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Review: I'm excited to see where the ABC's 'Race Around The World' goes

After a 28 year break, the format still works...mostly

Culture

Ten new IMAX locations launching in Australia and New Zealand

So far there doesn’t seem to be word of where. Might I suggest somewhere on the NSW South Coast. Via HOYTS: HOYTS Cinemas, Australia’s number one cinema chain with more than 30% of national admissions and IMAX Corporation has announced an agreement for 10 new state-of-the-art IMAX® with

Smiling Friends

Smiling Friends ending after Season 3 - transcript

Smiling Friends, created by Australia's own Michael Cusack and (America's own) Zach Hadel, is ending after Season 3. The creators made the announcement on cable network Adult Swim's YouTube channel. Two additional episodes of Season 3 are set to air April 12 in the

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Some Apple Music Radio shows, including Time Crisis, went on a weird, unexplained 3-month hiatus

As the only blog in the world that covers Apple Music radio, I feel like it's important to note a weird recent programming change on Apple Music 1. Some Apple Music radio shows were put on an early hiatus around September 2025, with notable show Time Crisis, hosted

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CBS cancels The Late Show franchise after 32 years, Colbert iteration to end next year

From Variety: “We consider Stephen Colbert irreplaceable and will retire ‘The Late Show’ franchise” in May of 2026,” CBS executives said in a statement. “We are proud that Stephen called CBS home. He and the broadcast will be remembered in the pantheon of greats that graced late night television. This

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Binge's 'Back Side of Television' is a hint of 'Last Week Tonight' through the lens of Australian TV

'The Back Side Of Television' from Mitch McTaggart, currently airing its third season on Binge, feels like it's getting away with something. With most Australian TV forming into a beige, harmless soup, where most shows are afraid to say anything of substance, this show feels different.

Channel 10 leans into the digits with rebrand

Or I guess I should just say 10. That's the message from 10's rebrand today, which pushes away Play, Peach and Bold and instead leans into 10 as its core identity. On-air promos won't direct users to 10 Play anymore, instead telling viewers that

Gaming

"High-profile failures in the video game industry have changed how we talk about games for the worse"

Love this from Mikhail Klimentov on ReaderGrev: So why did business augury become one of the primary ways in which people talk about games online? Look around and you’ll see it everywhere, from people with no obvious reason to pocket-watch. (Surely they’re not investors in these companies!) Handwringing

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Multiple staffers leave Giant Bomb as Fandom ruins more of the internet

Fandom Blows Up Giant BombA cornerstone of gaming is in shambles following interference from the wiki farmKotakuHome Giant Bomb’s future is uncertain following a showdown with parent company Fandom, which also owns GameSpot, over editorial interference. Creative director Dan Ryckert announced on a recent livestream that he would no

"Polygon Acquired by Porn Mogul Who Co-Founded Brazzers" - sold by Vox Media.

It is a brutal day for institutional games media, and independent media cannot fill the void.

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2Day FM promises 'the hits before they hit'

2Day FM Sydney is ditching its crusty music format for a fresh new one, which is a shock in a market that almost entirely caters mainly to older millennials with "throwbacks" galore. It's gotten so bad that Triple J, a previously 'alternative' station, now

Max launches in Australia March 31, putting Binge in limbo.

There's a a big shake up coming for Foxtel, specifically Foxtel's Binge. Another streaming platform is launching in Australia, with Warner Bros. Discovery today announcing the local launch date for Max. The service will start March 31, but other details are still a little unclear. Previously known as HBO Max, but also confusingly hosting both HBO Originals and Max Originals, the service has been available in the US since 2020.

It looks like the service will launch with exclusive access to HBO programming, as well as other Warner Bros. Discovery properties. Which does might put Binge in a bit of limbo, if we're reading this literally.

Via Whistleout:

A spokesperson for WBD confirmed to WhistleOut that new Warner Bros. and HBO content won't premiere on Binge. Hubbl has started bringing some live and on-demand Kayo Sports over to Binge to add value to the service.

WhistleOut has reached out to Foxtel for comment on what will happen to the existing catalogue of HBO content on Binge.

And from the press release:

As the home of HBO Originals and Max Originals, Max will offer fans culture-defining series including returning seasons of The Last of Us, And Just Like That..., House of the Dragon, Euphoria and Peacemaker as well as highly anticipated new shows such as It: Welcome to Derry and A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, from the world of Game of Thrones.

Subscribers will also be able to enjoy recently released theatrical hits from Warner Bros. Pictures, including blockbusters from the last few years such as Barbie, Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice and Twisters, alongside treasured franchises including Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings and the DC Universe. Coupled with all-time fan-favourites including Friends, The Big Bang Theory and Rick and Morty, best-in-class real-life stories across food, home, lifestyle and factual like 90 Day Fiancé and Outback Opal Hunters, as well as family viewing such as Ben 10 and We Bare Bears, Max promises to set the bar for consistently captivating, craveable entertainment.

In addition, WBD also announced a launch partnership with Foxtel, providing Foxtel subscribers with access to the Max app at no additional cost.*

*Requires a compatible Foxtel IQ box. Some customers will need to upgrade their box. Included Max plan is Basic with Ads.

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Channel 10 is reheating the talk show genre with Sam Pang as host

While the late-night talk show genre is still alive and well in the US, the format hasn't been very active in Australia in decades. The Late Show, The Tonight Show, Jimmy Kimmel Live and others still grace US screens with timeslots as late as 11:35pm, and even

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What makes this 90s CBS ID so specificlly 90s?

The YouTube algorithm fed me some good slop today in the form of US network CBS's 1997 fall campaign, weirdly pitched as "The Address Is CBS". How can an address be a TV channel? Who knows. But watching it back, it is weird to see this

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Apple Music launches three new live radio stations

In a world of AI DJs and generated music slop, Apple Music is doubling down on "live" radio - with some of it pre-recorded but still hosted by humans. Apple Music 1 host and Apple Music’s global creative director even commented on Apple Music Radio's

The Verge introduces metered paywall.

Update: The paywall has launched. Via Semafor:

Editor-in-chief Nilay Patel told Semafor that the move was intended to drive additional revenue and insulate The Verge from changes made by social media platforms[...]

“I think it’s a tragedy that garbage is free and news is behind paywalls. I don’t want to make that worse,” Patel said. “I think that The Verge homepage and our news coverage serves a central utility function in our ecosystem.”

The website also hints at future integrations with ActivityPub and Bluesky in an effort to take the focus away from SEO and social-media traffic and make The Verge homepage a platform of its own.

Early benefits include unlimited access to posts, such as paywalled newsletters and metered product reviews and features, limited ads on all Verge content and a physical limited edition magazine. Also the original decentralised solution, RSS, is available to subscribers, with unabridged posts available through RSS readers.

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According to Semafor, Vox Media's technology website The Verge is going behind a paywall. Some content will remain free:

Beginning this week, the Verge will charge $7/month or $50/year for comprehensive access to the site as well as the already-paywalled newsletters Command Line and Notepad.

Some content and the publication’s homepage, which was redesigned in 2022 to resemble a social feed, will remain free. The Verge is Vox Media’s third major subscription push behind New York and Vox, which launched a membership program earlier this year.

Everything old is new again at Vox Media, which will also be introducing an app for its publication New York Magazine, focused on digital NY Mag subscribers:

It will be the magazine’s second crack at a mobile app; New York first launched an iPhone app in 2016.