Kylie, simply-titled, is a three-part Netflix documentary, opening with the evergreen Antipodean making her first songs with Stock Aitken and Waterman, with the great Pete Waterman telling us how her first hit was all done and dusted in the two hours, and that the title, “I Should Be So Lucky“, only came about by chance. And then no sooner was it recorded, and she was off to the airport – largely because of filming commitments back home with Neighbours – and neither him nor Kylie realising how big it would be.
This is entertaining but in just approximately three hours, it rather canters through her life and long career of 40 years, with on-set recording of the soap, making her first album while also recording Neighbours – with ‘Charlene’ suddenly taking a job in Brisbane for a while, to explain her absence from the programme.
Plus, there’s chat from her love at the time, Jason Donovan, as well as her sister, Dannii Minogue, and taking in clips of media criticism from jealous so-called journalists.
Good that they got a clip of her first Top of the Pops appearance in here – albeit all too brief, given that the episode was presented by the late Mike Smith, and he won’t allow any of his old episodes to be reshown on TV. No doubt, Mr Waterman’s more happy for the clips of The Hit Man and Her to be included.
Kudos to Pete Waterman also, given that as he’s a big fan of trains, he came to Stockport Station on May 4th this year. I’d planned to go down for about 2pm, given that they had a day of events until 5pm, and I knew he’d be there. It turned out he’d only be around for two hours from 11am, so I was recommended to head down a bit earlier. So, I got there just before midday, and it turned out he couldn’t spend as long a time as he wanted to, so was leaving just as I was arriving, hence I just got a quick picture with him before he headed off, and got to shake his hand and briefly chat about The Hit Man And Her, and said that everyone loves a bit of Kylie & Jason!
And as well as Mr Donovan, there’s also the thorny matter to be addressed of her relationship with the late INXS frontman, Michael Hutchence – given that she’s the ‘girl next door’ and he was considered a ‘bad boy’, but she’s very tight-lipped about their relationship, even being interviewed back in the day by the great Frank Bough about him.
As an aside, my grandparents on my Mum’s side lived in Macclesfield – while I see he was from Staffordshire, and at some point in the late ’80s, my Mum was at their house, went to use the phone, and get a crossed line where Frank Bough was also on the line! Just bizarre!
Meanwhile, back to Kylie Minogue, and someone’s got a fetish for using more aspect ratios than Michael Bay does in a movie, since a regular 16:9 ratio is used the opening credits, yet while old clips and concert footage is understandably in 4:3, the modern-day interview clips are in a very wide 2.89:1 aspect ratio, like 1962’s How The West Was Won.
Kylie is on Netflix now.
It’s not yet available to pre-order on Blu-ray or DVD, but when it is, it will be listed on the New DVD, Blu-ray, 3D and 4K releases UK page.
Check out the trailer below:
Detailed specs:
Cert: 
Running time: 60-70 minutes per episode (3 episodes)
Release date: May 20th 2026
Studio: Netflix
Format: Various aspect ratios used
Director: Michael Harte
Producer: John Battsek
Music: Chris Brocato, Camilo Forero, Sami Goldberg
Cast: (as themselves)
Kylie Minogue
Dannii Minogue
Jason Donovan
Pete Waterman
Nick Cave
Michael Hutchence (archive footage)
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