Tara Ward: Victoria Beckham, Film Club, The Celebrity Traitors UK

Victoria Beckham 

Step into Victoria Beckham's London atelier, as the Spice Girl-turned-powerhouse designer opens up about her life while preparing for Paris Fashion Week (Netflix). 

 

Film Club  

Two movie enthusiasts, Noa and Evie, share a weekly film club where their unspoken feelings for each other grow. When Noa decides to move away for work, Evie has a limited time to confess her love before potentially losing him forever (ThreeNow). 

 

The Celebrity Traitors UK  

As the players fall deeper into the game, a new day brings new suspicions amongst the Faithful. The mission forces the celebrities to communicate in a way no-one expected, and with the murdering hour approaching, the players take their seats at the Round Table. Will the Faithful work as a team to uncover a Traitor, or will the Traitors' power grow stronger? (ThreeNow) 

 

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Episode Transcript

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

Speaker 2 (00:11):
A'd be it's hard to catch up with our screen time.
The expert Tara Ward has the tough job of picking
out three shows for watching or streaming to recommend to
us all every week.

Speaker 3 (00:20):
Hey, hey doing Tara, Good morning and well thanks Chack
very good.

Speaker 2 (00:24):
Hey, you got some absolutely cracking shows for us, So
let's kick things off. Were the latest one streaming on Netflix,
a new three part documentary series about Victoria Beckham.

Speaker 3 (00:37):
Yeah, this is a new doco about Victoria Beckham, former
spice girl, married to footballer David Beckham and now successful
fashion designer. And a couple of years ago, David Beckham
released a really great Netflix documentary series about his life,
and I came to this series expecting a similar kind
of approach, that it would be a nostalgic look back

(00:57):
at what is an extraordinary life in the public eye,
being in the biggest pop band of the nineties, marrying
one of the world's most famous footballers, and becoming extremely
influential in pop culture. But that's not what this documentary
series is. This is more about Victoria Beckham, the fashion designer.
It's filmed around the launch of her fashion show dur

(01:17):
in Paris Fashion Week, and it focuses on how Victoria
Beckham launched her own business and the struggles around that
over the last fifteen years. And it struck me as
being a very polished and controlled piece of television. She's
not looking back, she's looking forward and saying I want
to be taken seriously as a designer in my own right.
It does dip into her life as a pop star

(01:40):
a bit and touches on some of the awful treatment
that she suffered in the media over the years, but
it doesn't go into any real depth. People like Anna
Wintour and Tom Ford and even Longoria are in this.
They speak very highly about her, who work ethic is
mentioned a lot. It's still an interesting watch. There's a
lot of behind the scenes footage, which I love, But

(02:00):
to me this felt more about brand Beckham than kind
of doing a deep dive into the new stuff past.

Speaker 2 (02:06):
Yeah, okay, and look still interesting enough. I mean she's
a absolute character. Yes, controlled, I'm not surprised to hear that.
So that's Victoria Beckham. That's on Netflix on three now
tell us about film club.

Speaker 3 (02:20):
Yeah, this is quite a sweet, understated British rom com
that was created by and stars Amy lou Wood, who
most recently starred in The White Lotus. And she plays
a young woman, ev who is an agoraphobic. And Evie
hasn't really left the house in six months. She lives
at home in Manchester with her mum and her sister.
But Evie loves movies and every Friday night she transforms

(02:41):
her garage. She has a film club in there and
invites her friends over. And this is a rom com
or that's a bit of a family drama as well.
So when one of Evie's friends, Noah, announces that he's
moving away, she starts to wonder whether there's more to
their relationship than just being friends. A great cast in this.
Saran Jones plays Evie's mum, and Owen Cooper, who played

(03:02):
the young boy Jamie and Adolescence he's in this as well.
And it is promoted as a comedy, but it's not
really one of those laugh out loud kind of comedies.
It's sort of underplayed. It's more of a drama, I think,
but very sweet and warm in a very easy watch.

Speaker 2 (03:16):
Oh nice, okay, that's film club. It's on three Now.
Also on three Now, the Celebrity Traders UK has just started.

Speaker 3 (03:23):
Yeah, I've been waiting for this one. This is the
celebrity version of The Traders UK. And if you haven't
seen The Traders yet, it's a fantastic reality series that's
gone all around the world, including here in New Zealand.
The Traders takes a group of people. It's like a
parlor game of murder mystery. There are secret Traders that
have to murder the other contestants without being discovered, while

(03:44):
the other contestants have to work out who among them
are the Traders. And I think the British make the
best international version of The Traders. And now they've done
a celebrity version which has just started on three Now.
And sometimes when you get a celebrity version of a show,
the names can be a bit dubious. But they have
pulled in some big names for this one and I
think that speaks to the love that people have for

(04:05):
The Traders UK. Even Fry is in this, the wonderful
Alan Carr, actors like Celia Imriy, Jonathan Ross, the TV
present out lots of British comedians and actors. It's a
really intriguing bunch of celebrities and the challenge here I
think will be is that these are very successful people
who are perhaps not used to being thrown into situations
that they're not in charge of, and essentially they are

(04:28):
raising money for charity. But The Traders is theater. It's
melodrama and it's a lot of fun. It's about the
psychology of how people behave and how persuasive you are
and can you really be a good liar and how
far will you take it? So don't be put off
by this being a reality show. It's really intriguing and
it's funny and I think the British just do this
so well.

Speaker 2 (04:48):
I absolutely love it. Thank you, Tara. So that's The
Celebrity Traders. It's just started on three It's on three
Now as well. Also on three now. Film Club is
that British romantic comedy and Victoria Beckham is on Netflix.

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