The movie of the year has FINALLY landed in Australian cinemas: You Can See Everything. The A24 doco, co-directed by Lance Oppenheim and comedian Nathan Fielder, follows Elizabeth Holmes in the 34 days before she reported to prison for fraud.

I can’t say much other than it’s unlike anything I’ve ever seen. Please go and see it. I need more people to discuss it with. My DMs are open. Go well.

“There’s something about the music industry that’s been bothering me for a while. People coming after people because they’ve spotted a similarity between two songs… [Olivia Rodrigo] may have accidentally stumbled across a musical echo of mine in one of her new songs. And do you know what? I couldn’t care less.”
British singer Robbie Williams has defended Olivia Rodrigo’s new song ‘take me home (4 christmas)’, which drew comparison to his own track ‘Candy’. Williams said he loves Rodrigo’s music, adding he’s “not going after” the U.S. pop star because “at some point, some f***ing sanity has to prevail.”

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The percentage of Aussies who say they’ve streamed a local artist in the past year, according to new data from Ausify – a Music Australia initiative designed to encourage audiences to engage with more home-grown acts.

You’re looking at the winners of a Nathan Fielder and Elizabeth Holmes lookalike contest in San Francisco on Sunday. Similar contests were held around the U.S. over the weekend, as You Can See Everything continues its box office domination.

The studio behind everyone’s favourite emergency room drama The Pitt is at the centre of a legal challenge questioning the show’s origins.

A lawsuit brought by the widow and estate of ER creator Michael Crichton alleges The Pitt is an unauthorised reboot of the 1990s classic.

An appeals court ruled the Emmy-decorated hit show shares “clear and numerous” similarities with ER, meaning the lawsuit has been given the green light to move forward.

Fans have compared the two shows since The Pitt premiered in January 2025.

ER ran for 15 seasons from 1994, drew tens of millions of weekly viewers and launched the careers of George Clooney, Julianna Margulies and Noah Wyle… who now stars in and produces The Pitt.

Aside from the American emergency room setting, Wyle’s performance is perhaps the most obvious similarity between the two shows. There’s overlapping creative talent, too, including executive producer John Wells and writer-showrunner R. Scott Gemmill.

Michael Crichton, the Harvard-trained doctor turned best-selling author who created ER, died in 2008 at age 66, following a battle with cancer.

Before a single episode of The Pitt had even aired, his widow Sherri Crichton filed a lawsuit against the show’s production company, Warner Bros. Television (which also produced ER).

Michael signed a contract with Warner Bros. in 1994 which meant no ER sequels or spin-offs could be made without his agreement. The lawsuit claims the studio began developing an ER reboot in 2020 without Sherri’s knowledge. She learned of it in 2022, but negotiations over her consent broke down in 2023.

The Pitt followed soon after, with Sherri alleging the series is a rebranded version of the very same reboot she never approved.

Warner filed a motion to have the case dismissed, arguing the shows have “generic similarities” that would exist in “any dramatic story” featuring hospital workers. This motion was rejected by an LA court, but Warner then appealed the decision.

A three-judge panel from California’s 2nd District Court of Appeal had to decide whether the shows were similar enough to give the lawsuit enough merit to move forward. On Wednesday, they ruled unanimously to uphold the judge’s earlier decision. It means Warner’s attempts to have the case thrown out have been blocked again.

The court agreed with the plaintiff that both shows take place “with little exception, in the emergency room, as opposed to other medical shows” and each feature “very fast pacing, and reactions to multiple overlapping crises”.

However, the judges dismissed Wyle as a defendant along with two other producers who worked on both series. (Translation: Dr Robby isn’t in trouble.)

The case now returns to an LA court, where Warner and the Crichton estate will exchange evidence ahead of a possible jury trial, unless they settle. In the meantime, production on The Pitt continues, with season three due in January 2027.

Reporting by Emma Gillespie.

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CW: Sexual assault, suicide

British children’s book author, actor and comedian David Walliams has been accused of grooming and sexually assaulting teenage girls.

The allegations came from a major joint investigation by UK outlets The Guardian and ITV, which had been in the works for three years.

You may have seen it reported a few weeks ago, when the outlets went to court to defend their right to name him. So why couldn’t they, and what changed?

Walliams is best known for creating and starring in the sketch comedy show Little Britain with Matt Lucas, and for writing dozens of best-selling children’s books.

Multiple women have alleged to ITV and The Guardian that Walliams groomed them when they were teenagers.

Two women said Walliams stayed in touch with them after they first made contact with him at age 15 – one through a fan event, the other through MySpace. One said they had sex when she was 17, and the other said she was 15 when he sexually assaulted her at his house. The UK age of consent is 16.

Another woman, who worked for Walliams’ publisher HarperCollins, said he sent “gross” messages to a young female staff member.

Walliams denies the allegations against him, saying: “I am not a sexual predator. I have not broken the law”.

An essential part of ethical journalism is the right of reply: reporters must give the subject of allegations a chance to respond.

ITV and The Guardian wrote to Walliams about their reporting in May 2026, detailing what they had learned over their three-year investigation. Within hours of Walliams receiving the letters, his lawyers told the publications he had attempted suicide and gone into hospital. Plans to publish the investigation were paused.

The Guardian and ITV spent the following months in contact with Walliams’ lawyers. During that time, he made a second suicide attempt while in hospital and, after being discharged, was readmitted in October.

Once Walliams was back in care, the publications told his lawyers they were going to proceed with publishing their stories.

“We do not want people to be damaged by our work, but sometimes we have to expose situations that cause anguish and upset. That is an unavoidable part of our role as journalists,” ITV reporter Lucy Watson said.

Walliams’ lawyers then sought an injunction, arguing naming him would endanger his life. He was referred to in court as ‘PPT’, and a temporary order stopped media naming him while the matter was before the judge.

On 3 November, Justice Matthew Nicklin ruled against Walliams, finding a ban on naming him would have been “an exceptionally serious restriction upon freedom of expression,” and that the story held public interest.

He allowed a temporary restriction to stay in place while Walliams’ lawyers considered if they would appeal. The deadline to appeal passed on Monday (UK time), and The Guardian and ITV proceeded to publish their stories.

Walliams’ alleged behaviour has been the subject of long-term speculation. At the British Comedy Awards in 2004, Jonathan Ross joked the ceremony was now 15, and “like all 15-year-olds, it’s drunk, it’s unpredictable and it’s probably going home with David Walliams.” (ITV and The Guardian report Ross didn't write the joke, only read it.)

ITV reporter Lucy Watson said she first became aware of alleged misconduct in 2022, via a tip from “within the publishing world.” In late 2023, HarperCollins mounted an investigation into Walliams, according to The Guardian. He has since said he was not told about the investigation, and HarperCollins only dropped him after a new CEO was appointed in late 2025.

This week, comedian Lucy Beaumont told Sky News she was one of the whistleblowers to The Guardian. She said that around three years ago, a young crew member told her they’d been asked on a previous show to bring “young girls” to Walliams’ dressing room. Beaumont said the person didn’t believe the girls were underage, but was upset by the experience. Beaumont said that because she had been trained in safeguarding procedures while working in schools, she decided to escalate what she’d been told.

However, she ran into an issue almost immediately – Beaumont said there is “no HR” for the film and TV industry, and that the nature of the work means people move around a lot between productions. That, as well as her fears for the mental health of one of the young girls involved, led her to speak to the media.

The BBC has removed Walliams’ work from its iPlayer service, including Little Britain.

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Reporting by Lucy Tassell.