Pulp Sport was a TV show filmed in New Zealand, that mixes sport with various styles of comedy. The hosts Jamie Linehan and Ben Boyce acted under their respective pseudonyms Bill and Ben, performing a half hour of various sports based skits. They are usually accompanied by an anthropomorphic fox Mascot.
Nadia Lim & husband Carlos Bagrie take on their biggest project yet - taming 1200 acres of rugged Central Otago farmland at Royalburn Station. Follow them on their dream of becoming one of the best farms in the South.
3pm is a New Zealand children's show hosted by Suzy Cato. It screened on the independent station TV3 in 1992, and featured an oversized pumpkin, games, interviews, viewers' mail and cartoons. The show was produced by the television company Kids' TV Ltd. 3PM is also an acronym for Product-Project-Portfolio Management, or alternatively Project-Program-Portfolio Management.
WANNA-BEn is a comedy show, themed each week on a different celebrity and their achievements. The series is hosted by New Zealand entertainer Ben Boyce, former co-host of Pulp Sport. Ben Boyce is looking for a new job. However, rather than looking for a boring, everyday desk job, he looks for one that is cool and exciting, like a rock star, millionaire, or fashion icon. Ben is a Wanna Be.
Melody Rules was a 1993 sitcom created by New Zealand TV station TV3. The series centred on sensible careerwoman Melody and her semi-dysfunctional family consisting of her teenage sister Zoe and their brother. Frequent recurring characters included an unkempt and filthy man as well as neighbour Crayfish. The series was structured in a similar manner to an American sitcom, containing similar elements including a laugh track and vaudeville-esque humour. TV3 conceived Melody Rules in 1993 in hopes the show would form one of a number of flagship productions for the station. TV3 received $1,262,990 funding from NZ on Air for the production. TV3 hired the services of an American television writer, who held a number of workshops in New Zealand where he taught hopeful writers the craft of writing an American-style sitcom. Working with his ideas and formulas, Melody Rules was the end result. Due to poor ratings, the series was pulled from TV3's prime-time lineup in the summer of 1995, and was rerun at 2:00 and 3:00 AM on weekend and weekday mornings, only to be cancelled following two episodes per screening. 43 episodes in total were screened. Melody Rules has received much negative criticism, including unfavourable comments on its humour and poor acting roles. It is now widely regarded in New Zealand as the worst TV3 sitcom of all time.
The GC is a New Zealand reality television series that premiered on TV3 on May 2, 2012 in New Zealand. The series follows the lives of a group of Māori living on Australia's Gold Coast. The series has been likened to the American reality television show, Jersey Shore.
'Bigger, Better, Faster, Stronger was a New Zealand science-based reality television series broadcast on TV3. Each episode saw the two hosts, James Coleman and Greg Page, work to produce a "new and improved" version of a household appliance or object. At the beginning of each episode, the hosts selected their team from a combined pool of five people, four of whom had skills that were of value to the project, and one of whom did not. They then spent the remainder of the day in a shed producing the new device, before holding competitive tests the following morning. The tests were adjudicated by Kirsten Pederson. Before the series aired, Coleman told news media that the episode in which he attempted to make a clothes drier from a lawnmower engine and an angle grinder was a near-disaster, as "The clothes ended up being distributed in specks of cotton around the laundry and the hooks flew off and embedded themselves around the set," but "Luckily, they didn't kill or blind anyone." The series was nominated for an Aotearoa Film & Television Award in 2011.
Hitched is a New Zealand Reality TV show filmed by Cream Media and broadcast by TV3 following couples behind the scenes on the journey towards the biggest day of their lives, their wedding. How do couples today celebrate their union, is Marriage still religious, a Rite of passage, expression of love and commitment or an excuse for a party? In reality, weddings can be an expensive, stressful and sometimes a traumatic affair. There can be tremendous pressure for everything to be just perfect, but what is a perfect wedding? Hitched Season 1, screened Tuesday, June 30, 2009 at 8pm on TV3. Hitched Season 2, screened Tuesday, April 13 at 8pm on TV3.
A look at the work DOC and Deepwater Group are doing to conserve sea lions, as well as the work NIWA and the Marine Stewardship Council are doing to maintain sustainable fisheries.
National Party candidate and budding politician Dennis Plant didn't have a chance of winning Wakatipu South, the safe seat of the righteous Labour MP and environmentalist Janis Goodhead. That was, until he opened his mouth... Dennis, the straight-shooting Kiwi, quickly becomes the voice of a piece of New Zealand we always knew existed but have never actually seen in person. And young student filmmaker Cassie Young has decided to follow Dennis from the start of the campaign through to the finish.
Reality Trip is a documentary series (seven one hour episodes), which takes five young Kiwi consumers to three different countries to see where the products they buy come from – computers, bananas, costume jewellery, clothes, and tea. They’re products most New Zealanders buy without thinking about their origins and who makes them.
You and Me was a popular children's television programme hosted by Australian-born New Zealand entertainer Suzy Cato. The first episode aired in 1993 and more than 2000 episodes were produced in the next seven years. In the late 2000s, the show returned to New Zealand television airing on TVNZ 6. While being originally successful in its local country, the show has also been successful overseas. "It is an interactive, educational entertainment experience that has been enjoyed by pre-schoolers all over the world," says Suzy Cato.
INTO THE VALLEY is a four part documentary series that takes us into the lives of the people from both sides of the line who experienced the Tuhoe raids in 2007, when government forces attack a remote New Zealand indigenous community in search of domestic terrorism. An in-depth and personal story, as told by the people of Tuhoe young adults who were children caught up in the raids, artist-activist Tame Iti, as well as politicians, and police officers. Told with retrospective insight, film excerpts, archives along a personal ride deep into the valley.
Target is a New Zealand consumer advice show. It's hosted by Carly Flynn and Brooke Howard-Smith. The show has run for 11 seasons and remains one of New Zealand's highest rated factual programs and has won 1 Qantas Media Award. As of 2013, the show is on hiatus
A selection of stand-up comedians are given the titles of real lectures but none of the content. Host Becky Lucas invites some of the funniest people in New Zealand to give their own version of that lecture.
Deal or No Deal in New Zealand is the New Zealand version of the international game show format.
Campbell Live is a half-hour long New Zealand current affairs programme weeknights at 7.00pm, on TV3 and is hosted by New Zealand television personality, John Campbell. Campbell Live has interviewed various notable personalities, including Al Gore, Robert Fisk, Tony Blair, as well as an array of celebrities, including Adam Lambert and Metallica.
