



Easter Special: Riot Women, Bait + Best of 2026 so far
Riot Women (SBS, 6 episodes) Written by Huddersfield-born Sally Wainwright, the show follows five menopausal women who have come together to form a punk rock band to take part in a local talent contest. The band consists of five main characters played by Joanna Scanlan (Beth Thornton - keyboards),…

Homebodies, Crackhead, The Other Bennet Sister, The Comeback
Crackhead (HBO, 5 episodes) Drug-addicted party-animal Frankie has blown it all up - her inheritance, her relationships, and most recently, her sister's house. It's time to go to rehab. Creator and star Holly Hervey is outstanding in the lead role as Frankie in this New Zealand comedy. Also watch …

TV Gold special: Deadloch Season 2
This special episode of TV Gold looks at the Australian comedy Deadloch. Podcast hosts Andrew Mercado and James Manning review the second season of the hit Prime Video series and also included in the episode after our review is an interview with the stars Kate Box and Madeleine. About Deadloch Sea…

Imperfect Women, Gone and Frauds
This week on the TV Gold podcast AM and JM review: Imperfect Women, Gone and Frauds. Imperfect Women (Apple TV, 8 episodes) The series examines a crime that shatters the lives of three women in a decades-long friendship – characters played by Kerry Washington, Elisabeth Moss, and Kate Mara. The t…

The Madison, Scarpetta, Vladimir
The Madison (Paramount+, 12 eps) The Madison is new from Taylor Sheridan and stars Michelle Pfeiffer as Stacy Clyburn, a ritzy New York City philanthropist and the matriarch of the successful Clyburn family. She seems intent to quit city living for the wilds of Montana after an event sees her quest…

DTF St Louis, Rooster, Marshals, Scrubs, Under Salt Marsh finale
DTF St Louis (HBO Max, 7 eps) A limited series about a love triangle between three adults experiencing middle-age malaise that leads to one of them ending up dead. Jason Bateman plays Clark Forrest, a St Louis TV weatherman, who rides a recumbent bicycle everywhere he goes - even to a murder scene …

The Lady. How to Get to Heaven from Belfast, The Walsh Sisters
This week on the TV Gold podcast: The Lady (Binge/Foxtel, 4 episodes) Produced by Left Bank Pictures (makers of The Crown), the series is a true-crime drama based on the life of Jane Andrews, a working-class woman who became the dresser and confidante to Sarah Ferguson, Duchess of York, but was la…

Love Story, Under Salt Marsh, Lord of the Flies
This week on the TV Gold podcast, Andrew Mercado and James Manning review: Love Story (Disney+, 9 episodes) Another series from producer Ryan Murphy tells the story of John F. Kennedy Jr. & Carolyn Bessette and explores the chemistry, whirlwind courtship, and high-profile marriage of one of the mo…

Ryan Murphy special episode: The Beauty and his Top 5 shows
TV Gold special: Ryan Murphy This week’s episode of TV Gold is devoted to the prolific TV creator Ryan Murphy. The podcast has regularly reviewed his prodigious output. TV Gold hosts Andrew Mercado and James Manning don’t always love everything Murphy delivers, but it always gives the podcast plen…

Dog Park, Memory of a Killer, Knight of the Seven Kingdoms
Andrew Mercado and James Manning this episode review more TV Gold. Listen to the episode on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3CbytnyTdiQD0fEIauNJ09 Dog Park (ABC) 6 episodes When Roland(Leon Ford) and wife Emma (Brooke Satchel) separate, she leaves him with their teenage daughter Mia (Flore…