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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 Talks AB.

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Speaker 2: Right now it is time to get our screen time

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Speaker 2: picks for this weekend. Tara awards our screen time experts.

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Speaker 2: She has the tough gig of watching heaps of different

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Speaker 2: shows for watching and streaming that she can recommend to us. Hey, Tara,

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Speaker 2: good morning Jack.

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Speaker 3: It's a tough job.

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Speaker 2: It is such a tough gig. Someone's got to do it.

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Speaker 2: Someone's got to curl off on the couch, you know.

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Speaker 2: But the thing is, we have really come to trust

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Speaker 2: your tastes on this front. Oh, no pressure. Yeah, so

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Speaker 2: tell us tell us first all this morning about a

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Speaker 2: new show streaming on Disney Plus Rivals.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. This is one of the most fun shows I've

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Speaker 3: watched in ages. This is the TV adaptation of the

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Speaker 3: Jilly Cooper book Rivals, which was published in the eighties

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Speaker 3: and has quite a reputation for being a bit of

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Speaker 3: a steamy read. Well, Disney Plus have brought the book

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Speaker 3: to life and given us this really big energy, big hair,

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Speaker 3: delicious nightteen eighties drama. It comes with a fantastic cast.

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Speaker 3: It stars David Tennant and Aidan Turner. Set in the

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Speaker 3: mid eighties in this upper class English horse riding set

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Speaker 3: of people. The plot is almost not important, but the

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Speaker 3: main storyline is about two rival journalists, Rupert Campbell Black

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Speaker 3: and Tony Baddingham even the names of fabulous, who are

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Speaker 3: both very powerful and trying to take each other down

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Speaker 3: amid all this fabulous nineteen eighties excess of champagne and

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Speaker 3: concord flying and very indulgent lifestyles. And you know from

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Speaker 3: the opening scene you know where you are with this show.

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Speaker 3: It's about fabulously terrible people doing fabulously terrible things, and

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Speaker 3: it's just having such a great time. It's a romp

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Speaker 3: of a show. It's a satire. It's got some swagger

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Speaker 3: to it. Obviously, the book was written thirty years ago,

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Speaker 3: so there's stuff in there that you know, is probably

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Speaker 3: a bit problematic from today's perspective, but the show is

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Speaker 3: sort of giving a cheeky wink to some of that.

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Speaker 3: It's quite self aware, as if to say, look, you know,

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Speaker 3: we wouldn't say these things today, but it was the eighties.

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Speaker 3: That are awful people. We're going to run with it

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Speaker 3: a bit. So I just love this. It's well made,

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Speaker 3: it's well, it's over the top but it's so confident

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Speaker 3: and just so much fun.

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Speaker 2: Superb sounds great. That is Rivals. It's on Disney Plus

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Speaker 2: on Neon. A show I'm excited about. Tell us about

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Speaker 2: The Diplomat.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so this is a BBC drama on Neon, And

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Speaker 3: there is a show called The Diplomat on Netflix. But

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Speaker 3: this is on Neon and quite different to the other one.

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Speaker 3: But if you're looking for something a bit more sedate

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Speaker 3: and quiet, this is a great choice. This stars Sophie Rundle.

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Speaker 3: It's set in Barcelona and it's about a group of

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Speaker 3: British diplomats who work in the British Consul in Catalonia.

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Speaker 3: So it's their job to help any British citizens who

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Speaker 3: get into trouble or who need some help. And the

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Speaker 3: series opens with an unexplained death of a British man.

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Speaker 3: The police think it's an accident, the victim's father think

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Speaker 3: it's murder, and the staff at the console become evolved

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Speaker 3: and so each week, each episode there's a different situation

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Speaker 3: that they need to help with, working with the police

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Speaker 3: and locals. But this is a bit of an unusual

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Speaker 3: show and that it's not really a political thriller or

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Speaker 3: a spy draw or a murder mystery of the week

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Speaker 3: type show. It's got a bit of It's got elements

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Speaker 3: of each of those genres in it. So it's very light,

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Speaker 3: lots of likable characters. I think it will get tenser

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Speaker 3: as it goes on. But it's filmed in location in

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Speaker 3: Barcelona as well, which just gives it such a wonderful setting.

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Speaker 2: Yeah nice, I mean, you can't really go wrong, can you.

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Speaker 2: And on Prime Video The Office Australia.

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Speaker 3: This is the latest version of the global hit mockumentary

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Speaker 3: comedy series The Office. Of course, it started in the

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Speaker 3: UK with Ricky Gervase and then we had the very

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Speaker 3: popular American series with Steve Carrell, and now we've got

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Speaker 3: the Australian version, which has been written and directed by

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Speaker 3: New Zealander the wonderful Jackie van Beek. Set in the

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Speaker 3: office of a packaging company, and so it feels very

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Speaker 3: familiar in a lot of ways. It's got all those

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Speaker 3: traits of the office, the looks to camera and the

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Speaker 3: awkward silences, those office politics. But the Australian version is

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Speaker 3: a little different in that it features the first female boss,

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Speaker 3: Hannah Howard, who's played by Felicity Ward and Josh Shompson

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Speaker 3: and Edith Paul are in this as well to other

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Speaker 3: New Zealanders. Now, I'm not a loyal fan of the Office,

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Speaker 3: so my opinion might be different to people who really

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Speaker 3: love the show and are very loyal to a particular franchise.

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Speaker 3: But I liked this. It's not as awkward and uncomfortable

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Speaker 3: as the British one, and I think it's just going

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Speaker 3: own niche as it goes on. You know, it feels familiar,

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Speaker 3: but it also feels fresh, and there's some genuine laugh

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Speaker 3: out moments, laugh out loud moments in there as well.

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Speaker 2: Oh fantastic. Okay, that's the Office Australia. That's on Prime Video.

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Speaker 2: The Diplomat is the one set in Bartholona that's on

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Speaker 2: Neon and on Disney Plus. You can see the one

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Speaker 2: with David Tennant and Aidan Turner that is rivaled. All

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Speaker 2: of those shows up on the News Talks 'DB website.

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