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Bridget McManus

Bridget McManus

Bridget McManus is a television writer and critic for Green Guide. She was deputy editor of Green Guide from 2006 to 2010 and now also writes features and interviews for Life & Style in The Saturday Age and M magazine in The Sunday Age.

Alyla Browne stars in Whale Shark Jack.

This Aussie teen works with major film stars. Now she’s swimming with whale sharks

Alyla Browne hasn’t even started her final year of school, but she’s doing her own underwater stunts.

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Claudia Karvan and Luke Wiltshire in Homebodies. 

‘A love letter to the parent’: The role that reduced Claudia Karvan to tears

The actor has won hearts playing complex, loving mothers, but it was the role of an empty-nester that hit the hardest.

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Husband and wife Romy Konigseder and Dan Mansour, who created Flower and Flour based on Konigseder’s childhood.

Romy used to fall asleep on bags of flour at her parents’ restaurant. Her story is now a cute ABC show

The creators of Flower and Flour say they have Bluey to thank for helping them put harder “everyday” topics on screen.

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John Silvester and Stuart Bateson star in the miniseries Naked City: Hitmen.

The gangland killing that John Silvester can’t stop thinking about

In a new miniseries, the respected crime reporter, along with former top cop Stuart Bateson, revisits the contract killers who once ruled Melbourne.

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Andrew Winter in the Rostrevor home featured in the first episode of Selling Houses Australia.

Family memories don’t sell houses, but getting tough love on TV does

The host of Selling Houses Australia isn’t interested in being “warm and fuzzy”; he’s all about reality.

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Tonight at the Museum host Alex Lee (middle) with (from left) Alan Davies, Tegan Higginbotham, Brett Blake and Zoe Coombs Marr.

‘I had no idea’: The ABC quiz show asking the questions you may not want the answers to

Animals with “dynamic and hardworking vaginas” were not top of mind for Alex Lee when she agreed to host Tonight at the Museum.

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Friedrich was the head of the Victorian division of the National Safety Council of Australia.

He was one of Australia’s greatest fraudsters. Now a documentary uncovers his extraordinary story

When Marc Fennell stumbled across John Friedrich, he couldn’t believe more people hadn’t heard of the elusive criminal.

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Brooke Blurton has joined Ernie Dingo on Going Places with Ernie Dingo on NITV and SBS.

‘I just need to back myself’: The big question Brooke Blurton really wants to ask on TV

With the backing of long-time friend Ernie Dingo, the outspoken former Bachelorette is ready for her “dream-come-true” gig.

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The Chase’s Chasers (clockwise from left): Cheryl Toh, David Poltorak, Matt Parkinson, Brydon Coverdale, Issa Schultz and Mara Lejins.

Everyone’s mum loves The Chase – but this quiz has unexpected fans too

“Quiz, as a genre, is having a moment,” says Matt Parkinson (aka Goliath), one of the original Chasers.

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Dr Karl Kruszelnicki visits a bread factory for season two of his ABC series Dr Karl’s How Things Work.

‘I discovered things I had no idea about!’ The factory visit that surprised Dr Karl

In season two of his ABC series, the popular scientist uncovers the history of even more Australian products.

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