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Claim This PodcastHosted by Naga Munchetty, Scott Bryan, Hayley Campbell, Emma Vardy, Adrian Chiles, Ali Plumb, Hayley, Naga, Scott
Published by BBC Radio 5 Live
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<p>Scott and Hayley join Naga Munchetty to review the week's biggest shows. This week, that features ‘Lynley’ the latest crime thriller to reach BBC iPlayer, which follows aristocratic DI Thomas Lynley and his reluctant partner DS Barbara Havers as they’re brought in to solve murders.</p><p>BBC Sitcom ‘Can You Keep a Secret’ starring Dawn French, Mark Heap and Craig Roberts, all about a retired couple - played by Dawn and Mark – who commit insurance fraud, after one of them is mistakenly claimed dead.</p><p>And finally, we discuss Netflix’s ‘Heated Rivalry’ about two ice hockey players whose animosity in the rink turns into a secret romance off the ice. Remember you can Email <a href="mailto:mustwatch@bbc.co.uk">mustwatch@bbc.co.uk</a> to have your say.</p>
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[…] It was semi-dramatised. Semi-dramatised. The other thing that really got me, and this is the new thing I've not seen in TV before, is the use of AI that they used as special effects in the scenes, in these hypothetical scenes. And I'm thinking at a time when the TV industry is really struggling with freelancers trying to get roles and the lack of available jobs. why is a show like this relying on the ai rather than actually paying people to do the special effects and all of those simulations for them i think it was because you know they wanted to make something that was very nimble because they're having decisions and consequences of those decisions like in a sort of you know a war game preparation thing but the use of ai in this context kind of made me feel quite Icky, really. […]
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<p>Scott and Hayley join Naga Munchetty to review the week's biggest shows. This week, that features ‘Lynley’ the latest crime thriller to reach BBC iPlayer, which follows aristocratic DI Thomas Lynley and his reluctant partner DS Barbara Havers as they’re brought in to solve murders.</p><p>BBC Sitcom ‘Can You Keep a Secret’ starring Dawn French, Mark Heap and Craig Roberts, all about a retired couple - played by Dawn and Mark – who commit insurance fraud, after one of them is mistakenly claimed dead.</p><p>And finally, we discuss Netflix’s ‘Heated Rivalry’ about two ice hockey players whose animosity in the rink turns into a secret romance off the ice. Remember you can Email <a href="mailto:mustwatch@bbc.co.uk">mustwatch@bbc.co.uk</a> to have your say.</p> - How often does this podcast release new episodes?
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