For more than a decade, South Korean director Hwang Dong-hyuk couldn't convince a studio to fund his film project about a brutal game show that preyed on society's most vulnerable.
What we're watching: If you grew up on a diet of Taggart and Cracker, or have a taste for Scandi thrillers, this Scottish-set series will be right up your alley.
Guy Montgomery's Guy Mont-Spelling Bee has earned the Kiwi comedian a Logie nomination for Most Popular New Talent at the prestigious Australian television awards.
Narrowing down to just 10 shows was no easy task, this could have easily been a Top 20 list without breaking a sweat. Nevertheless, hard decisions had to be made. So here are the 10 shows we consider the best of the year so far.
As each episode of The Pitt finishes, I wipe the sweat (and sometimes tears) from my face, take a sip of water and get ready for another hour in the ED.
In Stories of Surrender, Bono appears solo on stage, sharing stories, jokes and songs that illuminate what life is like for the man behind the sunglasses.
Praise be! The series finale of The Handmaid's Tale has dropped and it's the last time we have to sit in a full body clench of anxiety waiting to find out what becomes of June Osborne and her band of rebel handmaids.
There are striking differences between the fanfare and cultural symbolism of earlier seasons of The Handmaid's Tale and its middling finale. How did the show lose its way?
In 2025, the world’s entire catalogue of television is just a click away. So why is that we keep skipping the latest series in favour of old favourites?
The beloved presenter's latest film is about the glory of the watery world that feeds us, cleans our air and could save us from climate catastrophe. But also about how we are killing it.
Bailey Poching plays a radio DJ looking for love in Netflix's new Arctic comedy. The actor, who identifies as Samoan and Māori, relished the role which brings Indigenous communities together.
"Has anyone seen my Lorazepam?" Parker Posey’s Southern-drawled plea has thrust an anti-anxiety drug into the spotlight in the latest season of Mike White's dark comedy.
The Kiwi actor was in a Liverpool cafe when she found out the drama series was in the running for a BAFTA (British Academy of Film and Television Arts) award for Best International Show.
Good American Family is inspired by the harrowing but real story of Natalia Grace, who lives with a rare form of dwarfism. Here's the complicated true story.
Hilaria Baldwin was caught in a cultural appropriation scandal. Alec was involved in an accidental on-set shooting. Some reputation rehab was in order - can this peppy reality show possibly be it?
Jarring explanations of the obvious aside, local audiences will find much to enjoy about the 83-year-old actor's new show Miriam Margolyes in New Zealand.
Benedict Cumberbatch's performance as a wealthy, drugged-up New Yorker dropped into grief makes this five-part drama well worth a watch, writes Graham Smith.
