The Drop

In recent years ABC has struggled to reach younger audiences, on TV, radio and online. Lately, a few programming decisions have left many in the entertainment industry scratching their heads, wondering why the broadcaster seems so reluctant to back a new generation of talent, and what that means for the future of entertainment, news, and music.

Today on The Drop, culture reporter for The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald Meg Watson on the ABC's crisis with young people.

The Drop is a weekly show tackling the latest in the world of pop culture and entertainment. Join host Osman Faruqi and the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age's team of culture writers and critics along with interviews with musicians, actors, film makers and everyone involved in the world of culture.

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Everyone's favourite new social media app, BeReal, promises an unfiltered and candid insight into our daily lives.

But does it live up to the hype? And is there really such a thing as authenticity on social media?

Millennial writer Patrick Lenton and Gen Z journalist Carla Jaeger join The Drop to talk about our current social media landscape.

The Drop is a weekly show tackling the latest in the world of pop culture and entertainment. Join host Osman Faruqi and the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age's team of culture writers and critics along with interviews with musicians, actors, film makers and everyone involved in the world of culture.

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The biggest movie event of the year is finally here. Avatar: The Way of Water, James Cameron’s long awaited follow up to the highest grossing film of all time, has divided critics but audiences are watching it in droves.

After 13 years was the wait worth it?

Why did Avatar have almost no cultural impact despite breaking box office records? And is the new film worth watching? 

Culture reporter Meg Watson and Osman Faruqi discuss the good, the bad and the ugly of the new Avatar.

The Drop is a weekly show tackling the latest in the world of pop culture and entertainment. Join host Osman Faruqi and the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age's team of culture writers and critics along with interviews with musicians, actors, film makers and everyone involved in the world of culture.

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Some of the biggest movies of the year are about to hit our screens over the next few weeks, including a billion dollar Avatar sequel, a Steven Spielberg drama, and a film starring Cate Blanchett in what is being described as her best ever performance. Today on The Drop comedian and film buff Gen Fricker joins the show to breakdown what to keep out eye out for at the cinema.

The Drop is a weekly show tackling the latest in the world of pop culture and entertainment. Join host Osman Faruqi and the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age's team of culture writers and critics along with interviews with musicians, actors, film makers and everyone involved in the world of culture.

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One of TV’s best shows is about to wrap up its second season, and things are taking a dark and chaotic turn.

Plus, the best new shows on TV right now - including Colin from Accounts, Slow Horses and Fleischman is in Trouble.

The Drop is a weekly show tackling the latest in the world of pop culture and entertainment. Join host Osman Faruqi and the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age's team of culture writers and critics along with interviews with musicians, actors, film makers and everyone involved in the world of culture.

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When Taylor Swift announced her first tour in five years, fans went wild. But when tickets eventually went on sale the tour was plunged into chaos, with millions of fans locked out of the system.

Ticketmaster, the company managing the sale, blamed unprecedented demand, but everyone from progressive congresswoman AOC to the US Department of Justice and even Swift herself think there’s something much bigger going on, and her fans are demanding answers.

The controversy around this tour has highlighted the amount of uncertainty in the live music industry right now, including here in Australia, and put the focus on the giant corporations that control most of the market.

The Drop is a weekly show tackling the latest in the world of pop culture and entertainment. Join host Osman Faruqi and the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age's team of culture writers and critics along with interviews with musicians, actors, film makers and everyone involved in the world of culture.

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NYT journalists Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey exposed Harvey Weinstein and helped spark the #MeToo movement. Now their story has been turned into a new film, She Said, starring Zoe Kazan and Carey Mulligan.

Jodi and Megan are this week's guests on The Drop, and they share what it was like covering one of the biggest news stories in recent history, seeing themselves portrayed on the big screen, the role investigative journalism plays in society, and what it was like being tracked by ex-Israeli spies.

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The White Lotus was never supposed to have a second season, but the Emmy-award winning series is back, with a new cast, a new location, and brutally honest read on sex and relationships in the modern age.

On this episode of The Drop we dive into what made the show so good, and if its still worth watching.

The Drop is a weekly show tackling the latest in the world of pop culture and entertainment. Join host Osman Faruqi and the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age's team of culture writers and critics along with interviews with musicians, actors, film makers and everyone involved in the world of culture.

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Bros is the latest film from Nicholas Stoller, the director of Forgetting Sarah Marshall and Bad Neighbours. It's a gay rom-com starring Billy Eichner, and it's a resurgence of the genre at the cinema.

On this episode we dive into how Bros compares to other classic rom-coms, rank our top five of all time, speak to Nicholas Stoller about the film, and the state of cinema more broadly.

The Drop is a weekly show tackling the latest in the world of pop culture and entertainment. Join host Osman Faruqi and the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age's team of culture writers and critics along with interviews with musicians, actors, film makers and everyone involved in the world of culture.

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Taylor Swift's latest album has already broken sales and streaming records, becoming the biggest music release of the year.

Midnights, her 10th album, is more an iteration than a radical reinvention of Swift's music, but what does that tell us about this stage of her career and the trajectory of pop music?

The Drop is a weekly show tackling the latest in the world of pop culture and entertainment. Join host Osman Faruqi and the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age's team of culture writers and critics along with interviews with musicians, actors, film makers and everyone involved in the world of culture.

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