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David Dale The Tribal Mind
When violence is right and good and silly
David Dale Django Unchained and Gangster Squad have been dragged into the gun control debate. But they're a different story from Call of Duty: Black Ops II.
David Dale The Tribal Mind
THE RATINGS RACE: Weeks 1 and 2 of 2013
David Dale Do you have recommendations for coping with the silly season? Plus what Australia watched on Pay TV and free TV in the first two weeks of January.
David Dale The Tribal Mind
THE RATINGS RACE: Week 50, when Love Actually made its annual return
David Dale How Australia watched in the week ending December 15.
WHO WE ARE: Australia is the perfect host for Star Wars
David Dale The picture shows the new Organa hairstyle, worn by the top Aussie candidate for heroine of SWVII, which would also be written, directed and filmed in Australia.
David Dale The Tribal Mind
THE RATINGS RACE: Week 40
David Dale What Australia watched in the week ending October 6, including Pay TV as soon as they send it to us.
David Dale The Tribal Mind
WHO WE ARE: Why the iGen is more moral than the MeGen
David Dale The age group known to Australians as the iGen – people born between 1986 and 2005, masters of technology, crippled by attention deficit disorder – have been rebranded by the US commentariat.
David Dale The Tribal Mind
THE RATINGS RACE: Week 39
David Dale How Australia passed the time waiting for the AFLGF in the week ending September 28.
WHO WE ARE: To curb your enthusiasm for the Olympics, a game of thrones is justified
David Dale Here's a curmudgeon's guide to binge opportunities when television's full of sports. Please add your recommended bingeworthies.
THE RATINGS RACE: Week 4
David Dale Channel Ten must be insane to waste a new season of Glee on a night when the target audience are all out trying to get alcohol with fake IDs. Look at the pathetic numbers in the Friday chart.
THE RATINGS RACE: First two weeks of 2012
David Dale When SBS gets a show in the week's top 50 ... You can tell that nobody's watching television. But we are going to the flicks and this forum's readers are sharing their judgements.
The benefit of hindsight IV: How trash improves your mind
David Dale A vintage Tribal MInd: Cast aside your guilt. Stop being ashamed of enjoying commercial TV shows, big budget movies, and fast computer games.
Triumphs and embarrassments: How Australia watched television in 2011
David Dale Why did millions wilfully shorten their lives by sticking with old media? Downton Abbey, The X-Factor, Paper Giants, The Block, Underbelly, The Big Bang Theory ...
THE RATINGS RACE: Week 41
David Dale Car racing and posh rugby. Just when you hoped programming could return to normal, the networks found more sport to clutter their schedules.
THE RATINGS RACE: Week 40
David Dale Here's how Australia's capital cities watched free TV and pay TV in the weed ending October 1
In the world's favourite flicks, Aussies rule
David Dale IT MUST be more than coincidence that six of the ten highest-grossing movies in the history of the world feature Australians in major roles. There is something in the air, or at least in our drama ...
WHO WE ARE: How Australians pass the time -- Outdoors
David Dale WE ARE the timelords, the masters of multitasking. We want it all and we want it now, and over the past two decades we’ve found a way to squeeze every advance in entertainment into our schedule...
WHO WE ARE: Here's what makes Australians nostalgic
David Dale The music middle-aged people are most nostalgic about is the music that was playing the first time they had sex, so here are the albums and singles that farewelled our virginity
What's the best whodunit on the box?
David Dale AT 9pm last Sunday, 6.5 million Australians were watching a murder mystery. They weren’t all tuned to the same murder mystery, of course, but they were unanimous in their devotion to sleuths in...
Bogans R Us -- or soon will be
David Dale LETS TALK about the boganisation of Australia. Should we resist it, try to cling to the sophistication we’ve developed in recent years, or is that futile? Shouldn't we cast aside our elitist ...
The ratings race: The final fortnight of 2010
David Dale It's the most reliable ratings grabber of the 21st century, and it's back on the ABC. On New Year's Day we settled in for a suspenseful but comfortable time in the English countryside.
