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Seven boss blows up at Chaser stunt

Seven chief executive David Leckie explodes over The Chaser team in front of photographers.

Chaser's Today Tonight skit exposes private phone numbers

A Today Tonight segment that sought to discredit comedians from The Chaser program has exposed the private phone numbers of freelance journalists.

Chasers 'stunned' at Today Tonight 'beat-up'

The Chaser team have hit back at Channel Seven's injunction over a stunt involving Anna Coren.

Childen's TV akin to child abuse - Hazelhurst

Noni Hazlehurst has slammed the standard of Australian television, likening it to child abuse for the damage it does to young minds.

Ray guns for the Golden Tonsils

Talkback legend John Laws's spray on radio colleague Ray Hadley gets an unusual response.

Seven wins legal battle against the Chaser

Chennel Seven has successfully prevented The Chaser's War on Everything from screening a segment featuring Anna Coren.

Idol finalists announced

Matt Corby and Natalie Gauci are on their to the Opera House and the Australian Idol final.

Malcolm McLaren quits TV show

Former Sex Pistols manager pulls out of reality show in Aussie "jungle" for fear of snakes.

It's so hip to go with the Flo

Gillian Armstrong Truth is stranger than fiction in a colourful documentary about Australian designer Florence Broadhurst.

Radio with pictures

Ian  Parry-Okedon Turning 80 years of local radio into a TV doco posed real challenges.

Holy war, on message

Mullah Krekar Foreign Correspondent shows the face of eloquent extremism. It's that of Mullah Krekar.

Shock to the system

There's no end of drama when a long-running series tries to reinvent itself.

Hines still an Idol - for now

Marcia Hines Marcia Hines is sticking with her role as a judge of Australian Idol for the time being, but she will quit if the format becomes too stale.

Give thanks for Hank

David Duchovny One of the television industry's biggest barometers for a new show is its "water cooler factor".

TV REVIEWS

Airline

If you think the passengers are bad, try listening to their poetry.

Madly In Love

A startlingly insensitive title for a program about a dating agency for people with mental problems.

The Great Escape

For many, John Sturges' The Great Escape is the greatest POW movie of all time.

Can We Help?

With his show suffering from an identity crisis, Peter Rowsthorn looks tired.

The Brief

This four-part British legal-eagle drama takes an unusual format.

DVD REVIEWS

Volver

Pedro Almodovar can get away with things few film directors would dare offer up.

A Crude Awakening: The Oil Crash

Sceptics might see this as another greenie beat-up but it's hard to stay sanguine in the face of the evidence presented here.

Bigger than Life

Director Nicholas Ray combined emotional intensity and yearning with fierce critiques of American culture.

Peep Show - Series 1

Warped and wicked, you'll cringe - if you aren't laughing too hard.

Children Of Men

Grim but impressive vision of Britain in 2026 and a world teetering on the apocalypse.