Karl Puschmann: Should I Marry A Murderer? and Celebrity Treasure Island

Should I Marry A Murderer?   

A fiancée turned key witness reveals how she stayed engaged to a man accused of murder while gathering evidence against him in this documentary series (Netflix). 

  

Celebrity Treasure Island  

Kiwi celebs go all out in a brand-new location, with more unexpected twists, turns, challenges and drama than ever. Who will take home $100K for their chosen charity? Ready? Tīmata! (TVNZ 2 and TVNZ+) 

 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:07):
You're listening to the Saturday Morning with Jack Tame podcast
from News Talks, a'b.

Speaker 2 (00:12):
Screen Time Time. Carl Pushman, our screen time experts here
this morning to Carl Jack. Hello, a couple of cracking
shows for us this week. So let's start off with
the intriguingly named should I Marry a Murderer? On Netflix?
I feel like I've got an answer to that, and
the answer is no, But tell us about the program.

Speaker 3 (00:32):
You're one hundred percent correct there. The answer obviously is no,
do not marry a murderer. But you know, nothing in
this world is black and white. And the wrinkle in
this true crime three parter is that doctor Caroline Mrhead
didn't know that her fiance, Alexander Sandy McCalla was a
murderer when she fell in love with him. They had

(00:52):
a sort of whirlwind romance and quickly fell in love
with She was a pathologist, he was a Scottish farmer
and hunter who ran a game tourism business, and they
quickly fell in love against the wonderfully scenic Scottish highlands,
you know, farms, bogs, all that kind of good stuff.
And it was after a few months they got engaged

(01:12):
so it was very quick and they were driving home
from the pub when Caroline said, we shouldn't have a
chat and get all the skeletons out of the closet,
and so we had no secrets between each other, and
that's when he dropped a bit of a bombshell on
her that he and his brother had been driving home
from the pub three nights earlier, three years earlier, sorry,
and had not had had a cyclist and instead of

(01:35):
reporting the incident, they instead buried the body somewhere on
the far this massive farmland highland, Scottish boggy land, and
they've clearly gotten away with it. The police investigated the crime,
but for all intents and purposes, Tony Parsons had simply
vanished into thin air. And it was quite a big
case in Scotland at the time because it was so mysterious, like, yeah,

(01:58):
there was footage of the cyclist biking out of the
small village where near where they lived, and then the
guy was that was gone. So this puts her in
a very moral choice to report the person that she's
fallen in love with or try and live with this

(02:19):
unlivable secret. She chooses the first option to report on
the guy, but it's not as simple as that, and
the story is a completely wild ride. Caroline herself narrates it.
There is a lot of reenactments which do get a
little bit annoying because it's such a full on story,

(02:41):
but I can some understand why they're there, and it's
it's completely what it starts off, very standard true crime
like episode one, you're like, okay, going along, and they're
really trying to paint this pictures of the twins as
these murderers and technically, yes, but it was an accident.
They shouldn't be drunk driving one hundred percent, but it

(03:02):
wasn't like they're trying to paint in that like premeditated,
which you know they weren't.

Speaker 2 (03:08):
There's certainly killers, but whether or not it's murder and
the premeditated sense might be different.

Speaker 3 (03:14):
Yeah, exactly, And that does come up during the show
as it starts to take these wild tangents and just
builds and builds till finally it's this unbelievably wild tale
that just proves that truth can be stranger than fiction,
and it leaves you with so much to think about
because the escalation of what happened in the sort of
the journey that Caroline goes on is it is crazy.

(03:37):
It goes from standard true crime doco into discussing things like,
you know, relationship dependents, drugs, alcohol, morality, there's family dramas,
the institutional failings is mental health. It's very unbelievable and
it just the way it wraps up only three parts
and I binged the whole thing in one night. Yeah,
so that is a very good true crime documentary. You

(03:59):
may know the answer, no, but it's still good to
see something wrestling with that.

Speaker 2 (04:04):
Yeah, yeah, no, maybe in this case. Okay, So that
should I Marry a Murderer? That's on Netflix and I've
been talking about it already this morning. But the new
season of Celebrity Treasure Island has launched.

Speaker 3 (04:17):
That's right, A new batch of sixteen local celebrities has
trundled up to the exotic, far off Treasure Island of Northland,
where they're competing in a series of physical and mental challenges.

Speaker 2 (04:27):
I do I do love how they say, well, like
you're on the island. It's like, well, yeah, as in
like the North Island of New Zealand. Nor there's still
great I mean, yeah, yeah, anyway.

Speaker 3 (04:37):
Lots of natural treasure, buried treasure, probably less slow, but
well in the past. In the past, it's they It's
a seventh season of the show, and you know by
now it's operating a muscle memory. It's very slick, it's
very polished. The storyline is full of drama, human emotion, treachery,
all that good stuff. The theme this year is younges

(04:57):
versus Oldies. They've gently phrased it as wisdom versus fury,
and the celebrities have been sput to two teams based
on presumably how wise or furious they actually are. Now
I've just survived the latest season I've married at First
Light Australia, which was just rewardingly gutter trash TV. It
was terribly entertaining. So Celebrity Treasure Island is a very

(05:20):
welcomed palate cleanser because it's so wholesome. It encourages teamwork
and forgiveness and supportiveness, but it also has that healthy
dollop of competition and deception to keep things interesting. What
I like about it is that there is the scheming
and strategizing deception at play, but because it's part of
the game, it's not personal, where you know with something

(05:42):
like maths. Every single thing is incredibly personal and quite
quite bitter and evil. So the celebrities are Island is
great in that respect. You know, it's good. It's a
good family watch because it encourages those positive qualities of teamwork,
et cetera. Yeah, and the games themselves are fun to watch.
They offer physical or mental challenges, which ensures no one

(06:05):
competitive has an outright advantage, and the best games combined
both together. Will it be some kind of physical thing
they've got to do, like pulling a big, heavy block
or something, and then figuring out a puzzle at the
end of that, So everyone in the team, no matter
on physical wo mental ability, is equally valuable. Yeah. So yeah,

(06:27):
it's just a it's just a nice family watch, and
you get to choose your allegiance which team you're going
to go to. I'm a little bit torn because you know,
I'm a wine a wise fellow, so team Oldies, but
I also want to support the hometown heroine pop artist
Georgia Lyons, who's on there sort of keeping a low
profile at the moment. Yeah, so I'm torn. I'm torn
which way to go. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (06:48):
Yeah, it's a I just think it's a great celebration
of New Zealand. I know I've said this and it's
very easy for people to know, ah, but I just
I do. I reckon. It's delightful. I reckon, I reckon.
Celebrity Treasure Island is fantastic. So I'm very much supporting
you on that one. So Celebrity Treasure Island is on
Monday to Days and Wednesdays at seven point thirty on

(07:09):
TV and Z two and streaming on TV and Z plus.
Should I Marry a Murderer? Carl's first show is on Netflix.
We've got all the details for those shows up on
the News Talk ZEDB website, and of course you can
see more of Carl on a substack screen.

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