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The manufacture of pop

Streaming: ThreeNow

An eight-part Australian drama about a girl group manufactured in the course of a reality TV show. There’s a Kiwi connection: the show is inspired by the memoir of Belinda Chapple, a former member of Bardot, the reallife group formed in 2000 by the Aussie version of the New Zealand-developed proto-Idol format that gave us TrueBliss. It’s not a sunny story – the advance publicity describes it

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