triumphs. But new technology doesn’t mean perfect precision – nor does it necessarily create a better fan experience.
Until now, the glamorous spy has existed in many different forms across many different mediums. Could a new, more coherent universe be on the horizon?
1975 was a big year, with the end of the Vietnam war and the dramatic dismissal of Gough Whitlam. And finally, Australians could watch it in colour.
As a child worker, Miss Huang might seem like an uncanny ghost of a bygone era of childhood. But she’s closer to a prophet, warning viewers about what a work-obsessed future holds.
Meet the Scottish colourists, stop and smell the flowers and follow the story of the cancer-journey influencer who was a fraud, as we bring you this week’s cultural highlights.
The Buffy reboot faces a problem: what to do about visibly older cast members who play ageless vampires?
A depressed robot, a drugged Kenyan and a singing Saab driver − what could go wrong?
Commercial TV broadcasters once commissioned around 300 hours of Australian drama each year. Last year, they commissioned just nine hours of new, non-soap drama.
Real ‘split brain’ patients have existed since the 1940s.
Programs geared toward liberals like ‘The Daily Show’ once held a monopoly on political comedy. Not so anymore.
Charles Schulz’s TV special survived the skepticism of network executives to become a holiday classic.
The characterization of Latter-day Saints on shows like ‘Heretic’ and ‘Secret Lives of Mormon Wives’ says more about the rest of America than the church itself.
A number of reports have drawn attention to working conditions within the UK television industry in recent months.
From Joy on Netflix to the new album from The Cure, these are our expert culture picks of the week.
The sisters are still very close, cloyingly so at times, always in each other’s houses, lives and pockets.
Unlike America’s ‘trailer trash; stereotype, the distinctly British term 'chav’ specifically targets perceived vulgarity, lack of sophistication and failures of proper femininity.
In The Diplomat, Britons and Americans anger, antagonise and annoy each other.
The remake mirrors the US version: a romance, office tensions, an old-school boss who craves camaraderie, and a staff for whom work life comes second to what they’d rather be doing.
In the 1990s, Alannah Hill, Collette Dinnigan and Akira Isogawa brought flair and an Australian sensibility to the global fashion market.
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