July 30, 2025 • 19 mins
YouTube has become the latest platform added to the list of banned social media for under 16s in Australia's world-first move.
Plus, from Bend It Like Beckham to The Devil Wears Prada sequel, Hollywood can't seem to stop with the reboots and sequels; so is this creative bankruptcy or just smart business?
And in headlines today A powerful magnitude 8.8 earthquake off Russia's far eastern Kamchatka coast has triggered tsunami warnings as far away as French Polynesia and Chile, and was followed by an eruption of the most active volcano on the peninsula; The property at the centre of a deadly mushroom lunch has been restrained by the court after Erin Patterson was found guilty of triple murder; Two people have been seriously injured after a minibus transporting guests to a wedding in the NSW Hunter Valley veered off a highway and rolled down a 50m embankment; Thousands of heavy metal fans have lined the streets of Birmingham for the funeral procession of Black Sabbath frontman Ozzy Osbourne, who died earlier this month at the age of 76.
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Speaker 1 (00:10):
You're listening to a Muma Mea podcast. Mumma Mea acknowledges
the traditional owners of land and waters that this podcast
is recorded on.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Hey, I'm Taylor Strano. This is MMA MEA's twice daily
news podcast, The Quickie.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
What do you tell a kid under.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Sixteen who wants to be on or search through YouTube?
Speaker 4 (00:33):
Soon?
Speaker 2 (00:34):
You could just tell them it's against the law. The
Australian government has just announced the video sharing platform in
its social media band for kids, set to come into
effect later this year. Plus, the movie industry can't seem
to stop with the sequels and reboots. Is this good?
Speaker 4 (00:51):
Bad?
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Or just business? Before we get there, here's Claire Murphy
with the latest from the Quickie newsroom for Thursday, July
thirty one.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
Thanks Taylor. A powerful magnitude eight point eight earthquake off
Rusha's far eastern Campchuka Coast has trigger tsunami warnings as
far away as French, Polynesia and Chile, and was followed
by an eruption of the most active volcano on the peninsula.
The shallow quake damaged buildings and injured several people in
the remote Russian region, while people on much of Japan's
eastern seaboard, devastated by a nine point zero magnitude earthquake
(01:23):
and tsunami in twenty eleven were ordered to leave, as
were residents in parts of Hawaii. Authorities in Japan, Hawaii,
and Russia have now downgraded their tsunami warnings. Russian scientists
say the quake in Kamchatka was the most powerful to
hit the region since nineteen fifty two. A quake of
magnitude six point zero seven later struck the Kural Islands
that lie between Kamchatka and northern Japan. Tsunami waves partially
(01:46):
flooding the port and a fish processing plant in the
town of Severo Kiilsk, sweeping vessels from their moorings. Verified
drone footage shows the town's entire shorelines submerged, with taller
buildings and some storage facilities surrounded by water. The Klutchevskoy
volcano on Russia's Kamchuka Peninsula began erupting after the quakes.
A flow of lava observed descending down its western slope.
(02:08):
Located about four hundred and fifty kilometers north of the
regional capital, Petro Pavlos Kamchatsky Klutchevskoy is one of the
highest volcanoes in the world. The property at the center
of a deadly mushroom lunch has been restrained by the court.
After Aaron Patterson was found guilty of triple murder, Victorian
Supreme Court Justice Michelle quickly granted the confiscation application over
(02:29):
Pattison's Leon Gathera property. Following a closed court hearing earlier
this month. The suppression order banning the discussion of the
property lifted yesterday. The order was granted to prevent the
property being sold or otherwise dealt with, the opp saying
this is to ensure that if any family members of
Miss Pattison's victims apply for compensation or restitution, the property
(02:49):
is available to satisfy any orders that are made by
the court. Pattison was found guilty of murdering her former
in laws Don and Gail Patterson, and Gail's sister, Heather Wilkinson.
She was also found guilty of the attempted murder of
Heather's husband Ian. The jury found she deliberately served the
four people beef Wellington's laced with death cap mushrooms at
her Leon Gather home in twenty twenty three. Patterson pleaded
(03:11):
not guilty, claiming during her eleven week trial that she
did not intentionally poison her lunch guests, but twelve jurors
returned the four guilty verdicts on July seven, after seven
days of deliberations. Patterson, who's facing the possibility of life
behind bars, will return to court for a pre sentence
hearing later in twenty twenty five. After her sentence is
handed down, she'll have twenty eight days to file an appeal.
(03:33):
Two people have been seriously injured after a minibus transporting
guests to a wedding in the New South Wales Hunter
Valley veered off a highway and rolled down a fifty
meter embankment. The bus was carrying the groom and four
members of the bridal party. Police confirming two people remain
in a serious condition, including the groom who was flown
to John Hunter Hospital. The remaining four people were also
(03:54):
taken to hospital with injuries, while the bus driver will
undergo mandatory blood and alcohol testing. New South Wales Police
have launched an investigation into the cause of the accident,
saying the only information they have at the moment is
that the bus veered from the road and that there
has been some details provided into how that may have occurred,
but that will be a matter for the crash investigation
team to examine. The incident comes just two years after
(04:16):
the twenty twenty three Hunter Valley bus crash, where ten
guests were killed and twenty five others injured. Returning from
a wedding, thousands of heavy metal fans of line the
streets of Birmingham for the funeral procession of Black Sabbath
frontman Ozzie Osborne, who died earlier this month at the
age of seventy six. The cortege of the singer known
as the Prince of Darkness, drove through his home city
in central England before a private funeral. It stopped at
(04:39):
a bench dedicated to the band, Osborne's wife, Sharon and
their family, taking a moment to read some of the
thousands of tributes left there by fans, waving and making
peace signs to the crowd. Osborne had said he didn't
want his funeral to be a mope fest. The celebration
mixed with sadness on the streets as a New Orleans
style brass band led the procession, which took the hearst
(04:59):
carrying Osborne's coffin past the star's childhood home on Lodge
Road on its route to Birmingham City Center. No cause
of death was given for the singer's July twenty two passing.
Osborne had disclosed a Parkinson's disease diagnosis in twenty.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
Twenty Thanks Claire Next YouTube added to the social media blacklist.
We're just four months away from a huge shakeup in
how Australian kids use social media. The national ban on
under sixteen's having accounts is about to get even stricter.
(05:34):
From December tenth, it will be against the law for
children under sixteen to have accounts on most social media platforms.
This we already knew. As of yesterday, though the list
of barred sites grew now, including video sharing platform YouTube,
who were originally exempt from the ban. So why is
this change happening? Well, the government's doubling down on its
(05:57):
world leading online safety reforms to protect kids from everything
from cyberbullying to exposure to inappropriate content and privacy risks.
The e Safety Commissioners research points out that almost forty
percent of social media harm reported by young assies actually
happened on YouTube. Something she spoke about during her National
Press Club address last month. YouTube was the most frequently
(06:20):
cited platform in our research, with almost four and ten
children reporting exposure retirement for content there. Social media companies
will now be required to take reasonable steps to block
under sixteens from signing up or keeping accounts. They'll have
to put age verification technology in place, but that won't
mean uploading a passport or driver's license. Instead, the focus
(06:44):
is on privacy friendly tech solutions that make sure kids
are who they say they are without putting their sensitive
info at further risk. Communications Minister Annaka Wells also reminded
parents it'll be the company's responsibility to keep kids off
their platforms, not theirs.
Speaker 4 (06:59):
There are sort of four reasonable steps that platforms have
to take. They have to deactivate existing accounts that they know.
They need to make sure that no new accounts activated.
They need to take reasonable steps to make sure that
any workarounds or mitigations because kids, god bless them, are
going to find a way around this, and maybe they're
all going to swarm on LinkedIn. We don't know, like
these are meant to be working rules, and they also
(07:20):
need to sort of correct any errors as they arise.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
Now If a platform doesn't comply, the government can hit
them with massive fines up to forty nine point five
million dollars. There are some exemptions, though, Gaming platforms, messaging apps,
and services focused just on health or education won't be
covered by the band because they don't offer the same
kind of account based social sharing that the law is targeting.
(07:45):
If you ask YouTube, they say they're not a social
media platform, but the Prime Minister disagrees.
Speaker 5 (07:50):
Following advice from the e Safety Commissioner, young people under
the age of sixteen will not be able to have
accounts on YouTube. They will also not be able to
have accounts on Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok x, amongst other platforms.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
Enforcement and the rollout of these age verification steps are
still a work in progress that'll be closely watched in
the coming months. Despite all the checking and age verification
on accounts that's supposed to come with the ban, it
still doesn't negate the fact that some of the band
platforms like YouTube are still accessible even without an account.
(08:29):
As a reminder, the social media ban will be applicable
to people under the age of sixteen, but things like
YouTube Kids, the child friendly version of the platform designed
specifically for under thirteens that has age appropriate videos and
parental controls will still exist. And for parents of teens
over that sixteen year old bracket, there are online safety
(08:50):
features offered on other platforms like Instagram's teen accounts, which
you can read more about via the article linked in
our show notes. For families and kids, it's a major
shift the tech companies. It's a new era of regulation
and for policymakers worldwide, it's a test to see if
big tech can try really put safety before profit. So
(09:12):
another platform added to the list of those barred for
under sixteens, just in time for when summer holidays begin. Okay,
I am almost scared to ask this next question. Do
we really need all these sequels and reboots? In the
(09:32):
last week, I have been made aware of not one,
not two, not even three, but maybe like five or
six sequels and reboots heading down the pipeline. To Market's
twenty fifth anniversary. Writer and director Grinda Chater has confirmed
our favorite sporty girls, those ones juggling aspirations of professional
sport and cultural obligation, will be back for Bend It
(09:54):
Like Beckham two in twenty twenty seven.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
Zukij in one of our designs.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
Even these mosquito bites would look like juicy, juicy mangos.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
Now, the cast is still yet to be confirmed, but
Charter says both Kira Knightley and Paminda Nagra are a
aware of the project in hopes they'll return. Meanwhile, photos
have flooded the Internet as filming gets underweight. For the
devil we's priored too.
Speaker 5 (10:18):
All right, everyone girded your lines.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
Anne Hathaway, Meryl Streep, and Stanley Tucci will be back
on our screens sporting fabulous fashion, no doubt in May
twenty twenty six, nearly twenty years since fashion's most terrifying
yet iconic boss Miranda Priestley first stormed US screens. Others
I've been made aware of include a second installment of
My Best Friend's Wedding, the recently released Don't Know What
(10:43):
You Did Last Summer reboot, and Practical Magic. And to
be honest, I could go on. The list of sequels
and reboots continues to grow.
Speaker 3 (10:51):
Just about every day.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
But why do we keep remaking and rebooting our favorite
films and stories? Is Hollywood running out of ideas? Or
are they just giving audiences what they want, familiar, safe,
crowd pleasers. Our entertainment editor Tina Burke might have a
thing or two to say about it. TV. Why do
we keep rebooting and sequeling all these movies and TV shows?
Speaker 3 (11:13):
Like On the one hand, it feels as though we've
run out of original ideas when this many reboots and
sequels are always popping up. I don't like to think that,
though guys art is alive and well. I just think
that for studios it's a safer bet quite often to
do a sequel to something or to do a reboot.
Obviously not always the case, a lot of them have recently,
Like say, a lot of the TV show reboots like
Gossip Girl maybe do one or two seasons and then
(11:34):
get canceled. They don't have the same success as the
original series. But a lot of sequels have been really successful,
especially in films, So I think that's why we're seeing
such a resurgence at the moment.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
Is there also that thing of their cashing in on
the nostalgia factor, So, especially if you're able to bring
back like an original cast for instance, like The Devil
was prior of too the original cast in most parts
are coming back that's got to be a big draw
card for a lot of audiences.
Speaker 3 (11:58):
Yeah. Absolutely. I think in the case of Top Gun Maverick,
which came out a couple of years ago, it's showed
that if you have the original cast, you've got the
big budget in order to make it as good and
make it as fabulous as the first. Everyone's going to
go for the nostalgia, but you're also going to get
a whole new group of people who weren't around the
first time. Like there are so many young gen z
who have obviously watched it, but they weren't around when
(12:19):
it premiered, and so they're all into the vibe of
the devil wez Prata. So when the sequel comes out,
they're going to go to the cinema. They're going to
spend money because they want to see does it match
the hype? Is pretty much why people are going. You
just want to know if it's as good or better.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
Can you just break something down for us here, though,
because this conversation circles around two different types of film
and television being made and pumped out at the moment,
there's reboots and then there are sequels. Now we know
what the difference is a reboot is when the original
concept it's taken, it's remade in like maybe a modern context.
A sequel is a continuation of a storyline that we
once saw, or the characters re emerge in a different storyline,
(12:53):
so on and so forth. Pros and cons. Which is
a better optional? Does it really depend on what the
original source material is.
Speaker 3 (12:59):
It definitely depends on the original source material and original
cast as well, because obviously, over time people might not
be interested in that kind of project anymore. So a
sequel isn't possible always, but a reboot a lot of
the time it fails to capture the magic of the
original because it is trying to sort of recreate it
while also not acknowledging it. Sometimes not to come back
(13:20):
to Gossip Girl, but I think in that case they
tried to exist in the same world. But it was
very much a reboot in the sense that like, same
sort of plot points, same vibe as the original, not
really trying to do anything that continued the original story,
but just referenced it, whereas obviously with a sequel you're
going to have a continuation of the same story. It's
like it's a very small difference, but one is just
(13:40):
the same type of world being recreated, and the other
is something that follows on the storyline much much later.
And I think Buffy is another good example recently. Obviously
we know that that show is coming back, so you
could kind of see that as a sequel because it's
a continuation of the story, but it does keep getting
called a reboot, and people do just say the terms interchangeably.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
Okay. So we talked about something a little bit earlier
this year on the Quickie, which was the announcement of
Emerald Fanelle's Wuthering Heights, that idea of reinventing the classics,
that is, it is a reboot essentially. We've also seen
photos recently of Dolly Olderton's Pride and Prejudice. This is
an example Emerald Fanelle's Wathering Heights of where maybe a
reboot can potentially backfire or draw quite a bit of criticism.
(14:21):
There is like a right way to do it, and
sometimes messing with certain elements is not the way to
get an audience on side.
Speaker 3 (14:28):
Yeah, I think when it comes to something like Austin
or Bronte, there's obviously a really high level of expectation
of what that's going to look like. So if you're
going to bring it back and do another adaptation where
there are already so many adaptations and you're going to
reboot it, people want it to look a certain way.
They want the casting to be exactly corrected, on point,
and just as good as every other one they've seen,
(14:48):
if not better. I guess the onset photos really made
a mess of weathering heights because we don't really know
yet what Emerald is working on. We don't know what
the vibe is that she's going for with this, but
what we did know was she said it was like
a gothic adaptation, and then we saw pictures that looked
like they were from like eighties wedding dresses on Margo Robbie,
and Margo Robbie's in her thirties and Catherine is eighteen.
There was all this stuff suddenly because we had access
(15:10):
to all of this on set photography and all of
this like behind the scenes information that disappointed people before
we even had a chance to see it. So it's
definitely really heightened when you take something that popular and
try to do it again.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
I'm glad that you bring up on set photos because
on a similar tangent, I want to touch on this
while we've got you here. There was something put out
by British Vogue this week that question of a paparazzi
ruining movies. For us, we know that when it comes
to beloved franchises or films that are about to be
remade or sequeled, like the Devil Words prior to Too,
for instance, so many photos have flooded the Internet of
(15:42):
these pictures of while the film is being shot now,
and British Vogue pose that question is are paparazzi ruining movies?
Are you glad to see these sort of behind the
scenes shots or are you waiting for those official first
out looks from like the studio or the company.
Speaker 3 (15:57):
It's hard because I am very, very guilty of seeing
the photos and going, oh my god, this is so
good and sharing with everyone and like widely resharing them
myself and going, oh look Anne's on set, Look what
she's wearing. So we're all guilty of it, I think
a bit, but I do feel that it takes away
a bit of the big reveal I have now pieced
together so much information. And also, by the way, when
I wake up in the morning and open my phone,
(16:18):
if Anne Hathaway has been on the set of Devil
Wes product. I'm seeing fifty photos on every single news
outlet that has ever existed on social media, and I've
seen it all, whether I like sort it out or not.
And obviously I do seek it out because I work
in entertainment, but most people it's like flooding the feed,
so you're not really getting that choice. But also, I've
pieced together so much of what I think this storyline
will be now, and I might be wrong, but it
(16:38):
would have been nice, yeah, to go into the cinema
and not know what was going to happen, or like
what maybe the dynamics would be in this modern sequel.
I do think that the pap photos, It's hard for
me to say that it's ruining it, but maybe it
is a little bit for some people. I think we're
overdoing it. We got one picture, we didn't need fifty.
We could have done one.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
Is this just the era that we're living in now?
Because for people who will remember the first taste you
got of a new release was the trailer that would
play of that film before you were in the cinema
watching another film, we've just kind of sped that process
up now, maybe put the horse before they cunt. We're
getting way too much too quickly.
Speaker 3 (17:13):
Yeah, And I think obviously, like production knows if you're
going to be in the middle of New York City streets,
it's going to get photographed. They know what they're willing
to put out there and what they're not. It was
kind of the same as them, just like that. But
the thing is within, just like that, we knew Aiden
was coming back and that he was going to be
kissing Carrie. We saw it in paparazzi video months and
months and months before it ever happened on screen, And
so you just lose a little bit of magic. And
(17:34):
while they know that that's the risk they run of
like doing something publicly, I think they're building it in
now as a bit of buzz, Like, yeah, it's definitely
the world we're living in there, Like we'll get social
buzz because everyone's going to talk about it all year long,
or when we're filming then they're going to talk about
the trailer. So it's now sort of a built in
part to like this press tour run. But I don't
love it TV.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
While we've got you, I want to play quick game
are you ready and prepared? So I asked them on
mere staff for a list of films and TV shows
that they thought deserved a sequel or a reboot without explanation,
and want a simple yes or.
Speaker 3 (18:04):
No from you. Are you ready? I'm scared?
Speaker 2 (18:07):
Yes, Okay, Okay, this one we heard about already this week.
Speaker 3 (18:11):
My best Friend's wedding sequel. Yes or no?
Speaker 4 (18:13):
No?
Speaker 3 (18:14):
Okay, this is one of my favorite movies of all time.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
No, no fallop, no fa lot okay, step up? Yes
and his songs in perfect snogging. Yes, love actually no
practical magic. Yes, I want a caveat, but I won't. Oh,
go on, Well, there's a book, so I'm cool with it.
The author continued the story. I know what's happening.
Speaker 3 (18:32):
I know it's in good hands, like they're in it.
I'm cool with the way it's been done. You know
we've got the right cast back with it. We're doing
it right.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
Okay, this one is confirmed. It's actually going to be
with us really soon. Freak here Friday.
Speaker 3 (18:42):
Yes, because I love the Lohanna sance and it's a
low takes lose taxt sequel. Coyote Ugly No, oh interesting,
that was such a perfect and random and wonderful, weird
bar dancing film. I don't want another one.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
Hey, this is not this is against the rules, so sorry,
I'm talking. Okay, this again is based off a book series.
There are multiple books in this series, Crazy Rich Asians. Yes,
this concept and people were describing this to me as
this film but in a modern erar Clueless. No, we
just celebrated the thirtieth anniversary of Clueless.
Speaker 3 (19:12):
I don't want another one. It's perfect, it's beautiful. It's
already an adaptation of Janalston's Emma. We don't need to
reboot it.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
Thirteen going on, thirty no, and ten Things I Hate
About You? No, all right, Tina Burke is not into
reboots apparently.
Speaker 3 (19:26):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
Thanks for taking some time to feed your mind with
us today. Hey, if you want to hear more about
TV reboots and sequels, I'll drop an episode of this
spiel that came out recently. They go very deep, very
hot and heated discussion around that topic.
Speaker 3 (19:42):
It'll be in our show, not it's you to listen to.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
The Quickie is produced by me Taylor Strano, and Clare Murphy,
with audio productions by Lou Hill
You're listening to a Muma Mea podcast. Mumma Mea acknowledges
the traditional owners of land and waters that this podcast
is recorded on.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Hey, I'm Taylor Strano. This is MMA MEA's twice daily
news podcast, The Quickie.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
What do you tell a kid under.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Sixteen who wants to be on or search through YouTube?
Speaker 4 (00:33):
Soon?
Speaker 2 (00:34):
You could just tell them it's against the law. The
Australian government has just announced the video sharing platform in
its social media band for kids, set to come into
effect later this year. Plus, the movie industry can't seem
to stop with the sequels and reboots. Is this good?
Speaker 4 (00:51):
Bad?
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Or just business? Before we get there, here's Claire Murphy
with the latest from the Quickie newsroom for Thursday, July
thirty one.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
Thanks Taylor. A powerful magnitude eight point eight earthquake off
Rusha's far eastern Campchuka Coast has trigger tsunami warnings as
far away as French, Polynesia and Chile, and was followed
by an eruption of the most active volcano on the peninsula.
The shallow quake damaged buildings and injured several people in
the remote Russian region, while people on much of Japan's
eastern seaboard, devastated by a nine point zero magnitude earthquake
(01:23):
and tsunami in twenty eleven were ordered to leave, as
were residents in parts of Hawaii. Authorities in Japan, Hawaii,
and Russia have now downgraded their tsunami warnings. Russian scientists
say the quake in Kamchatka was the most powerful to
hit the region since nineteen fifty two. A quake of
magnitude six point zero seven later struck the Kural Islands
that lie between Kamchatka and northern Japan. Tsunami waves partially
(01:46):
flooding the port and a fish processing plant in the
town of Severo Kiilsk, sweeping vessels from their moorings. Verified
drone footage shows the town's entire shorelines submerged, with taller
buildings and some storage facilities surrounded by water. The Klutchevskoy
volcano on Russia's Kamchuka Peninsula began erupting after the quakes.
A flow of lava observed descending down its western slope.
(02:08):
Located about four hundred and fifty kilometers north of the
regional capital, Petro Pavlos Kamchatsky Klutchevskoy is one of the
highest volcanoes in the world. The property at the center
of a deadly mushroom lunch has been restrained by the court.
After Aaron Patterson was found guilty of triple murder, Victorian
Supreme Court Justice Michelle quickly granted the confiscation application over
(02:29):
Pattison's Leon Gathera property. Following a closed court hearing earlier
this month. The suppression order banning the discussion of the
property lifted yesterday. The order was granted to prevent the
property being sold or otherwise dealt with, the opp saying
this is to ensure that if any family members of
Miss Pattison's victims apply for compensation or restitution, the property
(02:49):
is available to satisfy any orders that are made by
the court. Pattison was found guilty of murdering her former
in laws Don and Gail Patterson, and Gail's sister, Heather Wilkinson.
She was also found guilty of the attempted murder of
Heather's husband Ian. The jury found she deliberately served the
four people beef Wellington's laced with death cap mushrooms at
her Leon Gather home in twenty twenty three. Patterson pleaded
(03:11):
not guilty, claiming during her eleven week trial that she
did not intentionally poison her lunch guests, but twelve jurors
returned the four guilty verdicts on July seven, after seven
days of deliberations. Patterson, who's facing the possibility of life
behind bars, will return to court for a pre sentence
hearing later in twenty twenty five. After her sentence is
handed down, she'll have twenty eight days to file an appeal.
(03:33):
Two people have been seriously injured after a minibus transporting
guests to a wedding in the New South Wales Hunter
Valley veered off a highway and rolled down a fifty
meter embankment. The bus was carrying the groom and four
members of the bridal party. Police confirming two people remain
in a serious condition, including the groom who was flown
to John Hunter Hospital. The remaining four people were also
(03:54):
taken to hospital with injuries, while the bus driver will
undergo mandatory blood and alcohol testing. New South Wales Police
have launched an investigation into the cause of the accident,
saying the only information they have at the moment is
that the bus veered from the road and that there
has been some details provided into how that may have occurred,
but that will be a matter for the crash investigation
team to examine. The incident comes just two years after
(04:16):
the twenty twenty three Hunter Valley bus crash, where ten
guests were killed and twenty five others injured. Returning from
a wedding, thousands of heavy metal fans of line the
streets of Birmingham for the funeral procession of Black Sabbath
frontman Ozzie Osborne, who died earlier this month at the
age of seventy six. The cortege of the singer known
as the Prince of Darkness, drove through his home city
in central England before a private funeral. It stopped at
(04:39):
a bench dedicated to the band, Osborne's wife, Sharon and
their family, taking a moment to read some of the
thousands of tributes left there by fans, waving and making
peace signs to the crowd. Osborne had said he didn't
want his funeral to be a mope fest. The celebration
mixed with sadness on the streets as a New Orleans
style brass band led the procession, which took the hearst
(04:59):
carrying Osborne's coffin past the star's childhood home on Lodge
Road on its route to Birmingham City Center. No cause
of death was given for the singer's July twenty two passing.
Osborne had disclosed a Parkinson's disease diagnosis in twenty.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
Twenty Thanks Claire Next YouTube added to the social media blacklist.
We're just four months away from a huge shakeup in
how Australian kids use social media. The national ban on
under sixteen's having accounts is about to get even stricter.
(05:34):
From December tenth, it will be against the law for
children under sixteen to have accounts on most social media platforms.
This we already knew. As of yesterday, though the list
of barred sites grew now, including video sharing platform YouTube,
who were originally exempt from the ban. So why is
this change happening? Well, the government's doubling down on its
(05:57):
world leading online safety reforms to protect kids from everything
from cyberbullying to exposure to inappropriate content and privacy risks.
The e Safety Commissioners research points out that almost forty
percent of social media harm reported by young assies actually
happened on YouTube. Something she spoke about during her National
Press Club address last month. YouTube was the most frequently
(06:20):
cited platform in our research, with almost four and ten
children reporting exposure retirement for content there. Social media companies
will now be required to take reasonable steps to block
under sixteens from signing up or keeping accounts. They'll have
to put age verification technology in place, but that won't
mean uploading a passport or driver's license. Instead, the focus
(06:44):
is on privacy friendly tech solutions that make sure kids
are who they say they are without putting their sensitive
info at further risk. Communications Minister Annaka Wells also reminded
parents it'll be the company's responsibility to keep kids off
their platforms, not theirs.
Speaker 4 (06:59):
There are sort of four reasonable steps that platforms have
to take. They have to deactivate existing accounts that they know.
They need to make sure that no new accounts activated.
They need to take reasonable steps to make sure that
any workarounds or mitigations because kids, god bless them, are
going to find a way around this, and maybe they're
all going to swarm on LinkedIn. We don't know, like
these are meant to be working rules, and they also
(07:20):
need to sort of correct any errors as they arise.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
Now If a platform doesn't comply, the government can hit
them with massive fines up to forty nine point five
million dollars. There are some exemptions, though, Gaming platforms, messaging apps,
and services focused just on health or education won't be
covered by the band because they don't offer the same
kind of account based social sharing that the law is targeting.
(07:45):
If you ask YouTube, they say they're not a social
media platform, but the Prime Minister disagrees.
Speaker 5 (07:50):
Following advice from the e Safety Commissioner, young people under
the age of sixteen will not be able to have
accounts on YouTube. They will also not be able to
have accounts on Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok x, amongst other platforms.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
Enforcement and the rollout of these age verification steps are
still a work in progress that'll be closely watched in
the coming months. Despite all the checking and age verification
on accounts that's supposed to come with the ban, it
still doesn't negate the fact that some of the band
platforms like YouTube are still accessible even without an account.
(08:29):
As a reminder, the social media ban will be applicable
to people under the age of sixteen, but things like
YouTube Kids, the child friendly version of the platform designed
specifically for under thirteens that has age appropriate videos and
parental controls will still exist. And for parents of teens
over that sixteen year old bracket, there are online safety
(08:50):
features offered on other platforms like Instagram's teen accounts, which
you can read more about via the article linked in
our show notes. For families and kids, it's a major
shift the tech companies. It's a new era of regulation
and for policymakers worldwide, it's a test to see if
big tech can try really put safety before profit. So
(09:12):
another platform added to the list of those barred for
under sixteens, just in time for when summer holidays begin. Okay,
I am almost scared to ask this next question. Do
we really need all these sequels and reboots? In the
(09:32):
last week, I have been made aware of not one,
not two, not even three, but maybe like five or
six sequels and reboots heading down the pipeline. To Market's
twenty fifth anniversary. Writer and director Grinda Chater has confirmed
our favorite sporty girls, those ones juggling aspirations of professional
sport and cultural obligation, will be back for Bend It
(09:54):
Like Beckham two in twenty twenty seven.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
Zukij in one of our designs.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
Even these mosquito bites would look like juicy, juicy mangos.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
Now, the cast is still yet to be confirmed, but
Charter says both Kira Knightley and Paminda Nagra are a
aware of the project in hopes they'll return. Meanwhile, photos
have flooded the Internet as filming gets underweight. For the
devil we's priored too.
Speaker 5 (10:18):
All right, everyone girded your lines.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
Anne Hathaway, Meryl Streep, and Stanley Tucci will be back
on our screens sporting fabulous fashion, no doubt in May
twenty twenty six, nearly twenty years since fashion's most terrifying
yet iconic boss Miranda Priestley first stormed US screens. Others
I've been made aware of include a second installment of
My Best Friend's Wedding, the recently released Don't Know What
(10:43):
You Did Last Summer reboot, and Practical Magic. And to
be honest, I could go on. The list of sequels
and reboots continues to grow.
Speaker 3 (10:51):
Just about every day.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
But why do we keep remaking and rebooting our favorite
films and stories? Is Hollywood running out of ideas? Or
are they just giving audiences what they want, familiar, safe,
crowd pleasers. Our entertainment editor Tina Burke might have a
thing or two to say about it. TV. Why do
we keep rebooting and sequeling all these movies and TV shows?
Speaker 3 (11:13):
Like On the one hand, it feels as though we've
run out of original ideas when this many reboots and
sequels are always popping up. I don't like to think that,
though guys art is alive and well. I just think
that for studios it's a safer bet quite often to
do a sequel to something or to do a reboot.
Obviously not always the case, a lot of them have recently,
Like say, a lot of the TV show reboots like
Gossip Girl maybe do one or two seasons and then
(11:34):
get canceled. They don't have the same success as the
original series. But a lot of sequels have been really successful,
especially in films, So I think that's why we're seeing
such a resurgence at the moment.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
Is there also that thing of their cashing in on
the nostalgia factor, So, especially if you're able to bring
back like an original cast for instance, like The Devil
was prior of too the original cast in most parts
are coming back that's got to be a big draw
card for a lot of audiences.
Speaker 3 (11:58):
Yeah. Absolutely. I think in the case of Top Gun Maverick,
which came out a couple of years ago, it's showed
that if you have the original cast, you've got the
big budget in order to make it as good and
make it as fabulous as the first. Everyone's going to
go for the nostalgia, but you're also going to get
a whole new group of people who weren't around the
first time. Like there are so many young gen z
who have obviously watched it, but they weren't around when
(12:19):
it premiered, and so they're all into the vibe of
the devil wez Prata. So when the sequel comes out,
they're going to go to the cinema. They're going to
spend money because they want to see does it match
the hype? Is pretty much why people are going. You
just want to know if it's as good or better.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
Can you just break something down for us here, though,
because this conversation circles around two different types of film
and television being made and pumped out at the moment,
there's reboots and then there are sequels. Now we know
what the difference is a reboot is when the original
concept it's taken, it's remade in like maybe a modern context.
A sequel is a continuation of a storyline that we
once saw, or the characters re emerge in a different storyline,
(12:53):
so on and so forth. Pros and cons. Which is
a better optional? Does it really depend on what the
original source material is.
Speaker 3 (12:59):
It definitely depends on the original source material and original
cast as well, because obviously, over time people might not
be interested in that kind of project anymore. So a
sequel isn't possible always, but a reboot a lot of
the time it fails to capture the magic of the
original because it is trying to sort of recreate it
while also not acknowledging it. Sometimes not to come back
(13:20):
to Gossip Girl, but I think in that case they
tried to exist in the same world. But it was
very much a reboot in the sense that like, same
sort of plot points, same vibe as the original, not
really trying to do anything that continued the original story,
but just referenced it, whereas obviously with a sequel you're
going to have a continuation of the same story. It's
like it's a very small difference, but one is just
(13:40):
the same type of world being recreated, and the other
is something that follows on the storyline much much later.
And I think Buffy is another good example recently. Obviously
we know that that show is coming back, so you
could kind of see that as a sequel because it's
a continuation of the story, but it does keep getting
called a reboot, and people do just say the terms interchangeably.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
Okay. So we talked about something a little bit earlier
this year on the Quickie, which was the announcement of
Emerald Fanelle's Wuthering Heights, that idea of reinventing the classics,
that is, it is a reboot essentially. We've also seen
photos recently of Dolly Olderton's Pride and Prejudice. This is
an example Emerald Fanelle's Wathering Heights of where maybe a
reboot can potentially backfire or draw quite a bit of criticism.
(14:21):
There is like a right way to do it, and
sometimes messing with certain elements is not the way to
get an audience on side.
Speaker 3 (14:28):
Yeah, I think when it comes to something like Austin
or Bronte, there's obviously a really high level of expectation
of what that's going to look like. So if you're
going to bring it back and do another adaptation where
there are already so many adaptations and you're going to
reboot it, people want it to look a certain way.
They want the casting to be exactly corrected, on point,
and just as good as every other one they've seen,
(14:48):
if not better. I guess the onset photos really made
a mess of weathering heights because we don't really know
yet what Emerald is working on. We don't know what
the vibe is that she's going for with this, but
what we did know was she said it was like
a gothic adaptation, and then we saw pictures that looked
like they were from like eighties wedding dresses on Margo Robbie,
and Margo Robbie's in her thirties and Catherine is eighteen.
There was all this stuff suddenly because we had access
(15:10):
to all of this on set photography and all of
this like behind the scenes information that disappointed people before
we even had a chance to see it. So it's
definitely really heightened when you take something that popular and
try to do it again.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
I'm glad that you bring up on set photos because
on a similar tangent, I want to touch on this
while we've got you here. There was something put out
by British Vogue this week that question of a paparazzi
ruining movies. For us, we know that when it comes
to beloved franchises or films that are about to be
remade or sequeled, like the Devil Words prior to Too,
for instance, so many photos have flooded the Internet of
(15:42):
these pictures of while the film is being shot now,
and British Vogue pose that question is are paparazzi ruining movies?
Are you glad to see these sort of behind the
scenes shots or are you waiting for those official first
out looks from like the studio or the company.
Speaker 3 (15:57):
It's hard because I am very, very guilty of seeing
the photos and going, oh my god, this is so
good and sharing with everyone and like widely resharing them
myself and going, oh look Anne's on set, Look what
she's wearing. So we're all guilty of it, I think
a bit, but I do feel that it takes away
a bit of the big reveal I have now pieced
together so much information. And also, by the way, when
I wake up in the morning and open my phone,
(16:18):
if Anne Hathaway has been on the set of Devil
Wes product. I'm seeing fifty photos on every single news
outlet that has ever existed on social media, and I've
seen it all, whether I like sort it out or not.
And obviously I do seek it out because I work
in entertainment, but most people it's like flooding the feed,
so you're not really getting that choice. But also, I've
pieced together so much of what I think this storyline
will be now, and I might be wrong, but it
(16:38):
would have been nice, yeah, to go into the cinema
and not know what was going to happen, or like
what maybe the dynamics would be in this modern sequel.
I do think that the pap photos, It's hard for
me to say that it's ruining it, but maybe it
is a little bit for some people. I think we're
overdoing it. We got one picture, we didn't need fifty.
We could have done one.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
Is this just the era that we're living in now?
Because for people who will remember the first taste you
got of a new release was the trailer that would
play of that film before you were in the cinema
watching another film, we've just kind of sped that process
up now, maybe put the horse before they cunt. We're
getting way too much too quickly.
Speaker 3 (17:13):
Yeah, And I think obviously, like production knows if you're
going to be in the middle of New York City streets,
it's going to get photographed. They know what they're willing
to put out there and what they're not. It was
kind of the same as them, just like that. But
the thing is within, just like that, we knew Aiden
was coming back and that he was going to be
kissing Carrie. We saw it in paparazzi video months and
months and months before it ever happened on screen, And
so you just lose a little bit of magic. And
(17:34):
while they know that that's the risk they run of
like doing something publicly, I think they're building it in
now as a bit of buzz, Like, yeah, it's definitely
the world we're living in there, Like we'll get social
buzz because everyone's going to talk about it all year long,
or when we're filming then they're going to talk about
the trailer. So it's now sort of a built in
part to like this press tour run. But I don't
love it TV.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
While we've got you, I want to play quick game
are you ready and prepared? So I asked them on
mere staff for a list of films and TV shows
that they thought deserved a sequel or a reboot without explanation,
and want a simple yes or.
Speaker 3 (18:04):
No from you. Are you ready? I'm scared?
Speaker 2 (18:07):
Yes, Okay, Okay, this one we heard about already this week.
Speaker 3 (18:11):
My best Friend's wedding sequel. Yes or no?
Speaker 4 (18:13):
No?
Speaker 3 (18:14):
Okay, this is one of my favorite movies of all time.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
No, no fallop, no fa lot okay, step up? Yes
and his songs in perfect snogging. Yes, love actually no
practical magic. Yes, I want a caveat, but I won't. Oh,
go on, Well, there's a book, so I'm cool with it.
The author continued the story. I know what's happening.
Speaker 3 (18:32):
I know it's in good hands, like they're in it.
I'm cool with the way it's been done. You know
we've got the right cast back with it. We're doing
it right.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
Okay, this one is confirmed. It's actually going to be
with us really soon. Freak here Friday.
Speaker 3 (18:42):
Yes, because I love the Lohanna sance and it's a
low takes lose taxt sequel. Coyote Ugly No, oh interesting,
that was such a perfect and random and wonderful, weird
bar dancing film. I don't want another one.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
Hey, this is not this is against the rules, so sorry,
I'm talking. Okay, this again is based off a book series.
There are multiple books in this series, Crazy Rich Asians. Yes,
this concept and people were describing this to me as
this film but in a modern erar Clueless. No, we
just celebrated the thirtieth anniversary of Clueless.
Speaker 3 (19:12):
I don't want another one. It's perfect, it's beautiful. It's
already an adaptation of Janalston's Emma. We don't need to
reboot it.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
Thirteen going on, thirty no, and ten Things I Hate
About You? No, all right, Tina Burke is not into
reboots apparently.
Speaker 3 (19:26):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
Thanks for taking some time to feed your mind with
us today. Hey, if you want to hear more about
TV reboots and sequels, I'll drop an episode of this
spiel that came out recently. They go very deep, very
hot and heated discussion around that topic.
Speaker 3 (19:42):
It'll be in our show, not it's you to listen to.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
The Quickie is produced by me Taylor Strano, and Clare Murphy,
with audio productions by Lou Hill
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