Mitch McTaggart reviews Australian television broadcasting from January to December 2022, with highlights of the good, the bad and the cringe.
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When Hong Kong Inspector Lee is summoned to Los Angeles to investigate a kidnapping, the FBI doesn’t want any outside help and assigns cocky LAPD Detective James Carter to distract Lee from the case. Not content to watch the action from the sidelines, Lee and Carter form an unlikely partnership and investigate the case themselves.
Billy Connolly: Live in Dublin 2002 presents highlights from the Big Yin’s 2002 stage tour. The program is divided in two, the first part offering an hour from his Dublin show, the second delivering 45 minutes of highlights from eight other performances. Now 60, age has not withered Connolly–even if, as he is fond of reminding us, his pubic hair has turned grey–and his restless energy, enthusiasm, casual obscenity, and anger is as intense as ever. And, of course, very, very funny. Whether talking about the horrors of a prostate examination or reminiscing about his youth, Connolly has the audience in hysterics.
Rabbi Avram arrives in Philadelphia from Poland en route to San Francisco where he will be a congregation’s new rabbi. An innocent and inexperienced traveller, he is tricked by con men to pay for the trip to go west, then they leave him and his belongings scattered along a deserted road. He is befriended by a stranger, Tommy, who is a bank robber and have many adventures during their journey.
One year after outwitting the FBI and winning the public’s adulation with their mind-bending spectacles, the Four Horsemen resurface only to find themselves face to face with a new enemy who enlists them to pull off their most dangerous heist yet.
Nell, Simon, and their boy Art are ready to welcome friends and family for what promises to be a perfect Christmas gathering. Perfect except for one thing: everyone is going to die.
After being tricked into dropping everything to save her grandmother’s farm, big-city chef Oliwia falls for a handsome farmer who’s hiding a secret.
Mavka — a Soul of the Forest and its Warden — faces an impossible choice between love and her duty as guardian to the Heart of the Forest, when she falls in love with a human — the talented young musician Lukas.
Pietramezzana, a remote village in the Lucan Dolomites, is likely to disappear. Its inhabitants, led by the volcanic Dominic do not give up and, believing that the opening of a factory may be the solution to all their troubles, they want to make sure that the project is successful …
A group of teenagers making a no-budget heist movie are forced to pull off a genuine heist, when the memory card containing their film is taken by the callous manager of a shopping mall.
An unknown idol group named Bella, who has become a disorderly mess due to their agencyandapos;s poor treatment. Bella overcomes their conflict with an evil manager who tries to sell them, and they eventually manage to enter the Billboar…
Charlie had hoped to have a completely honest break up. Unfortunately, David is being a real shit about it.
