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Ratings: Sunday, 4th August 2013
Talent shows v building shows v Underbellies, with Dream Build taking Auntie over a mill. But Nine crushes all.. as…
Patrick Redux: Guignol Antipodes meets Telco-Gothic for a grand night out
After all the analysis, anticipation and re-examination of the Australian take on shlock, Patrick had its world premiere in the…
ACMI: Dreamworks confirms success of ACMI dream
The 2014 Winter Masterpieces exhibition at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image in Melbourne will be the third in…
Pipsqueaks: simple pre-school idea becomes mind-bogglingly complicated
Behind Beyond's push to sell Pipsqueaks, its pre-school co-pro with Seven, at MIPjunior is a wonderful tale of tots, woodentops…
Playpen: as Bollywood gets madder and madder
Is it the new digital crispness? A million maths students pouring into post-production? The sheer scale of the average Indian…
Ratings: Thursday, 1st August 2013
Nine slaughters everyone as Seven looks like Ten, and that is not a good look. Then again it was such…
Ratings: Wednesday, 31st July 2013
Nine battered, the others creep up, as The X Factor works for Seven.
SBS: ratings figures down as Le Tour tragics turn fickle
SBS holds the Australian candle for the Tour de France, gamely broadcasting the sweat and pain into the night. How…
Doco Distribution: Just Punishment and A Better Man
With A Better Man turning the execution of Van Tuong Nguyen into a two part drama on SBS, the makers…
SMPTE 2013: finding the future in digital nits as 3D TV dies on the showroom floor
Dominic Case, who has already seen his post-production profession utterly trashed and transformed by the march of time, contemplates the…