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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 Talk SEDB.

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Speaker 2: Yes, good to have you with us this morning on

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Speaker 2: Saturday Mornings. I am Francisca filling in for Jack. He

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Speaker 2: will be back next week.

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Speaker 3: Right.

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Speaker 2: Tara Ward joins us now for screen time. Good morning, Tara,

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Speaker 2: Good morning. Okay. So, as I say every time when

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Speaker 2: I get one of your lists, I do think to myself,

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Speaker 2: I should just quickly whip through these and check the

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Speaker 2: check these TV shows out. And Black Doves, which has

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Speaker 2: just started on Netflix, is fabulous. I'm loving it.

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Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, isn't it great? I thought the same thing.

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Speaker 3: I thought. I know, Friendshis is going to love this one.

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Speaker 4: But this is a fantastic news spy thriller that's just

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Speaker 4: come to Netflix, and it comes with an all star

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Speaker 4: cast including.

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Speaker 3: Kiara Knightley, Ben With Shure, and Sarah Lancashire.

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Speaker 4: And whenever I see Sarah Lankash's name and a show

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Speaker 4: she's started, and shows like Happy Valley and Julia, I

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Speaker 4: know that it's going to be good. And in Black Doves,

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Speaker 4: Kiara Knightley plays Helen, who is a spy who's spent

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Speaker 4: the past ten years masquerading as a politician's wife.

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Speaker 3: She's married to the British Defense secretary.

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Speaker 4: She's passing on all sorts of state secrets and when

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Speaker 4: her secret lover is murdered, she teams up with another

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Speaker 4: spy played by Ben Wishaw, who's an assassin, and together

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Speaker 4: they're going to try and find out who is behind

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Speaker 4: the murder, and of course they uncover this international government

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Speaker 4: conspiracy that inevitably is a lot bigger than they think.

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Speaker 4: And Sarah Lancashire plays the tough spy boss at the

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Speaker 4: top who's trying to keep Helen in check. This is

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Speaker 4: set in December in London, so you've got this cold,

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Speaker 4: festive setting for this quite tight spy thriller. And I

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Speaker 4: just thought this was a lot of fun. It's a

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Speaker 4: bit pulpy, it's funny. There's a really dry humor in it,

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Speaker 4: but it pulls you in from the opening seconds.

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Speaker 3: It just grabs you straight away.

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Speaker 4: You know, it's got some spark to it and probably

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Speaker 4: a show that you want to suspend belief for. You know,

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Speaker 4: you probably don't want to think about the details too hard,

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Speaker 4: but if you want a thriller with lots of action

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Speaker 4: and energy and twists this weekend. I don't think you

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Speaker 4: can go wrong with.

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Speaker 2: No Toworthy now. Sight Unseen is a bit of a

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Speaker 2: different take on sort of the traditional police crime drama.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, this is a Canadian police drama with a bit

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Speaker 4: of a twist. And if you love those kinds of

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Speaker 4: weekly network crime dramas like Law and Order or CSI,

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Speaker 4: I think you'll enjoy this as well. It's about a

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Speaker 4: police detective in Vancouver called Tess who discovers she has

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Speaker 4: a degenerative eye condition and is going blind, and she

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Speaker 4: makes a mistake on an important case and to right

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Speaker 4: or wrong and solve the case, she enlists the help

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Speaker 4: of a seeing guide who she connects with over the

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Speaker 4: Internet and her phone camera, and the seeing guide helps

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Speaker 4: her physically navigate the world and solve this case. The guide, Sonny,

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Speaker 4: is actually three thousand miles away in New York, so

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Speaker 4: they're never in the same room, but together they form

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Speaker 4: this unlikely team, and they have to find a balance

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Speaker 4: between helping each other and not getting too tangled up

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Speaker 4: in each other's lives. One hand, this is quite a

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Speaker 4: generic police drama and again another show that you know

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Speaker 4: you'll need to suspend belief for because it does push

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Speaker 4: the boundaries of plausibility at times. But I thought it

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Speaker 4: was a really interesting twist for the lead character to

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Speaker 4: have this life changing condition. You know, she experiences the

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Speaker 4: world differently to her colleagues, and that makes the show

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Speaker 4: stand out among a lot of other crime dramas. I think,

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Speaker 4: you know, it raises issues about how we move through

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Speaker 4: the world and how we connect with other people. And

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Speaker 4: it also stars Daniel Gillies, who's a New Zealand actor

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Speaker 4: doing great things overseas. So if you're a crime drama fan, yeah,

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Speaker 4: this is definitely worth checking out as well.

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Speaker 2: At this time of the year, sometimes we're reaching for

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Speaker 2: just something light and enjoyable, just a little something to

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Speaker 2: And that was how I was feeling when I clicked

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Speaker 2: on Man Inside the other day, with absolutely no expectations whatsoever,

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Speaker 2: but I just found it charming.

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Speaker 4: Oh my gosh, it's such a gem. This is a

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Speaker 4: new American comedy on Netflix. The premise of the show

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Speaker 4: is delightfully bonkers, but it stars Ted Danson, who I

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Speaker 4: think is perfect for this role, and it's created by

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Speaker 4: Michael Shehr, who is behind shows like Parks, and rec

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Speaker 4: and The Good Place and Brooklyn ninety nine. So you know,

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Speaker 4: this guy knows how to make comedy. And Ted Danson

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Speaker 4: he's seventy six. He plays a retired professor who's recently

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Speaker 4: widowed and is hired by a private detective to infiltrate

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Speaker 4: a rest home in San Francisco. There's a jewelry thief

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Speaker 4: on the loose in the rest home and one of

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Speaker 4: the families of the residents wants to find them, and

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Speaker 4: so ted Danson's character turns amateur detective. He moves in,

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Speaker 4: he becomes a mole, he becomes a man on the inside,

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Speaker 4: and he's got one month to work out who's committing

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Speaker 4: the crimes. But what happens, of course, is that he

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Speaker 4: makes friends with all these quirky residents and against his

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Speaker 4: better judgment, gets this brand new lesse on life again.

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Speaker 4: It's very gentle, light and heartwarming, and it has these

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Speaker 4: lovely tender moments through it where the characters reflect on

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Speaker 4: life and death and aging and family.

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Speaker 3: I love this. This is a gem.

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Speaker 4: It's there's so much comedic talent and experience here, but

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Speaker 4: it also feels very thoughtful and and you know, as

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Speaker 4: you say, charming, and genuine.

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Speaker 3: It's just a delight.

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Speaker 2: I couldn't agree more Ted Dance and he's just so likable,

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Speaker 2: isn't he so likable? It's comedic timing, it's just brilliant

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Speaker 2: if And when I was watching at Tara, I thought

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Speaker 2: to myself, hang on, I've seen this. I've seen this

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Speaker 2: premise and it's based on a Chilean documentary called The

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Speaker 2: Mole Agent. So if you've seen that documentary, it will

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Speaker 2: kind of it it all come together in your mind.

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Speaker 2: But I wondered whether sort of the idea around that

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Speaker 2: this is due to kind of the popularity of other

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Speaker 2: sort of shows like Only Murders in the Building.

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Speaker 4: Yes, yeah, I thought the same thing. I thought, if

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Speaker 4: you like Only Murders in the Building, you'll like this too,

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Speaker 4: just sort of a more relaxed pace, something light to

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Speaker 4: just let wash over you. But but it isn't empty

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Speaker 4: at the same time. You know, there's there's beautiful levels

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Speaker 4: to this one.

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Speaker 2: Thank you so much, Tara. An excellent connection of TV

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Speaker 2: shows for you today, just whipping back through them. Black

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Speaker 2: Doves that is screening on Netflix. Do not start it

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Speaker 2: unless you've got some time up your sleeve, because you're

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Speaker 2: just going to want to binge through that. Sight Unseen

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Speaker 2: is on three now and Man on the Inside is

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Speaker 2: also on Netflix. It is ten thirty News Talks ATB For.

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