Tara Ward: The Ridge, Nobody wants this and The Legend of Crocodile Dundee

The Ridge - (Neon and Sky Open) A psychological thriller set in both Scotland and New Zealand, about a doctor who flies to New Zealand to attend her sister’s wedding, only to arrive and discover her sister has died under mysterious circumstances.

Nobody Wants This - (Netflix) A second season of the charming American rom-com starring Kristen Bell and Adam Brody, about the unlikely romance between an agnostic podcaster and an eligible rabbi. 

The Legend of Crocodile Dundee - (TVNZ+, TVNZ1) 40 years after the Australian blockbuster film, this documentary movie looks back at the legacy of the one and only Crocodile Dundee. 

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

Speaker 2 (00:13):
It is twenty two minutes past ten, which means it's
screen time time. Our screen time expert is Tara Awards.
She picks three shows that you can watch or stream
at home for us every week. As she's here, now
get I Tara, Good Morning. Let's begin with a show
streaming on Neon and Sky Open a psychological thriller set

(00:33):
in both Scotland and New Zealand. Tell Us about the Ridge.

Speaker 1 (00:37):
Yeah, this is a co production between Sky New Zealand
and BBCs Scotland. So it's a drama with two storylines
running in Scotland and New Zealand and has an international
cast and it stars Lauren Lyle who was in a
great show I talked about a couple of months ago
called Karen Perry, and she is fantastic In this. She
plays a doctor, Mia Beaton, who is caught up in
a medical drama in Glasgow, decides to escape and come

(01:01):
to her sister's wedding in a small town in the
South Island, and just before she's ready to leave, she
gets a worrying phone message from her sister and by
the time she lands in New Zealand, her sister is
missing and then found dead, and Mia is quite sure
that her sister's death wasn't an accident, and she decides
to find out what really happened to her. And the

(01:21):
thing about me is that she has her own demons
to deal with. She's an addict, she's a bit of
an anti hero, and this is where the psychological thriller
aspect comes into it. In a lot of ways. The
show sort of has that familiar murder mystery set up
to it, but Mia starts to unravel the more that
she digs into what was really going on in her
sister's life and what's going on in this town. Have

(01:42):
you enjoyed the series The Gone, which was the New
Zealand Irish drama. I think you'll enjoy this as well.
It's got that similar kind of international storyline. It's set
in a small town where everyone knows everyone and everyone
is hiding something, and it's got that same kind of
moody landscape atmosphere to it. And best of all, Neion
has got all six episodes up now, which is great

(02:04):
news if you're looking for something to watch that's long holiday.

Speaker 2 (02:08):
Okay, cool. Right, that's the ridge that's on Neon and
on Sky Open as well. Next up on Netflix, Nobody
Wants This.

Speaker 1 (02:16):
Yeah. This is the second season of a very sharp
and fast witted American romantic comedy. The stars Kristin Bell
and Adam Brody, who play two very different people who
meet and fall in love. Adam Brody plays Noah, who
is a rabbi. He's just broken up with his girlfriend
and his family just want him to find a nice
Jewish girl to settle down with. And Kristin Bell plays Joanne,

(02:38):
who is not religious. She makes a podcast about sex
and relationships and she is very cynical about love and romance.
And they meet at dinner party. There's an instant attraction
and as with any good roll, nothing is straightforward, nothing
is simple, and they both have a lot of opinionative
friends and family who are deeply involved in their lives

(03:00):
as well. It's very charming. There's some great chemistry between
Adam Brody and Kristin Bell, and the dialogue is really
fast and punchy, and I like that it's funny, but
it's also quite warm and emotional and nice to just
sort of escape into something that has embraced a really
well known genre like the rom com, but is still
full of surprises.

Speaker 2 (03:18):
Yeah cool, Okay, that's nobody wants. This is on Netflix
and the Legend of Crocodile Dundee.

Speaker 1 (03:25):
Yeah. I know this is quite a niche show to
end on today, but I thought a lot of listeners
will remember those Crocodile Dundee movies and could be interested
in this documentary which is screening on TVANZD one tonight.
This is a documentary movie made by a woman named
Delvin Delaney who was married to John Cornell, who was
best friends with Paul Hogan, and together they made the

(03:46):
Crocodile Dundee movie in the mid eighties. And so rather
than this being an objective look at the Crocodile Dundee
film itself, it's more of a personal, behind the scenes
story about friendship and love and how these best friends
decided one day in the eighties to make a movie
in the outback about a guy called mcdundee, and how
it went on to become the huge worldwide phenomenon. In

(04:09):
nineteen eighty six, it made forty seven million dollars at
the box office, and forty years on it's still Australia's
biggest grossing movie of all time. Yeah, so this documentary
is almost like a snapshot of that moment in time
and the mid eighties in Australia. It's a story of
the underdog, and you know, forty years on, there are
aspects of that movie that probably haven't aged necessarily well,

(04:30):
but this gives you quite a personal and nostalgic insight
into the story behind the film and the relationships that
were wrapped around it and the legacy that it has.

Speaker 2 (04:39):
Fantastic. Okay, cool, that sounds really good. So that's a
legend of Crocodile Dundee. It's on TV and Z Plus
and TV and Z one. Nobody Wants This is on Netflix,
and The Ridge is on Neon and Sky.

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