Ghost Hunt is a reality TV show from New Zealand. It is an investigating series in which a team of three investigators, Carolyn Taylor, Michael Hallows and Brad Hills, visited alleged haunted hotspots around New Zealand. It is currently aired in Europe on the channel Zone Reality.
A New Zealand homegrown cooking competition that promises flame-grilled humour and some fiery competition in the quest to find New Zealand's backyard barbecue champions. Seven teams of two will battle it out for the prestigious Cooks on Fire trophy, plus $30,000 in cash.
Chef Robert Oliver travels to Pacific resorts where he meets local chefs. Together they explore the untold cuisines of the Pacific, connecting local, traditional food producers with Pacific tourist economies.
QTV is a New Zealand children's science-based multimedia series designed to engage young people in the world around them.
The series is fronted by the "Q Team", four young people with a passion for discovery and science. The Wellington-based team is Barnaby Fredric, Chelsie Crayford, Tess Devereux, and Paora Durie.
Each week one of the team throws down a new scientific challenge and kids are encouraged to post their findings online, where further opportunities for exploration and participation abound.
Top Town was a New Zealand game show series where teams from different towns in New Zealand competed in various obstacle challenges against each other, along the lines of the earlier British series It's a Knockout. The show first ran in New Zealand between 1976 and 1990 and made a return in a slightly different form in 2009. The new format has similarities to Wipeout.
Top Town first screened on New Zealand television in 1976, the original Top Town competition took place at a different town each week with all competitions taking place on a local sports field. The show made a return in 2009 but due health and safety regulations the new competition had to take on water with all teams now competiting at Jellie Park in Christchurch.
Seven Sharp is a half hour long New Zealand current affairs programme produced by Television New Zealand. The programme was created after the axing of Close Up. It started on Monday 4 February 2013 at 7.00pm on TV ONE. Seven Sharp presents up to 8 stories within a 30 minute timeslot every night. Seven Sharp is also intended to be more integrated with social media and real time opinions.
Seven Sharp competes mostly with TV3 current affairs show Campbell Live but Seven Sharp also shares the same time slot with TV2 drama Shortland Street and Channel Four's The Simpsons.
Fill-in presenters include Stacey Morrison, Heather du Plessis-Allan, Te Radar, Clarke Gayford, Tamati Coffey and Rose Matafeo.
This Is Your Life is a New Zealand television documentary show based on the American show of the same name, in which the host surprises guests with a show documenting their lives, with audience participation from their friends and family.
Thirty-nine New Zealanders have been honoured in the New Zealand version of the show, which has been broadcast on and off since 1984 on Television New Zealand's TVOne. It was originally hosted by Bob Parker, but more recent episodes have been presented by Paul Holmes and Paul Henry. Most recently, racecar driver Scott Dixon was honoured, on 21 September 2008. Other recent recipients have included extreme sports pioneer, A. J. Hackett. Mark Inglis, the subject of an episode that was broadcast on 5 June 2007, and former All Blacks winger Jonah Lomu, who was honoured in a show that aired on 9 April 2007.
Prior to that, the last This Is Your Life programme in New Zealand was broadcast in September 2000. The subject of that episode was the great New Zealand runner, Peter Snell.
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The little known island of Ngaro has long held many a mystery, though this fact has been largely unnoticed by the quiet townsfolk that call it home. That is until Tane, Fridge and Riley, who call themselves The Barefoot Bandits, take it upon themselves to investigate all the secrets the island has to offer.
Let's Get Inventin' is a New Zealand reality television series that takes young inventors and helps them to create inventions. If successful they go into a prize pool, as well as having a chance to have their idea patented. In 2007, the series won the Qantas Award for best children's/youth programme.
In Let's Get Inventin' 24 Kiwi kids with ideas get together with some of the greatest inventors in the country to bring their inventions to life. Rocket-powered ice skates, a six legged walking car and a jet-powered hover skateboard are some of the inventions. And at the end of the series, the New Zealand public chooses their favourite invention which wins its own official patent prize package totalling $10,000;a trip to the UK; and a ride in the Aquada.
Presented by Clinton Randell, this show matches up young inventors with experienced designers, and high profile celebrities as mentors.
The show was previously presented by Geoff Bell, who then moved on to co-host Sticky TV.
20/20 is a current affairs television series made in New Zealand and hosted by Sonya Wilson. 20/20 was originally screened on TV3 between 1993 and 2003 but the format was picked up by TVNZ in 2005. It was hosted by Miriama Kamo at that time. While some of the content is locally produced much of content is taken from the US 20/20 show produced by ABC.
60 Minutes is the name of a television newsmagazine show previously broadcast in New Zealand on TV3. The show began in New Zealand in 1989 based on an American programme by the same name. The programme is to broadcast on Prime TV from 2013 and will be hosted by Charlotte Bellis, weekend anchor of Prime News: First at 5.30, will host 60 Minutes for the network alongside her news duties.
The broadcaster of 60 Minutes has changed twice during the 1990s. It was one of TV3's flagship programmes when TV3 went to air in 1989. Then in 1992, TVNZ won the rights to the programme.
After being shown on TV1 from 1993 to 2002, TVNZ decided not to renew the rights the show from CBS, and the rights were reacquired by TV3. Following this, there was a fight over the www.60minutes.co.nz domain, which for a short time, redirected to the site on TVNZ's replacement Sunday. Currently, the domain redirects to the www.cbs.com website.
A funny and fascinating tour through New Zealand’s rich comedy history. Interviewing comedy greats alongside the best and brightest up-and-comers, the series is a candid and hilarious look at the untold stories behind some of New Zealand’s most iconic performances.
The ultimate business reality show has landed in Aotearoa, giving one enterprising Kiwi the chance of a lifetime. Who will be hired, and who will be fired?
Saturday Disney was a New Zealand Saturday morning children's series. The last episode aired in 2006, with Studio 2 taking on the Saturday show, called Studio 2 Saturday which finished later that year.
A cooler dog there has never been - Hairy Maclary is charming and sophisticated. Hairy Maclary and his posse of pooches feature in 10 animated tales, based on the best-selling books by New Zealand author, Lynley Dodd. Having sold more than 4 million books worldwide and already over half a million copies in Australia, Hairy Maclary is certainly one popular canine. Join Hairy Maclary from Donaldson's Dairy, Hercules Morse as big as a horse, Bottomley Pots covered in spots, Muffin McLay like a bundle of hay, Bitzer Maloney all skinny and boney and Schnitzel von Krumm with a very low tum in these irresistible stories set around the dairies (general stores) and weatherboard houses of country New Zealand. The original Hairy Maclary was the Winner of the 1984 Children's Picture Book of the Year Award and subsequent stories have won numerous awards worldwide.
Play School was a New Zealand educational television show for children. It was based on the British Play School show.
It was first broadcast in New Zealand during the 1975 originally screened twice a day at around 10am and then 2:30pm. Playschool was filmed from what was then TVNZ's Dunedin Studio. The last series screened on television in 1990.
The show starred five toys, which are famously nostalgic for New Zealanders who watched the program as children. They are:
⁕Big Ted: A traditional-style golden coloured teddy bear
⁕Little Ted: Identical to Big Ted, but much smaller
⁕Manu: A very human-looking plastic doll with Māori features, such as dark skin and hair
⁕Jemima: A rag doll with orange woollen hair
⁕Humpty: A round green fabric toy resembling Humpty Dumpty.
Today, Big Ted, Manu, Jemima and Humpty are part of a collection at the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa in Wellington, New Zealand. The museum also has a large collection of clothing and props from the sho
Radio with Pictures was an early music video program, airing on New Zealand broadcaster TV2 from 1976 to 1986. "RadPix" aired as a weekly, late night series featuring adult and alternative music.
In 1976, TV2 producer Peter Grattan coordinated pop clips being supplied for no charge by record companies, some of them being unsuitable for the children's or prime time schedule With over sixty 'unusable' pop clips, Grattan proposed a late night "radio with pictures" concept to then-Head of Programs Kevan Moore. Moore was a former producer of The C'mon Show, a popular music series in the 1960s, and had included pop clips in that program.
The concept was approved and the first thirteen half-hour episodes aired from September through December 1976. RadPix had no budget and thus no host; instead, imaginative Terry Gilliam-style graphics linked the various pop clips. The first clip to play was Steve Miller's Fly Like an Eagle and the first show also featured New Zealand band Red Hot Peppers. Subsequently, a NZ-based act wa