Media arts


Outsourcing the arts at Aunty: the problem with commissioning

ABC TV’s flagship program Art Nation has been axed and 15 people have also been reportedly offered redundancies. So what does that mean for arts programming, asks Nicholas Pickard?

US previews Kath & Kim, asks WTF

We didn’t particularly want to see Kath & Kim remade for a US audience, and it seems American reviewers feel the same way.

Stockmarket kicks Fairfax in the shins

The stockmarket gave Fairfax Media a gentle kicking this morning after it did what everyone expected it to do and ground out a profit for the June 30 year that hardly set the world afire, writes Glenn Dyer.