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Dig It with Jo Whiley and Zoe Ball

76: Special Episode: The Madison - Our TV Pick for March!

Dig It with Jo Whiley and Zoe Ball

Persephonica

Society & Culture, Leisure, Kids & Family, Parenting, Home & Garden, Personal Journals

4.6606 Ratings

🗓️ 19 March 2026

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

This special bonus episode is brought to you by The Madison on Paramount+

Consider this your must-watch recommendation for March. Jo and Zoe are chatting about The Madison — a brand new six-part series streaming now on Paramount+. Jo and Zoe get into what made them fall for the show; the beauty of Montana, the warmth and humour woven through the grief, and why this kind of female-led storytelling hits so differently. Plus: Zoe's ugly cry face at episode four, whether horses are actually terrifying, and if Disco Steve should go full ‘Kurt Russell’ with his hair.

Episodes 1-3 of The Madison are available to stream now. Episodes 4-6 will be available to stream on 21 March.

Stream The Madison on Paramount+  https://www.paramountplus.com

Watch Dig It on YouTube - https://youtu.be/2ojQ6zYjqRs 

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Exec Producer: Jonathan O'Sullivan 
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Transcript

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0:00.0

This bonus episode of Digget is brought to you by The Madison, a brand new series starring Michelle Pfeiffer and Kurt Russell, streaming now on Paramount Plus.

0:08.3

Coming up on Digit's.

0:09.8

And I also love that our diggers message me now saying, you will like this because you recommended that to me and therefore I kind of know you're going to like this.

0:16.4

Oh, it's great.

0:17.5

Which is what resonated with me so much is seeing this family deal with grief in such different ways and how that starts to come through in each of them.

0:27.9

A horse has terrify me, Joe. I've been thrown off them. I've been trodden on by them. They don't love me.

0:33.1

You're all same. But I tell you what, I just, you watch this and you think, actually, maybe I, maybe I will go on it, like a blazing saddles.

0:39.9

All of that, right after this.

0:48.9

Hello, Joe. Hi, hi, Zoe. Hi, hi, hi, hi. Are you all right? I'm good, thank you. Yeah, I am. Spring is

0:56.4

springing around us, even though the world is slightly melting somewhat. There are signs of spring

1:01.7

that are making me happy and giving me hope. And there's so much good telly at the moment.

1:07.7

Yeah. I mean, there's one thing that I think we've both been obsessed with this week,

1:11.4

but I think the difference between us, you love tele, you consume tele a lot. I fit it into my life

1:16.4

when I can. But have you always been obsessed with TV? Yeah, I think it sort of came from watching

1:21.6

things with my great gran when I was young. And I don't know what it is. I love, It's escapism. I think it's being a hopeless romantic. There is just, I love a great movie. I love a sweeping drama. I love a who done it. I read a lot of Agatha Christie's when I was young. But I've always loved the telly. Do you remember in the 101 Dalmatians, there's the little dog

1:45.1

that just watches the telly the whole time. I can't remember what the dog was called. Oh, you were that

1:48.6

pup. That is me. I've just like, I always found it to be such brilliant escapism. And as a result,

1:55.2

I probably do watch way too much tele. But on the whole, there's a lot of good telly to watch at the moment. So when I get really excited in the buildup to a new drama coming, because often you'll look, won't you, and think, I am going to love that. And I also love that our diggers message me now saying, you're going to love this. Have you watched this, Zoe? You will like this because you recommended that to me and therefore I kind of know you're going to like this. Oh, it's great. So I quite like that community, especially through

2:21.9

the last few months that we need that escapism sometimes, don't we, to somewhere completely

2:27.5

different. You can park all your problems, you can part the world's problems that are surrounding

2:32.1

us at the moment, and just escape to another, someone else's life. Is there such a thing as too much TV? I don't think there is because we are blessed with such a vast array of things. I think I've always really, let you say escapism, I've just always gone in the sci-fi direction. I think this is where we differ. I know you love Doctor Who and I love Dr. Who and it's a massive thing in our children's lives, our lives all together. But I've always been drawn to the fantasy and the surreal stuff that's going on. So when it comes to who done it and things like that, I just don't bother watching them. They're just not something that I really love. But when it comes to escapism, there's this TV program which we're going to chat about,

3:08.5

The Madison, which is pure escapism.

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