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Summary

Anna Torv and Sam Reid star in the Australian 1980s-set drama about the unlikely bond between a young TV reporter and a female newsreader.

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David Brown

It must take great skill to make the pussy-bow blouse you’re wearing quiver in disgust, but actress Anna Torv somehow manages it while playing Helen Norville, an Australian news anchor fighting to have her talent recognised at a 1980s’ commercial TV station.

Helen initially appears to be all hairspray and indignation, and in a lesser drama would be painted as a one-note Dynasty-style “superbitch”. But The Newsreader is a classier product, and we soon realise that the power dress is merely the armour Helen must wear to battle both her dyspeptic male boss and her entitled veteran co-host.

Much more of an ally is reporter Dale Jennings (Sam Reid) who, thanks to a moment of personal crisis, gets to know the real Helen behind the warpaint. And theirs proves to be a genuinely nurturing relationship; each party being ambitious, but not (at least initially) destructively so.

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7.9/10

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rolenameGeoff WaltersRobert TaylorLindsay CunninghamWilliam McInnesEvelyn WaltersMarg Downey

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rolenameDirectorEmma Freeman

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