Grace Dent on TV: Jimmy McGovern's Banished sheds light on sex slavery,...
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View ArticleMelinda Houston TV previews: Banished and the birth of Australia as we know it
BANISHED New series ★★★★ Thursday, June 25, 8.30pm, BBC First "I will not always be a convict." Jimmy McGovern knows how to tell a story, and in that single line he establishes one of the central...
View ArticleBanished, TV review: McGovern magic goes missing in a contrived and soppy...
You know what you're getting with a Jimmy McGovern drama. Or you usually do. The first episode of new seven-part series Banished featured no campaigning dialogue, no searing takes on contemporary...
View ArticleBanished: everything you need to know about BBC Two's new Australian convict...
With all the focus on the Beeb’s sweeping new adaptation of Poldark, which will be setting pulses racing on Sunday evening, you may have missed Banished. It’s BBC Two’s gritty new period drama about a...
View ArticleBanished resonates despite non-Indigenous criticism
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View ArticleBanished, episode 2, TV review: Jimmy McGovern’s drama is struggling to break...
It’s all about the 1780s at the BBC as new period dramas Poldark and Banished barrel across our screens with their funny trousers, three cornered hats and overuse of the word ‘godforsaken’. One can...
View ArticleBBC's Banished: How I tried and failed to get Indigenous characters on TV
David Wenham in Banished. Photo: BBC Convicts and sex slaves: sorting the fact from the fiction in British TV series 'Banished' BBC's Banished re-tells our own history with David Wenham at the helm...
View ArticleBanished: behind-the-scenes on BBC period drama – in pictures
As the popular BBC drama begins on Foxtel, we get a behind-the-scenes glimpse of the TV drama, filmed in Manly and in Manchester, and based on the historic events of the settlement of the first fleet...
View ArticleBanished: behind the scenes on BBC period drama – in pictures
As the popular BBC drama begins on Foxtel, we get a behind-the-scenes glimpse of the TV...
View ArticleBanished: Jimmy McGovern tells story of first British convicts in Australia
In his latest TV drama Banished, writer Jimmy McGovern tells a brutal story about the first British convicts to be transported to Australia. "There will be so many Australian writers kicking themselves...
View ArticleBanished premiere wins UK viewers but not critics
Banished, the first commission from Australian cable channel BBC First, premiered on BBC2 last week, winning its timeslot but failing to impress...
View ArticleRyan Corr on Banished, Holding the Man and gay marriage in Australia
The star of the BBC period drama on its lack of Indigenous characters, taking career advice from Russell Crowe, and the march towards marriage equality ...
View ArticleJimmy McGovern's new TV series 'Banished': Why Australia's past has such...
On the 26 January 1788, at the sweltering height of the antipodean summer and after an eight-month sea voyage by way of Rio de Janeiro and Cape Town, 11 ships anchored off the coast of New South Wales...
View ArticleTribal Mind: Banished star David Wenham blown away by truth about Arthur Phillip
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View ArticleBBC's Banished: Jimmy McGovern defends all-white cast
Fatal shore ... David Wenham as Governor Arthur Phillip on the set of Banished at Manly Dam. A new seven-part BBC drama series about the arrival of the first fleet in Sydney has drawn big TV audiences...
View ArticleBBC's Banished: David Wenham, Jimmy McGovern defend all-white cast
Fatal shore ... David Wenham as Governor Arthur Phillip on the set of Banished at Manly Dam. A new seven-part BBC drama series about the arrival of the first fleet in Sydney has drawn big TV audiences...
View ArticleBBC's Banished re-tells our own history with David Wenham at the helm
WHAT Banished WHEN BBC First, Thursday June 25, 8.30pm David Wenham is not happy with his hair. He's sitting on location in a wooded area beside Sydney's Manly Dam, fiddling with what turns out to be...
View Article'Banished' shows British penal colony in 18th century Australia no picnic
Watching the first episode of Banished is like watching an 18th-century version of Judge Judy. Or Judge Judith, as she probably would have been called back then. Banished, which makes its Canadian...
View ArticleDavid Wenham takes promotional shot for new show Banished set in colonial...
David Wenham is seen posing for promo material for Banished - a series based on colonial Australia - with an iPhone falling out of his pocket....
View ArticleBanished, episode 3, review: There are some lovely moments in Jimmy...
Midway through the latest episode of Jimmy McGovern’s Banished, dramatising the (mis)adventures of the First Fleet as they settle in a hostile 18th Century Australia, David Wenham’s upstanding Governor...
View ArticleWarming up for autumn: Fall movie list
The 2016 Fall Movie Preview is a snapshot of the films opening through early November. Release dates and other details, as compiled by Kevin Crust, are subject to change. Friday Antibirth A rapidly...
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View ArticleThe making of Ed Miliband
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This week belonged to the speediest of chasers with a life-affirming deafen-your-friends battle for the Tingle Creek, plus a scintillating solo presentation little more than an hour earlier at the same...
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Whatever you thought of the fashion, the 80s fuelled some absolute bangers. Ah, the 80s. Whether you were donning your finest spandex and getting tiddly on Cinzano or putting on the leathers and...
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An American version of class struggle. Arising from the shadows of the American repressed, Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump have been sending chills through the corridors of establishment power. Who...
View ArticleThe week in TV: Banished; Storyville: India’s Daughter; Surviving Sandy Hook;...
Jimmy McGovern’s new period drama recreated the fatal shore of Australia in 1788, while two shocking documentaries showed the present day faring little better when it comes to humanity’s capacity for...
View ArticleAFL: Case for the defence (North Melbourne Football Club)
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View ArticleOur favourite children’s and YA books of 2016
PJ Lynch One of my favourite picture books this year is Owl Bat Bat Owl by Marie-Louise Fitzpatrick. It is a wordless story that celebrates tolerance, friendship and co-operation between these unlikely...
View ArticleThe 50 best horror movies ever
Halloween is fast approaching with a crucific in one hand, a bag of pestilent rodents in the other and a hockey mask stuck to its face. To prepare, we've summoned up with the ultimate list of the...
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The most interesting developments over the New Year period involved the novices, with Nicky Henderson's chasing pair Buveur D'Air and Whisper notching further successes and Alan King's hurdler Messire...
View ArticleMad Max: Fury Road triumphs at Australian Academy of Cinema and Television...
When George Miller and his Australian crew were shooting Mad Max: Fury Road in the Namibian desert three years ago, the last thing they would have been expecting was awards. The fourth Mad Max movie...
View ArticleThe week in TV: Game of Thrones; Banished; The Delivery Man; Inside Harley...
Game of Thrones is back with more of the delicious same and a whole new audience. And ITV has a funny comedy on its hands...
View ArticleMonument Avenue 10K: Women's winners by age group
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U.S. foreign policy is dangerous, undemocratic, and deeply out of sync with real global challenges. Is continuous war inevitable, or can we change course? By Conn Hallinan and Leon Wofsy June 23, 2015...
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