Features

Documentary Stoush: Connolly tells brutal truth, provokes furore
Bob Connolly, the most lucidly provocative filmmaker on the Australian documentary stage, has thrown a white-hot rock into the tepid…
Ratings: Monday, 26th August 2013 - nobody loves cancer
Seven juggernaut, but ABC cracks the 20% as Nine never hits the mill except for news.
Brief: Australian Production Design Guild hungry to pick over your work
The APDG entries are closing on 2nd September. Only designers can see the true ju-ju design glory in other designer's…
Paula le Dieu: Melbourne subversive blows up rules of ownership on the net
The custodians of public collections in Australia are committed to protection and control. Now they are talking quietly about a…
AHL: cashing in at the candy bar
Cinema exhibitor Amalgamated Holdings Limited, which owns Greater Union, Birch Carroll and Coyle, Event Cinemas in New Zealand, and 50…
Village Roadshow: bets on the end of the world
Could These Final Hours attract young adults? Time will tell, though Village Roadshow has the muscle to shorten the odds.…
Ratings: Sunday, 25th August 2013
Talent v talent gives Nine and Seven ove 30% each, leaving the tiddlers to pick over the remains.

ABC Comedy: what makes a comic talent into great comedy?
"You know, ABC comedy is really firing at the moment", said Rochelle. "How come?" I asked. "I dunno," she said.…

Screen Australia: mashing two jobs to make a single uber-crat
With both the Head of Development and the Head of Production Investment going at the end of December, Screen Australia…
Ratings: Thursday, 22nd August 2013
Nine wins as Seven has its usual Dead Thursday...