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Fox News Headquarters in New York.

Lachlan Murdoch’s Fox Corp to buy streaming platform in $31 billion deal

Fox Corp CEO Lachlan Murdoch said the deal will bring together Fox’s live news and sports content with a streaming platform that has a large viewership.

  • Michelle Chapman

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What to stream this week: (clockwise from top left): Every Year After; To a Land Unknown; Crimes of the Future; Best in Show; Alice and Steve and Swiping America.

What to stream this week: An intentionally icky wrong-com, plus five more picks

Nicola Walker and Jemaine Clement’s taboo-breaking comedy will leave you with more questions than answers.

  • Jared Richards
Mabel Li (middle) as Aunt Vidala in The Testaments.

‘It’s a gun, and it’s five centimetres from my face’: Australian star on her terrifying TV moment

The Logie-nominated actor, who plays Aunt Lydia’s chief rival and staffroom agitator, on The Testaments most confronting scene.

  • Louise Rugendyke

On paper, Heather Mitchell’s career looks flawless. In reality, there have been huge lows

It’s been a “messy” path to acting success – but Mitchell would choose it again.

  • Myffy Rigby
Hugh Laurie with the cast of House (from left) Omar Epps, Jennifer Morrison, Robert Sean Leonard, Jesse Spencer and Lisa Edelstein.

Hugh Laurie’s ‘slightly drunk’ tweets were right. House is still great TV

The actor has apologised to a journalist who criticised the old medical drama. But I am not so quick to lay down arms.

  • Alistair Baldwin
We have become so addicted to dual screening, that they’re making ‘dumb’ TV shows.

My screen addiction was stopping me from doing my job. Here’s how I’m trying to fix it

For a decade, I’ve played ‘attention acrobatics’ with my screens. I’ve finally had enough.

  • Wendy Squires
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Zach Galifianakis in This Is a Gardening Show.

Cold weather getting you down? Escape to TV’s happy place

Zach Galifianakis gives Costa a run for his money in this delightful new Netflix series.

  • Debi Enker
Best shows to come: The Airport Chaplain, Harry Potter, Colin From Accounts, The Killings at Parish Station and Black Doves.

TV shows we can’t wait to see: 25 new titles – and 10 returning hits – to keep an eye out for

The first half of the year in television has been consistently rewarding – and the good news is that there is more to come.

  • Craig Mathieson
From the creator of Twenty Twelve, Twenty Twenty Six is a new comedy based around the FIFA World Cup. 

Hugh Bonneville is at his best in this timely comedy (just don’t mention FIFA)

Fans of British comedy won’t need an introduction to this iconic character. But how does the show stack up against his past works?

  • Paul Kalina
What to stream this week (clockwise from top left): Dead of Winter; Mad Men; Over Your Dead Body; Journey Home, David Gulpilil; Tip Toe; and Best of the World with Antoni Porowski.

What to stream this week: Alan Cumming’s devastating Brit drama, plus five more picks

Created by Russell T. Davies, Tip Toe isn’t about the failures of the past or the future, but the failures of right now.

  • Jared Richards