Jazz Twemlow is a standup comedian, writer and podcaster. He writes a weekly TV column for Guardian Australia
August 2015
Jazz Twemlow’s week in Australian TV
Fighting fires on the internet? CSI: Cyber is a franchise struggling to stay relevant
Jazz Twemlow
Jazz Twemlow’s week in Australian TV
Cats and dogs make us laugh out loud (and cry inside a little)
Jazz Twemlow
Jazz Twemlow’s week in Australian TV
Humans: new ABC show's synths aren't as scary as technology running our lives
Jazz Twemlow
Jazz Twemlow’s week in Australian TV
My Restaurant Hotplate Rules: when too many unoriginal cooks are never enough
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July 2015
Jazz Twemlow’s week in Australian TV
Who needs another Australian Bachelor when we can watch UnREAL?
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As Channel Ten offers up another chiselled torso to the TV gods, you could be watching a fictional drama about the reality behind a fake dating show
Jazz Twemlow’s week in Australian TV
Zoo: with folks like these, an animal takeover seems appealing
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So far, Zoo isn’t so much the ‘mystery event of the year’ as a sub-par episode of The X-Files crossed with Doctor Dolittle. Plus bonus lions with smartphones
Jazz Twemlow’s week in Australian TV
When David Attenborough met Tony Abbott. No wait, that never happened
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It’s just as well the octogenarian naturalist spent his birthday at the White House, not Parliament House, or the ABC might be copping fresh criticism
June 2015
Game On Sydney played to the in-crowd. More games, less YouTube please
Jazz Twemlow
Jazz Twemlow’s week in Australian TV
The week in Australian TV: the good, the bad and your future binge, Sense 8
Jazz Twemlow
May 2015
Jazz Twemlow’s week in Australian TV
The week in Australian TV: the good, the bad and the soon-to-be-extinct
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Jazz Twemlow’s week in Australian TV
The week in Aussie TV: the good, the bad and the Eurovision song contest
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Jazz Twemlow’s week in Australian TV
MasterChef: still the finest of Australia's 'stuff on plates' shows
Jazz Twemlow
Jazz Twemlow’s week in Australian TV
The Block, House Rules, Reno Rumble – haven't the fan-zombies had enough?
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April 2015
Jazz Twemlow’s week in Australian TV
American Ninja Warrior: just a giant flashing obstacle course built to fall off
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Jazz Twemlow’s week in Australian TV
Selfies at the Australian War Memorial? Shame on you, Summer Bay High
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Jazz Twemlow’s week in Australian TV
Beards, boutique beer and bacon icecream: four-part SBS doco Hipsters
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Jazz Twemlow’s week in Australian TV
World’s Greatest Food Markets: a fishmonger-out-of-water reality show
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March 2015
Jazz Twemlow’s week in Australian TV
Vikings season three: our bearded, bloody heroes adjust to life with the Christians
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Season three proves you can take the Viking out of the blood and mud, but you can’t take the blood and mud out out of the Viking
Jazz Twemlow’s week in Australian TV
Neighbours, a show I watched ironically, has somehow got better with age
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Guy Pearce called it our first brush with reality TV and I found, on returning to Ramsay Street, the ghosts of Neighbours past and present oddly comforting
Jazz Twemlow’s week in Australian TV
So Freddie Flintoff wins I'm a Celebrity – what will Gogglebox make of it?
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Gogglebox is TV turducken, force-feeding us the telly filler we avoided the first time round. At least there’s one less show we need to watch people watching …
