iwonder: October highlights

This October on doco streamer iwonder are the tale of the mission to repopulate remote communities in India and the story of an American pageant designed to discover and celebrate girls with physical or learning disabilities. The Daughter Tree October 10th The Daughter Tree is an epic documentary, six years in the making, about the…

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Seven wins AFL week

The AFL Grand Final and Brownlow Medal has delivered a ratings win to Seven. The Grand Final drew 2.47m metro viewers (a figure which rose to 3.86m in Total TV). The Block remains the top Reality show of the week at 846,000 metro viewers. Network: Seven: 33.3 Nine: 27.6 ABC: 16.6 10: 14.8 SBS: 7.8…

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ACMA receives complaints on The Block

Media watchdog The Australian Communications and Media Authority has received a number of complaints around this season of The Block. ACMA received 28 complaints within a week. An ACMA spokesperson told The Australian. “The majority of the inquiries related to allegations of bullying, harassment and promotion of anti-social behaviour between contestants.” It follows many articles…

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RFDS: Oct 4

RFDS wraps a well-produced season on Seven this week, but on a new night: Wednesday. While awaiting the verdict of his tribunal, a suspended Pete (Stephen Peacocke) is forced to face his deepest fears, when he, a grieving Wayne (Rob Collins), and the RFDS crew are all tasked to a catastrophic multi-casualty boat crash in…

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Kitchen Cabinet: Oct 3

In the final episode of Kitchen Cabinet Annabel Crabb travels to Brisbane to cook with the youngest minister in the Albanese Government, 38 year old for the Aged Care and Sport minister, Anika Wells. Anika Wells has three children under the age of six, and so enlists Annabel to help batch cook a colossal lasagne…

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Reptile: Like a Season of True Detective in a Movie

I saw Reptile on Netflix last night, a movie with touches of Body Heat and Blue Velvet.  But it’s most like True Detective, the anthology (new characters every season) but brilliant HBO series coming back with a new season in January 2024. Meanwhile, Reptile has its grit and mix of painfully honest and corrupt detectives,…

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