Tara Ward: Secrets at Red Rocks, Dope Girls, Protection

Secrets at Red Rocks - (Neon, Sky Open from March 9) Based on the award-winning novel by Rachael King, this family-friendly local drama tells the story of 12 year-old Jake, who discovers a sealskin in Wellington and unleashes mythical creatures and dangers.

Dope Girls - (TVNZ+) In London's murky underworld, a widowed single mother builds a nightclub and cocaine empire to support her family, soon becoming the most dangerous woman in a city shaken by war.

Protection - (TVNZ+) Siobhan Finneran (Happy Valley) stars in this British drama as a witness protection officer who must answers questions after a shooting at a safe house.

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Episode Transcript

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

Speaker 2 (00:11):
AB Time to catch up with Tara Award our screen
Time Expert for her screen Time picks for this week
shows to watch your stream at home. Hey Tara, good morning. Okay,
let's begin with a show streaming on Neon and Sky
Open from tomorrow. Tell us about Secrets at Red Rocks.

Speaker 3 (00:29):
This is a really lovely New New Zealand show that
starts tomorrow. It's a drama based on an award winning
children's book by Rachel King and it stars dominic Aorna
Attiki and Jim Murray Arty. And it was filmed on
Wellington's South Coast. And it's about a boy, a twelve
hour old boy named Jake who arrives to stay with
his dad for a bit. He's out exploring on the

(00:50):
beach one day when he finds a mysterious sealskin in
a cave and he takes the sealskin home and accidentally
unlocks this magic spell that puts his whole family in danger.
And the story weaves together ancient Maulti myth and Celtic
lengend this sort of very modern contemporary setting and gives
it a mystical vibe and a touch of the supernatural.

(01:13):
And it is essentially a kid's show, but it's screening
and primetime on sky Open tomorrow night. And I loved this.
I watched this with a big smile on my face.
It's a show that all the family can watch together.
It's warm and magical and quite nostalgic as well. It
reminded me a lot of the shows that I grew
up watching in the nineteen eighties, those New Zealand cadult

(01:33):
dramas that we used to make that were real adventure stories.
You know, the kids were the heroes and they got
into all sorts of scrapes and solved crimes. And this
has that similar wholesome but adventurous feel to it and
beautifully shot as well. The Wellington Coast is the perfect
setting for this story. Don't be put off at don't
be put off by it being a kid's show, is
what I'm saying. It's a really lovely New Zealand drama.

Speaker 2 (01:55):
Great, Okay, this sounds awesome. Secrets at Red Rock So
that's on Neon and Sky Open from tomorrow on TVNZ
plus tell Us about Dope Girls.

Speaker 3 (02:04):
Yeah, this is a new British series that sland it
on TVNZ Plus today. It's set after World War One
in London and it's about what happens as all the
men return from the war and the women who have
been managing things for the past four years have to
readjust and find their place again. And it follows one
woman who decides to set up a nightclub in Soho.

(02:25):
She meets another character who is part of the Female Experiment,
which is one of she's one of the first ever
female police officers, and they get tangled up with a
local crime family who's led by another very strong, dominant woman.
So it's about a group of women whose lives crossover
at a time when society is changing really quickly and

(02:46):
they have to be very inventive and resourceful to survive.
And even though this is a historical drama, it feels
very modern and theatrical. It's got big energy, it's got
a modern soundtrack. It's not one of those dry kind
of historical dramas, and it reminded me a lot of
Peaky Blinders. You've got a bit of crime, you've got
some family pol that's set after the war, and it's

(03:09):
got some real energy and color to it as well.

Speaker 2 (03:11):
Cool Okay, That's dope Girls. It's on TVNZ Plus. Also
on TVNZ plus. Protection.

Speaker 3 (03:17):
This is the latest British crime thriller to TVNZ Plus
and it stars Chevorn Finneran who was in Downtown Abbey
and Happy Valley, and she plays a witness protection officer
called Liz, who is in charge of protecting a family
who are about to testify in a major organized crime trial.
She's also having an affair with a married colleague and

(03:38):
when the safety of her witnesses is compromised by the
colleague she's having the affair with, Liz needs to find
out how this happened. Is she the one who has
accidentally compromised this case when she's met up with him
and revealed information that she shouldn't, or is this corruption
coming from somewhere else in her team. This started really well.
It begins as a really solid British crime drama and

(04:00):
it's got that twist of the witness protection angle, which
I really liked. But there are a couple of things
at the end of the first episode that we're a
little bit cliched, and I do wonder if this is
going to go off the rails a bit more as
it goes on. But Schevorn Finnareant is so good in this.
Catherine Kelly stars and this as well, so it's got
a great cast. It's definitely worth a watch, I reckon,

(04:20):
as long as you don't mind a few crime drama
cliches chucked in there as you go along.

Speaker 2 (04:25):
Yeah right, okay, that's called protection. That's on TV and
Z Plus. Hey you have Tara. I finally caught up.
You know how, I'm absolutely hopeless at watching shows when
they immediately come out, and it takes me months or
years to catch up. Well, one of the upsides of
having a two and a half week old baby who
just loves being up all night is that I have
had a little bit of extra time and finally saw
The Day of the Jackal.

Speaker 1 (04:45):
It's so good.

Speaker 3 (04:47):
I loved it.

Speaker 2 (04:48):
I just honestly and jecked it into my veins. It
was I just every frame, every minute, loved it, Absolutely
loved it. So they're making a season two of that now.
I think they've been ounced, so very very pleased about that. Yeah,
so I'm glad to have finally caught up on that recommendation.
Thank you so much. Tara shows for this week Secrets
at Red Rock, That's on Neon and Sky Open from

(05:08):
tomorrow and on tv Z, plus Dope Girls and Protection.

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