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To the hundreds (maybe thousands) of Offspring fans who took to social media overnight demanding that Ten order another season of their favourite Australian drama: do you really want to see Nina get screwed over again? Do you really want to see Billie and Mick break up again? Do you want to see Geraldine and Darcy in another feud over 40-year-old indiscretions? Do you really want there to be another medical crisis involving one of the main characters’ “offspring”? Because that’s basically what series creator Debra Oswald would have to do to justify another season.

Combine the words “drug users” and “films” and one imagines a blur of downers and unpleasantries: grotty apartments, wan-looking addicts with beanies and scabs, vomit-lined gutters, bullet-ridden men in singlets — that sort of thing.

Ugly Mugs, for those who aren’t familiar, is the name of a pamphlet that sex workers distribute to identify and warn each other about the violent, dangerous or abusive clients they encounter while working.

Hollywood is often thought of as the vanguard of progressive America, a hotspot of liberal values and cultural reformism forever tapped into the zeitgeist.

If Australian television has left you disappointed this year and never really set your heart ablaze, there are still a few chances for you to change your mind.

The Face of Love is the second film this year to explore the idea of doppelgangers by casting the same actor in two different roles.

As Netflix was staking out a place for itself as a content producer in 2013, it had several high profile original series, including the return season of cult comedy hit Arrested Development and the Kevin Spacey-led political thriller House of Cards.

There’s nine hours of Eurovision on Australian screens this weekend.

When September comes around in the United States and February arrives in Australia, TV fans are stuck with a dilemma: how can one person possibly watch all the television they want to? How can you take chances on all the promising new shows while keeping up with your old favourites? Being a couch potato can be awfully hard work in the Golden Age of Television.

Director John Curran’s Tracks is a road trip film with a twist: there is no road, there is no car, and the journey revolves around one person.

Yesterday the world’s most impressive array of frocked up celebrities congregated, as they do every year, to distribute prizes around a glorious looking room and watch show reels celebrating the work of themselves and their peers.

When the Eiffel Tower falls to the ground, when the Great Wall of China crumbles to dust, the Pyramids dissolve into sand and the Statue of Liberty is washed away, one human achievement will stand undiminished by the passage of time.