I have never been one for dating shows, but I do not seem to be able to stop watching China’s extremely popular If You Are the One. I am hardly alone in this amongst Australians, which is unusual...
With the biggest sporting event in the US comes, of course, the biggest advertising event in an already ad-driven society. As US companies vie for attention in some of the most expensive advertising...
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), the country’s major public broadcaster, was on Wednesday accused by Prime Minister Tony Abbott of taking ‘everyone’s side but Australia’s’ due...
HBO’s new programme Looking seems to be attracting rather polarised responses: some are hailing it as refreshingly true to the lives of gay men in their 30s and 40s, while others are complaining...
After considerable delay, Sherlock is back on US airwaves, where it will be running on PBS’ “Masterpiece” over the next few weeks. Most people in the US have already watched it, of course, via...
Before I delve into SyFy’s new original show Helix, I must first express my deep and abiding look for epidemiology. While I love all the sciences, and I’m fascinated by medicine, epidemiology is...
Downton Abbey has returned to the airwaves in the United States at last, much to the delight of the show’s rabid fans from coast to coast. But what does it have to offer with its fourth season?...
I was a little young to watch Buffy the Vampire Slayer when it first hit our television screens back in 1997, although it finished up in 2003, when I was heading headlong into adolescence and...
We bade Matt Smith a maudlin and schmaltzy goodbye on Christmas day with ‘The Time of the Doctor,’ the long-awaited Christmas special where we finally got to meet the Doctor’s next incarnation,...
As 2013 draws to a close and the media are filled with retrospectives on the best of, the worst of, and those between, I find myself reflecting on the television I gave up on in 2013 due to complete...