She will also host Margaret Pomeranz Presents, detailing a movie of her choice, either new to theatres or from the Foxtel library.

Pomeranz described her new role as "a lovely gig to get after At The Movies" and promised the program would be different from her long-running predecessor. It was early days, she said, but the creative team – including executive producer Denise Erickson – were discussing ideas for how to play with the format and content.

"It's a moveable feast at the moment," she said. "We've got time to really figure out what we want to do with it."

In particular, Pomeranz said she was looking forward to reviewing television because "there's so much good stuff happening there".

Blundell, who is the national television critic for The Australian, would be a "completely different" sidekick from Stratton, Pomeranz told Fairfax Media.