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

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Speaker 1: from News Talks ab Right.

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Speaker 2: Holidays are almost upon us, and I'm sure one I'll

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Speaker 2: have a little bit more time to catch up on

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Speaker 2: some viewings. Satara Award is with us now with some

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Speaker 2: great selections of shows that are coming out over the

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Speaker 2: holidays that you might want to catch. Good morning, Tara,

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Speaker 2: Good morning Okay for those brave enough. Squid Games back

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Speaker 2: part two.

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Speaker 3: Yes, Squad Game one of Netflix's biggest shows. Season one

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Speaker 3: came out in twenty twenty one and instantly broke all

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Speaker 3: sorts of records. It was Netflix's most watch show ever

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Speaker 3: for a while, and after three years, the second season

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Speaker 3: of Squid Game drops on Netflix on Boxing Day. And

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Speaker 3: this is a show that deserves the hype. It's a

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Speaker 3: Korean show, it's a thriller, it's dystopian, it's a satire

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Speaker 3: as well. It's about one man who, in an effort

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Speaker 3: to pay off as gambling debts, enters this secret competition

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Speaker 3: with four hundred and fifty five other people to win

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Speaker 3: a billion dollar prize. And the contest is made up

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Speaker 3: of a series of children's games which seem pretty easy,

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Speaker 3: but there is a very big catch, and that's if

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Speaker 3: you lose a game, you die, So it's all or nothing.

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Speaker 3: But what makes this show so watchable is that, on

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Speaker 3: one hand, as you say, you've got to be quite

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Speaker 3: brave to watch this. It's quite bleak, it is violent,

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Speaker 3: but on the other there's a really dark humor to it,

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Speaker 3: and it's a beautiful show to watch. There's really vivid

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Speaker 3: colors and design here. It all feels a bit like

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Speaker 3: a beautiful nightmare. So season one is on Netflix now.

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Speaker 3: And if you haven't seen it yet and you're looking

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Speaker 3: for a show that will continually surprise you, that is

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Speaker 3: a bit twisted, a bit mind bending, and will stay

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Speaker 3: with you after you watch it, this is a great option.

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Speaker 3: And as I say, season two drops on December twenty six,

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Speaker 3: and I expect it to break all sorts of records

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Speaker 3: straight away.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: I mean, if you've had a bit of a disappointing Christmas,

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Speaker 2: you could always watch it and it might cheer you up.

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Speaker 2: Exactly tell me about missing you.

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Speaker 3: So this is another new Netflix show. It's a mystery

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Speaker 3: thriller that I'm picking will be a huge hit over summer.

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Speaker 3: It's adapted from a Harlan Coben novel and back in

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Speaker 3: twenty eighteen, Harlan Coven signed a deal with Netflix to

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Speaker 3: adapt fourteen of his books into TV shows, and every

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Speaker 3: time a new one pops up, they become an instant.

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Speaker 3: Shows like Stay Close, or For Me Once or The Stranger.

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Speaker 3: They are dramas that are guaranteed to be very bingeable,

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Speaker 3: very glossy, a bit far fetched and ridiculous sometimes, but

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Speaker 3: very very watchable. And Missing You is a British show.

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Speaker 3: It's about a detective whose fiance has been missing for

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Speaker 3: eleven years and one day she's swiping through a dating

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Speaker 3: app and she sees her presumably dead fiance on there

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Speaker 3: and suddenly everything she thought was true and solid has

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Speaker 3: now been questioned. And this drops on New's Day and

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Speaker 3: I think this will be the perfect show to watch

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Speaker 3: if you are planning a lazy day on the couch

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Speaker 3: in the New Year. The cast includes James Nesbitt and

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Speaker 3: Lenny Henry, so there's lots of recognizable great talent inness.

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Speaker 3: It will have lots of twists and turns, lots of secrets,

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Speaker 3: lots of shady characters. It's just pure entertainment for the holidays.

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Speaker 3: It will pull you in and you won't have to

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Speaker 3: think too.

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Speaker 4: Hard about it.

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Speaker 2: Perfect for the first of January, and one of the

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Speaker 2: most beloved British sitcoms is back again.

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Speaker 3: I know, I'm so excited about this one. This is

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Speaker 3: Gavin is Stacy the finale. It's the much anticipated return.

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Speaker 3: This show first premiere twenty years ago, which made me

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Speaker 3: feel very, very old when I realized that. But this

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Speaker 3: is the comedy written and created by James Corden and

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Speaker 3: Ruth Jones. It's very warm and light and it's about

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Speaker 3: two twenty somethings. Gavin is from Essex, Stacy is from Wales.

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Speaker 3: They have a whirlwind romance and get married and the

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Speaker 3: show is about how they bring their two very different

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Speaker 3: family and friends together. And since the show ended, there's

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Speaker 3: always been a lot of demand from fans that they

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Speaker 3: bring the show back to find out where these characters

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Speaker 3: ended up, to tie.

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Speaker 4: Up all the Luciens. And so the final.

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Speaker 3: Ever episode of Gavin and Stacy drops on Boxing Day

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Speaker 3: on TVNZ Plus and TV and C two. It's a

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Speaker 3: one off Christmas special that will close the chapter on

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Speaker 3: Gavin and Stacy for good.

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Speaker 4: And you know, it's.

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Speaker 3: Always a bit of a risk to reboot a show

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Speaker 3: like this after several years, you know, one that is

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Speaker 3: so loved, it can be hard to replicate that original

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Speaker 3: magic and a reboot, but I have really high hopes

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Speaker 3: for this one. TVNZ also has the original series of

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Speaker 3: Gavin and Stacey. It's such a delightful comedy and I'm

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Speaker 3: looking forward to this.

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Speaker 4: One so much.

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Speaker 2: I think the last one off that they released was

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Speaker 2: about the last Christmas Special was twenty nineteen and over

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Speaker 2: seventeen seventeen million people watched it in the UK. I mean,

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Speaker 2: they just what is it about this particular sitcom? Why

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Speaker 2: did it grab people so much?

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Speaker 3: I think I think, you know, it's very warm and

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Speaker 3: it was just about ordinary people living ordinary lives.

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Speaker 4: But there was just a bit of me to it,

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Speaker 4: you know.

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Speaker 3: The cast was fantastic, The comedy is very very relatable

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Speaker 3: and sweet and funny, and I think it's just one

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Speaker 3: of those familiar shows that people kept going back to

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Speaker 3: and identify with. And they left that twenty nineteen special

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Speaker 3: on a cliffhanger, and so, I mean, great, great way

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Speaker 3: of getting people invested in it.

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Speaker 4: So we're finally going to see it. See what happened

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Speaker 4: to that very excitation?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, This was the show that kind of launched James Carden.

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Speaker 2: This is where I met him to have turned him

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Speaker 2: into a bit of a star.

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Speaker 3: Absolute, yeah, absolutely, it really launched him into the statesphere.

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Speaker 2: Well, let's hope you know it's the finale. Do you

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Speaker 2: think it will be the finale?

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Speaker 4: They've said it is the end, So tying up all

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Speaker 4: the loose things. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Oh, thank you so much, Tara. Thank you for your

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Speaker 2: contribution to the show throughout the year as well. Have

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Speaker 2: a lovely Christmas.

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Speaker 4: And holiday and your pleasure.

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Speaker 2: Those film those TV shows that Tara spoke about there

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Speaker 2: Squid Game that's hitting Netflix on December the twenty sixth.

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Speaker 2: Missing You is on Netflix on January first, and Gavin

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Speaker 2: and Stacey TV and Z Plus and TVNZ two nine

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Speaker 2: thirty pm on December the twenty sixth. You're with News Talk.

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