By The Book

MOVIE OF THE WEEK The Dater’s Handbook

Vibe, 8.30pm Monday

Harry and Meghan arrive back at their hotel room, shattered after a busy day of meet and greets. Harry slumps on the king-size bed, turns on the telly and starts flicking through the channels. “Rubbish, rubbish, seen it, rubbish.” Hang about, what’s this? It’s that dreadful romantic comedy his wife, the Duchess of Sussex, starred in a couple of years ago. Result! He settles in, puts on his pair of hotel slippers, calls up for some room service. This is the highlight of his trip.

FROM THE VAULT Dawson’s Creek

TVNZ On Demand, from Thursday

I don’t want to wait … for this month to

PODCAST OF THE WEEK

Think about it — what could be more "self help" than never wasting time reading another self-help book as long as you live? What if instead you could just listen to a podcast where a couple of funny ladies try all the biggest titles out for you and talk about how it went when they implemented the lessons learned from, for example, pick-up artist manual or pro-butter diet guide

This is it. Each fortnight for the past year or so comedian Jolenta Greenberg and her skeptic mate Kristen Meinzer have lived a different self-help book —

Secret

Women Don’t Get Fat? The French

The Five Love Languages, The Little Book of Hygge he Subtle Art of Not Giving an F-Word

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... all the big ones. Jolenta even wrote an ebook after reading a self-help guide to getting rich off ebook publishing. And each fortnight they have released a podcast about how it went — was any of it actually useful, or was it all complete rubbish? Admit it, we’re all a bit curious, just maybe not curious enough to actually buy and read all the latest books. Here’s everything you wanted to know, all in less than an hour. Better living, everybody.

Calum Henderson