The Newsreader review – if this powerful Aussie drama were a US show, it’d be a smash hit | Television

The Newsreader is the best kind of period piece in that it makes you reflect not only on the past but on the present. The first two seasons of this Australian drama about rival newscasters managed to cram in some of the biggest events of the 80s: the Challenger disaster; the Aids crisis; rumours…