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The new drama starring Hugo Weaving and Shabana Azeez finds humour and humanity in one of the most chaotic places.
The new Stan sports drama is brimming with cliches. But there are some standouts among the cast.
Why the prevalence of neurodivergent protagonists in police procedurals? And what are viewers gaining by watching stories predicated on this form of difference?
Fashion, film, Nazi mythology and a film to scare the bejasus out of you this week.
Australian TV has changed significantly over the past 15 years, with a boom in queer stories since the 2010s. New research sheds light on how these changes happened.
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.
This excellent dramatisation of Bernardine Evaristo’s bittersweet novel about hidden gay love will help it reach a new audience.
The new show, centred on power struggles in Australia’s Top End, joins a spate of successful Australian commissions released by the streamer this year.
People from working-class backgrounds need to be more visible in the TV industry across all levels to create more culturally diverse output.
The deeply flawed but intriguing Tony Soprano opened up a whole new world of complicated relatable characters that drew audiences in their millions.
For All Mankind is set in an Apollo era transformed by the inclusion of women, characters of colour and LGBTQ+ protagonists.
The series should be praised for recognising that it’s not just white, middle-class girls who experience eating disorders.
Evidence confirms that minimum-force policing is safer and more effective than the style of policing so colourfully depicted in US crime shows and movies like Die Hard.
The latest version of the Gothic vampire chiller is brought to you with the trademark humour of writers Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss.
Tune in, Donald Trump: it might just save a lot of lives.
What’s with all the sausages in Killing Eve? It’s a thriller that gives butchery a new meaning.
For all its queer characters, Westeros is a gender binary world.
Embracing change is the theme of Doctor Who’s fizzing series opener.
Many viewers think that the recent adaptation of Vanity Fair plays fast and loose with Thackeray’s novel. But the writer was surprisingly modern.
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Emeritus Professor in Media, Glasgow Caledonian University
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Professor, Gender and Sexuality Studies, University of Calgary
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Doctoral researcher in Audio Engineering and General Sir John Monash Scholar, University of Salford
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Professor & Head of School for Film, Media & Performing Arts, University for the Creative Arts
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Professor of Media and Film, University of Huddersfield
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Lecturer in Contemporary Literature and Culture, Edinburgh Napier University
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Professor of TV Studies, University of East Anglia
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Academic Fellow: Drama & Theatre Practice, University of Salford
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