ABC TV has greenlit two new series. The men of the Chaser have a series of election specials, Yes We Canberra!, while Marieke Hardy is co-creator of a new black comedy entitled Laid.

Melbourne's Wheeler Centre is facing an embarrassing situation: its "literary speed dating" event does not have enough men.

Women Of Letters, a literary event featuring female epistolists, was created specifically to raise funds for animals. Does this undermine its celebratory goals? We ask co-convenor Michaela McGuire.

With a new initiative called "Texttalk", The Age is publishing an original fiction story by Marieke Hardy, exclusively for the mobile phone.

Two Englishmen face the lunacy of America, one Australian actress creates her own United States, two underrated films appear, and miracles occur on the Hudson and in the White House on your TV this week.

triple j's latest listener-voted "Hottest 100 Of All Time" reveals an embarrassing lack of female musicians. What does this sausagefest say about sexism in radio programming and among today's yoof?