Hello and welcome to Binge Watch, the podcast where we take a look at the hottest new TV

and film releases on streaming television platforms. I'm Hannah Fernando, the group editor of Woman

and Woman Home magazine. And I'm Ian McEwan, writer on TV and Satellite Week, TV Times and

what's on TV magazines. And today we're looking at the new releases that will be available

on Friday the 13th of September 2024, including Clarkson and Co in Prime Video's final Grand

Tour. road trip and a new series of Taskmaster on Channel 4. We'll also be flicking through

old issues of the fashion industry Bible with In Vogue the 90s on Disney Plus and checking

out moving documentary series into the fire, Lost Daughter on Netflix. But first Ian, what

is in the news? Next week of course it's the Emmy Awards, the prestigious television awards.

You'll be able to watch them on Monday September the 16th on Sky Max. and leading the nominations

well. You've got Shogun, you've got the Bear, you've got the Crown, Baby Reindeer which had

a lot of press didn't it, Ripley and Palm Royale so a lot of our favourites that we've discussed

on Binge Watch over the past year. What else is in the news Hannah? Well strictly starts

this weekend, would you believe it? Winter Christmas is coming! got Paul Merson the ex-Arsenal and

England footballer and we've got Sam Quek who's the Olympic gold medal winning hockey player.

We've got a few names in there including Nick Knowles as well you'll remember him from DIY

SOS. So yes lots to watch and of course Shane Ward who won the X Factor and I wrote his book

so there we go shameless plug. We're going to start on Prime Video with the final road trip

for the Grand Tour appropriately called one for the road and it will be available from

Friday the 13th of September. Here's a clip. And do the lock nuts first. What are you talking

about? What's the lock nuts? That is a lock nuts. This spanner's too big for the Tumutans.

We don't all have to go to the same old folks home, do we? No. It's not obligatory after

this that we all the next day. He said he's deleting our numbers as soon as we finish.

And we've finished delete. There they've gone. Well, Hannah. cast your mind back it was in

2003 that Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May first teamed up on Top Gear as a

presenting trio and of course after Clarkson punched a producer in the face because he couldn't

have his hot dinner they had to leave the Bebe of course and so they launched the Grand Tour

on Prime Video and very successful it has been. two 5 series 187 cars 73 breakdowns and 41

countries yes those are the stats and I kind of feel like it's the right time to call time

on the grand tour and although there are you know there are a lot of things particularly

about Clarkson that I don't particularly like I always enjoy watching these three I mean

it is always entertaining though I kind of

I'm sure most people would have caught it, but it's basically, they just go on a road trip

basically. It's a one-off road trip to some, usually somewhere quite exotic, in some interesting

cars which break down a lot. I think it's difficult to kind of keep coming up with new things.

That's part of the problem. And of course the guys, you know, they're getting on a bit now.

You know, these are quite grueling shows to make. So the things that I particularly think

have worn a bit, think... they modify their own cars which is quite a fun idea but clearly

they're not doing it some team in a garage are having to do it and also the pranks which again

they don't come up with the pranks and they probably don't actually do them you know that

a lot of it is set up but there are certain aspects where I think they are for this one

they're going to zimbabwe they're choosing cars that they've always... wanted to own. So a

couple of them very much from my era. There's a Mark 1 Ford Capri, beautiful yellow Capri

as seen in Mike Bubbins' comedy show. And there's also a Triumph Stag which I remember from my

childhood. It's the usual really. I mean they end up in Kubo Island in Botswana which is

where they film... their first special so it's very much par for the course. You know what

you're going to get with the Grand Tour, of course you do. It's just a different location,

different cars, same formula but it's a winning formula but I kind of feel that, yeah, maybe

it's right to park up now. Hannah, will you be sad to see the end of the Grand Tour and

did you enjoy this swan song? I like what you did there, Park Up. You know what, I know exactly

what you mean about Jeremy Clarkson but I feel like the new Jeremy Clarkson era has come along

and this has kind of almost paled into the sort of history books to a degree, albeit both of

us have discussed this a number of times and we both really enjoy it. And this is no different,

it is a swan song like you say, it's kind of the best to end with a bang but it does feel

like the Clarkson's farm, particularly with everything else that he's doing at the moment.

He seems to be making headlines for all sorts of other reasons and I don't know, I just I

think probably it does need, it needs a rest whether it will come back after a few years

and they'll have the same, because this really thrives on their dynamic doesn't it really,

more than anything. It kind of is, they annoy me in a lot of situations with what they do,

they're kind of ridiculous and you know Jeremy gets cross about things and does things to

cars that I don't think genuinely, you know, generally kind of is badly behaved at times

and I suppose that just all adds to it but really it's the banter between them that makes this

and so it will be nice I think in a few years time like I can see them coming back together

for that sort of nostalgic moment and people will enjoy that but I think everyone who likes

this series, likes what they've done before will absolutely enjoy this but it didn't feel

like a sad moment it felt like the right moment. them back perhaps in a few years time for a

mobility scooter special. How about that? You're going to get down to the shop on back and see

who comes first. Over on Disney Plus, arriving also on Friday the 13th of September, we have

a new documentary series called In Vogue, the 90s, and here's a clip. What's the defining

publication about fashion? Vogue.

Boat's biggest pores is going to win tour. Oh my god. Why are you already taking sunglasses

off? No, I'm going to wear them. I said... Everything was changing. It was a whirlwind. Way too messy.

A crazy, amazing, astonishing time. The 90s turned the fashion industry upside down. I

mean everybody knows Vogue don't they and it's a sort of pages of unobtainable joy that you

look at and think gosh who can possibly afford these wares but actually you want it sitting

on your coffee table and Vogue has been through a bit of a roller coaster ride and this is

well there's six episodes to it firstly which in a weird way feels like a documentary but

there are so many people involved I think that it would be hard to kind of squash down to

the usual kind of hour or so. And this tells the story of the fashion industry during the

90s and I suppose that interests me as well because 90s was sort of my era I suppose

from you know Kim Kardashian, SJP, Victoria Beckham and of course the sunglass wearing

Anna Wintour herself and there is actually a nose-bath, I found her quite interesting in

this actually because you kind of you imagine what someone's actually like, you know she's

obviously a kind of a fiercely strong powerful woman but there was a bit of a joke about her

sunglasses in one situation and she said yeah I'm gonna keep it. on wearing them and she

kind of changed the face of Vogue quite cuttingly for the last editor she says you know that

she needed changing it was just boring it was kind of it was it was the same it just every

cover looked the same and she put Vogue, she put Madonna on the cover of Vogue for her first

issue in 1989 and that was a really big deal it was controversial that you know that sort

of caused a stir but that's what she wants to do and that's what continue to do and in a

world of declining print and interest levels where you can get things on really any platform

you want to for free. It continues to thrive in its own way and it will, I think Anna Wintour

has got something, she hasn't got anything to prove anymore but she is the face of that brand

isn't she? And I just, I don't know, I found it quite interesting, I also found it interesting

hearing from the top designers. included in there, Lestela McCartney, Mark Jacobs, hearing

from them and what it means to them to be a part of something that is so big because it's

quite hard to believe that you are in some cases, some instances, bigger than them. They want

you, they need you and you have you have that power and we've seen some incredible shoots

from Vogue. As I say it all feels very unobtainable, I don't look at it and think oh yeah I can

relate to this but it is that coffee table thing where you just look at and they do some amazing

shoots with some incredible access. So from what I have seen so far I did find it quite

interesting and I mean I'm sure it's quite

there are lots of episodes behind the scenes that we will never be party to. But you certainly

see more than I feel I've seen before. What did you think? Well I'm not particularly interested

in fashion, it may surprise you to hear that Hannah, but I absolutely loved this and in

fact I went straight on to episode two because I had enjoyed it so much. It's the era of kind

of the collision between fashion and the music business, isn't it? So there's quite a lot

about that. Mark Wahlberg did a Calvin Klein campaign. And then of course they've got the

George Michael video where he got all the supermodels. He wasn't in the video himself. It was just

the supermodels, the big, I think it's the big five of that time, lip syncing. So that was

very interesting. And then you've got the kind of the era of the supermodels when they became

real celebrities. And then suddenly in comes Kate Moss. who was recruited by Calvin Klein

for a campaign and the so-called heroine chic which was quite controversial look. Yeah, there's

lots of interesting characters in the fashion industry and in the fashion publishing industry

as you will know. I particularly enjoyed the stuff about Galeano and also Alexander McQueen.

Really interesting. You don't have to be a fan of fashion to get a look or even a... ever

to have read Vogue to get a lot out of this. I think it's really well done. Over on Netflix

arriving on Thursday the 12th of September we've got a new documentary series called Into the

Fire the Lost Daughter and here's a clip. She'd been missing 21 years when they finally found

me. I was only 17 years old when I put my daughter up for adoption. Throughout my life, she was

always in my mind. When I found out she'd went missing, I thought, I gotta find this kid alive.

I don't care if I have to walk over God's green earth, do it. This is a two-parter. It's actually

produced by the actor Charlize Theron. And at the heart of it is a woman called Kathy Turcanian.

So she's telling her story basically and when she was a teenager she got pregnant and she

gave up her baby for adoption, her baby girl, and it's something clearly she's very much

regretted ever since. Anyway, fast forward many decades to 2010 and she gets a letter from

the police saying Well, first of all, they tell her that her daughter, who she's had no contact

with, who she's not heard from at all, went missing 20 years earlier. And secondly, that

they've now found a body, and they need to find out whether it is her daughter, and can she

send a DNA sample. So that's kind of the jumping off point, and she sends in the sample, but

it's... it isn't her daughter. But this kind of sets her off on a quest to find out... Well,

what did happen to my daughter? You know, because she ran away from her adoptive family when

she was 14. What became of her? Is she still alive? So yes, she hits the internet, she sets

up a Facebook page, she goes to meet her daughter's friends from high school. I don't want to say

too much about how it pans out, but there are some big twists and turns and it's very moving,

I must say. She tells the story very well. I'm an absolute sucker for these kind of true crime

type documentaries and this is a very good one. Also, you can get through it quite quickly,

it's only two episodes. But it is an amazing story, it really is. Very well done. What did

you think, Hannah? Oh my goodness me, this is so incredibly moving isn't it? And I just think...

say any parents I think it probably perhaps affect parents more maybe seeing something

like this I don't know. It's hard to ever, I think of this real life stories that we tackle,

it's hard to imagine a world in which you give up your child but of course there's many reasons

and real reasons and courageous reasons that mothers and fathers have to make that decision

sometimes and I think that's what comes across in this doesn't it really there she was giving

up a daughter for adoption and then finding out that this daughter has then gone missing

all those years on and then I don't know, I think that mother-daughter, mother-child bond

is just so clear in this and it's just incredibly well executed I think. Really different, really

heart rendering for a number of different reasons and yet it's

like you say, you don't want to give too much away, but there's lots to this I think. I mean

this probably could be made into a drama one day and would be, you know, would be incredibly

hard for someone to play that part but maybe she could. It's just, yeah, very interesting

and moving. We're going to end with a little bit of Much Needed. light relief over on channel

4, Hannah, arriving on Thursday the 12th of September. It is the latest series of Taskmaster

and here's a clip. Dad is back. This sounds like a total pain. Oh no. I found a pineapple

and some string. That feels gross. Who's coming up with this nonsense? That was rubbish.

Well you will have noticed that I was a little bit late to the podcast today, Ian, and that

was because I was giggling away to the episode that was sent to us because it's really rather

funny. Now I've got to be honest with you, I'm not a huge Taskmaster fan, you know, I'm not

one of those people that's just waiting for this to drop at all, but I can see it's just

brilliant.

and then the relationship that he has with Alex Horne and those two are the ones that set these

tasks for the comedians on the panel. Now this is the 18th outing for this show so it's popular,

it's absolutely popular so I am incredibly late to the party really having seen bits and pieces

of it but not really yet I'm really enjoying this. I was having a proper chortle to myself

just before we before we started this. They've got all the comedians on the Andy Zoltzman,

Babatunde, Alicia, Emma Seedy and Rosie Jones. So they they're the ones that have to go and

do these ridiculously fiendish tasks which are set by the judges, Greg and Alex. And and then...

they have to decide which will the taskmaster choose. It's quite, it took me a little while

initially to understand, it sounds a bit stupid, makes me sound a little bit stupid, doesn't

it? But what actually was going on here, because you get so caught up in, I mean these comedians

are just really funny anyway, without them doing really silly things and they're just so, so

quick. with their responses which of course I know they're comedians but it just never

fails to amaze me how quick these people can be and you just, it's just a laugh fest, it's

just absolutely fun and it's just really, I don't know. just seeing the, particularly someone

like Jack Dee, who rarely smiles does he. I really like Jack Dee, I think I really find

his humour funny. And, you know, seeing him do things that he doesn't necessarily want

to do is quite funny in itself, you know, that alone. So, I don't know, they're kind of out

of their comfort zone. It's a bit of fun, it's the 18th series and this is just going to keep

on going, isn't it? I hope so because I'm a massive Taskmaster fan and although it's not

being streamed, it's not being released as a box set, if you go onto channel 4 streaming

every single previous series is on there and I'm what they call a retro-wonner because once

I got into Taskmaster I just went back and watched every single series and I absolutely love it

and I haven't grown tired of it at all. And yeah, as you say, Jack Dee is good value in

this. I thought he was very funny. And Andy Zaltzman is quite an interesting character.

He looks a bit like a mad professor. He's a bit of a polymath because he presents the news

quiz, but he's also the stats man on Test Match Special. And one fun thing about Taskmaster

is that quite often the celebrities decide to wear quite a weird outfit to take part in it.

So you had Nick Mohammed's was dressed as a vampire at all the tasks. Phil Wang wore a

sort of yellow jumpsuit, which was much discussed because of the things you could see outlined

below the waist. John Robbins, one of my favorites, he wore a Freddie Mercury outfit. Yeah, so

it's always fun to see what people turn up in. And Zultzman, he decided to do it wearing full

cricket kit, including pads and gloves. And of course it was created. Alex Horne and there's

now a live Taskmaster experience isn't there that you can... I think it's sold out actually

but yeah it's an absolute joy. I love it and I'm so glad it's back but yeah, if you've never

seen it, well what a treat you've got in store because there's so many series to binge your

way through. Now we've got to that time Hannah where we find out what you've been binge watching

over the last seven days. Well of course it's all about the new Beetlejuice but not for me.

I went back to Prime and watched the original Beetlejuice. I love Beetlejuice but don't say

it three times a year. Okay, well I found a film on Netflix which I remember seeing...

Cinema trailers are so long now aren't they? You feel like you've seen the whole film. Anyway,

I saw a trailer for Mother's Instinct not so long ago which is a thriller starring Jessica

Chastain. and Anne Hathaway, so two big star names. It's a period drama and they're both

suburban mothers, living perfect lives but then there's a tragic accident which affects their

friendship. It's really good, they're both great in it although it does go a little bit crazy

at the end. Now we've just got time to look ahead to next week which is a very strong week.

I have to say. What's on the binge watch menu Hannah? Emily Maitlis' Prince Andrew interview

gets a second dramatisation in a right royal scandal which stars Michael Sheen and Ruth

Wilson and that's on Prime Video. And rebooted sitcom Frasier returns to Paramount Plus with

a Seattle radio station reunion in Prospect. Yes, so we look forward to those and much,

much more but in the meantime listeners.

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