Arts & Letters: Television
CULTURE
The Kid Grows Up: Meeting Alex Dimitriades
Peter Robb
Nearing 40, a man’s body begins to die. The body knows this. So does the mind, though it can take a long time before the mind knows what it...
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CULTURE
Line of Appeal: Meeting Andrew Fraser
Jack Marx
There is perhaps no justice quite so poetic as when an errant lawyer goes to jail. Like the image of a prancing matador being hoist to the...
More ...Quaint Misogyny: 'Mad Men: Season Four'
Kirsten Tranter
Let the cocktail theme parties begin.Season Two is still showing here on SBS but in July the fourth season of the award-winning cult series...
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SOCIETY
Connective Tissue: 'Tangle' (Season Two) and 'Spirited'
Delia Falconer
All the bullies I remember from school had Ben Mendelsohn’s build: heavy-legged, thick-armed and slightly soft around the middle. Or...
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CULTURE
Good Neighbours
Alan Saunders
Eugene Kamenka, supervisor of my doctorate at ANU, expert on Marxian thought and a man who would never have thought his name would appear...
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Border Crossings: John Safran's 'Race Relations'
Alice Pung
The Torah says that we do not see things as they are. We see things as we are. In our everyday relationships, we take ourselves as the...
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School for Gangsters: 'Underbelly' and 'The Wire'
Alan Saunders
“Was that like a movie or what?” says one young thug to another after a shoot-up at a petrol station. We’re in the middle of the Melbourne...
More ...‘Big Love’, Season 2, SBS Television
James Bradley
It's easy to imagine the pitch for HBO's polygamist drama, Big Love: Everything a normal family faces, times three. It's a neat formula,...
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Winging It: Flight of the Conchords
Luke Davies
Two friends walk along a New York street as the camera tracks backwards with them. We catch them mid-conversation, or perhaps they are...
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‘Skins’, Season 1, SBS
Rachel Hills
Skins hit Australian screens in January with what can only be described as a cacophony of action, as the show's charismatic alpha male...
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A Change is Gonna Come: Series Six of 'The West Wing'
Anna Goldsworthy
Many West Wing fans tuned out permanently from the show at the end of series four, after writer-creator Aaron Sorkin's spectacular exit...
More ...Grotesque: After the Grand: Recent British TV Comedy
Guy Rundle
Round the National Gallery, at the top of Trafalgar Square, the recently established garden beds have come up nicely, a discreet fringe of...
More ...‘Big Brother’ Channel Ten
Rowanne Couch
And so we enter September, the season of uncertain weather and jasmine cascading down fences, and the start of nine glorious months of no...
More ...Let’s Get Our Hands Dirty: ABC TV’s 'Gardening Australia'
Kerryn Goldsworthy
“But that’s what this program’s about. It’s about action, and the sheer beauty of it,” said Peter Cundall recently in his introductory...
More ...'FIFA World Cup' SBS Television
Patrick Allington
Never mind three goals in eight minutes and, especially, Tim Cahill’s exquisite second effort. Never mind the controversial Japanese–...
More ...'SET' ABC TV
Celina Riberio
In this nine-part series, the ABC hands the stage to Australia’s premier experimental-music acts for live performances on occasional...
More ...The First Woman: 'Commander in Chief'
Kerryn Goldsworthy
Poor old President Mackenzie Allen just never seems to get a quiet moment to herself. If it’s not a tanker threatening to leak oil up and...
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Television programming: Channel 7; Channel 9; Channel 10
Kerryn Goldsworthy
These days even the most unsophisticated punter knows that when a TV station advises that a regular program will be shown ‘at the special...
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The Dog Days of Ray: What’s a hard-working TV legend supposed to do when his fans stop watching him?
Matthew Ricketson
Promo by Ray Martin on Channel Nine at 6.25 p.m.:“Coming up on A Current Affair – dangerous footpaths.Don’t trip, the Council will blame...
More ...'Vulture'; 'Sunday Arts'; 'The Movie Show' on ABC-TV
Kerryn Goldsworthy
Any poet could have told the ABC that with a name like Vulture its new arts program was bound to get negative feedback. A vulture is an...
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The Shortlist Daily
7 February 2012
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