May 2, 2025 • 5 mins
Choir Games
A documentary series about how music can change lives, as it follows two choirs from New York and Kaitaia as they take part in the World Choir Games in Aotearoa last year (Neon, from Sunday).
The Four Seasons
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Carême
The world's first celebrity chef, Antonin Carême rises to the height of culinary stardom in Napoleon's Europe; his talent attracts the attention of politicians who use him as a spy for France (Apple TV+).
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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 (00:12):
It's twenty five past ten, which means it's screen time time.
Tara Ward is our screen time expert, as her job
to give us three shows each weekend to watch your
stream at home.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
Hey Tara, good morning.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Okay, you got three cracking recommendations I reckon this morning.
So let's begin with the show streaming on Neon tell
Us about Choir Games.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
Yeah. This is a really heartwarming new full part documentary
series that drops on Neon from tomorrow, and it's about
two choirs as they prepare for the World Choir Games,
which were held in Auckland last year. One of the
choirs is a youth choir from New York City which
is made up of teenagers who have had a tough
life or who are struggling a bit. And the other
(00:55):
choir is from Katya and as much smaller and very
much a local community choir. So it's following two very
different groups on their journey to the games. But what's
wonderful about this is that you see the similarities between
the two groups and the way that singing gives people
in the choir a purpose and belonging in a sense
(01:15):
of pride. We watch them practice, we get to know
the singers, we see them compete, and you get to
understand why singing and why the choir is so important
to them. And there's something about watching people sing together
that always makes me feel emotional, and this documentary series
is channeling that. It captures that emotional power of people
(01:36):
coming together from all walks of life, all corners of
the globe. It's directed by Leanne Paulie, who also made
the Top Twins Untouchable Girls documentary. She made the Very
Adams documentary. So we're in really good hands here, and
I think because it's got those links to us here
in New Zealand. With that wonderful choir from Kataya, that
just makes this even more special and relatable. It's just
(01:56):
a really lovely, uplifting series.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
Great.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
I cannot wait to see that. So that's Choir Game.
That's on Neon from tomorrow, streaming on Netflix. Tell Us
about the Four Seasons.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
This is a new comedy starring Tina Fey and Steve Carrell.
It's a remake of an old film by Alan Alder,
and Tina Fey has remade it and written it with
a couple of other writers from thirty Rock, So you've
got some really good comedy bones here. And the show
is about three married couples who have been friends for
a long time for instance, college, and who meet up
(02:30):
four times a year for a week ind way together.
One of the couples decides to divorce after twenty five
years of marriage, and the series is about the fallout
fallout from that separation as the dynamics and the group
shift between the friends and family and lives change and
those sort of long howled unshakable relationships and friendships begin
(02:50):
to change over the next twelve months. It's a very
gentle warm kind of comedy, not necessarily that laugh out
loud kind of humor, but it's more sort of about
the wrye observations about getting older and relationships changing, trying
not to have a midlife crisis but having one. Anyway,
eight half hour episodes, this would be kind of a
(03:12):
very pleasant binge watch on a Sunday afternoon kind of show.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
Nice, okay, cool, that's the four seasons. That's on Netflix
and on Apple TV plus currem.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
Yeah. This is a very lively, opulent French drama that's
just that on Apple TV Plus, It's about it a
real life figure called Antonine Karamee who was effectively the
world's first celebrity chef back in the early eighteen hundreds.
He was French. He was born into poverty, but adopted
by a baker and became a talented pastry chef. He
(03:43):
made these incredible architectural cakes and desserts and wrote these
best selling cookbooks. He became very famous in a demand
and ended up cooking for Napoleon and so in the show,
Karamey is a bit of a rock star. He's got swagger,
he's got six appeal, he's a bit of a rebel.
The show does take a few historical liberties. He ends
up being a spy for Napoleon and the show but
(04:05):
you're kind of go along with it because it's that
kind of show. It's it's set in the eighteen hundreds.
It feels very modern, it's very sumptuous and beautiful. You know,
it's a bit of a romp. It's a bit of fun.
If you love food and cooking and the stress of
a big kitchen, this has got all of that. If
you ever wish the Beer was set in revolutionary fronts.
You know, this is all your dreams come true. It's
(04:26):
over the top but kind of wonderfully.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
So okay, Well, you're very generous, Tara, because I called
it korem and you've immediately called it karame and you've
very quietly not corrected that, which is generous of you.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
Well, I too called it kareem until I watched the show,
and then that's how they pronounce. I'm with you on
that one.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
I'm just hope this with French as where the trick. Yeah,
they can be. They can be even when you're in
the broadcasting business. Hey, thank you. It does sound great.
The show sounds interesting, so thanking for that. Karamee is
streaming on Apple TV, plus the four seasons is on Netflix,
and Choir Games is on Neon from tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
For more from Saturday Morning with Jack Ta, listen live
to News Talks at b from nine am Saturday, or
follow the podcast on iHeartRadio.
You're listening to the Saturday Morning with Jack Team podcast
from News Talks atb.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
It's twenty five past ten, which means it's screen time time.
Tara Ward is our screen time expert, as her job
to give us three shows each weekend to watch your
stream at home.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
Hey Tara, good morning.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Okay, you got three cracking recommendations I reckon this morning.
So let's begin with the show streaming on Neon tell
Us about Choir Games.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
Yeah. This is a really heartwarming new full part documentary
series that drops on Neon from tomorrow, and it's about
two choirs as they prepare for the World Choir Games,
which were held in Auckland last year. One of the
choirs is a youth choir from New York City which
is made up of teenagers who have had a tough
life or who are struggling a bit. And the other
(00:55):
choir is from Katya and as much smaller and very
much a local community choir. So it's following two very
different groups on their journey to the games. But what's
wonderful about this is that you see the similarities between
the two groups and the way that singing gives people
in the choir a purpose and belonging in a sense
(01:15):
of pride. We watch them practice, we get to know
the singers, we see them compete, and you get to
understand why singing and why the choir is so important
to them. And there's something about watching people sing together
that always makes me feel emotional, and this documentary series
is channeling that. It captures that emotional power of people
(01:36):
coming together from all walks of life, all corners of
the globe. It's directed by Leanne Paulie, who also made
the Top Twins Untouchable Girls documentary. She made the Very
Adams documentary. So we're in really good hands here, and
I think because it's got those links to us here
in New Zealand. With that wonderful choir from Kataya, that
just makes this even more special and relatable. It's just
(01:56):
a really lovely, uplifting series.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
Great.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
I cannot wait to see that. So that's Choir Game.
That's on Neon from tomorrow, streaming on Netflix. Tell Us
about the Four Seasons.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
This is a new comedy starring Tina Fey and Steve Carrell.
It's a remake of an old film by Alan Alder,
and Tina Fey has remade it and written it with
a couple of other writers from thirty Rock, So you've
got some really good comedy bones here. And the show
is about three married couples who have been friends for
a long time for instance, college, and who meet up
(02:30):
four times a year for a week ind way together.
One of the couples decides to divorce after twenty five
years of marriage, and the series is about the fallout
fallout from that separation as the dynamics and the group
shift between the friends and family and lives change and
those sort of long howled unshakable relationships and friendships begin
(02:50):
to change over the next twelve months. It's a very
gentle warm kind of comedy, not necessarily that laugh out
loud kind of humor, but it's more sort of about
the wrye observations about getting older and relationships changing, trying
not to have a midlife crisis but having one. Anyway,
eight half hour episodes, this would be kind of a
(03:12):
very pleasant binge watch on a Sunday afternoon kind of show.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
Nice, okay, cool, that's the four seasons. That's on Netflix
and on Apple TV plus currem.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
Yeah. This is a very lively, opulent French drama that's
just that on Apple TV Plus, It's about it a
real life figure called Antonine Karamee who was effectively the
world's first celebrity chef back in the early eighteen hundreds.
He was French. He was born into poverty, but adopted
by a baker and became a talented pastry chef. He
(03:43):
made these incredible architectural cakes and desserts and wrote these
best selling cookbooks. He became very famous in a demand
and ended up cooking for Napoleon and so in the show,
Karamey is a bit of a rock star. He's got swagger,
he's got six appeal, he's a bit of a rebel.
The show does take a few historical liberties. He ends
up being a spy for Napoleon and the show but
(04:05):
you're kind of go along with it because it's that
kind of show. It's it's set in the eighteen hundreds.
It feels very modern, it's very sumptuous and beautiful. You know,
it's a bit of a romp. It's a bit of fun.
If you love food and cooking and the stress of
a big kitchen, this has got all of that. If
you ever wish the Beer was set in revolutionary fronts.
You know, this is all your dreams come true. It's
(04:26):
over the top but kind of wonderfully.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
So okay, Well, you're very generous, Tara, because I called
it korem and you've immediately called it karame and you've
very quietly not corrected that, which is generous of you.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
Well, I too called it kareem until I watched the show,
and then that's how they pronounce. I'm with you on
that one.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
I'm just hope this with French as where the trick. Yeah,
they can be. They can be even when you're in
the broadcasting business. Hey, thank you. It does sound great.
The show sounds interesting, so thanking for that. Karamee is
streaming on Apple TV, plus the four seasons is on Netflix,
and Choir Games is on Neon from tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
For more from Saturday Morning with Jack Ta, listen live
to News Talks at b from nine am Saturday, or
follow the podcast on iHeartRadio.
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