Tara Ward: Bergerac, Am I Being Unreasonable?, Last One Laughing UK

Bergerac  

A reboot of the classic British drama about a police detective living on the island of Jersey. Ex-cop Jim Bergerac is forced to confront a troubling past case when a wealthy woman is murdered, pushing him to overcome personal demons and reignite his investigative prowess to navigate family tensions and law enforcement scrutiny (TVNZ+).

 

Am I Being Unreasonable? 

Nic is a lonely mum who is grieving a loss she cannot tell anyone about. She feels trapped in her life, her depressing marriage, and the cat is missing. Her young son Ollie is the only thing that keeps her going because he is her main source of happiness. When new mum Jen moves to town, she and Nic quickly develop a deep friendship that brings a lot of joy and laughter, but threatens to bring up old history and secrets that Nic feels are better left in the past (TVNZ+).

 

Last One Laughing UK  

Famous for his dark humour, one liners and THAT laugh, Jimmy Carr challenges 10 of Britain’s funniest comics to spend the day together without so much as cracking a smile. The 10 comics use every ounce of their comedic talents to try and break their opponents without cracking up themselves (Prime Video). 

 

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Episode Transcript

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

Speaker 2 (00:13):
Twenty five past ten on your Saturday morning, which means
it's screen time time, brap r up. How screen time
expert Tara Award is here with her three shows to
what your recommend this week?

Speaker 3 (00:23):
Yolda Tara, Good morning Jack.

Speaker 2 (00:25):
Okay. I don't know how to say this name, so
I'm hoping you're going to help me out with this.
Our first show this morning is streaming on TV and
Z plus. Is it burgerak bergerak Bergerac is not sophisticated
like you, Tara Okay, streaming on TV and Z Plus.
This is a bit of a reboot of a British drama,

(00:46):
so tell us about it.

Speaker 3 (00:47):
Yeah, yeah, this is Burgerai. This was a huge British
crime drama series that ran for ten years in the
nineteen eighties. Had a very iconic theme song and We'll
sit on the Island of Jersey. And it was about
a detective called Jim Bergerac who was a very skilled
detective but quite troubled personally, like nearly all TV detectives.
And you know, people just kept getting killed in mysterious

(01:10):
circumstances on Jersey. So this new reboot, which has just
come to TVNZ Plus, is paying tribute to the original show,
but it's still very much a new series. They've carried
through a few of the details. Bergerax still has trouble
with alcohol, he still drives a very nice car, and
it's still filmed in this beautiful location. But otherwise this
is much darker and slower than the original. Bergerack's wife

(01:34):
has just died, he's raising a teenage daughter, and I
think it's maybe missing a bit of the charm of
the original. It feels quite sort of tried and true
for a British crime drama. So if you did love
the original, don't go into this thinking it's going to
be exactly the same. But if you do like a
quieter detective series, it's a bit slower and it's got
that beautiful setting, which is a format that works really

(01:56):
well for British drama. It just kind of gets repeated
over and over again. This is definitely worth a life.

Speaker 2 (02:01):
Okay, very good. I really aged myself with that, So
I'm sorry. It's on TV and Z Plus, also on
tvn Z Plus. Am I being unreasonable?

Speaker 3 (02:12):
Yeah? This is a gem of a series that I've
only just started watching, but have been really enjoying it.
It's an award winning British series that starts out as
a comedy and then turns into a thriller. It was
created by Daisy May Cooper and Selene Haasley, who both
star in this Daisy May Cooper plays Nick, who is
a mum and a wife. She's quite lonely. She's having

(02:32):
an affair. She has this deep secret that she can't
tell anyone, and she makes friends with a new school
mum called Jen and they become fast friends. You know,
it looks like this friendship could be the answer at
all of Nick's problems. But then Gen is not everything
she seems, and maybe's nixt secret is not going to
stay secret for much longer. And what I really liked

(02:54):
about this series is that it plays with different genres.
So one moment it's a dark comedy, the next it's
got all these twists and turns of a mystery. It's
sort of heartwarming and sad and funny at the same time.
And about halfway through at changes perspective. You see the
story from a different viewpoint, so it keeps us on
our toes. It's having fun with that format without giving
us all the answers at once, so you know, quite unpredictable.

(03:17):
I've nearly finished season one and I've got no idea
where it's going to go, so I really like that.
It's clever and smart and two seasons are on TVZ.

Speaker 2 (03:25):
Plus cracking Okay, cool, that sounds great? Am I being unreasonable?
On Prime Video? Last One Laughing UK?

Speaker 3 (03:32):
Yeah, the show has been all over my social media
feed this week and it's my pick. If you're looking
for something silly and ridiculous to enjoy this weekend, this
is Last One Laughing UK, which is an international format,
but the UK version has just dropped on Prime Video.
The show takes ten comedians and puts them in like
a Big Brother type house with lots of cameras for

(03:53):
six hours, and in that six hours, there's only one
rule that they're not allowed to laugh. If you laugh,
you're out of the game, So each comedian is trying
to get everyone else to laugh without laughing themselves. I
think what makes the British version so good as the
comedians they've got on board. It's hosted by Jimmy Carr
and mariushen Connete. You've got Bob Mortimer, Richard Aoardi, Daisy

(04:15):
My Cooper, Joe Wilkinson, lots of comedians who already do
that dead pan, straight faced comedy already, so I think
that probably helps them. But lots of familiar faces from
panel shows like What I Lie to You and Task Masters,
So if you like those shows, you'll like this. It's
very low stakes. I don't want to oversell it because
some of the things they do to make the people
laugh are just so over the top. But it's a

(04:37):
really simple idea that works, and it's just a bit
of fun. If you want cheering up and nothing more,
this will do it.

Speaker 2 (04:43):
It just sounds so good. It's such a simple concept
day and there's something about the kind of British comedians
I think that really makes a show like that work. Hey,
very quickly. My pick for this week is Happiness, and
I saw that you wrote a great review of it
on the spin off US today. So this is on
Thursdays on TV three and three now, and I'm going

(05:04):
to declare a bit of a conflict of min It
is made by a couple of mates of mine, so
I do have some bias going into it now. But
here's the thing. I went along and I saw the
first three episodes, and I at first it took me.
It took me about ten or fifteen minutes to get
into it. So at first I was like, oh, I'm
not totally sure, and then once I just give it
ten to fifteen minutes, I thought, this is fantastic. It's

(05:25):
basically it's a comedy set in Toe Hunger, of all places,
and it's a kind of musical theater comedy. And when
I say musical theater comedy, musical theater in a very
meta sense in that it is a kind of cross
between Glee and you know, and like in a kind
of American comedy perhaps set set. Yeah, yeah, exactly said

(05:49):
and said in tow Hunger, and yeah, I already enjoyed it.

Speaker 3 (05:53):
Yeah, it's our first New Zealand musical sitcom, which I
think is really really cool and ambitious and creative, and
they've done a beautiful job. It's full of joy and energy.
The music is great. You know, you kind of find
yourself humming a lot on to it and tapping your
toes and it's just lovely to watch something that is
light and fun and wholesome and definitely very in New Zealand.

(06:15):
It's a really cool show.

Speaker 2 (06:17):
Yeah, totally agree. Hey, thank you very much, Tara. We
will get to you again next week. All of Tara's
screen time picks will be on the News Talks EDB website.

Speaker 1 (06:25):
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