Ben Skinner

'Brassic', a barmy comedy about the trials and tribulations of a would-be gang in the fictional town of Hawley is so much more than just 'Reservoir Dogs' in Northern England.

The singer-songwriter talks to SBS about creativity, the rise of digital music and putting value on the arts.

Therapist Susannah Newman (Anne-Marie Duff) is in a race against time as gripping British series 'Suspect' returns.

Blurring the lines between sketch comedy and half-hour sitcom, is the kind of off-kilter viewing that can often be hard to define. With eye-popping visuals that feel like a mix between the warped sensibilities of crossed with the visual flare of an Edgar Wright film, it’s a technicolour queer comedy for the TikTok generation. But the real reason to watch the series is for its creator, writer and star - Mawaan Rizwan, who in recent times has made a name for himself as a fresh voice on th…

Back in 2015, when the podcast phenomenon was in every listener's ears and all anyone could talk about on TV was Robert Durst’s jaw dropping revelation on , you’d be forgiven for thinking the true crime genre had reached its cultural zenith. But in more recent times, we’ve witnessed an altogether different type of melding of these two audio and visual mediums - where fiction and non-fiction combine, drama is integral to the narrative, and podcasters become the protag…

When we first meet Dorothy “Dot” Lyon in the new season of , she is engaged in what can only be described as the meeting from hell. Set to the catchy chords of 'I’ve Seen All Good People' by '70s progressive band YES, it’s a memorable cold open that leaves us with a lingering shot of Dot’s shell-shocked face, immediately throwing up all sorts of questions about who exactly this character could be. Dot joins a long line of fascinatingly flawed pr…

There are few countries in the world with a higher concentration of filmmakers and film loving audiences than Korea. In fact, back in 2019 before the global entertainment industry ground to a halt, South Korea’s average cinema audience per capita was among the highest in the world, far surpassing the US, the UK and Australia. And it’s not hard to see why - whether it’s intimate drama or bigger budget spectacles, there has always been an unapologetically bold quality to the f…

Our story picks up in an idyllic corner of Minnesota, where a seemingly disparate group of characters are suddenly thrust together following a single violent event, upending their lives and setting off a blood-soaked quest for vengeance that unravels over the course of ten or so tense and often hilarious episodes. Sound familiar? Welcome to the wacky world of , where trouble is usually lurking just around the corner, and all is not as it seems. But what exactly ? is ? is ? It’s impo…

It’s not often a near death experience helps conjure up a TV series, but that’s exactly how the initial seed of first came about for Andrew Undi Lee, after suffering a near fatal coma in 2014. “When I came back out of that coma… I didn't really process the trauma or the terrible side of what had happened to me,” says Lee. “I needed to get something out of me”. A horror anthology series encompassing five short stories, looks at the Korean…

Being undervalued is a feeling Roseanne Liang and her co-creators behind the hit comedy series know all too well. Years before Liang’s show was greenlit, the director’s core acting trio of JJ Fong, Ally Xue and Perlina Lau had grown disillusioned with the types of stereotypical “Asian women” roles they were seeing on casting callouts. Having originally met Fong at an audition for a previous project Liang had directed, she jumped at the opportunity to work with the t…

A lone drifter dressed all in black, face obscured, strolls into a small town. We don’t yet know his name or his true purpose, yet we immediately recognise him as the hero of our story. If this description sounds like a familiar opening to any number of Westerns you may have encountered over the years, then chances are you can attribute it back to the fictional character known simply as Django.  Along with 'The Man with No Name', immortalised by Clint Eastwood in director S…