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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 SEDB.

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Speaker 2: Twenty three minutes past ten, which means it's screen time

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Speaker 2: time on Newstalk, said b. Taraward is with us this

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Speaker 2: time every week with three show recommendations to watch your

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Speaker 2: stream at home. Hey Tara, good morning. Let's begin with

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Speaker 2: the show streaming on Neon starring Colin Farrell. Tell us

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Speaker 2: about the Penguin.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, this is new HBO drama and it's the latest

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Speaker 3: spin off from the Batman World. And it's about the

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Speaker 3: villain of the Batman universe, the Penguin. And yes, it

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Speaker 3: stars Colin Farrell. He is reprising the role that he

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Speaker 3: played in the Batman Movie in twenty twenty two as Oz,

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Speaker 3: the Penguin Cob, and he's unrecognizable here. He's wearing a

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Speaker 3: lot of prosthetics and a body suit and has transformed

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Speaker 3: himself into this balding, overweight old man who looks nothing

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Speaker 3: like Colin Farrell. Probably looks a lot more like Tony

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Speaker 3: Soprano than Colin Farrell does. And this show does feel

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Speaker 3: a lot like the Sopranos in Gotham City. It's a

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Speaker 3: mob drama, a mafia drama. It's about the Penguin's rise

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Speaker 3: the underwear of Gotham City, and it's taking that story

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Speaker 3: of the villain and turning him into an anti hero,

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Speaker 3: you know, someone you would sympathize with. So there's lots

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Speaker 3: of shooting here, lots of organized crime, lots of conversations

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Speaker 3: and dark corners, and so in a lot of ways

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Speaker 3: it feels quite familiar. But you don't need to know

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Speaker 3: the ins and outs of the DC Comics world or

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Speaker 3: the Batman world to enjoy this. You can watch this

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Speaker 3: very much as a standalone show. It's dark and gritty.

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Speaker 3: You know, it's an HBO show. So the quality is good.

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Speaker 3: It looks good, and I think as this series goes

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Speaker 3: on it will become more of a psychological thriller rather

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Speaker 3: than just being a mob drama.

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Speaker 2: Okay, that sounds really good, and yeah, it sounds like

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Speaker 2: a bit of me. That's the Penguin. So that's on

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Speaker 2: Neon Starr and Colin Ferrell on Prime Video a very

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Speaker 2: royal scandal.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, this is the second show in just a few

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Speaker 3: months to revisit the twenty nineteen BBC Newsnight interview with

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Speaker 3: Prince Andrew and that of course was the incredible interview

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Speaker 3: where Prince Andrew talked about his friendship with Jeffrey Epstein

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Speaker 3: and it was a disaster. He didn't come out of

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Speaker 3: the interview looking good at all. And the first series, Scoop,

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Speaker 3: came out in April on Netflix and it starred Billy

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Speaker 3: Piper and Gillian Anderson. This series, A Very Real Scandal,

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Speaker 3: takes the same event, but takes a wider view than

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Speaker 3: Scoop did. It focuses more on both sides, So you've

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Speaker 3: got the BBC side through the journalist Emily Matless's eyes,

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Speaker 3: but also the royal side, the reasons why they allowed

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Speaker 3: the interview and the fallout after it, and so I

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Speaker 3: think because of that, this feels a bit like an

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Speaker 3: episode of The Crown. Michael Sheen plays Prince Andrew and

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Speaker 3: Ruth Wilson plays Emily Mateless, So they are both very

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Speaker 3: good in this as you would expect. They've gone to

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Speaker 3: a lot of effort in terms of, you know, replicating

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Speaker 3: those mannerisms and the voices, and they very much look

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Speaker 3: like those real people. And Emily Maitliss was an executive

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Speaker 3: producer on this series, so I think that gives the

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Speaker 3: show a few more nuggets of inside knowledge that that

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Speaker 3: scoop would not have. So if you like the Crown,

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Speaker 3: I think you'll enjoy this version. I'm not sure that

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Speaker 3: we need to dramas about this event, particularly when it's

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Speaker 3: not that long ago. But it's one of those huge

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Speaker 3: stories that appeal to people. And it's a case of

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Speaker 3: two big studios rushing to get it done and both

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Speaker 3: shows coming out at the same time.

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Speaker 2: Yeah right, nice, Okay, one's got Emily Matlace so producing,

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Speaker 2: so I think that's yeah, that's a plus. That's a

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Speaker 2: very royal scandal on Prime Video and on three now

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Speaker 2: Night Sleeper. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: If you're looking for something with big energy, fast paced,

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Speaker 3: lots of twists and turns and kind of ridiculous but

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Speaker 3: in a good way, this is Night Sleeper and it's

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Speaker 3: on three Now. It's a six part BBC drama and

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Speaker 3: it takes place on a train that has been cyber hacked.

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Speaker 3: So it's a night train traveling from Glasgow to London.

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Speaker 3: Cyber Hackers have taken control of the train. The passengers

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Speaker 3: are trapped on board, including a policeman named Joe, who,

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Speaker 3: when he realizes the train is racing uncontrollably towards disaster

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Speaker 3: has to find out who on board is helping the hijackers,

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Speaker 3: while also dealing with the government's cybersecurity team who are

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Speaker 3: trying to work out what's going on. This is cliched

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Speaker 3: and far fetched, but so much fun. Lots of action,

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Speaker 3: lots of cliffhangers and suspense. It takes place in real time,

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Speaker 3: so that kind of adds to the tension. You know,

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Speaker 3: it isn't perfect. It's very unrealistic, but it's a show

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Speaker 3: you can just escape into and enjoy it for what

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Speaker 3: it is and just be entertained by it.

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Speaker 2: Very good. Okay, that sounds like a bit of fun.

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Speaker 2: That's night Sleeper. It's on three now, A very royal

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Speaker 2: scandal is on Prime Video, and The Penguin is on Neon.

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Speaker 2: That's our screen Time Expert Tara Award. Thank you, Tara.

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Speaker 2: We will see you next week.

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