Saturday Morning with Jack Tame

Can't decide what TV shows you should be watching? TV critic Tara Ward joins Jack Tame to gives us her top picks for your viewing pleasure! 
Brexit: the Uncivil War: Based on true events, Benedict Cumberbatch stars in this drama about political strategist Dominic Cummings, who led the campaign to convince British voters to leave the European Union (UKTV April 1, available on Sky Go from 29 March)
Newton’s Law: Claudia Karvan stars in this Australian drama about a lawyer forced to restart her legal career (Lightbox)
Pilgrimage - Road to Santiago: this three part travel series follows 7 celebrities as they leave their modern comforts behind to tackle a famous medieval pilgrimage (Prime, Sunday 8:30pm)
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Movie reviewer Francesca Rudkin joins Jack Tame to talk about the latest releases.
Us
Accompanied by her husband, son and daughter, Adelaide Wilson (Lupita Nyong'o) returns to the beachfront home where she grew up as a child. Haunted by a traumatic experience from the past, Adelaide grows increasingly concerned that something bad is going to happen. Her worst fears soon become a reality when four masked strangers descend upon the house, forcing the Wilsons into a fight for survival. When the masks come off, the family is horrified to learn that each attacker takes the appearance of one of them.
Five Feet Apart
Five Feet Apart is a 2019 American romantic drama film written by Mikki Daughtry and Tobias Iaconis and directed by Justin Baldoni. The film stars Haley Lu Richardson and Cole Sprouse as two young patients with cystic fibrosis as they try and have a relationship despite always being forced to stay a certain distance away from each other. It was released in the United States on March 15, 2019, by CBS Films.

In his opening editorial, Jack looks back on reading newspapers and books as a child. 
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Former TV broadcaster Kevin Milne joins Jack Tame to look back on yesterday's National Remembrance Service held in Christchurch to honour the victims of the mosque shootings.
Kevin thought the most remarkable thing to happen at the service was when Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern came up to give her speech.
"The crowd just stood and applauded. It seemed like it was never going to end. I have never seen such an accolade towards a New Zealand political figure in my life."
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This is such an incredibly moist and tasty cake and with the cream cheese icing it’s hard to beat!
150g butter, softened
175g icing sugar
3 large eggs
150g self-raising flour
¾ cup dessicated coconut Zest from 2 limes
225-235g pineapple chunks
1 vanilla pod
250g cream cheese
½ cup icing sugar
1 tsp vanilla extract
1. Preheat your oven to 165 C fan bake and line a 20cm square cake tin with baking paper.
2. Whisk butter and sugar together until pale and fluffy. Add eggs and scrape in the vanilla seeds and beat for 2-3 minutes. Stir in flour and mix to just combine then fold in coconut, lime zest and pineapple pieces. If it looks a little dry, add a drizzle of the pineapple juice.
3. Scrape batter into cake tin and gently smooth top. Cook for 35-45 mins or until skewer comes out clean. As soon as you remove from the oven, prick cake with skewer and pour over remaining pineapple juice. Cool for 20 minutes then remove from tin.
4. Beat cream cheese until smooth and stir in icing sugar and vanilla.
5. When cake is cold, ice with cream cheese icing.

Rose McIver is one of New Zealand's biggest young talents, having starred in plenty of local productions as well as headlining international films and TV shows.
Now she's back home, starring in musical Daffodils that uses the Kiwi songbook to tell the story of one young couple's love.
She joined Jack Tame to discuss the film and her rising career

This week, Catherine Raynes reviews two new exciting books for you to read.
The Huntress - Kate Quinn
From the author of the New York Times and USA Today bestselling novel, The Alice Network, comes another fascinating historical novel about a battle-haunted English journalist and a Russian female bomber pilot who join forces to track the Huntress, a Nazi war criminal gone to ground in America. In the aftermath of war, the hunter becomes the hunted… Bold, reckless Nina Markova grows up on the icy edge of Soviet Russia, dreaming of flight and fearing nothing. When the tide of war sweeps over her homeland, she gambles everything to join the infamous Night Witches, an all-female night bomber regiment wreaking havoc on Hitler’s eastern front. But when she is downed behind enemy lines and thrown across the path of a lethal Nazi murderess known as the Huntress, Nina must use all her wits to survive. British war correspondent Ian Graham has witnessed the horrors of war from Omaha Beach to the Nuremberg Trials. He abandons journalism after the war to become a Nazi hunter, yet one target eludes him: the Huntress. Fierce, disciplined Ian must join forces with brazen, cocksure Nina, the only witness to escape the Huntress alive. But a shared secret could derail their mission, unless Ian and Nina force themselves to confront it. Seventeen-year-old Jordan McBride grows up in post WWII Boston, determined despite family opposition to become a photographer. At first delighted when her long-widowed father brings home a fiancée, Jordan grows increasingly disquieted by the soft-spoken German widow who seems to be hiding something. Armed only with her camera and her wits, Jordan delves into her new stepmother’s past and slowly realizes there are mysteries buried deep in her family. But Jordan’s search for the truth may threaten all she holds dear.
The Familiars - Stacey Halls
Young Fleetwood Shuttleworth, a noblewoman, is with child again. None of her previous pregnancies have borne fruit, and her husband, Richard, is anxious for an heir. Then Fleetwood discovers a hidden doctor’s letter that carries a dire prediction: she will not survive another birth. By chance she meets a midwife named Alice Grey, who promises to help her deliver a healthy baby. But Alice soon stands accused of witchcraft. Is there more to Alice than meets the eye? Fleetwood must risk everything to prove her innocence. As the two women’s lives become intertwined, the Witch Trials of 1612 loom. Time is running out; both their lives are at stake. Only they know the truth. Only they can save each other. Rich and compelling, set against the frenzy of the real Pendle Hill Witch Trials, this novel explores the rights of 17th-century women and raises the question: Was witch-hunting really women-hunting? Fleetwood Shuttleworth, Alice Grey and the other characters are actual historical figures. King James I was obsessed with asserting power over the lawless countryside (even woodland creatures, or “familiars,” were suspected of dark magic) by capturing “witches”—in reality mostly poor and illiterate women.

It’s going to be a big few months for Kiwi actress Rose McIver.
The final season of iZombie is about to be released where she plays a zombie who works as a coroner’s assistant to have access to the human brains.
And in complete contrast she’s starring in the new Kiwi film Daffodils, a movie-musical based on the play of the same name which celebrates classic Kiwi music.
She joined Saturday Mornings with Jack Tame to share her experience working on the set of Daffodils along with where she sees her career going in the future.
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Can't decide what TV shows you should be watching? TV critic Tara Ward joins Jack Tame to gives us her top picks for your viewing pleasure!
After Life: Ricky Gervais is back on our screens in this dark comedy-drama as Tony, a grieving widower whose nice-guy persona is altered into an impulsive, devil-may-care attitude (Netflix)
Great British Bake-off
Formula 1: Drive to Survive: Netflix’s new documentary series gives exclusive access to the behind the scenes action of the 2018 FIA Formula One Championship

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