Measuring the internet

Digital media users may be easy to track but they can be very hard to follow, writes Jock Given

16 Aug 12 | Comments (0)

Law and disorder on the small screen

Ramon Lobato reviews the latest batch of high-concept crime dramas

23 Mar 12 | Comments (0)

Almost live is fully legal

The AFL and the NRL’s grievance against Optus is far from the epic battle that’s been portrayed in the coverage, writes Scott Ewing

23 Feb 12 | Comments (0)

Much too promised land

Critics of Peter Kosminsky’s series The Promise – released on DVD this week – are misrepresenting its depiction of Arab and Israeli characters, argues Hal Wootten

16 Feb 12 | Comments (9)

The right thing

The screening of the ABC’s ambitious courtroom drama, Crownies, coincides with a renewed debate about Australian content. Ben Goldsmith has been watching them both

17 Aug 11 | Comments (5)

Matters of the heart

Compassion as a motivator for action is overrated, writes Klaus Neumann, but Go Back to Where You Came from is a reminder that it’s not a bad starting point

30 Jun 11 | Comments (3)

Versions of ourselves

Richard Johnstone considers the art of screen adaptation – with and without a literary source

02 Jun 11 | Comments (0)

Just a bit late, again

Ellie Rennie looks at what the federal budget means for community and Indigenous broadcasters

13 May 11 | Comments (0)

Hell in a handcart

Jill Kitson on Mad Men and The Great Gatsby

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Norse Morse

DVD | Shane Maloney reviews a second series of Henning Mankell’s Wallander stories filmed for TV

11 Apr 11 | Comments (2)

Convergence: only one part of the media problem

What does the government really want from its review of media policy, asks Julian Thomas

07 Apr 11 | Comments (1)

Count to five and twenty

TV | Little Dorrit, a vivid tale for the times, works backwards from impact to cause, writes Ellie Rennie

24 Jun 10 | Comments (0)

The hole in their bucket

Media companies’ campaign against internet piracy suffered a major setback last week when a federal court judgement let internet service providers off the hook for their customers’ illegal downloads. But the copyright wars are more than just a matter for the courts, write Julian Thomas and Ramon Lobato

11 Feb 10 | Comments (3)

Happy birthday, minister

TELEVISION | Yes Minister turns thirty this month. Terry Lane looks back at one of the great British TV comedies

02 Feb 10 | Comments (1)

Equal but different

Filmmaker John Hughes responds to Ruth Balint’s essay on history and television

22 Sep 09 | Comments (0)

Where are the historians?

History on Australian television doesn’t reflect what historians really know about the past, and the fault is on both sides, writes Ruth Balint

30 Jul 09 | Comments (2)

On the couch

DVD | Ellie Rennie reviews In Treatment series one: therapy from start to finish

27 Jul 09 | Comments (2)

This time it’s serious

Digital TV is already here, and it means Roger Federer might be replaced by blank screens in Mildura’s analogue households next year, writes Jock Given

16 Jul 09 | Comments (3)

The rise and rise of Jane Austen

No matter how bad the adaptation or how silly the praise, Jane Austen’s novels contain some of the truest insights into human behaviour ever committed to the page, writes Brian McFarlane

04 May 09 | Comments (0)

What have the Romans ever done for us?

DVD | Well, they might have kicked off TV’s next Golden Age. Ellie Rennie watches season two of Rome

20 Apr 09 | Comments (1)