Amazingly, Pay-TV still operates in Australia, even though they’re all but redundant, but during its glory days in the late 90s, the previously absorbed, Austar, was my gateway to classic television. Alfred Hitchcock Presents was one of many shows that piqued the interest of my young curious mind, but I quickly found myself in The […]
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Law and Order set the standard of police procedural shows while creating an entire generation of armchair experts, but it was the Baltimore-based cop drama, Homicide Life on the Street, that pushed the envelope and boundaries of network television. Now the landmark series has returned to DVD in one impressively sized box set from Via
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Quite often made-for-TV movies are re-marketed or repackaged as stand-alone features for home media. Stephen King’s IT is probably the best example as many people still refer to adaptation as a film in the traditional sense. When it was announced that Imprint Films were bringing The Two Worlds of Jennie Logan on Blu-ray most were
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I was very lucky to have a social studies teacher who took the time to teach us about the Holocaust, which involved a viewing of Schindler’s List. He made a point to drum into us the mindset and blind racism of Hitler’s Third Reich, that lead to the most catastrophic failure of civilization ever witnessed.
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Nickelodeon was the first cable television channel for children, launched in 1979 and based in New York City. It wasn’t until 1995 when the signature orange broadcaster came to Australia via the ‘Pay-TV’ services Austar and Foxtel. The following year, one of its most popular series, Hey Arnold! premiered, running for five seasons with 100
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Ten years after directing the first ‘Summer Blockbuster’ Steven Spielberg was not only at the top of his game, he was a brand whose name was an unofficial seal of approval. Having started his career in television, Spielberg returned to the medium with the 45-episode anthology series, Amazing Stories, out now on DVD from Umbrella
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Umbrella Entertainment has been doubling down on their efforts in bringing Australian-made content to physical media, first with the creation of new sub-label, Sunburnt Screens, and the recent restart to their popular line of Ozploitation titles. Between these two events, Umbrella has unearthed the classic TV mini-series, A Town Like Alice, adapted from Neil Shute’s
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Synonymous with perfect vision and clarity, 2020 has been quite the opposite as a calendar year. With all that we’ve had to endure so far, appreciating the simple pleasures in life is more important than ever, be it a simple cup of coffee or a favourite TV show. If the latter is your jam and
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American television during the 1970s treated audiences to a number of absorbing and landmark mini-series’, often exploring the life experiences of everyday people. Rich Man, Poor Man is one such classic, based on Irwin Shaw’s 1969 novel of the same name and follows the diverging paths of two German-American brothers from an improvised migrant home
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Via Vision Entertainment continues to fill the void in Australia’s physical media market with classic television. Titles that would otherwise likely be relegated to streaming service. One that’s lesser-known to audiences, especially nowadays, is Ghost Story aka Circle of Fear, a short-lived anthology series that explores various supernatural themes. Now the horror show is on
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