New Zealand Listener 03.14.2020

MARCH 14 2020 LISTENER 65

SUNDAY MARCH 15

Newshub Special: Remember-

ing March 15 (Three, 2.55pm).

As we noted last week, the

Muslim community doesn’t

mark anniversaries, although

it has since been reported

that it has reluctantly given

its blessing to a remembrance

service in Christchurch’s

Hagley Park today. Mike

McRoberts and Sam Hayes

will be covering the service

live and Patrick Gower and

Annabelle Tukia will have

reaction afterwards. The

memorial service will also be

livestreamed on TVNZ OnDe-

mand from 2.30pm, and over

on TVNZ 1, Q+A with Jack

Tame (9.00am) devotes the

programme to the anniver-

sary and John Campbell and

Melissa Stokes will present 1

News (6.00pm) from Christ-

church. Then on Sunday

at 7.30pm, there is an item

featuring Al Noor

Mosque’s imam,

Gamal Fouda,

who so movingly

addressed thou-

sands of people in

Hagley Park a week after

the shootings.

Puppy School (Vibe, Sky

006, 6.30pm). After Dog

Squad Puppy School (TVNZ 1,

Tuesday), how much more

cuteness can we take? This

British series features puppies

that are being trained in

the grounds of Chatsworth

House, the stately home

that was Pemberley in the

2005 film Pride & Prejudice.

Why there? Because it looks

beautiful, of course. The

owners got their puppies for

emotional support – but the

dogs’ behaviour needs some

tweaking from experts Oli

Juste and Hannah Molloy.

Trave l Man

(TVNZ Duke,

8.30pm).

There aren’t

many come-

dians in whose

company we’d

want to spend 48 hours – one

hour is usually enough – but

Richard Ayoade we can stand.

Besides, the show is only

30 minutes long, so already

we’re on to a winner. Season

eight’s travel companions on

quick two-day trips to Europe

are Frank Skinner (Zürich),

Jessica Knappett (Ibiza), Eddie

Izzard (Ljubljana) and Mor-

gana Robinson (Milan).

MONDAY MARCH 16

Neighbours (TVNZ 2, 6.00pm).

Everybody does need good

neighbours, especially ones

who don’t deport their

criminals or deny that the

burning of 186,000sq km

ment

company is involved.

The series is partly about the

future of predictive computing

• after all, we’re already at the
  mercy of algorithms that are
  working out what music we’d
  like to listen to next or what
  shoes we’d like to buy. More

seriously, we now know that

the behaviour of social-media

users can be manipulated by

bad actors.

“The devs are making a

machine that takes the premise

that the universe is determinist,

that is to say that everything

that happens is the result of

cause and effect,” Garland

told an interviewer at New

York Comic Con. “So they’re

working on a machine that can

help them unpick the nature of

cause and effect on a massive

scale.”

Of course, this opens up a

whole can of worms. “If you

were to take a deterministic way

of looking at the world, one of

the consequences would be that

you don’t have free will.”

Garland himself thinks that

“we probably don’t have free

will” and the point of the story

is “what is it like to be alive in

a universe in which cause and

effect have a total relation-

ship? And if science offers up

something to you that truly

does change the way that you

intuitively think of the world,

what effect does that have?” l

Puppy School, Sunday.

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