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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.

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Speaker 2: It's screen time Time. Tara Ward is our screen time expert.

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Speaker 2: Of course, it's this time every Saturday morning that she

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Speaker 2: brings us three recommendations for shows to watch your stream

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Speaker 2: at home. Gald to Tara, good morning. Okay, let's kick

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Speaker 2: off with a show streaming on neon, the keenly anticipated

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Speaker 2: wolf Hall.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, wolf Fall is back. It's been ten years since

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Speaker 3: the first season of this award winning British drama was

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Speaker 3: on our screens and I'm so glad that it's back.

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Speaker 3: This is the BBC historical drama based on the series

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Speaker 3: of three books by Hillary Mantel about the reign of

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Speaker 3: King Henry the Eighth. And this is the final installment

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Speaker 3: of the series and it tells the story of Thomas Cromwell,

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Speaker 3: who's played by Mark Rylands. Thomas Cromwell was a blacksmith's

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Speaker 3: son from Putney who rose through the royal court to

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Speaker 3: become a close advisor of Henry the Eighth. And old

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Speaker 3: comes power, but there's also a lot of risk and

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Speaker 3: the threat of being beheaded is never far away, and

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Speaker 3: so wolf Hall is about that political dance that the

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Speaker 3: gameplay and the strategy and the plotting to keep the

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Speaker 3: King happy. It's almost a psychological thriller because every step,

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Speaker 3: every conversation is so fraught with danger and suspicious and intrigue.

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Speaker 3: And there's a couple of reasons why I recommend this show.

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Speaker 3: The first is that it's just such a beautiful show

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Speaker 3: to watch. Everything is rich and heavy with atmosphere. It's

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Speaker 3: deliciously slow. Nobody says one word more than they have to.

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Speaker 3: The other thing is that that you don't need to

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Speaker 3: know a lot about this period of hastory to enjoy

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Speaker 3: this and follow along They Pepper and little clues and

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Speaker 3: the dialogue along the way to remind you of how

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Speaker 3: everybody is connected and what a cast as well. Damien

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Speaker 3: Lewis plays the King, Timothy Spaul, Harriet Walter, Jonathan Price.

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Speaker 3: This is just Prestige TV. It's so good and if

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Speaker 3: you miss the first season that's available on the on

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Speaker 3: its well.

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Speaker 2: Ah, superb. I reckon Timothy Spall might be my favorite

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Speaker 2: British actor.

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Speaker 3: Do you think he's so good? It's so versatile, you know,

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Speaker 3: I take yeah.

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Speaker 2: I think it might be the boomingham accent as well.

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Speaker 2: You just don't hear that, you know, I think that,

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Speaker 2: like you know, back to our vitas in ped did

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Speaker 2: you watch the Day? Yeah, I'm turning back the hands

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Speaker 2: of time a little bit this morning, Tara. But I

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Speaker 2: suppose so as wolf Hall in a different way. You're

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Speaker 2: very good, so wolf Hall. Both series in our streaming

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Speaker 2: on Neon on Apple TV plus tell Us about Smoke,

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Speaker 2: Yes Mike is.

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Speaker 3: A new crime drama. It's based on a true story

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Speaker 3: that inspired a podcast called Firebug, and it starts Taron Egerton,

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Speaker 3: who plays a former firefighter who now works as an

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Speaker 3: ars and investigator. So he's had a few traumatic experiences

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Speaker 3: at work that made him change to we are directions

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Speaker 3: and he's investigating two serial Arsinus and when his investigations

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Speaker 3: sort of don't make any progress, he gets teamed up

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Speaker 3: with a local detective to to try and solve the crimes.

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Speaker 3: And it becomes this hat and mouse aim of trying

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Speaker 3: to predict where the Arsinus will strike next and trying

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Speaker 3: to guess their next move. And watching this reminded me

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Speaker 3: of how nice it was to have a crime thriller

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Speaker 3: that wasn't all about murder and death. This is more

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Speaker 3: of a psychological aspect to it. You know, they're trying

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Speaker 3: to sit into the mind of a serial Artinus and

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Speaker 3: workout where they're going to go next. They can't sort

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Speaker 3: of trust anyone around them, you know, is it someone

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Speaker 3: one of their colleagues. So this is something a little

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Speaker 3: bit different. It does jump around a bit in the

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Speaker 3: first episode, but you know it's intriguing. A great cast.

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Speaker 3: It's dark and gritty and lots of twists and turns

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Speaker 3: all the way through. You know, it's not perfect, but

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Speaker 3: there's more than enough going on here to pull you

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Speaker 3: in and keep you hooked and keep you watching.

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Speaker 2: Oh superb Okay, cool, Let's smoke. That's on Apple TV

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Speaker 2: Plus and on tvn Z plus. Here we Go And

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Speaker 2: this is.

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Speaker 3: A British sitcom that's just landed on TV and Z

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Speaker 3: plus two seasons of it and a third one is

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Speaker 3: on the way. And it's one of those British comedies.

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Speaker 3: I don't want to say it's old fashion, but it's

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Speaker 3: more of a sort of traditional kind of comedy. It's

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Speaker 3: not trying to do anything edgy or clever. It's quite

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Speaker 3: a comfortable kind of watch and it's not really about

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Speaker 3: anything much either. It stars Katherine Parkinson and Alison Stedman.

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Speaker 3: And it's about the lives of the Jest family, who

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Speaker 3: are a sort of a very ordinary middle class the

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Speaker 3: Bourbon family. Their teenage son is recording their daily lives

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Speaker 3: for a school project. He's making a documentary and he

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Speaker 3: just records what happens. And it's about the chaos and

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Speaker 3: the silliness of the family's daily lives and all their

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Speaker 3: extended family and friends. The humor is in the normality

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Speaker 3: of it all, with you know, a touch of the

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Speaker 3: absurd and the ridiculous and the infuriating. It's a very mild,

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Speaker 3: a little bit of an old school kind of sitcom

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Speaker 3: and a very easy watch.

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Speaker 2: Okay, cool, I like the sound of that. Sometimes there's

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Speaker 2: something a bit, you know, some of the most relaxing

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Speaker 2: shows are the ones that aren't overly complicated, you know exactly.

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Speaker 2: We love it, so that could be a bit of me. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: that's here we go. That's on TVNZ plus. The other

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Speaker 2: shows Smoke is Apple TV Plus and wolf Hall. Both

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Speaker 2: series are streaming on Neon. All the details, of course,

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Speaker 2: will be on the website, but you knew that.

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