The Newsreader

“To watch The Newsreader in an age of boundaries and therapy-speak is to feel at once privileged not to be working in broadcast television in the 1980s, and acutely aware that many of the problems still persist today. As unsettling as it is, the programme has often been excellent: I have a suspicion that if this were a US series, it would be a smash hit. The first episode is a wonderfully camp, highly dramatic affair, as Helen and Dale reunite at the biggest night in Aussie TV, the Logie awards, alongside Kylie Minogue and Jason Donovan.”
Hannah J Davies, The Guardian

“Sam Reid is hugely likeable as Dale, delivering various shades of diffidence while conveying the fear of being outed in public. But the real star is Anna Torv, who is brilliant as our pioneering one-woman dynamo. She is someone who can, it seems, do no wrong, forging ahead with her career and defending other women who follow in her wake, especially poor Noelene, the put-upon wife of a jockish sports presenter, who has worked tirelessly for Cunningham but seems to be at risk of being ditched simply because she is pregnant. As I say, it’s not subtle. But, like all the best news teams, it does the business.”
Ben Dowell, The Times

“Either nobody bothered looking at the opening minutes of The Newsreader as it returned for a third series or, worse still, somebody did — and failed to see how grossly offensive it was. To use the Lockerbie crash as a backdrop for light comedy is simply unforgivable.”
Christopher Stevens, Daily Mail