Queer Eye, Bob and other TV shows you should be watching this week

Your guide to the best shows on TV right now, and what to watch out for

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Queer Eye

Netflix

The episode where the fab five go to Yass in NSW is heartwarming. This revamp is far better than the first series – it makes you think about, well, life. Perfectly produced.

Avatar

Foxtel On Demand

Did you know that this 2009 movie made $2.7 billion US dollars? Foxtel has just added the flick to its On Demand movie service. Watch it and it will take you back in time.

Eyewitness News First At Five

Channel 10, Monday to Friday, 5pm

Newsreader Jennifer Keyte is fitting in well on the desk at Ten, after defecting from Seven News. Let’s hope the presenter she replaced, Stephen Quartermain, continues his long and successful TV career.

Bob

Fox Footy, Tuesday, 8.30pm

Retired Western Bulldogs star Bob Murphy has been a revelation in this funny and clever interview series. What will Murphy do next in his new TV career?

Golden Girls

iTunes

This classic sitcom about four older ladies in Florida reminds me of a time when the whole family used to sit and watch the TV together. Thank you, Golden Girls, for being a friend.

The Single Wives

Channel 7, starts July 18, 7.30pm

Radio presenter Emma is the star of this reality show that sees divorced or widowed wives seek love. As with Love Island, my only problem is the idea that you must be in a relationship to be happy – which is so not the case.

Killing Eve

ABC iView

Sandra Oh and Jodie Comer are excellent as the leads in this very clever BBC America eight-episode thriller. Episode one gets you in hook, line and sinker – you will want to watch more.

Have You Been Paying Attention?

Channel 10, Monday, 8.30pm

An underrated hit. The Working Dog Productions team, behind The Castle, The Hollowmen and Utopia, excels once again.

“I really enjoy Million Dollar Listing New York. I just watched the first episode of the latest series, featuring Rebel Wilson, but it was strange. She looked at a $3.9 million apartment, then a $17 million one, but then she bought one and they didn’t show it. It was weird.”

The word is …

Luck of the Irish for former Wentworth star

For four seasons from 2013, Danielle Cormack was the star of Wentworth, playing the prison’s top dog Bea Smith before being dramatically killed off.

How did Cormack cope? “It was hard to leave that show and that character,” Cormack recently said.

“But that’s the nature of the business.” Cormack is now on air as Dr Rory Finch in the brilliant ABC drama Jack Irish, adapted from Peter Temple books.

Everybody needs good neighbours … like Magda Szubanski

This time last year Magda Szubanski was about to step into the sometimes brutal campaign for marriage equality.

In many ways she was the face of the yes vote, but always humble; she praised everyone who was involved.

Szubanski was recently on the set of Neighbours, playing a marriage celebrant in the long-running show’s first same-sex wedding. What a great choice.

Watch out for

Orange Is The New Black

Foxtel On Demand, July 27

The entire sixth season will be available for download on Foxtel at about 5.01pm on July 27. No sooner, no later.

Shahs Of Sunset

Arena, August 3, 8.30pm

Will MJ marry her dream beau Tommy, or will theirs be a rocky road? All will be revealed in the premiere of the latest season of this long-running reality show. We really care, we do!

Modern Family

Channel 7, streaming on 7plus

In its ninth season and still so well written – comedy with heart. Look out for when Phil and Mitchell attend a Comic-Con-like convention, with hilarious consequences.