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It's September which can only mean one thing - loads more TV! And the Screen Babble team is here to help you decide what you gotta watch.
First up the team talks about the big audio visual hug that is The Great British Bake Off! It's 16th series has just started and Matt and Kelly tell you why you should be watching whilst mulling on how much it has changed in the years since it started in 2010.
Next up Matt has put in the hard yards to give us an idea of what we should be thinking about when choosing streaming services. He takes us through the key players and why we should and shouldn't be interested in them.
Finally, the team takes a gallop through some of the upcoming TV highlights for autumn and into winter - get your diary out!
First up the team talks about the big audio visual hug that is The Great British Bake Off! It's 16th series has just started and Matt and Kelly tell you why you should be watching whilst mulling on how much it has changed in the years since it started in 2010.
Next up Matt has put in the hard yards to give us an idea of what we should be thinking about when choosing streaming services. He takes us through the key players and why we should and shouldn't be interested in them.
Finally, the team takes a gallop through some of the upcoming TV highlights for autumn and into winter - get your diary out!
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00:00hello and welcome back to screen babble it's september which can only mean one thing
00:16more tv of course i'm your host kelly crichton and i'm joined by national world tv critic matt
00:22mohan hickson benji's currently moving house so godspeed benji we don't do that task i think
00:28he's moving into the bake off tent isn't he in that little bit at the back so you can just laugh
00:34yeah yeah uh matt's here to tell us what's hot and what we need to be cozying up to in the autumn
00:40evenings screen babble is a monthly podcast where we'll take you through the best in tv and film
00:46although admittedly we don't have a lot of film today but anyway um today we're looking at the
00:50return of bake off essentially essential viewing this time of year it's like a warm hug isn't it
00:57bake off this time earlier um and we also talk about streaming services always confusing and hard
01:05to tell where the best value lies so matt's going to take us through that um i know i'm confused about
01:11what to keep what to let go of and uh yeah we're going to look at some of the options and what's
01:16coming over the next few months as well in terms of big tv what's going to have the chins wagging
01:22um hi matt good to see you you must be breathing a sigh of relief now that the telly is ramping up
01:28for the autumn schedule 100 uh july i was glad i was off for two weeks in july i know it was it
01:35weren't good it worked bleak yeah yeah i must remember a little bit to um stockpile for the
01:42summer you know like keep something back for the summer because even though i ended up with about and
01:48this is no exaggeration the say july when i was on holidays for a couple of weeks and into august
01:53where i was kind of really busy i think i ended up with like 18 episodes of coronation street to
01:59catch up
01:59just turned into like coronation street overload when things started pointing down i was like
02:10doing two episodes a day or whatever remembering they're like an hour long and it's a soap so you
02:14don't really need that much of it in your life but anyway um but i kind of wanted to stay on top
02:19of it you know and there's some good storylines going on so yeah that's really pathetic but anyway
02:23so my summer was basically taken up by catching up on coronation street oh i can't believe i admit to
02:28that but anyway there you go so i'm cool um but yes yes so loads of good stuff coming we're going to
02:33talk more about that a bit later in the podcast but first bake off now question for you no cheating
02:40i'm sure you know this because you've probably written something about this but how how many
02:45how many years do you believe bake off has been running now i believe it is 15 i believe it started
02:51in august 2010 which is like mental like it's almost old enough to do driving lessons
02:56you'll be able to go back on tour like the first season yeah yeah yeah i think it would be
03:03so different now if you look back at that first series because i've got a total theory about how
03:09it's become really technical like really technical even that first challenge the first night was
03:14something else but you know i have a feeling like back in the first series it was like make an apple
03:19tart you know make a birthday cake you know make a christmas cake off of bread yeah you like fairly
03:24straightforward things or whatever and you know the the really flamboyant ones there was an awful lot
03:30of sugar icing stuff for years wasn't there like that was a thing for a few years but anyway by the
03:35way disclaimer i am not i mean i enjoy baking but i never do it like you know it's not my thing at all
03:42it's weird it's like food porn or something i don't know you're just like watching it being like
03:47it's entertaining yeah i'm i'm the cook in our house but i'm more the food cook like bakery i'm just
03:55like we don't have enough room i'm like i don't want to be rolling out door it's so messy
03:59yeah yeah it's incredibly messy and if i ever make my kids want to get involved and then i'm like oh god
04:07100 times worse and you end up with like stuff in the mixture that's not supposed to be in there
04:14you know i can let your let your imagination run wild with that but um yeah anyway so back to
04:19series 16 of the bake-off there's been a few changes in lineups since day one paul hollywood
04:28is the only original sort of host as it were host judge started off with mary berry didn't it and it
04:33was mel and sue yeah they were the they were sort of consistent for the bbc years i was surprised at
04:42how long no fielding's been on i forgot that yeah yeah yeah well i think channel 4 paid more
04:52money for it like i remember that it was a big thing at the time like the production company got
04:56a better deal with channel 4 so they hopped over oh so b b didn't actually dump it they just got
05:01no no no they got it stolen out from under them and that's why like mel and sue very very like quit
05:06at the time because it was like how dare you do this oh my god i can't believe i didn't know that
05:12wow okay right right right that all makes sense now okay oh i had some idea that mel stayed on for a
05:18couple of series but not it was um sandy sandy toss big oh yes sandy yeah and all first and then
05:27nolan matt lucas and now nolan allison hammond like he's been he's been there a long time now
05:33he has he has and um when we were talking about this last week i thought no it was kind of he was
05:40kind of annoying me towards the end of the last series and i was a bit like oh i don't know um
05:44but actually i they made me laugh out loud on on tuesday night they you know him and allison they're a
05:50good kind of combo like they both bring totally different things you know and she's just so
05:56jolly and kind of laugh a minute kind of person you know and and then you've got the whole gothy vibe
06:02off off knoll or whatever and the kind of um irreverence and stuff like that yeah i think that's
06:09why him and matt lucas didn't fully work they were too similar you can't have like yeah it's like
06:13having two pieces of the same cake at the same time like it's too much kind of yes that's a good
06:19analogy kind of um both vying for the same gags probably you know whereas allison and him are
06:24totally different and allison has a bit more of probably physical comedy well they both do a bit
06:29physical comedy that's good too but yeah so i actually quite enjoyed the intro the jurassic park
06:35homage did you i think i think mostly because i was like these intros are always terrible
06:41and and the whole i think um prue looked so like
06:48i was actually just impressed with that she just looked so like him it was weird
06:54um well i just thought for once the gag kind of landed i don't know with paul being you know
06:59but anyway if people haven't seen it you should go back and watch it even though it's totally cringe
07:03but i almost turned my tv off it just went on too long for me like it if it had been like that like a
07:09minute it would have been fine but it felt like it went on fast you know yeah when you think about
07:13the fact that they've got was it 12 contestants to get through and like you don't really get to know
07:18many of them in the first series first episode because there's just so many of them yeah but
07:23anyway right tell us anyway give us your thoughts um beyond that matt what what do you think of the
07:28contestants i mean there wasn't much new in terms of setup i mean it was the sort of what you normally
07:33expect like you know the three challenges yeah yeah like they're never going to change too much
07:38really i i was on another video this week talking about this and i think you can't now like if you
07:45change it up too much now it's not bake off and you know it's 16 seasons there's not much you can do
07:50to change up the formula really is there yeah yeah yeah people that don't want to watch bake off
07:55want to watch bake off they don't want to watch you know some weird version of bake off where they're
08:00i don't know cooking cooking on a castle or something yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah but no i thought it was
08:06pretty good it's like i think you didn't get a sense of everyone really because 12 is so many
08:12but like there was there was enough people that stood out that yeah yeah i felt really bad for
08:18was it hassan the guy like he just had like a terrible first day it was like he was a shame
08:25because one of the bakes he made like apparently the flavors were beautiful but he's it just completely
08:30collapsed you know and so so that was a bit of a shame but yeah he just kind of looked like he was
08:35on his way out from the get-go yeah it reminds me of uh my food tech days back in secondary school
08:42i don't know if i still do food tech these days but um it was christmas and we were doing swiss rolls
08:47and one of the girls put sugar into the flower in it and it just came out like flat like like his
08:54hands so oh no the trauma you'll never make that mistake again um yeah so i found one thing that's
09:03what two things that struck me actually were that less older people than usual
09:09yeah i think and you know i think i wrote down in my notes where are the nanas you know you use a few
09:15nanas in there and then um also and it was my husband pointed out and we were both fully in
09:23agreement that when they were introducing you know the way they probably introduced us to five or six
09:27of them kind of briefly and they were all like working in tech or they were engineers
09:32which goes back to supporting my theory about the whole it's got very technical you know over the
09:39years and that you've got these people that are i suppose maybe i mean there was one contestant who
09:45actually said she doesn't even eat the stuff she makes you know so it's like people are doing it for
09:51like a challenge like a like an actual physical mental challenge as opposed to the joy of eating
09:57baked goods you know which is kind of contradictory to what you think it would yeah you know when you
10:01talk about baking it's like baking it's not so yeah so i thought i thought that was interesting
10:12you know so i think again if you compared the kind of people that were applying and doing it
10:1610 years ago compared to now i think you'd see a big difference yeah not to say that
10:20that's good or bad you know i different isn't it yeah i think i i definitely sit there with the
10:26whole oh jesus i could never do that kind of oh yeah you know um some of the things that come up
10:33with i'm like are they secretly like 3d printing them like yeah printer in the background like i would
10:39they do in that on a swiss you know swiss roll absolutely yes some of it was phenomenal absolutely
10:44and i'm sure we'll see lots more um but it's it is always unfortunate there's always somebody that
10:49like it collapses or falls or usually more than one actually at this stage it's usually a couple
10:53that have a bad day but um yeah so look it looks like it's going to be um a fun series and yeah
11:00there was a lot of younger people i don't know what did you have any other takeaways from it this time
11:05around when did mustaches come back into fashion like every other person had a mustache i was like
11:11when did that happen it is kind of hipstery isn't it yeah taches are kind of hipstery and also you do
11:17find there's a lot of kind of hipsters on bake after i mean i guess it leads into the the technical
11:22side of it isn't it like you want to show off be kind of geeky and cool or whatever yeah um and show
11:28that you've got these skills um but yeah you're right about the taches for different would you like
11:34to hazard a guess for a winner should we should we do that for the crack maybe ian or jessica but
11:41that's just because they were mine two favorites in the first episode okay so which was jessica was
11:46she the hairdresser no no she was the one who was a drag king in oh yes yes yes yes um and ian was
11:56the young guy with a belfast yeah oh sorry that did the queen's university the other young guy with
12:03a belfast yeah the mustache not a belfast kind of both um yeah i liked natalia that won this week
12:13um i thought i thought she was really nice and i would be kind of rooting for her and who else did
12:19i like that one let me think um oh god it's hard at this stage because they're all so capable you
12:26know um yeah i thought that scottish guy tom oh yeah and that girl jasmine she seemed cool as well
12:34look yeah there's there's so many um yeah i i feel like cake week is always like i think outside of
12:41just you having a disaster in the tent you probably can do quite well because i guess if you're getting
12:45into baking you're probably going to make cakes aren't you like yeah as a place to start with
12:50yeah yeah yeah well you would think so but that would kind of strict our theory my theory true true
12:55true true yeah okay but before we go tell me tell me matt who do you who's your favorite bake-off
13:02contestant of all time oh of all time i am gonna go with a classic i'm gonna go all the way back to
13:08the bbc days and i'm gonna go with nadia um you know the winner of season five one of the last
13:14yeah it was just i feel like and her creations are like started that push towards how technical
13:23things came as well so she's so influential on the show and just you know she's been on tv ever
13:28since hasn't she so she's probably one of the most successful people i would think um off the back of
13:35it i mean not that many others spring to mind you know my favorite was giuseppe from 2021 i just
13:43loved him from the get-go he was just like such a likable person you know whether we like it or
13:48not there's a certain amount of like you kind of are drawn to people's personalities maybe more
13:52than their abilities yeah yeah yeah i just thought he was so nice and he was always very empathetic with
13:58his uh fellow contestants and yeah he was always just a cheery smiley positive kind of force and very
14:05self-deprecating you know so um all those things usually lead to a worthy winner okay cool okay matt
14:11you have been putting in the hard yards with our next feature yeah services um yeah it's all a bit
14:19overwhelming isn't it most of us have a budget for entertainment and dare i say there's probably
14:24not too many people out there who are buying all the streaming services at the one time so take us
14:30through the main players and the cast and why we should and shouldn't be interested in them
14:36yeah i mean i was quite amazed putting this together there's so many that i haven't even
14:42heard of before like all this like it's it's it's just mad i haven't heard of britbox i don't know what
14:48britbox is oh we used to talk about that a bit in screen babble when we first did it because
14:52steven steven who was one of the hosts had britbox and he used to watch an awful lot of like old
14:58comedies on us so that's kind of what i would say it's best for potentially but yeah go on sorry yeah
15:04sorry um yeah so we'll start with the classic the the most famous one of all netflix now the price
15:12of netflix has definitely gone up since i first had it which was showing my age was about 2012 when
15:19i first got netflix when yeah it was all just like jaws 4 and uh breaking bad was about eight like it
15:26was yeah it was a very different but anyway yeah so do you remember when netflix was a dvd hire
15:32company i remember love film do you remember that one that was the amazon version and like you get
15:38one you get one for um you'd have to wait like like years in advance to like yeah i think netflix
15:46yeah netflix was subscription so you got like three or four dvds a month or whatever and they'd send
15:52them you in the post and then you'd send them back i mean it's wild but anyway i don't know if
15:57people remember that that was like the early 2000s but anyway sorry so netflix yes it's increased
16:02a lot right okay so what are we paying these days so you it starts out with 5.99 but that's for the
16:08advert version which has also has like doesn't have quite everything as well okay there's a few
16:14short finishing from that um and stuff then you get up to i think it's 12.99 for the normal standard one
16:22right then 18.99 for the if you wanted in you know hd and okay downloads and all that sort of stuff
16:30and then obviously you have to pay extra to have people uh use your account if they don't live in
16:37the house with you if you share with your family i uh i had to get a new netflix account because
16:42it was like registered at my parents house and they got it through virgin media or something and
16:49they couldn't add those yeah yeah you're you're you always hear these stories about people like
16:54breaking up and stealing people's netflix passwords and using their their account for months
16:59afterwards and stuff like that hilarious i think like netflix is obviously just absolutely full of
17:06stuff so like yeah you'll never not you'll never not find things on netflix and all of all of them
17:13there's never a discussion to get rid of netflix in our house you discuss other things but netflix is
17:18it's it's too um robust it's got a lot of stuff like yeah and they're just like a fire hose aren't
17:25they like anytime i look at like what's coming out in a week in netflix it's like oh my god i couldn't
17:29write yeah about it yeah although i was saying there was a kind of a dirt of stuff there in july and
17:36august it was really quiet you just kind of dig for it haven't you a bit like uh triple big
17:41yeah yeah yeah you're right yeah yeah and so obviously there's loads of stuff there's lots of
17:52really really good and big shows coming back on netflix this year so we've had wednesday we talked
17:56about that last month we've got the final season of stranger things coming over the course of
18:01november and december which was very exciting uh a recent one i don't know if people have watched
18:07yeah but worth watching is hostage yes i watched it i watched it i enjoyed that i felt like a
18:15throwback for like the bodyguards if anyone was yeah i i thought it started really strong really
18:21good and it petered off i was kind of disappointed in the last episode i was like yeah that all wrapped
18:26itself up very quickly you know there's often i'll be and i've complained about this a million times
18:31um that they stretch things out too long like we're watching another thing channel 4 in flight
18:36with katherine kelly and that's eight episodes and like you're like eight episodes my god does it need
18:42to be eight episodes whereas hostage was five and i thought it probably could have been eight you know
18:47yeah or six at least yeah so anyway just my take on things but it is definitely worth a watch so yeah
18:52it's yeah it's good fun like i said to my partner that it felt a bit like a 90s tv show like the
18:59politics if you thought about the politics in that show for a second it was like what's going on here
19:04yeah you're right you're right you're right yeah it was kind of touching on there was an element of
19:09you know that um show that russell thingy did um oh yeah yeah dystopian future vibes about it wasn't
19:20there um not quite not quite as outlandish as years and years okay right anyway what's next apple
19:27apple we've got apple tv that's really simple it's 9.99 a month i think if you get like a new
19:33iphone or at least again i haven't got a new iphone since the pandemic but during the pandemic you used
19:38to get like six months free if you bought a new thing so i don't know if you're still doing that
19:41but like i did not a new tv this year actually we bought a tv couldn't tell you what brand it is
19:47um but it's not an apple tv but we bought um a new tv and we got six months of apple which was great
19:54because i'd kind of like all these series on apple that i wanted to watch so we've got so we're like
19:58cramming everything into the six months of free apple you know trying to get all of slow horses
20:03watched ted lasso yeah and there's a few other kind of classics the morning show we haven't started that
20:08yet but we're going to do that yeah you know there's really sort of big titles that oh severance
20:14as well there's big titles that obviously we couldn't watch because we didn't have it before but
20:18yeah sorry no um and i think it's a bit different these days but like you know originally it was
20:26like okay you're willing to pay because the shows are really high quality there isn't a lot of stuff
20:30although now there is quite a lot of stuff like they've got because it's their own catalog they're
20:34not you know licensing in like friends or you know the office or anything whereas i think now in
20:402025 there is actually quite a lot like you were saying like there's what the sixth season of slow
20:46no fifth season of slow horses yeah fourth season of morning show there's yeah no just i think that
20:52um apple will be one of those ones that you might drop for a year and pick up again when you know
20:58because they don't have that back catalog that you're like netflix does or whatever like you know
21:02once you call whatever you want yeah yeah okay yeah that's got some what slow horses come in this
21:09month um the recently finished show smoke with um taron egerton who yeah uh what was it kings
21:17yeah yeah he was in the elton giant wasn't he yeah really fun show like a fun fire mystery thing
21:25okay um yeah and severance as you mentioned um yeah that's all the s's apparently
21:30and then obviously disney plus we've got disney plus that's like netflix that has like about three
21:38different tiers that you can subscribe to so there's 4.99 the cheapest which is adverts
21:42then this uh 10 pound one and a 12.99 for the you know the ultimate whatever package
21:50column you know where you can just download and good one for kids because you do have the back
21:56catalog of disney films you know which is you know lifesaver stuff but then also there's weirdly a
22:03lot of like shows for adults on there as well like you get a lot of the american shows don't you
22:08like only there's in the building and yes there's the was it the twisted tale of amanda nox at the
22:14moment yeah like that so that's it's pretty good so it just reminded me of all that and as a side
22:21note i was talking to my partner and she's from spain i was like oh yeah you know amanda nox the
22:26meredith kirchner thing she's like no i was like really no you don't remember it like it's like no
22:31it's such a media bloke thing wasn't it everyone knew it like you know like madeline that um that
22:39actual series was produced by amanda nox yeah and guess who else do you know you see it's someone
22:46like gwyneth paltrow someone no monica lewinski monica lewinski that's it clinton's aide who there
22:53was the big sex scandal over remember so it's like these two scorned women these two yeah you
22:59know not scorned women like no done wrong by yeah demonized women totally totally totally interesting
23:05though i haven't watched it so i would like to check that out just to see i kind of got i was like oh
23:09this might be a bit biased but anyway aren't they all okay next amazon prime amazon prime um so
23:17a bit like apple tv there's just like a static price for amazon prime which also includes
23:23the amazon prime delivery so you get like the tv and the delivery so like yeah you're probably buying
23:29it for the delivery and then you just get the tv oh yeah yeah exactly that's i think that's how most
23:32people but we were talking about this briefly the other day and i was saying it's pretty frustrating
23:39with amazon prime because oftentimes you'll go in they'll be like yeah we have willie wonka's
23:43chocolate factory or whatever and then it's like 5.99 please so like we don't really what am i
23:49paying for you know what i mean also there's like a mess of like add-ons that you can add you know
23:54add-on channels and so it'll look like something's in amazon prime but then it's like oh you have to
23:59subscribe to mgm plus i'm like what is mgm plus and they do that they do that all the time with the
24:06kids stuff as well where they're like would you like to play this song and they're like yes and if
24:11they're if they do it on alexa they take that as consent to purchase and you're like whoa no no no
24:17we're not purchasing we're not purchasing so you have to be really careful with amazon they are like
24:22cowboys when it comes to like adding stuff on and charging you for extra things and you know but
24:27anyway um i guess if you read the small print it's probably fine yeah to be fair and just similar to
24:35what you said about the you know things then you have to buy and rent i find the amazon prime app just
24:40really rubbish like i think it's really hard to grow there's some good stuff on there though so
24:45jeff bezos if you're listening i know you're a big fan of the show and there is some good stuff on
24:50there um i quite liked the assassin with keely horse that came out and had freddie highmore
24:56that's uh she's like a a retired assassin living in um greece and it's it's it's pretty fun like it's
25:04pretty fun did that was exclusively on there yeah i've seen that it feels like a show that should
25:10have been like a bit like hostage feels like a show that should be like i like her yeah yeah
25:16and then yeah we've got coming up we've got the spin-off of the boys if anyone still watches that
25:24called gen v that's out this month that's the university one which is quite good it's yeah
25:30very similar to the boys um so did you get the odd biggish thing then as well on amazon yeah yeah
25:36they spend money down there yeah yeah yeah well they certainly have enough of it so yeah oh exactly
25:42okay dear listeners we're getting there we've only got sort of two more to go and maybe a few
25:47mentions so yeah now next literally now now tv now tv which is yeah if you don't have a skybox you
25:53can still get all the sort of sky stuff it can be a bit convoluted because there's a bunch of
25:58different packages but the entertainment package is what you get for like to get the tv and stuff
26:04then there's a cinema if you want the movie and sports if you watch premiering football or whatever
26:10but they're all like separated off or you can bundle them together it's right right right right a bit
26:14confusing but it gives you a bit like sky used to be in terms of like you add on things yeah yeah okay
26:20um and it's 9.99 a month unless you like agree for a year and then that's 6.99 for a month
26:27but you have to do the full year if you want the 6.99 whereas if you just want to do it for a month
26:32to catch a show and that has all the stuff that's like the sky atlantic and sky max and sky comedy
26:39and all those things like okay if people want to watch the new season of hacks that's on there
26:44okay yeah um the atomic with uh alfie allen it's quite good that's that's oh yeah it's started um
26:52and that's that's on now tv or if you are a sky subscriber you have this so you don't need now
26:58on tv but oh interesting yes if you don't have a box of a sky box this is the way to get sky stuff
27:04without sky box yeah handy yes okay if you don't want to commit to the full sky experience yes okay
27:10great and finally paramount mount plus which he ranges from 4.99 to 10.99 a month um it's a bit a bit like
27:22bit like apple tv where it's not got a huge back catalog but it does have more than apple because
27:28it's got like all the paramount movies so there's like yeah okay lots of horror films like the ring
27:35and there's like some park on there and you know yeah i don't think we've ever had the one thing that
27:41yeah the one thing that i always it used to be a lot of comedy stuff but the one thing
27:45yeah i always regret not having it for is uh yellow jackets that started somewhere else
27:52started on netflix or started on apple anyway maybe not apple anyway it started so i watched
27:58the first series somewhere else yeah and then um and then they bought it and i really enjoyed that so
28:04there is a good chance that we're going to buy paramount for a couple of months at some point
28:08even to watch yellow jackets do you know what i mean yes yeah and you know maybe when my subscription
28:13is uh done yeah yeah and there's also all the yellow stone stuff so there's two yellows it's the
28:19the yellow stream the jackets and the stones yeah um which is my uh my parents got it so i
28:26even love yellowstone it's wild but anyway right okay but and then just a few like quick mentions of
28:34other things if you like horror films there's something called shudder not shutter which has
28:39original movies and shows and also old you know some more like yeah yeah like horror stuff maybe in
28:48october i might subscribe i don't know yet yeah yeah yeah um and then there's britbox we mentioned
28:56britbox and we itvx you can pay to not have the ads channel 4 you can pay not to have the ads and
29:02get some things early yeah mgm plus i mentioned that i don't know what that is but that exists
29:09so wow probably a lot of old films and stuff i imagine yeah and i think they've got a robin hood
29:14tv show with sean bean coming up like yeah interesting yeah love a bit of sean bean love a bit of robin hood
29:21oh yeah right okay okay wow we've been through them all there haven't we i think yeah and you have
29:29crunchyroll for anime people and yes d-a-z-n for sports zone which is like a lot of boxing fights
29:38are on there and like okay the club low cup when someone was on that okay and hi you for reality fans
29:46is that um do they do old series they replay old series of reality tv yeah it's not like all like
29:52the housewives and okay yeah yeah yeah i think you can get it through like now tv and stuff
29:58ah okay yeah oh my god i'm exhausted after that
30:02as best you can matt one in one minute tell us what do you think people should do with their money
30:13for tv streaming tv streaming i think just get like two at a time but whatever um i would say
30:20if you like if you're like a grown-up and you like grown-up shows try apple tv for a bit like
30:26there's a lot of good stuff there agree that you can drop out once you've watched all the stuff you
30:31want netflix if you're into netflix and stuff keep netflix or if you've got younger kids maybe disney
30:39plus as an alternative because that's got all the disney stuff they learn stitches on there now
30:43you know yeah yeah for the families i think you can't go wrong that's exactly what we have
30:49we have disney oh sorry we have apple we have um netflix and we'll never get rid of netflix
30:57apple will probably drop and pick up something else and we've had disney in the past i think we still
31:01have disney but we're not watching it a lot that's one thing i would say about disney they didn't bring
31:04out a lot of new stuff yeah when we had it but yeah i think that's it you've got your kind of
31:09primary ones and then you'll pick up and drop other ones if you're organized otherwise you'd
31:13just be throwing your money away on whatever one you want at the time the other thing that work
31:17in the minds is like you could save yourself like a 10 or a month and keep that for wanting to buy a
31:23new film or and you know yeah that's an idea too if there's something you really want to see
31:28or go to the cinema exactly and go and support film um but that was brilliant thank you matt
31:33okay finally we are going to chat about uh the biggins that are coming up in um sort of autumn
31:43into winter i pulled out a few of these that i want to mention and then you can mention some as
31:49well and we can have a wee chat about them so um slow horses we've already talked about i think
31:54everybody knows about slow horses that's coming to apple tv on the 24th of september season five i'm in
32:00the middle of season four although i admittedly fell asleep watching it last night i'm so tired
32:04which is weird because it was really it was one of those really sort of chasey episodes for those
32:09lots of action and i was and i kept kind of waking up because the music kept getting
32:13really annoying but anyway so that's coming and that has really grown on me series one i was like
32:20yeah it's grand but that's really grown on me i think you just get attached to the characters
32:24they're so well done the characters really good um and then the house of guinness which
32:33oh yeah intriguing so it's about the guinness family and it's essentially succession set in the
32:381860s and 70s that kind of thing so yeah yeah and it's stephen knight who wrote right so
32:45should be good blue lights just love the first two series that that's set in northern ireland it's
32:49the police um procedural um celebrity traitors which we will talk about in a lot more detail
32:55maybe in the next episode um so they have some really really good names so fair play to the bbc
33:02with that riot women is coming in october to the bbc which is written by sally wainwright who wrote
33:07happy valley and other things she's great i just love the look of this you know it's women in their
33:1250s who are just shit sick of life and they want a bit of an escape and they set up a band
33:16so that sounds like fun and then the beatles anthology which is coming to disney plus at the
33:22end of november the 26th of november that should be great that same day matt you can tell us what
33:28else is coming out that same day the first batch of episodes from stranger things final season and
33:34then sad as the final season but like super excited yeah i think there's four episodes coming that day
33:41then three are coming on christmas day and the final ones coming on new year's eve so i imagine
33:47that again like the fourth season some of these will be like multiple hours long yeah yeah i think
33:54it's going to be epic because i was like oh i'll have to carve out three hours on christmas day for
33:58stranger things when in fact i'm gonna have to probably carve out five hours or six hours
34:02get up get up before the kids have watched two hours of street yeah um but yeah no i'm oh my god
34:11i'm that sounds like a great christmas day i have to say like i can't i'm even if i only watch one
34:16episode of it on christmas day like you know it's quality it's like gift to yourself so yes there's a
34:21few more matt that we want to mention well i was going to mention um task which is coming out on
34:28sunday the 7th in america monday the 8th of september in the uk that's on sky atlantic now tv and that's
34:36from the guy who wrote mayor of east town if uh you know okay yes it's got mark ruffalo it's another
34:45police-y thing he's like the head of a drug task force and i think it's like family drama and
34:50all that sort of fun stuff so i'm excited to see how he follows up mayor of east town
34:54got only murders in the building it's back next week the 9th um that's always fun um i sort of
35:02wax and wane a bit on that show but like we did the first series but then kind of fell out with the
35:08second series but i have only so much time in my calendar for kind of fun things and ted last was
35:14taking it all up at the moment i mean yeah and those episodes get along don't they oh my god totally i
35:21didn't realize that you know i thought this is a little half hour funny thing but they're like 40
35:25minutes a lot of them and longer yeah okay cool um we've got coming out tomorrow at the time of
35:31recording we've got the paper which is a sort of sequel spin-off to the office this one's interesting
35:40yeah yeah yeah like the whole pitch is it's the same crew from the office of filming a
35:45sort of struggling newspaper in the midwest of america it's got right donald gleason is sort of
35:51yeah i guess the michael scott equivalent in that so okay it looks pretty fun um this oscar from
35:57the office is back for some reason he's also that okay it's interesting one they could get back
36:03uh yeah absolutely is available and willing to keep doing it cool okay and there's also coming
36:07on the 14th september on itv i'm really excited for this one it's called cold water it's andrew
36:14lincoln of walking dead and then the teacher's fame it's his big return to british tv it's like
36:21set in scotland he moves into a a new house and there's a like kind of neighbor that he gets on
36:28that's a bit weird and his wife doesn't like the neighbor and okay yeah interesting oh that should
36:33be exciting is a bit is there going to be a bit of sort of safe not sci-fi but is it going to be
36:37like or i think it's just going to be like yeah you know like straight up drama yeah yeah okay cool
36:45cool cool oh my god so so much but i mean as quickly as you can what are the things you're most
36:54looking forward to on telly this autumn winter stranger things yeah this you just can't see beyond
37:00stranger things i can't either like it's um i like hooray for stranger things um i can't wait to
37:06see how old all the kids look in it but anyway um so that right women as i said i think is going to
37:12be great drama i think celebrity traitors is going to be must see like screaming at the tv tv which i
37:19love and of course end of the year stranger things i mean christmas and new year is sorted this year
37:26lads you don't need to make any plans just stay and watch telly oh pumped pumped pumped pumped for
37:32that okay brilliant thank you for joining us today if you have any suggestions for what tv or film we
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