Headlines:
- A whole lot of chaos, fun and romance is about to come hurtling our way when Offspring returns for its highly anticipated new series next week. Back for a seventh season after last year's unexpected season six renewal, it picks up just a few weeks on from the season six finale to show both Proudman sisters torn by the demands of modern life
june 19 | thewest.com.au
- They had fame and fortune at the peak of their powers, so how is it that Australia's greatest stars of yesteryear are so destitute in their autumn years?
june 18 | www.smh.com.au
- Ben Mendelsohn is one of the hottest Australian actors in Hollywood right now — yet just over a decade ago he was washing dishes at a Bondi restaurant. What changed?
june 17 | www.brisbanetimes.com.au
- Sydney writer Benjamin Law wasn't sure what to expect when his coming-of-age sitcom The Family Law — based on his critically acclaimed memoir of the same name — premiered on SBS last year. Thankfully for the 33-year-old, the response was overwhelmingly positive.
june 12 | thewest.com.au
- If you shop at Morley Galleria, you may know Geraldine Hakewill as the Harry Potter fan who worked at Angus & Robertson. But to the rest of us she is the sweetly awkward and newly bold Chelsea Babbage, the Thelma to Rebecca Gibney's Louise, or Lola, on Seven's drama Wanted.
june 12 | thewest.com.au
- Irish hitmaker Ronan Keating is expected to heat up TV screens next week when he makes his Australian television acting debut in Nine's award-winning drama, Love Child.
june 08 | thewest.com.au
- There is cautious optimism for Doctor Blake fans following brief words about its future from leading man Craig McLachlan…
june 08 | www.tvtonight.com.au
- FX Australia has commissioned its first local TV series, Mr Inbetween, to be directed by Nash Edgerton. The 6 x 30 drama - based on series writer Scott Ryan's 2005 feature The Magician - marks Edgerton's debut as a TV series director.
june 07 | if.com.au
- When Tahir Bilgic and Rob Shehadie's outlandish sitcom Here Come the Habibs became an unexpected TV hit last year, actor Tyler De Nawi was in disbelief.
june 05 | thewest.com.au
- LYN James, who starred in Australian soap opera The Young Doctors, has died in Sydney at the age of 87.
may 31 | www.dailytelegraph.com.au
- Aaron Jeffery (Wentworth, McLeod's Daughters) will return to the Underbelly franchise for the lead role of Mark "Chopper" Read in Nine's miniseries, Underbelly: Chopper.
may 29 | www.tvtonight.com.au
- It's hard to imagine a time when Marta Dusseldorp wasn't one of the small screen's favourite women... For the versatile star, playing steely prosecutor Janet in the series spin-off from 2011's Crownies is exhilarating yet exhausting.
may 19 | www.heraldsun.com.au
- Things have come full circle for Sigrid Thornton. Appearing in Wentworth, a contemporary take on life behind bars, takes her back some 35 years to her work on Prisoner. It was her longest stint on a television series and she learnt much from older actors such as Sheila Florance and Maggie Kirkpatrick.
may 19 | www.smh.com.au
- SundanceTV is set to co-produce the second season of Celia Pacquola and Luke McGregor's Rosehaven with the ABC, What Horse?, and Guesswork Television.
may 18 | if.com.au
- Legal dramas and police procedurals... routinely address their wider social and political contexts... Acclaimed Australian legal drama Janet King is no exception.
may 14 | thewest.com.au
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airdates:
- June
- 28 - Offspring (Ten)
- 28 - Cleverman (Sundance - USA)
- 29 - Cleverman (ABC)
- July
- 19 - Utopia (ABC)
- 20 - Pulse (ABC)
- September
- tba - Top of the Lake: China Girl (Sundance - USA)
birthdays:
- June
- 1 - Brian Cox (1946)
- 1 - Caroline Craig (1969)
- 1 - Bill Young (1950)
- 1 - Jason Donovan (1968)
- 1 - Ed Oxenbould (2001)
- 2 - Joel Toebeck (1971)
- 3 - Miriama Smith (1976)
- 4 - Rachel Griffiths (1968)
- 5 - Martin Vaughan (1931)
- 6 - Andrew McFarlane (1951)
- 6 - Jacinta Stapleton (1979)
- 7 - Anthony Simcoe (1969)
- 7 - Gia Carides (1964)
- 9 - Jane Kennedy (1964)
- 11 - Claire Holt (1988)
- 12 - Kieran Darcy-Smith (1965)
- 12 - Samantha Tolj (1982)
- 12 - Tom Oliver (1938)
- 15 - Nina Liu (1977)
- 15 - Dan Paris (1973)
- 18 - Nick Tate (1942)
- 19 - Anthony Phelan (1954)
- 20 - Nicole Kidman (1967)
- 23 - Bryan Brown (1947)
- 23 - Tara Morice (1964)
- 23 - Joel Edgerton (1974)
- 28 - Sandy Gore (1950)
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