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Louise Rugendyke

Louise Rugendyke

Louise Rugendyke is the National TV editor and a senior culture writer for The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age.

Hamish Macdonald travelled to the Philippines for his ABC documentary The Matter of Facts.

‘Facts are being challenged and undermined’: Hamish Macdonald on the biggest threat of our times

When the ABC journalist made headlines for quitting social media in 2021, he was, in many ways, ahead of the game.

  • Louise Rugendyke

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Married At First Sight expert Mel Schilling has died.

Married At First Sight expert Mel Schilling dies from cancer

The psychologist’s husband revealed the news of her death on Tuesday night. “She was our wee Melsie: an incredible mum, role model, and soulmate.”

  • Nell Geraets and Louise Rugendyke
David Berry as Lord John Grey in Outlander. 

‘I took a perverse delight in it’: David Berry on Outlander’s other great love story

The Australian actor has played Lord John Grey for eight years in the hit time-travelling Scottish drama.

  • Louise Rugendyke
Kyle Sandilands spoke about his future on radio during an appearance on Australian Idol

‘I have a job interview at Lowes’: Sandilands jokes about his future as deadline expires

The broadcaster declared his listeners wanted him to be back on air on Tuesday, hours before a deadline that could determine his future.

  • Calum Jaspan, Ellie Busby, Kayla Olaya and Louise Rugendyke
Georgie Gardner: "Tim is a wonderful father and has enabled me to have a big job. He is calm and consistent, which is good for me."

‘An enormous privilege’: Georgie Gardner announces she is leaving Nine

The newsreader and former Today host said she was humbled that viewers had followed her career for 25 years.

  • Louise Rugendyke
Hudson Williams and Connor Storrie star in hit gay hockey drama Heated Rivalry.

Forget the toxic grooms, these are the men you should be paying attention to on TV

Let’s hear it for the blokes – real and fictional – who know how to model good behaviour and what it means to be a good man.

  • Louise Rugendyke
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Nicole Kidman as chief medical examiner Kay Scarpetta.

It’s based on a best-selling series, but Nicole Kidman seems almost bored in this TV adaptation

Scarpetta is mid-TV, the kind that gives the impression of being prestige, but it leaves you felling, well, meh. You watch it, you move on. It doesn’t stick. 

  • Louise Rugendyke
Journalist David Speers at the ABC studios in Ultimo, from where ABC National Forum was broadcast.

How did the ABC’s Q+A successor stack up?

ABC National Forum promised respectful discussion. On that level it succeeded, but did it make good TV?

  • Louise Rugendyke
Simon Baker in enjoying the freedom that comes with age, in terms of choosing more complicated roles.

Simon Baker is no longer in his ‘pretty-boy’ era – and he’s just fine with that

Long a leading man, the Australian actor is now enjoying the freedom of getting older – and he’s delivering some of his best work yet.

  • Louise Rugendyke
ABC News director Justin Stevens and journalist David Speers, who will host the new discussion show ABC National Forum.

It’s not political and it’s not Q+A, so what is the ABC’s new National Forum?

Hosted by David Speers, the show is a clear signal of the direction Hugh Marks wants to take the public broadcaster.

  • Louise Rugendyke