Tara Ward: New Zealand’s Best Homes with Phil Spencer, Sweet Tooth, Blue Lights

New Zealand’s Best Homes with Phil Spencer 

Phil travels to the other side of the world to take a look inside some of the most amazing homes that New Zealand has to offer.  We will reveal each of these stunning properties through the eyes of the people – the architects, the builders and the owners – that dared to dream them into reality (TVNZ1 on Sundays, TVNZ+). 

 

Sweet Tooth Season 3 

On a perilous adventure in a post-apocalyptic world, a boy who's half-human and half deer searches for a new beginning with a gruff protector (Netflix).  

 

Blue Lights 

A new season of the excellent police procedural drama about three rookie police officers starting their careers on the beat in Belfast, Northern Ireland (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 at b IS.

Speaker 2 (00:12):
It's screen time time. Our screen time expert Tara Awards
watched three shows he's going to recommend to us. Hey Tara,
good morning. Let's begin with New Zealand's Best Homes with
Phil Spencer.

Speaker 1 (00:24):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (00:24):
Look, when you win the fifteen million tonight Jack, this
few show, it's going to give you some ideas about
how to spend it. This is TVNZ's new property show
that starts tomorrow night, and it is exactly what it
says in the title. It's a show that takes us
inside some of the country's most impressive homes. And it's
hosted by Phil Spencer, who is best known as one
of the hosts of Location, Location, Location, and he visited

(00:45):
New Zealand earlier this year and had a lovely trip
around the country. What a gig visiting some of the
most incredible homes. Some very expensive homes too, i think,
and the homes of the show are all very different.
But he speaks to the owners and the architects about
why they built their houses the way they did and
why they made those choices. It's a bit like Grand designs,
but without all the stressful bit of the build and

(01:08):
Phil Spencer. I mean, we love location, location, location here,
we can't get enough of it. So to have Phil
Spencer here looking at our homes, I think people will
really like that crossover. And I mean I love an
open home, I love looking of course designed choices and
you know, being really nosy. And this takes you right
inside some very big, creative, glamorous homes that have the
most spectacular views.

Speaker 2 (01:28):
Yeah, one hundred percent cannot wait for that. So that's
New Zealand's Best Homes with Phil Spencer starts on TV
and Z one tomorrow. It's on TV and Z plus
as well. Third and final season of the New Zealand
film show Sweet Tooth.

Speaker 3 (01:40):
Yes, the last season of Sweet Tooth dropped on Netflix
this week, and I wanted to mention this show for
a couple of reasons. The first, as you mentioned, it's
an American show, but it is filmed in New Zealand,
so lots of beautiful scenery in this and lots of
recognizable New Zealand actors in this as well. But it's
also a very sweet and warm, fairy tale kind of show.
It deals with quite a dark and unusual storyline, but

(02:04):
it does it in quite a charming, magical kind of way.
It's a fantasy series and it's set in a world
where a mysterious disease has swept the planet and caused
babies to be born as half human half animal. And
the show is about one of these hybrid children, a
ten year old gus named Gus, who goes on a
journey through the land to find his mother, and he

(02:25):
has to avoid being caught by people who are hunting
down these hybrid humans, and he meets all sorts of
characters along the way who help him, and it's you know,
it's a beautiful coming of age story. It's a fantasy,
it's a drama. There's action in this as well. It
feels a bit Jim hence an esque. It's aimed at adults,
but if you've got older kids in the house, I
think they'll really love this as well. It's straight, strange

(02:48):
and sweet and beautiful all at once. Quite unusual.

Speaker 2 (02:51):
Yeah, cool, Okay, that's sweet tooth. It's on Netflix and
on three now. Tell us about Blue Lights.

Speaker 3 (02:56):
Yeah. I mentioned Blue Lights when the first season came
out a year or two ago, and the second season
has just dropped on three now. And if you're a
fan of police procedural drama like Line of Duty or
Happy Valley or a really good British tense police drama,
this is one for you. This is a BBC drama.
It's set in Belfast in Northern Ireland and it's about

(03:17):
three rookie police officers who join the force and are
immediately thrown into the deep end in a city that
has its own unique challenges and issues and history. And
it just takes every box for a great police drama.
Good characters, it's tense and gritty. There's a bit of action,
you know, there's some car chases, but it feels very realistic.

(03:38):
It's not over the top, very easy to get into
and very bingeable.

Speaker 2 (03:41):
I'd love it, Okay, Thanks Tara. That's Blue Lights. So
Blue Lights is on three now. Sweet Tooth is on Netflix.
New Zealand's Best Homes with Phil Spencer kicks off tomorrow
TVNZ plus.

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