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THE NEWSREADER

8.30PM, SUNDAY, ABC TV

IN a time when VHS tapes rule supreme, and people get their headlines from the nightly news bulletin rather than their Twitter feed. This brilliant drama from creator Michael Lucas ( Offspring, Five Bedrooms) looks inside the cut-throat world of TV news in the 1980s. Anna Torv (pictured) plays Helen Norville, a popular presenter whose eagerness to cover hardhitting news has her labelled as “difficult”. Reporter Dale Jennings (Sam Reid) has his heart set on becoming a newsreader. When the pair are thrown together, an unlikely relationship blossoms.