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There's lots to look forward to this year with Stan's Bump, ABC's Aftertaste, Foxtel's The End and New Gold Mountain on SBS just the start.

Sharp and sweet, the new Stan series from Kelsey Munro and Claudia Karvan is a quirky teen pregnancy drama in the style of Love My Way and Heartbreak High, writes Mel Campbell.

Screen Forever moves online, ACMI's set to reopen, and classy Australian films screen at cinemas. Here's what you need to know this fortnight.

Nerves are normal and part of our human conditioning. These simple strategies can help you shine at your next audition, job interview or live presentation.

Without entering a cinema since February, the film critic's viewing ranged globally, with favourites including sublime Australian shorts, old television comedy and new films from Steve McQueen, Pablo Larraín and Kosovo's Antoneta Kastrati.

These were the shows that delivered us from lockdown, with a focus on Australian content but not exclusively. From Mystery Road to Stateless, Aunty Donna, The Great and Bluey these rated highly with our critics.

Maintaining sanity was a key theme in this year's most popular career articles as we pivoted, pirouetted and battled Zoom-exhaustion. Nurturing tender creative shoots and backing ourselves with good PR was also essential.

Stan's special feature about a crim on the run in a Santa suit fills a family-sized gap with rough and dusty charm.

The Bondi Hipsters return with 33 solid minutes of rapid-fire fun, says comedy connoisseur Anthony Morris.

We're heading back to cinemas; Causeway's supernatural horror comes home from Serbia; and awards, opportunities and opinions abound in this final instalment of News in Brief for 2020.

The re-announcement of the Stan/BBC One series from the producers of Fleabag gives government a chance to tout their boosted location offset.

Bruce Miller, project creator and an executive producer on The Handmaid's Tale, talks producing. 'I'll sacrifice everything to give my actors a chance to do their job.'

To mark International Day of People with Disability, Stan adds an award-winning Australian doco about the search for intimacy by young gay playwright with cerebral palsy. The film's director-producer Pip Kelly tells us about making it and getting it on TV.

Screenhub revels in the annual Screen Music Awards because the creators are challenged to be daring, to search the world for the rights sounds, and open themselves to such interesting emotions.

Our democratic hearts would love to see a broad sprinkling of glory but two productions dominated. All the winners are listed here and congratulations to them.

Powerful white men will continue to dominate unless there’s a real revolution for diversity in our media, argues Cross-Cultural Consultant Tasneem Chopra OAM.

Wringing blood from the budget stone the public broadcasters lay out their wares for the year ahead. Our fortnightly round-up of news, interviews and opinions from Australian film, TV and games.

Cinemas open, feminist docs rule, production re-starts and Liam Neeson will be around town in Melbourne this month. Here's our fortnightly round-up of news, interviews and reviews.

Honed on live performance and online, the wacky Australian comedy team finally gets a proper TV show on the biggest platform around. They just keep getting funnier, says Anthony Morris.

Famous five Bunya features go to Netflix, great Indigenous docs on DocPlay, and other options to mark a special week without leaving the house or braving crowds.