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After supposedly quitting television two years ago, Shaun Micallef returns next week with a new show on SBS – although these days he’s more interested in helping younger comics.

As she awaits a Supreme Court decision on an appeal against a ruling to allow men into a women-only space at Mona, Ladies Lounge creator Kirsha Kaechele says she feels ‘inspired’ and ‘optimistic’.

Charlie Covell’s brilliant Netflix series Kaos doesn’t so much retell the Greek myths as overthrow their narrative laws to build a new and necessary story.

I was forced to move lodgings,

was forced to move

my chilling mode from

solid boulder blocks to

gaseous intake. Now when I exhale

my frozen breath is fuel

that drives rockets to the

moon. It does not wake the bird

but something inside it

awakens.

In The Poetry of Violence, Bell Shakespeare artistic director Peter Evans creates an entertaining animated lecture of Shakespearean highlights.

Nominated for Best Drama at the Emmy Awards, espionage thriller Slow Horses is finally seeing some well-deserved attention ahead of the release of a splendid fourth season.