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2 months ago | 
abc.net.au | Beverley Wang |Hannah Reich |Sarah Mashman |Clare Rawlinson |David Le May
It’s been a good run, and it’s not going to stop. In fact, from now on, it’ll be double your money – Bev’s welcoming a new co-host, Hannah Reich!Hannah is an ABC digital arts producer, journalist and vexed pop culture nerd, obsessed with romantasy and mumfluencing, among other things. Together, Bev and Hannah will hold space to overthink and process the world around them every week. But that’s not all, in 2025 Stop Everything! wants to hear from YOU.
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2 months ago | 
abc.net.au | Beverley Wang |Sarah Mashman |Clare Rawlinson |David Lemay
January hit hard: LA burned, Mark Zuckerberg ended fact-checking on Meta, President Donald Trump was sworn in again, Elon kept Musking, and ... it’s awards season! If all of this is making you feel — destabilised — you’re not alone. It’s time to check the vibe on 2025. Screen critic and pop culture reporter Jared Richards is in to help Bev overthink how what’s happening out in the world is affecting our social media and pop culture habits. Is there an ethical way to reach for escapism?
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Jan 22, 2025 | 
abc.net.au | Beverley Wang |Sarah Mashman |Clare Rawlinson |David Lemay
Comedian, rom-com lover and professional bookworm Jennifer Wong confesses that she’s never read Jane Austen, and Bev is horrified. But 2025 is the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen’s birth so Jen is ready to break her own denim rule for content and find out what the hype is all about. Meanwhile, Bev has pop culture knowledge gaps of her own to disclose ... what could they be?!?
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
abc.net.au | Clare Rawlinson |Carey Dell |Sarah Mashman |Beverley Wang
Twenty-three years after the original series of The Office debuted, Australia has its own version of the mockumentary workplace comedy, They Office featuring needy bad boss - and chump- Hannah Howard, played by Felicity Ward. Felicity and show runners Jackie Van Beek and Julie De Fina talk to BW about how this 13th version of The Office, streaming on Prime Video, adapts itself to the post-pandemic world of work.
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Jan 8, 2025 | 
abc.net.au | Beverley Wang |Sarah Mashman |Clare Rawlinson |Carey Dell
Vietnamese-Australian actor Hoa Xuande stars as The Captain in HBO's The Sympathizer, a limited series based on Viet Thanh Nguyen's Pulitzer-prize winning novel. Hoa takes us behind the scenes, telling us about how he landed this huge role, and what it was like to act opposite heavyweights like Robert Downey Jr. and Sandra Oh.
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Dec 4, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Beverley Wang |Sarah Mashman |Clare Rawlinson |David Lemay
If you need help figuring out which shows to catch up on over the holidays (yay!), this one’s for you. TV critic Wenlei Ma is in to help BW countdown the most unforgettable, sexiest, funniest, surprising and entertaining shows of 2024.
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Nov 27, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Beverley Wang |Sarah Mashman |Clare Rawlinson |Allyse Symons
In Disney’s Moana sequel, our heroine is a wayfinding big sis and leader of her community, on the cusp of a new mission to unite the people of the ocean. Guest critic Sosefina Fuamoli is in to talk about why Moana’s journey in this follow-up stirs up so many emotions. An award-winning music journalist, Sose also gives her take on how women in music won 2024.
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Nov 20, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Beverley Wang |Sarah Mashman |Clare Rawlinson |Matthew Crawford
Let’s go to the movies and feel joy again! Jon M. Chu’s Wicked and 86-year-old Ridley Scott’s Gladiator II are going head-to-head at the box office and we’re lapping it up. We haven’t had movies this big since 2023’s back-to-back releases of Barbie and Oppenheimer, aka “Barbenheimer”. Will “Glicked” save the movies and snatch the awards season trophies? Guest critic Maria Lewis – screenwriter, film geek and pop culture etymologist is in the house.
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Nov 13, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Beverley Wang |Sarah Mashman |Clare Rawlinson |Simon Rose |Allyse Symons
We’re throwing what we think about celebrity endorsements out the window after the US election results. Endorsements from Taylor Swift, Beyoncé, Bruce Springsteen, Bad Bunny and Cardi B couldn’t help Kamala Harris in a race where Donald Trump had the likes of Joe Rogan – the world’s biggest podcaster – and Elon Musk – the world’s richest person – in his corner.
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Nov 6, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Beverley Wang |Sarah Mashman |Clare Rawlinson |Allyse Symons
Twenty-three years after the original series of The Office debuted, Australia has its own version of the mockumentary workplace comedy, for the first time featuring women in two of the core roles. Felicity Ward, who plays needy bad boss Hannah Howard, and show runners Jackie Van Beek and Julie De Fina talk to BW about how this 13th version of The Office, streaming on Prime Video, adapts itself to the post-pandemic world of work.
