Last week, millions of people flocked to Spain to watch a rare total eclipse of the sun.
Around 91 percent of the sun was obscured by the moon, and it inspired people to listen to listen to some songs that matched the moment.
Bonnie Tyler's Total Eclipse Of The Heart, Chris Staples Dark Side Of The Moon, and Pink Floyd's Eclipse all saw significant bumps in streaming.
Entertainment correspondent Steve Newall explained further.
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
You're listening to the Sunday Session podcast with Francesca Rudgin
from News talks'b This.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Week, of course, we saw a total eclipse and that
prompted people to play songs about eclipses, whether they are
about the moon or the sun or about your heart.
And some of the most streamed songs in the UK
during this sommer eclipse were Chris Staples Dark Side of
(00:33):
the Moon, Pink Floyd, Escape This Eclipse, Delta Goodram Eclipse,
Bonnie Tyler. Look, I think at the end of the day,
people just google for anything that's got the title clips
and moon in it, right, But then I do think
maybe people also were looking for a wonderful excuse to
play a bit more Bonnie Tyler, because it was we
only lost her five weeks ago, so maybe people were
just feeling a little bit sentimental. My producer did point
(00:54):
out that she doesn't think an eclipse needs a soundtrack.
Maybe you could have just stood there in awe of
nature and watched it. But no, it turns out it
had quite an impact on what people were listen to.
It is time to talk entertainment now and I'm joined
by Steve Neil.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
Good Morning, good morning that Bonnie Tyler has giving me
flashbacks to old school, the two thousand and three Will
Ferrell comedy where there's that Covers band, the Dan band,
who would do like kind of bad kind of wedding
band Covers.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Your Memory is way way too good.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
Although there's a word that inserts into most of their
songs that you can't sayn the radios. But it's something
needs you more than ever. It's anyway, okay, there we'll go.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
It's bringing back the memories.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
We're all streaking.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
I I really want to talk to you about the
Anthony Bourdain biopic. It's called Tony. It's out this Thursday,
on the twentieth of August, and it's had There's been
a lot of hype and a lot of interest in
this film.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
Yeah, I was hanging out for this and it's pretty
impressible with what I saw. I guess the kind of
tricky thing here is that the Anthony Bourdain that we
see in this film is pretty unlikable character. That's kind
of the point. It follows him for a summer. He's nineteen,
it's nineteen seventy five. It's kind of build as the
summer that changed his life when he turned from just
a guy who we see is just a massive liar
(02:10):
and sort of has like very high views of himself,
but is also lacking, sorely lacking in real kind of
confidence and self belief and his dreams of being a writer.
But finds himself in a kitchen and Cape cod and
what he discovers there kind of sets the tone for
the incredible career in life that he goes on to
have further down the line. However, we also kind of
(02:32):
see a lot of the demons that he's going to
struggle with through his whole life in this film.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
I love the fact that they've just picked a small
part of his life, because I think his life has
been too big and there's too much to try and
capture it in one film.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
Totally agree, And you kind of you know, he's such
a familiar character. It's such a familiar looking and very
specific looking person that by just seeing him when he's
nineteen can kind of get around some of that memoric
career that already plagues biopic. Some already find it hard
to you know, when you side by side the screen
portrayal of the person that you know. So this is
(03:06):
stuff if you've read Kitchen Confidential. I think this is
kind of covered in some of his memoir but yeats
sort of him really sort of understanding what the notion
of family and camaraderie is. And I got to say,
like the camaraderie of a kitchen that he discovers I
think is also kind of a bit of a foreshadows
a little bit of the camaraderie that he's going to
find later in his life with his heavy drug use.
(03:28):
So it's sort of it's ups and downs. But the
performance is already great, really great performance by Antonio Banderas
as a mentor. Dude can do kind of no wrong,
I guess at the stage in his career. And also
note Leo Woodell, who was a standout in the sicily
season of The White Lotus. It's really good. He just
a total pos.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
And recently in Tuna, which I really enjoyed you as well.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
And you know, I think showing his range because in
Tuna he is very you know, kind of soft and relatable,
and here he's just that alpha guy that ever Run's
encountered it.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
Yeah, totally. Serial killers seem to be the subject of
a couple of new TV shows, but sort of they're
both handled in completely different ways. And Furious in the Shards.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
Yeah, that's true both on Disney Plus so Disney Plus
Home of the Serial Killer in twenty twenty six, it seems.
But let's start with Furious. This is the, I guess,
kind of grittier, harder, and more contemporary of the two shows.
Set in the present day. It's kind of loosely based
on the eighties thriller Black Widow, in which Theresa Russell
played a woman who kind of kept marrying rich husbands
(04:37):
and bumping them off for their money. And I sort
of played for no one really believed in that show
that a woman would do that. In that film, that
a woman would do that. That was kind of the
I guess, the feminist angle of that film, but a
very kind of male centric view of women. And here
there's really strong female characters, but it's a post Epstein thriller,
and the protagonist here that the serial killer here is
someone that is chopping their way through a list. She's
(04:59):
a victim of sex trafficking. She's chopping her way through
the list of powerful men have wronged her. So it's
kind of really interesting set up and it really does
dive into the I guess lack of willingness for certain
sekners of society to look too hard at the men
that have been doing this stuff. I've been digging this
on a much lighter vein the Shards is the team
up that should have happened a long time ago between
(05:20):
author Brett Easton Ellis and producer Ryan Murphy. Two dudes
who loved the Embrace of the camp sit at high school.
Another very autobiographical Brett Eastern Alice piece. It starts a
character called Brett Ellis, although it claims to fiction, and
these high schoolers are not your typical high schoolers. I
think this is sort of trying to teach you for
you or a thing or two shown that in the
(05:41):
eighties kids in Beverly Hills that were privileged were as
badly behaved as anyone's ever seen. So along with the
kind of high school politics, coke use and sports cars
on your sixteenth birthday, there's also a serial killer running
around here. So two very kind of different takes on that.
One really campy and colorful, too many needle drops. Maybe
Furious is heavy and you might just want to do
(06:03):
one episode.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
I just laughed when I started the shards. I started
him within thirty seconds. I didn't know anything about it.
Within thirty things, I was like, this is a bread
each now number, isn't it.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
Surely introduced the fact that the permit main character introduces
himself as Brett Allis with in the first sentence after
a title card which says this is the characters of
fictional was a first great gag to start it. I mean,
think about American psycho less than zero. He puts himself
into his work. Maybe a little bit less on American psycho,
but that shows the sort of line between is this
(06:33):
historically historically accurate and real or is this like a
kind of a fever dream.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
That that sens It's also just that incredible attention to
creating the cultural sort of putting it into a cultural context.
You know, he will tell you what they're wearing. He
doesn't does it show you? He has to still tell
you everything what they're wearing and what they're eating and
what they're drinking and you know, all the sort of thing.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
Absolutely, and that's an American psycho thing, right. It's like
the list of the social status by lists of things.
And as you noted before before we came on air
like the NEPO Baby. Casting of this really works well
because this is a show about brats and Beverly Hills.
They are all sons and daughters of powerful people. And
part of the fun of this as well is like
guessing who's that person in real life? Who's that movie producer.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
Cindy Crawford's daughter looks exactly like her. She's just like, oh,
there's Minnie, Cindy. She's amazing. Thank you so much, Steve.
So the film is Tony. That's the Anthony Budain biopic
that's out this Thursday, Furious and the Shards. You'll be
able to work them out if you can't remember which
is what you're working out pretty quickly if you flick
(07:34):
at them on and they're both on Disney Plus. Thank
you so much, Steve.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
For more from the Sunday session with Francesca Rudkin, listen
live to News Talks it'd be from nine am Sunday,
or follow the podcast on iHeartRadio.
You're listening to the Sunday Session podcast with Francesca Rudgin
from News talks'b This.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Week, of course, we saw a total eclipse and that
prompted people to play songs about eclipses, whether they are
about the moon or the sun or about your heart.
And some of the most streamed songs in the UK
during this sommer eclipse were Chris Staples Dark Side of
(00:33):
the Moon, Pink Floyd, Escape This Eclipse, Delta Goodram Eclipse,
Bonnie Tyler. Look, I think at the end of the day,
people just google for anything that's got the title clips
and moon in it, right, But then I do think
maybe people also were looking for a wonderful excuse to
play a bit more Bonnie Tyler, because it was we
only lost her five weeks ago, so maybe people were
just feeling a little bit sentimental. My producer did point
(00:54):
out that she doesn't think an eclipse needs a soundtrack.
Maybe you could have just stood there in awe of
nature and watched it. But no, it turns out it
had quite an impact on what people were listen to.
It is time to talk entertainment now and I'm joined
by Steve Neil.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
Good Morning, good morning that Bonnie Tyler has giving me
flashbacks to old school, the two thousand and three Will
Ferrell comedy where there's that Covers band, the Dan band,
who would do like kind of bad kind of wedding
band Covers.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Your Memory is way way too good.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
Although there's a word that inserts into most of their
songs that you can't sayn the radios. But it's something
needs you more than ever. It's anyway, okay, there we'll go.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
It's bringing back the memories.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
We're all streaking.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
I I really want to talk to you about the
Anthony Bourdain biopic. It's called Tony. It's out this Thursday,
on the twentieth of August, and it's had There's been
a lot of hype and a lot of interest in
this film.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
Yeah, I was hanging out for this and it's pretty
impressible with what I saw. I guess the kind of
tricky thing here is that the Anthony Bourdain that we
see in this film is pretty unlikable character. That's kind
of the point. It follows him for a summer. He's nineteen,
it's nineteen seventy five. It's kind of build as the
summer that changed his life when he turned from just
a guy who we see is just a massive liar
(02:10):
and sort of has like very high views of himself,
but is also lacking, sorely lacking in real kind of
confidence and self belief and his dreams of being a writer.
But finds himself in a kitchen and Cape cod and
what he discovers there kind of sets the tone for
the incredible career in life that he goes on to
have further down the line. However, we also kind of
(02:32):
see a lot of the demons that he's going to
struggle with through his whole life in this film.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
I love the fact that they've just picked a small
part of his life, because I think his life has
been too big and there's too much to try and
capture it in one film.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
Totally agree, And you kind of you know, he's such
a familiar character. It's such a familiar looking and very
specific looking person that by just seeing him when he's
nineteen can kind of get around some of that memoric
career that already plagues biopic. Some already find it hard
to you know, when you side by side the screen
portrayal of the person that you know. So this is
(03:06):
stuff if you've read Kitchen Confidential. I think this is
kind of covered in some of his memoir but yeats
sort of him really sort of understanding what the notion
of family and camaraderie is. And I got to say,
like the camaraderie of a kitchen that he discovers I
think is also kind of a bit of a foreshadows
a little bit of the camaraderie that he's going to
find later in his life with his heavy drug use.
(03:28):
So it's sort of it's ups and downs. But the
performance is already great, really great performance by Antonio Banderas
as a mentor. Dude can do kind of no wrong,
I guess at the stage in his career. And also
note Leo Woodell, who was a standout in the sicily
season of The White Lotus. It's really good. He just
a total pos.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
And recently in Tuna, which I really enjoyed you as well.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
And you know, I think showing his range because in
Tuna he is very you know, kind of soft and relatable,
and here he's just that alpha guy that ever Run's
encountered it.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
Yeah, totally. Serial killers seem to be the subject of
a couple of new TV shows, but sort of they're
both handled in completely different ways. And Furious in the Shards.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
Yeah, that's true both on Disney Plus so Disney Plus
Home of the Serial Killer in twenty twenty six, it seems.
But let's start with Furious. This is the, I guess,
kind of grittier, harder, and more contemporary of the two shows.
Set in the present day. It's kind of loosely based
on the eighties thriller Black Widow, in which Theresa Russell
played a woman who kind of kept marrying rich husbands
(04:37):
and bumping them off for their money. And I sort
of played for no one really believed in that show
that a woman would do that. In that film, that
a woman would do that. That was kind of the
I guess, the feminist angle of that film, but a
very kind of male centric view of women. And here
there's really strong female characters, but it's a post Epstein thriller,
and the protagonist here that the serial killer here is
someone that is chopping their way through a list. She's
(04:59):
a victim of sex trafficking. She's chopping her way through
the list of powerful men have wronged her. So it's
kind of really interesting set up and it really does
dive into the I guess lack of willingness for certain
sekners of society to look too hard at the men
that have been doing this stuff. I've been digging this
on a much lighter vein the Shards is the team
up that should have happened a long time ago between
(05:20):
author Brett Easton Ellis and producer Ryan Murphy. Two dudes
who loved the Embrace of the camp sit at high school.
Another very autobiographical Brett Eastern Alice piece. It starts a
character called Brett Ellis, although it claims to fiction, and
these high schoolers are not your typical high schoolers. I
think this is sort of trying to teach you for
you or a thing or two shown that in the
(05:41):
eighties kids in Beverly Hills that were privileged were as
badly behaved as anyone's ever seen. So along with the
kind of high school politics, coke use and sports cars
on your sixteenth birthday, there's also a serial killer running
around here. So two very kind of different takes on that.
One really campy and colorful, too many needle drops. Maybe
Furious is heavy and you might just want to do
(06:03):
one episode.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
I just laughed when I started the shards. I started
him within thirty seconds. I didn't know anything about it.
Within thirty things, I was like, this is a bread
each now number, isn't it.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
Surely introduced the fact that the permit main character introduces
himself as Brett Allis with in the first sentence after
a title card which says this is the characters of
fictional was a first great gag to start it. I mean,
think about American psycho less than zero. He puts himself
into his work. Maybe a little bit less on American psycho,
but that shows the sort of line between is this
(06:33):
historically historically accurate and real or is this like a
kind of a fever dream.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
That that sens It's also just that incredible attention to
creating the cultural sort of putting it into a cultural context.
You know, he will tell you what they're wearing. He
doesn't does it show you? He has to still tell
you everything what they're wearing and what they're eating and
what they're drinking and you know, all the sort of thing.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
Absolutely, and that's an American psycho thing, right. It's like
the list of the social status by lists of things.
And as you noted before before we came on air
like the NEPO Baby. Casting of this really works well
because this is a show about brats and Beverly Hills.
They are all sons and daughters of powerful people. And
part of the fun of this as well is like
guessing who's that person in real life? Who's that movie producer.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
Cindy Crawford's daughter looks exactly like her. She's just like, oh,
there's Minnie, Cindy. She's amazing. Thank you so much, Steve.
So the film is Tony. That's the Anthony Budain biopic
that's out this Thursday, Furious and the Shards. You'll be
able to work them out if you can't remember which
is what you're working out pretty quickly if you flick
(07:34):
at them on and they're both on Disney Plus. Thank
you so much, Steve.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
For more from the Sunday session with Francesca Rudkin, listen
live to News Talks it'd be from nine am Sunday,
or follow the podcast on iHeartRadio.
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