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television December 20, 2025
Best television: The Rehearsal and The Bear’s fourth act
The Saturday Paper’s television critic looks back at the highlights of 2025.
television November 19, 2025
Sterlin Harjo’s superb neo-noir series, The Lowdown, is simultaneously intriguing, tender and hilarious.
television November 8, 2025
Acclaimed actor and novelist Tasma Walton discovered her inner funny girl in the new television series Reckless.
television October 31, 2025
Television writer Sally Wainwright
Over a long and storied career, Sally Wainwright has created some of the most iconic television series of this century, from Happy Valley to Gentleman Jack.
television October 11, 2025
Screenwriter and director Tony Ayres
His outsider upbringing means Tony Ayres, the brains behind television series such as The Slap, Nowhere Boys and an upcoming drama based on Erin Patterson, is drawn to complex characters.
television August 9, 2025
The Netflix documentary series Trainwreck revisits catastrophes both tragic and comic with an overarching lens on the enduring characteristics of human behaviour.
television July 5, 2025
Grenfell: Uncovered and the anatomy of a deathtrap
Grenfell: Uncovered is an unflinching account of the greed and political callousness that surrounded the 2017 London high-rise tragedy.
television June 18, 2025
Based on a late 1950s comic strip, Netflix’s new series The Eternaut is a stunning science fiction parable about resisting fascism.
television May 31, 2025
Award-winning performer Gillian Cosgriff
A polymath of the stage, Gillian Cosgriff brings her new show to the upcoming Adelaide Cabaret Festival, steering away from topicality to interactive games.
television April 26, 2025
The Studio, Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg’s satire on Hollywood absurdity, shows how even the powerful are driven by their insecurities, fears and delusions.
television April 19, 2025
The miniseries Mussolini: Son of the Century tracks Il Duce’s early years in the 1920s, uncomfortably reflecting the present-day far beyond Italy.
