Twenty-three years after the original series of The Office debuted, Australia has its own version of the mockumentary workplace comedy, They Office featuring needy bad boss - and chump- Hannah Howard, played by Felicity Ward.

Felicity and show runners Jackie Van Beek and Julie De Fina talk to BW about how this 13th version of The Office, streaming on Prime Video, adapts itself to the post-pandemic world of work.

Vietnamese-Australian actor Hoa Xuande stars as The Captain in HBO's The Sympathizer, a limited series based on Viet Thanh Nguyen's Pulitzer-prize winning novel.

Hoa takes us behind the scenes, telling us about how he landed this huge role, and what it was like to act opposite heavyweights like Robert Downey Jr. and Sandra Oh.

Stop Everything! and catch up with Atsuko Okatsuka – stand-up comic, social media star and bowl cut icon.

In 2022, Atsuko's debut HBO comedy special, The Intruder – and her viral "drop challenge" – marked her arrival as a comedy star on the rise.

Atsuko talks to BW about backup career plans, crowd control and the power of the bowl cut.

We love a summer recommendation and self appointed Stop Everything! nerd correspondent, Ahmed Yussuf joins BW to introduce us to the latest season of Dr Who. The revamped BBC x Disney co-production features the latest incarnation of the Doctor played by the joyfully charismatic Ncuti Gatwa.

And Ahmed makes an argument for why we should be watching more anime.

Michelle Visage gets candid about her friendship with RuPaul, the art of critique, career longevity and honesty in friendships.

The newly minted RuPaul's Drag Race down under host, Michelle Visage in The House of Stop Everything! and joins Beverley Wang as his week's guest critic.

In a year filled with chaotic memes like brat summer, Moo Deng, Hawk Tuah and Where’s Kate, the most tumultuous of all is Luigi Mangione, suspect in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. 

BW and ABC entertainment reporter Jared Richards break down how the internet turned Mangione into a folk hero, and the improbable conditions that mean someone charged with murder hasn’t been cancelled.   

If you need help figuring out which shows to catch up on over the holidays (yay!), this one’s for you.  

TV critic Wenlei Ma is in to help BW countdown the most unforgettable, sexiest, funniest, surprising and entertaining shows of 2024.  

In Disney’s Moana sequel, our heroine is a wayfinding big sis and leader of her community, on the cusp of a new mission to unite the people of the ocean.  

Guest critic Sosefina Fuamoli is in to talk about why Moana’s journey in this follow-up stirs up so many emotions. An award-winning music journalist, Sose also gives her take on how women in music won 2024.  

Let’s go to the movies and feel joy again! Jon M. Chu’s Wicked and 86-year-old Ridley Scott’s Gladiator II are going head-to-head at the box office and we’re lapping it up.

We haven’t had movies this big since 2023’s back-to-back releases of Barbie and Oppenheimer, aka “Barbenheimer”.

Will “Glicked” save the movies and snatch the awards season trophies?    

Guest critic Maria Lewis – screenwriter, film geek and pop culture etymologist is in the house.

Also, something’s not right: John Krasinski aka Jim from The Office is People magazine’s sexiest man alive?  

We’re throwing what we think about celebrity endorsements out the window after the US election results. Endorsements from Taylor Swift, Beyoncé, Bruce Springsteen, Bad Bunny and Cardi B couldn’t help Kamala Harris in a race where Donald Trump had the likes of Joe Rogan – the world’s biggest podcaster – and Elon Musk – the world’s richest person – in his corner.  

Stop Everything! show daddy Benjamin Law and English teacher-turned comedian Urvi Majumdar join BW live on stage from the OzAsia Festival in Adelaide to debrief on the US election, and chat through everything there is to love about hit comedy The English Teacher, created by TikTok singing and dancing star Brian Jordan Alvarez. 

Show notes:Brian Jordan Alvarez on Stop Everything!ABC Fresh Blood series: "Urvi went to an all girls school"