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What to watch
Rose Byrne is terrific in the final season of darkly comic, 1980s period drama Physical
Byrne’s Sheila Rubin is a deeply unfulfilled graduate of the counter-culture who is just trying to move forward in this under-rated show.
- by Craig Mathieson
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Chefs are style icons too now? Sure, OK
Carmy from The Bear has us saying “Yes, Chef” when it comes to his tasty fits.
- by Robert Moran
Asher Keddie: ‘This was the only project I’ve ever put my hand up for’
The TV adaptation of Holly Ringland’s acclaimed novel The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart is a passion project for the seven-time Logie-winning actress.
- by Lenny Ann Low
Eighties blockbusters are back, as Idris Elba’s Hijack reaches its finale
For seven weeks we’ve been glued to Apple TV’s airborne adventure series Hijack, yet its brilliance harks back to the stars and movies of decades past.
- by Sinead Stubbins
Euphoria star Angus Cloud dies, aged 25
Cloud was best known for playing fan-favourite Fezco on the hit HBO show.
- by Osman Faruqi
Foxtel aims to disrupt with ‘Project Magneto’ in quest to translate users into profits
Exuberance in terms of subscription numbers passed a long time ago, says Foxtel CEO Patrick Delany ahead of the launch of its new streaming aggregation product.
- by Calum Jaspan
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Streaming subscriptions grow despite surge in cancellations
Australians cancelled 1.25 million video-on-demand accounts between April and June, up 100,000 on the previous quarter, but 1.6 million new subscriptions were taken out in the period.
- by Calum Jaspan
Logies 2023 as it happened: Sonia Kruger wins Gold in a night of upsets
The 63rd annual Logie Awards are under way and host Sam Pang is taking no prisoners. Follow our live coverage.
- by Damien Woolnough, Thomas Mitchell and Karl Quinn
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Cinema
This slick documentary is too focused on Hollywood to justify the title ‘The Movies’
A six-part series produced by Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman is best described as hype, and only a handful of movies made outside Tinseltown earn a mention.
- by Tom Ryan
Steven Soderbergh surprises again with an unannounced sci-fi series released on his own website
Command Z, available on Soderbergh’s website, is inspired by journalist and broadcaster Kurt Andersen’s 2020 non-fiction book, Evil Geniuses: The Unmaking of America.
- by Craig Mathieson
Twenty years ago, The O.C. changed television forever
How a teen drama about a misunderstood kid from the wrong side of the tracks became one of the most important cultural artefacts of the 2000s.
- by Thomas Mitchell