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[AUSTRALIAN-TV]
TV№ 01
Boy Swallows Universe and what Netflix actually paid for
Twenty months after Netflix dropped the Trent Dalton adaptation in January 2024, the show has aged into one of the few streamer-funded Australian dramas that didn't get cancelled out of spite.
RHYS TAVITA07.05.2026
TV№ 02
Australian television in 2026 has more shows and fewer places to put them
The shows are good, the platforms are crowded, and the audience is splitting into fragments too small for any one show to own.
RHYS TAVITA16.04.2026
TV№ 03
The best Australian TV of 2025 was scattered across too many platforms to find
The year's best shows were on six different platforms, and nobody watches all six, which means every show was somebody's blind spot.
RHYS TAVITA26.11.2025
TV№ 04
Australian true-crime TV has run out of ways to say 'based on a true story'
Every Australian streamer has a true-crime limited series in development, and the genre is starting to eat itself.
RHYS TAVITA08.07.2025
TV№ 05
Wentworth ran for nine seasons and never once apologised for being a prison show
The longest-running Australian drama of the streaming era is a women's prison show that outlasted every prestige competitor by refusing to be anything else.
RHYS TAVITA24.11.2021
TV№ 06
The best Australian TV of 2020 was made for people who could not leave the house
The year's best shows were about confinement, isolation, and people stuck in places they could not leave, which felt about right.
RHYS TAVITA18.12.2020
TV№ 07
What we watched when everything stopped
Three months into lockdown, the streaming queue has replaced the cinema queue, and the couch has replaced everything else.
RHYS TAVITA14.06.2020
TV№ 08
Six Australian shows worth finding while the cinemas are closed
The cinemas shut, the couch stayed, and the back catalogues on iview and Stan are deeper than you think.
RHYS TAVITA16.04.2020
TV№ 09
What Australian television has coming in 2020 and why you should care
The ABC has a political thriller, Stan has a Cate Blanchett immigration drama, and Foxtel has whatever Foxtel always has, which is good television nobody subscribes to watch.
RHYS TAVITA22.01.2020