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Lorde and Zan Rowe bonded over a Charli XCX track on Take 5 with Zan Rowe. 

It took a song about a ‘confused female friendship’ to bring ABC host Zan Rowe to tears

It’s usually the superstar guests crying on Take 5 with Zan Rowe. This time it was the presenter’s turn.

  • Bridget McManus

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Amanda Duthie is leaving Stan to join Netflix as its head of content for Australia and New Zealand.

Netflix poaches Amanda Duthie from Stan as new head of local content

After months of uncertainty following the departure of Que Minh Luu, Netflix has finally chosen a new head of content for Australia and New Zealand.

  • Karl Quinn
With the rise of AI voices, voice artist Simon Kennedy estimates his income has fallen by at least 20 per cent in the last year.

‘Forgive me if I’m not doing cartwheels’: Scepticism over AI payment breakthrough

Despite the agreement between unions and the tech giants to work on a model that would pay creatives for content mined by AI, the sector has its doubts.

  • Garry Maddox
MKR judges Manu Feildel (left) and Colin Fassnidge.

MKR’s dinner parties are crazy. Here’s how Colin Fassnidge handles them

Some big “personality” contestants challenge the chef and his judging partner Manu Feildel in the new season of the home-cooking show.

  • Bridget McManus
Eric Bana in his breakthrough role as Mark ‘Chopper’ Read. The movie won three AFI Awards, including best director and actor.

25 years since Chopper, Eric Bana is still one to watch

His new Netflix series is one of the most popular TV shows in the world right now. He didn’t get there by accident.

  • Debi Enker
David Genat, known as the Golden God, has been confirmed as the new host of Australian Survivor.

‘I won’t let you down’: New host of Australian Survivor announced

The confirmation follows weeks of rumours after former host Jonathan LaPaglia was sacked by Network Ten.

  • Meg Watson
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Harriet Walter (left) and Morgana O’Reilly play mother and daughter in Playing Gracie Darling.

‘Mare of Easttown, with ghosts’: The new show that brought this Succession star Down Under

First Succession, then Ted Lasso and Killing Eve. Now a supernatural mystery set in small-town Australia?

  • Debi Enker
AFLW broadcaster Kate McCarthy says the women’s game has “huge momentum” despite reported financial losses.

There are plenty of shows talking footy – this one takes on the AFLW

Broadcaster and former player Kate McCarthy says the time is right to build on the momentum of the women’s game.

  • Bridget McManus
What to stream this week (clockwise from top left): Emmanuelle; Building Bad; Reservation Dogs; Leanne, Playing Gracie Darling; and The Pickup.

What to stream this week: A supernatural Australian murder mystery and five more picks

Picks include local thriller Playing Gracie Darling, an Eddie Murphy action comedy and a three-season binge of Reservation Dogs. 

  • Craig Mathieson
“I didn’t know how to unpack the pain, so I’d mask it,” Stevenson says of his inward struggles while at the height of his fame. “I had to hide those demons that were inside.”

‘I didn’t know how to unpack the pain’: Home and Away star on facing teenage trauma

When he was just 18, Mat Stevenson shot to fame as a major soapie pin-up boy. But a painful secret gradually tore him apart.

  • Michael Idato