Rob Bryden and Steve Coogan are back for the third instalment of Michael Winterbottom's Trip series: The Trip to Spain. Starring more Michelin starred restaurants, more stunning scenery, probably too much Chianti, and a painful amount of impressions... Maria, does the recipe still work?
This week's show is part two of my three-part best of the year series where I play some of my favorite tracks of 2017. This week I played some of my favorite New Zealand tracks of the year from what has been a golden year for NZ music.
On today's Wire we spoke to Matt Warren from Surf Life Saving NZ about their call for funding from central government, Jo Knight from Zero Waste NZ about reducing the amount of garbage we produce and Wendy Allison from Know Your Stuff NZ about their work testing various drugs in festivals around the country. Finally for This Day in History, there's part three of our series on the Israel-Palestine conflict.
Would a series by any other name have such yick connotations? Possibly. Alex makes a case for the unfortunately named SMILF, a dark comedy about a Boston-based basketball-enthusiast single mother struggling to give her three-year-old the best life possible.
Alex and Mike agree to disagree on the television series remake of David Michôd's Animal Kingdom. Fast paced gritty crime drama or a Fast an' the Furious fail?
Producer Will Parsonson takes us through this mornings Falcon Heavy launch from Space X. Is this launch as groundbreaking as some might say or is just the next step in a series of small ventures from Space X? It's too hard to make any calls just yet, so its up to you to work out if Elon Musk is too confident in his bid to be the first to send people to mars, or maybe, just maybe he's about to change humanity for good. Only time will tell.
Sam's in to chat about Netflix's ambitious new coming of age series On My Block, which looks at rivalling gangs running a Californian suburb through a comedic lense. Featuring a diverse cast of mainly POC actors, it's fresh and young and takes a lighter look at rather bleak situations. Mike ends up chatting about Annihilation for most of it.
Sam's chatting about a show he absolutely hates this week. Netflix's Santa Clarita Diet is an ambitious series trying to combine family values with gory zombie-lore. With its second season underway, our television expert can only pray it's not renewed for a third.
On Dear Science with AUT’s Allan Blackman we talk about power cuts and the science TV series Connections, proteins on old documents that tell us about the environment the writer was in at the time, and the separation of Hydrogen and Oxygen.
You can't have too many superhero spinoff shows, can ya? Television expert Sam sure doesn't think so. This week we delve into Netflix's new politically-charged series Black Lightning (2018), which explores themes of black pain and power through vigilante DC Comics character Jefferson Pierce.
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