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Speaker 1: You're listening to the Saturday Morning with Jack team podcast

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Speaker 1: from News Talks EDB.

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Speaker 2: You with Jack Taime on News Talks ed B and

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Speaker 2: his screen Time Time. Tara Reward is our screen time expert.

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Speaker 2: She has the very difficult and glamorous job of picking

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Speaker 2: out great TV shows to recommend.

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Speaker 3: To us a Tara, Good morning Jack.

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Speaker 2: Okay, let's begin with a new series on Netflix, tell

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Speaker 2: Us About the Diplomat.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, this is the return of one of Netflix's biggest

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Speaker 3: political thrillers. Season one came out last year and season

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Speaker 3: two dropped this week. This stars Kerrie Russell and Rufus

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Speaker 3: Sill and Kerrie Russell plays a diplomat who is reluctantly

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Speaker 3: sent to London to become the US ambassador to the UK,

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Speaker 3: and she arrives in the middle of an international political crisis.

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Speaker 3: There's a war with the Middle East looming, and she's

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Speaker 3: thrown into a very tense world of negotiation and standoffs

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Speaker 3: and political strategy, all while having to deal with being

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Speaker 3: in the spotlight in a way that she hasn't before

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Speaker 3: and a marriage that's falling apart as well. Her husband

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Speaker 3: is also a diplomat, but he's a bit of a

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Speaker 3: loose cannon and he likes to insert himself into situations

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Speaker 3: and really complicate things. This is a very, very watchable series.

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Speaker 3: It feels like a mix of The West Wing and

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Speaker 3: The Night Agent, and the cast is particularly strong. Kerrie

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Speaker 3: Russell is fantastic in this, but there's also Rory kinnear

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Speaker 3: Celia Imriy. Allison Jeddy joins the cast for season two.

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Speaker 3: There's a great mix of Australian and British actors, really

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Speaker 3: good pace to this. There's some humor as well, and

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Speaker 3: it's Netflix, you know, they pull you in with those

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Speaker 3: clippingers at the end of every episode. It's a very

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Speaker 3: bingeable show, you know, if you want something that's not

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Speaker 3: too serious and heavy but is also intelligent and surprising

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Speaker 3: and will take you along for the ride. This is

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Speaker 3: my muscy for the weekend.

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Speaker 2: Fantastic. Hey, when you say it's bingeable, is it bingeable

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Speaker 2: or are they doing like one episode every week? They're

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Speaker 2: doing that really annoying drip feed thing.

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Speaker 1: I believe.

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Speaker 3: I know season one is up now I believe season ten,

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Speaker 3: but I'm not entirely sure. I think you can go

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Speaker 3: for gold on this one.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Okay, that's really good. So that's the Diplomat that's

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Speaker 2: on Netflix on tvn Z Plus from this weekend. A

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Speaker 2: Remarkable Place to Die.

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Speaker 3: This is a new local drama that starts on TVNZED

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Speaker 3: one and TVNZ Plus from tomorrow night. And if you're

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Speaker 3: a fan of shows like The Broken Wood Mysteries or

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Speaker 3: One Lane Bridge, you will enjoy this. This is a

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Speaker 3: four part murder mystery series that stars Rebecca Gidney and

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Speaker 3: Chelsea Preston Crayford, who are both, as you would expect,

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Speaker 3: fantastic in this. It's set in Queenstown, the title probably

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Speaker 3: gives that away, and it's about a police detective who

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Speaker 3: returns home to Queenstown. She moves in with her mum

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Speaker 3: and has to solve a series of unusual murders that

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Speaker 3: keep happening in the area. And as part of coming

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Speaker 3: back home, she has to also confront the ghosts of

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Speaker 3: her past. There's been some deaths in her family, there's

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Speaker 3: some relationship issues that she ran away from, and you know,

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Speaker 3: as with any good murder mystery, worlds are going to collide.

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Speaker 3: But I think one of the biggest stars in the

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Speaker 3: show essentral Otago. The scenery in this is stunning. It

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Speaker 3: does feel like they've made this with an international audience

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Speaker 3: in mind. This is the kind of familiar, easy to

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Speaker 3: watch murder mystery that will appeal to a wide global audience.

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Speaker 3: So if you love a murder mystery, this is a

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Speaker 3: well made, beautifully film drama. And the cast, there's a

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Speaker 3: really strong ensemble cast in this as well. They really

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Speaker 3: lift it up.

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Speaker 2: Okay, great, a remarkable place to die. So that drops

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Speaker 2: on TVNZ Plus from tomorrow. In on Prime Video Liones.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, change in Tacker, But this is a new season

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Speaker 3: of Lioness, which is a big budget American action series

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Speaker 3: that stars Zoe Sordana, Nicole Kidman, and Morgan Freeman. And

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Speaker 3: it's made by Taylor Sheridan who created big shows like

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Speaker 3: Yellowstone and Mayor of Kingstown, so there are some huge

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Speaker 3: names attached to this drama. And it's set during the

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Speaker 3: American War on Terror in Iraq and Afghanistan. And Zoe's

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Speaker 3: Sildana plays a CIA operative who's the leader of the Lionesses,

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Speaker 3: which is this elite military team of women who work

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Speaker 3: under couver together information and the show is inspired by

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Speaker 3: a real US military program, so it's taking that well

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Speaker 3: known military world that we see a lot in films

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Speaker 3: and TV and giving it a bit of a twist

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Speaker 3: by putting a woman at the center of the story

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Speaker 3: who lives this double life. She's this assassin at work

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Speaker 3: and then she has to go home and live a

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Speaker 3: normal life with her family. So in a lot of ways,

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Speaker 3: it feels very familiar. It's a very big, in your

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Speaker 3: face military drama, lots of weapons, lots of violence, but

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Speaker 3: then you've got this female tist to it as well.

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Speaker 3: It is over the top and it's very American, but

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Speaker 3: also maybe sort of a guilty pleasure to watch and

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Speaker 3: escape into if you are a fan of those intense,

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Speaker 3: all action kind of dramas.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, fantastic. Okay, that's Lioness. So that's on Prime Video.

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Speaker 2: A Remarkable Place to Die is on TVNZ Plus, and

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Speaker 2: The Diplomat is on Netflix and A double checked Tara,

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Speaker 2: so The Diplomat that they're not doing that annoying thing, thankfully,

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Speaker 2: They've just put the whole thing online. So it is

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Speaker 2: definitely truly literally bingeable. You can watch all of the episodes.

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Speaker 2: You don't have to wait like we always had to

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Speaker 2: for the next episode to come out. In a week's time,

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Speaker 2: Thank you so much. All of those shows will be

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Speaker 2: on the News Talks HEV website as well if you

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Speaker 2: want to watch them this weekend. It is just coming

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Speaker 2: up to ten thirty.

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