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

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Speaker 1: from Newstalk ZEDB.

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Speaker 2: Twenty three minutes past ten on news Talks eDV means

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Speaker 2: it's screen time time. Our screen time expert is Tara Awards.

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Speaker 2: She's here with her three picks for this week. Hey Tara,

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Speaker 2: good morning. Okay, let's begin with a new show Starnie

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Speaker 2: streaming on Netflix. It's a legal kind of British drama

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Speaker 2: tell Us about adolescens.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, this is a new British drama that is one

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Speaker 3: of the best things I have seen on TV in

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Speaker 3: a long time, but also also one of the most

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Speaker 3: intense and heartbreaking. This is created and written by the

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Speaker 3: actor Stephen Graham who stars in this as well, and

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Speaker 3: Jack Thorne, who created a show I talked about a

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Speaker 3: couple of weeks ago called Toxic Town. And it's directed

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Speaker 3: by Philip Baranteiny who directed Boiling Points. So there's some

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Speaker 3: real talent behind this show, and it tells the story

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Speaker 3: of a teenager who is accused of murder. Now, the

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Speaker 3: thing to know about this show is that each episode

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Speaker 3: is filmed in a single continuous take, so there are

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Speaker 3: no cutaway shots, there are no breaks in the drama.

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Speaker 3: Everything plays out in real time, So the first episode

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Speaker 3: starts with the arrest at the family house, and then

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Speaker 3: we drive to the police station and go through the

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Speaker 3: first hour of the boy being processed and interviewed, and

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Speaker 3: it feels like you're there. It feels like real life,

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Speaker 3: like you're experiencing this with these characters as it's happening,

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Speaker 3: and you just can't look away. Each of the four

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Speaker 3: episodes looks at what is actually going on with this boy,

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Speaker 3: and it's not your typical crime drama because he's a

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Speaker 3: good kid from a good family. But as the series

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Speaker 3: goes on, things like social media and the influence of

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Speaker 3: that dark in cell online culture and technology comes into play.

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Speaker 3: So it's incredibly powerful, heartbreaking television. I watched an episode

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Speaker 3: last night and I couldn't sleep afterwards. It just really

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Speaker 3: gets you from the opening moments. It's incredible. But it

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Speaker 3: is a lot as well.

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Speaker 2: Oh man, this sounds fantastic. When you say it's like

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Speaker 2: a single take, do you mean like one shot.

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Speaker 3: One shot the whole episode? So five for a few minutes,

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Speaker 3: And apparently they've they've captured a lot of behind the

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Speaker 3: scenes pottage, which I would love to see to see

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Speaker 3: how they actually because you're you're moving, You're moving through

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Speaker 3: the house, and then you're moving on the road, and

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Speaker 3: then you're moving through the police station, and it switches

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Speaker 3: from the parents to the police officers, to the lawyer

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Speaker 3: to the detective, and you're just continually moving and shifting,

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Speaker 3: and it's just like logistically incredible.

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Speaker 2: That's crazy because a few shows have tried it. I

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Speaker 2: think Bear tried it, did it for an episode, or

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Speaker 2: did like something very similar for an episode, which was

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Speaker 2: all the Beard did, which was good. And then there

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Speaker 2: was that movie as well, what was the one, you know,

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Speaker 2: the movie.

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Speaker 3: Boiling Point, which is directed by the guy who has

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Speaker 3: directed this, which also featured Stephen Graham. So a lot

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Speaker 3: of the people in this show have worked together before,

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Speaker 3: and I think that really is key to making it work.

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Speaker 3: They all really trust each other and trust the process,

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Speaker 3: and it just has paid off.

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Speaker 2: Nineteen seventeen as well, it's just as seem I'm always like, what,

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Speaker 2: why why are you doing this? Yeah? You don't have

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Speaker 2: to do this? Yeah yeah, yeah.

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Speaker 3: I think I think the director was asking himself the

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Speaker 3: same thing because it's just such a mission.

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Speaker 2: Yeahs fantastic though, great recommendation. Okay, so that's Adolescence. That's

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Speaker 2: on Netflix now on Apple TV plus tell us about

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Speaker 2: Dope Thief.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, another crime drama. This one has quite a different

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Speaker 3: feel to it though. This is gritty and dark and

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Speaker 3: time's really really funny. This is said in Philadelphia and

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Speaker 3: the first episode as directed by Ridley Scott, who also

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Speaker 3: executive produced this. But Dope Thief is about two longtime

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Speaker 3: friends and low level criminals who run this scheme where

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Speaker 3: they pretend to be police officers, so they run into

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Speaker 3: drug houses pretending to be the law. They take all

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Speaker 3: the money and the drugs that they can find, and

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Speaker 3: then they sell what they can take and it's a

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Speaker 3: very successful plan until they choose the wrong neighborhood and

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Speaker 3: the wrong house and find themselves and over their head

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Speaker 3: and tangled up in a real undercover police case. Now,

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Speaker 3: this is not the type of show that I would

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Speaker 3: usually watch, but I really enjoyed this. It feels like

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Speaker 3: a cross between The Wire and Breaking Bad, with a

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Speaker 3: lot of humor as well. The writing is sharp and

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Speaker 3: self aware, and the two main characters are really likable

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Speaker 3: and sympathetic, and the show shifts between the more serious

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Speaker 3: moments of drama and those moments of comedy quite well

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Speaker 3: as well. So it's taking that heist format and playing

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Speaker 3: with it a little bit, but still keeping all the

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Speaker 3: shootouts and the chases that people would expect.

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Speaker 2: Yeah right, Okay, cool, that's Dope Thief. So that's on

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Speaker 2: Apple TV Plus and on Netflix a brand new season

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Speaker 2: of IF One Drive to Survive.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, the seventh season of Drive to Survive. And I

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Speaker 3: know we've talked about this show before, Jack, but it

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Speaker 3: is one of the best sports documentary series out there.

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Speaker 3: This is the season that go this is the series

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Speaker 3: that goes behind the scenes of Formula One and pulls

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Speaker 3: back that curtain on what really goes on and is

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Speaker 3: less about the car racing and more about the personalities

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Speaker 3: and the money and the politics that are playing out

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Speaker 3: in the background. And it's the show that has a

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Speaker 3: little bit of a everything, And I think it has

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Speaker 3: changed the way we watch sport on television over the

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Speaker 3: last few years and has also made Formula one really

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Speaker 3: accessible for a lot of people. But it takes what

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Speaker 3: is essentially cars driving around in circles and makes it entertaining.

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Speaker 3: The photography is beautiful, the editing is slick. You've got

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Speaker 3: all that juicy behind the scenes footage, and it doesn't

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Speaker 3: patronize the people who already know a lot about the

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Speaker 3: spot sport as well, which I think is quite a

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Speaker 3: tricky balance to achieve. Netflix have tried this with other

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Speaker 3: sports like golf and tennis and American football and athletics,

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Speaker 3: but Drive to Survive is the best, and I think

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Speaker 3: that's because there is so much money and ego involved

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Speaker 3: here and the action is such high stakes. This season

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Speaker 3: features Liam Lawson. The last episode of the season, episode eight,

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Speaker 3: is all about Liam, and that's a great episode. If

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Speaker 3: you just want to watch one episode of Drive to Survive,

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Speaker 3: I would watch that one.

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Speaker 2: Ah, yes, very good. I've just started it and I

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Speaker 2: was wondering, you know, when we would see his side

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Speaker 2: of things. I'm looking forward to that. I think you're right.

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Speaker 2: I think it is probably the best of the style

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Speaker 2: of thing. Although I am also a huge fan of

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Speaker 2: Tour de France unchained. Yeah, that's excellent as well. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: that's a close secondary. It's something like you say, it's

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Speaker 2: the combination of like big personalities, big money, high drama.

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Speaker 1: You know.

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Speaker 2: Anyway, that sounds superb. Thank you so much, Tara. So

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Speaker 2: those shows once again Adolescence is that fantastic new drama

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Speaker 2: the one done in a single shot on Netflix, Dope

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Speaker 2: Thiefs on Apple tv Plus and Drive to Survive Season

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Speaker 2: seven is on Netflix. And if you are an F

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Speaker 2: one fan, of course, that's being the first Formula one

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Speaker 2: race weekend of twenty twenty five and Melbourne just former day.

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Speaker 2: and the book gives a real kind of insiders look

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Speaker 2: that for mid day.

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