Debi Enker

Melbourne

Journalist, Writer, Radio Commentator at The Age

TV columnist, reviewer and writer, contributor to Raf Epstein's Morning show on ABC Radio 774

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Australia is making great TV right now. Too bad it’s all behind paywalls.

22 hours ago | watoday.com.au | Debi Enker

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Australia is making great TV right now. Too bad it’s all behind paywalls.

22 hours ago | smh.com.au | Debi Enker

By Debi Enker April 24, 2025 — 5.30am, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. What do The Narrow Road to the Deep North, Scrublands and The Last Anniversary have in common? Yes, they’re recently released Australian-made drama series adapted from books by local authors.
Why Netflix and other streaming services are stacked with shows about detectives, doctors and lawyers

2 weeks ago | smh.com.au | Debi Enker

By Debi Enker April 9, 2025 — 12.30pm, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Remember the early days of streaming? It was a time of abundance and flexibility. Viewers who’d been captive to the practices of broadcast networks and pay-TV services threw off the shackles and relished a smorgasbord of new content. Pioneering disrupter Netflix offered entire seasons of shows on demand and ad-free.
You’re not imagining it – paranoid thrillers are everywhere on TV right now

1 month ago | smh.com.au | Debi Enker

, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. At a time of such global instability, it’s no surprise paranoid thrillers are flourishing on TV. The climate is right for stories shaped by fear and mistrust. Their plots typically involve the machinations of unseen, dark and powerful organisations. The protagonists might stumble across a piece of information: a message, a code, a theory.
You’re not imagining it – paranoid thrillers are everywhere on TV right now

1 month ago | watoday.com.au | Debi Enker

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She’s a bestselling author, but Liane Moriarty didn’t want to adapt this novel

1 month ago | smh.com.au | Debi Enker

, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. The Last Anniversary is about a woman finding her way in the world, unexpectedly becoming part of an intriguing community and possibly discovering a place to call home. Along the way, she also finds herself caught up in a mystery.
From Aunty Jack to Kath & Kim and Bluey: 50 years of colour TV in Australia

1 month ago | watoday.com.au | Craig Mathieson |Michael Idato |Debi Enker

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From Aunty Jack to Kath & Kim and Bluey: 50 years of colour TV in Australia

1 month ago | smh.com.au | Craig Mathieson |Michael Idato |Debi Enker

, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. March 1, 1975, marks the day colour television was first broadcast in Australia. The television sets might have been small and boxy, but the impact was huge, as it finally brought us up to speed with the US and the UK, which had been broadcasting in colour since 1954 and 1969 respectively. To celebrate the occasion, we thought we’d look back at 50 years of colour TV.
Why this ABC watchdog is still one of the most important shows on TV

2 months ago | smh.com.au | Debi Enker

By Debi Enker February 18, 2025 — 11.52am, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Media Watch has always punched above its weight. With episodes just 15 minutes long, the Monday night fixture has earned points for impact and relevance over more than three decades. Reflecting on the first episode on May 8, 1989, The Age’s TV critic, Barbara Hooks, observed “the notion of accountability has never been more critical”.
Why this ABC watchdog is still one of the most important shows on TV

2 months ago | watoday.com.au | Debi Enker

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