The Newsreader review – engrossing period drama brings an 80s TV newsroom back to life

The ABC’s new show gives a fictionalised account of some of Australia’s biggest media moments – but holds back on the commentary

ABC TV’s new period drama, created by Michael Lucas and directed by Emma Freeman, begins with a scene dramatising what people who work in the media know is indeed very dramatic: the pressure to meet a looming deadline.

Based in the world of television news circa 1986, the scene is nothing if not quintessentially Australian, involving a go-get-em young TV reporter named Dale (Sam Reid, who played the priest in Lambs of God) scrambling for footage of Paul Hogan after a video cassette is chewed up in the editing room.

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