Chris Schulz: Slow Horses, Wise Guy: David Chase and the Sopranos, Location, Location, Location NZ

Slow Horses  

A dysfunctional team of MI5 agents and their obnoxious boss, the notorious Jackson Lamb, navigate the espionage world's smoke and mirrors to defend England from sinister forces (Apple TV+). 

 

Wise Guy: David Chase and the Sopranos   

Twenty-five years after it first debuted, The Sopranos remains a touchstone for prestige television. Featuring interviews with cast and crew, this two-part documentary delves into the psyche of renowned Sopranos creator David Chase (Neon). 

 

Location, Location, Location NZ  

Friendship ended with Kirstie and Phil, now Jayne Kiely and Paul Glover are your best friends. The local reboot of the iconic property series begins on TVNZ1 and TVNZ+ this Sunday night and promises a swagbag of nervous New Zealanders looking to make their property dreams a reality. Episode one takes viewers inside the notoriously chilled out housing market in Tāmaki Makaurau, where one buyer teases she is known to “dry wretch” when she gets nervous. If that’s not high stakes television, we don’t know what is. 

 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:07):
You're listening to the Saturday Morning with Jack team podcast
from News Talks at B.

Speaker 2 (00:12):
It is screen timetime on your Saturday morning and Chris
Schultz is in with us this week. Get a Chris
Childer Jack here you going, I'm really well, thank you
and I'm super excited for the latest series of Slow
Horses on Apple TV Plus starring Gary Oldman. Tell us
about Slow Horses.

Speaker 3 (00:29):
Only you'd like this. I just felt like this is
a show that you would get into. It's about spies
in the UK, right five, the super secret spy agency
that none of us really know much about. But it's
not about the real spies. It's about the outcast, the misfits,
the rejects, the spies that have done something bad in
the field and they get sent to do penance in

(00:51):
this rundown office which he is overseen by Gary Oldman
in his one and only TV role, which he is
absolutely relishing. You can sort of see him here. He
plays Jackson Lamb, the boss of these these spies, and
he's like he's overweight, he drinks, he smokes, he's you know,
the word slovenly was created to describe him. He can

(01:14):
almost smell him coming off the screen. But the irony
is he's really good at his job. He loves these
these outcast cities in charge of and so every season
they sort of find themselves wrapped up and sort of
redeeming themselves. It's one of these kind of old school
TV shows. I feel like it of turns up for

(01:34):
six episodes every year and it just does the goods.
It delivers every time. This season is no different. The
quality is right up there, and they're exploring some really
interesting themes, including one of the spy's granddads who's suffering dementia,
and so what do you do with elderly spy who
is losing his mind and could give away trade secrets?

(01:57):
That's really ripe territory. So yeah, this would I think
he's the best show on TV right now if it
wasn't for industry, I'm not surprised. You love it. I
love it.

Speaker 2 (02:09):
Yeah, Yeah, And Slow Horses is exceptional. So that's on
Apple TV. Plus screening on Neon tell Us about Wise Guy,
David Chase and The Sopranos. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (02:19):
Well, speaking of quality TV, I think we all consider
The Sopranos to be one of, if not the best
show's ever made. This ran from ninety ninety nine to
two thousand and seven, and it's sort of got a
bit of another wave of support, if you like. During Lockdown,
I feel like everyone was watching it again and yeah,

(02:43):
they've decided it's time for a documentary on it. This
isn't just like a rah rah, look how great the
show was documentary. This is diving in deep. It's the
director Alex give me, one of the greatest documentary makers
of our time, and he doesn't really clever. Hear. He
recreates Dodtor Malfie's office, and he sits David Chase, the
creator of the Sopranos, down in it, and he puts

(03:05):
them through ext Tony Soprano went through for all those years.
He makes them dive into the creation of the show,
like why he made it. It turns out he was
just trying to make a show about his mum that
had nothing to do with the Mob, but he thought,
you know what if I added some bad guys into
it and it evolved from there. But yeah, there's a
lot of big reveals in this two part documentary. They

(03:30):
talk a lot about James Gandalfini, who obviously was in
almost every sing of the Sopranos. He was the Sopranos,
and just how much he struggled with it. He wasn't
built for the fame, he wasn't built to handle it,
and so he would sort of disappear for days on end.
They talk about drugs and alcohol abuse. They held an
intervention for him at one point, and they talk about

(03:54):
how he prepared for those really violent scenes. So we'd
put rocks in his shoes, or down six cups of
coffee or even bang his head on a wall. That's
how That's how far he took it. So, yeah, this
is I mean, this is great. I reckon, We'll probably
see more of these. I wouldn't be surprised for them,
for like six feet under or the wire or the office,
you know, those big totems kind of inside.

Speaker 2 (04:16):
Yeah, right, that's very interesting. So that's wise Guy, David
Chase and the Sopranos. It's on Neon and on tvn
Z one and TV and Z plus Location Location location
m Z.

Speaker 3 (04:28):
Yeah, a lot of surprised we're finally rebooting this UK
hit for New Zealand. We're all obsessed with house prizes,
especially here in Auckland's. This has been on the air
in the UK for forty one season since the year
two thousand, we're finally doing our own version. It's a
show where it's pretty simple. They find people looking to

(04:49):
buy houses and they try and find them their dream home.
You know, there's a lot of talk call those clichos,
the forever home, the dream home. The hosts real estate agents,
but they're also quite familiar TV faces. It's James Keely
who hosted My Descend dream Home, Paul Glover, who is

(05:09):
actually a comedy actor from one of my favorite local shows, Educators.
So they sort of just take a couples or people
who are looking to buy houses around to see if
they can find them a home they want. It's based
in Auckland, and I feel like that's the only point
here where house prizes are quite far out of reach

(05:30):
for many people. And one of the couples in this
first episode is spending over a million dollars on their
first house, which is a hell of a lot of money,
and there's no sort of time to dive into why
that's the case and how we got there. It's yeah,
it's sort of like, you know, look at the third
bedroom in the second bathroom and the deck and that

(05:51):
kind of stuff. So if you're into like property porn,
then you know, grand designs, that kind of thing, you'll
love it. But I wouldn't be surprised if a few
people come across this and throw their coffee cups at
the TV.

Speaker 2 (06:01):
Okay, thank you very much, Chris. That's location, Location, Location
ends it. It's on tv Z Plus and TV and
Z one. Slow Horses is on Apple TV plus, Wise
Guy David Chase and The Sopranos is on Neon.

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