Indholdsfortegnelse for August 2022 i Foxtel Magazine

WHERE WE LEFT OFF: After going head-to-head for a limited number of permanent positions at prestigious London investment bank Pierpoint & Co, Harper (Myha’la Herrold), Yasmin (Marisa Abela), Robert (Harry Lawtey) and Gus (David Jonsson) secured their futures, despite not all performing during their all-important Reduction in Force interviews. WHAT TO EXPECT: Industry pulls no punches, as we found out in the first episode, when the expectations proved too much for one graduate – who was carried out in a body bag! But if the recruits think the pressure is off now, they have another thing coming, as they have to prove they have what it takes to compete with the big boys in the cut-throat world of investment banking and trading. WHO’S IN IT: Herrold, Abela, Lawtey Jonsson, Conor MacNeill (Kenny) and Ken…

Growing up in regional Dubbo, in the Central West of New South Wales, Ngali Shaw always felt somewhat different. Unlike his non-Indigenous friends, the talented First Nations actor, dancer, musician and rapper was regularly singled out for his heritage, which helped him relate to his character, Jarrod, in new FOXTEL Original crime-drama The Twelve. A young Indigenous university student who is chosen to serve on the jury for a particularly troubling murder trial, Jarrod’s own negative experiences with the police can’t help but impact the way he views the case – and the accused, Kate Lawson (Kate Mulvany). “Jarrod thinks that Kate’s going to get away with everything because she’s white and privileged, and the police are going to believe her,” Shaw explains of his character’s mindset. “That’s just Jarrod’s…

“We shot the dragon-riding scenes using CGI, but I was also harnessed to a seat on something like one of those mechanical bulls that you get at clubs. I was elevated into the air and moving it around and there’s a bunch of guys with, like, leaf blowers essentially – creating wind!” “I became really close with Emily Carey, who plays the young Alicent [Hightower]. I think it was this shared kinship of two young girls with this big opportunity.” “It was lovely to have fellow Aussie Ryan Corr in the show [playing Ser Harwin ‘Breakbones’ Strong, a knight who’s reputed to be the strongest man in the Seven Kingdoms]. He, I and Markella Kavenagh did a short film together [Furlough] in 2019 or 2020, and, a few months later,…

GOGGLEBOX AUSTRALIA (s16) Starts August 24, Wednesdays at 7.30pm and watch On Demand LifeStyle [106] Together with their parents, Matt and Kate, Millie and Holly Dalton’s laidback banter and close family bond have made the Melbourne siblings some of Gogglebox Australia’s most beloved couch commentators. As the series returns for its 16th season, Millie, 24, and Holly, 23, open up about how they’ve changed over the years, the way filming has brought them closer together and why they’ll never be the new Kardashians. You’ve been with the show since season one in 2015, when you were still teenagers. What has it been like growing up on TV? Millie: It’s really interesting because you don’t really realise it until you look back and understand that I was in Year 11 when we started and now…

MARGARET’S TOP PICK JURASSIC WORLD DOMINION (M) Available from August 31 The world of dinosaurs rides again in this sixth instalment of the franchise that began so many years ago with Steven Spielberg’s original 1993 blockbuster. After the cataclysmic events of the last film, formerly extinct dinosaurs roam the earth. But Biosyn Genetics has established a reserve for relocated dinosaurs in Italy’s Dolomite mountains. However, Biosyn seems to have its own agenda, with prehistoric giant locusts wiping out crops around the world. Plot-heavy, with some spectacular action sequences and the return of familiar faces Jeff Goldblum, Sam Neill, Laura Dern, Bryce Dallas Howard, Chris Pratt, Isabella Sermon (pictured from left) and Omar Sy, plus some entertaining new additions – including DeWanda Wise (right) and Mamoudou Athie – this concluding chapter…

If you can’t get enough of Aussie Salvage Squad and Outback Truckers, then Heavy Tow Truckers Down Under will be exactly to your liking. The series follows the men and women of big tow truck companies cleaning up major collisions across Outback Australia and New Zealand. “There’s a really great love of these sorts of shows where the jobs are crazy, extreme and supersized,” says executive producer Craig Graham. “Because of our landscape, you probably wouldn’t get this kind of extremity anywhere else. For example, in one story, a truck has tumbled down a 50ft (15m) cliff and it’s full of dinosaur props that need to be salvaged.” Why you’ll love it: Magnificent machinery, colourful characters and edge-of-your-seat action make every episode an informative adrenaline rush. What you’ll see: “Trucking…

PRINCE DAEMON TARGARYEN (Matt Smith) Younger brother to King Viserys and a peerless warrior, Daemon supports his niece, Rhaenyra, in her battle against half-brother Aegon to rule the Seven Kingdoms, although their relationship causes something of a scandal. LADY ALICENT HIGHTOWER (Emily Carey and Olivia Cooke) Ser Otto’s politically astute daughter gains power and influence when she marries King Viserys. She is intent on placing their son, Aegon, on the throne instead of Rhaenyra. KING VISERYS TARGARYEN (Paddy Considine, The Outsider, watch On Demand) A kindly, decent man – qualities that may not be suited to ruling the Seven Kingdoms – his controversial decision to install his daughter, Rhaenyra, as his heir has devastating consequences. PRINCESS RHAENYRA TARGARYEN (Milly Alcock and Emma D’Arcy) The king’s eldest child is of pure Valyrian blood…

2022 NRL TELSTRA PREMIERSHIP LIVE from Thursday August 4 at 7pm FOX LEAGUE [502] Hannah Hollis is showing off her baby bump in a photo shoot for the first time – and she’s loving it. With a due date in September, she says it “all happened very quickly”. Here, the FOX LEAGUE presenter talks about why the timing was right for her and husband Tom Lee to start a family. Tell us, how has your pregnancy been? I’ve had a really smoothsailing pregnancy. I’ve been lucky that I avoided morning sickness. I had a bit of fatigue early on, but it didn’t stop me from working. It was a really busy time because we were launching FOX NETBALL, which meant I was interstate a lot hosting events and then going into working London…

PAUL HOLLYWOOD EATS JAPAN Starts August 21, Sundays at 8.30pm and watch On Demand LifeStyle Food [125] The son of a successful baker, Paul Hollywood had all the ingredients needed to become one of the world’s best, but his larger-than-life personality meant this British doyen of dough was destined for a parallel career in front of the camera. Here we retrace his TV odyssey. EARLY LIFE After rising to become head baker at some of the UK’s most prestigious hotels, including The Dorchester in London, and spending several years at top resorts in Cyprus, Hollywood found himself in demand doing guest spots on TV shows. The bright studio lights were calling. THE GREAT BRITISH BAKE OFF When The Great British Bake Off launched in 2010, Hollywood was snapped up as a judge.…

RESERVATION DOGS (s2) Starts EXPRESS August 4, Thursdays at 9pm and watch On Demand FOX SHOWCASE [112] Taika Waititi’s comedy about four Native-American teens scheming their way around their rural Oklahoma town returns with a bang. After the death of their fifth member, the gang – played by Devery Jacobs, D’Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai, Paulina Alexis and Lane Factor – swore to scrimp and steal to make it off ‘the Rez’ and to California by any means necessary. But after wild adventures in grand theft auto, swiping an old lady’s weed edibles and the heist of a Flaming Flamers chips truck, the group disbanded at the end of season one and are forging their own paths when the series picks back up. The show is a trailblazer in terms of representation, with every writer, director and…

REAL-LIFE DRAMA The Thief, His Wife and the Canoe tells the extraordinary real-life tale of former teacher and prison guard John Darwin (Eddie Marsan), who faked his own death in 2002 with the help of his wife, Anne (Monica Dolan), to claim life insurance and avoid bankruptcy. For five years, they convinced everyone – even sons Mark (Mark Stanley) and Anthony (Dominic Applewhite) – that he’d gone missing while canoeing off Seaton Carew in Northern England, where the couple owned two adjoining terraced houses, one of which they rented out as bedsits. In reality, he spent most of this period hiding in one of the bedsits, visiting his wife through a connecting door. “What occurred to me about John Darwin is that he didn’t have a long-term plan,” says Marsan.…

BELFAST (M) Life is challenging for Ma and Pa (Caitríona Balfe and Jamie Dornan, pictured) and their family in Belfast in the 1960s, as their working-class neighbourhood is caught up in escalating violence, causing many to flee their homes for a better life in this coming-of-age story told through the eyes of their young son, Buddy (Jude Hill). Saturday August 20 at 8.30pm on Movies Premiere [401] KILLING FIELD (MA 15+) When his injured partner (Bruce Willis, pictured) is captured by a dangerous gang, police officer Cal (Swen Temmel) pursues them to a farm, where he joins forces with its owner (Chad Michael Murray) in a battle for survival. Saturday August 13 at 8.30pm on Movies Premiere [401] HERE TODAY (M) A comedy writer in the early stages of dementia (Billy Crystal, who also…

After more than 50 years on the road with Australia’s leading news and current affairs programs, Ray Martin is something of an expert at packing. The Gold Logie winner always travels light and says the only essentials he never leaves home without are his passport, toothbrush and (having become a passionate amateur photographer) his trusty camera. “And because I have been lucky enough to hang on to my hair, I usually bring a comb,” the journalist quips. After an enforced break from travelling due to COVID, Martin was delighted to once again find himself boarding planes and traversing dusty Outback roads by car to film his new FOXTEL documentary, The State We’re In: Australia’s Border Story. The one-hour special, which investigates how Australia’s state borders were drawn up, saw Martin…