Paul Henry, New Zealand’s most entertainingly obnoxious talk show host, is starring in a film about to premiere in America. Tomorrow. Seriously. David Farrier brings us this exclusive report and interview. // For two years Paul Henry has been sitting on a strange, fascinating secret. For a few months in between being fired in Australia … Read more
David Farrier tearfully recalls the Six Feet Under finale, and makes the case for Sia’s ‘Breathe Me’ as the most perfectly deployed piece of music to ever close out a show. At some point while TV3’s Nightline was still on air (still the best job I’ve ever had), our producer Angus Gillies got ahold of all five seasons of … Read more
David Farrier explains how our stuff.co.nz smash hit Real Talk series came about. If you’ve missed the magic, the complete videos are embedded at the end of this post. If you google “Ben Mitchell”, the first result you get is one of my favourite interviews of 2013: The headline is beautiful in its simplicity: “Me … Read more
Throughout ‘Street Week’, our tribute to the wonder that is Shortland Street, we’ve been running ‘Real Talk’, a series of very strange interviews with Ferndalers Ben Mitchell and Cam Jones, conducted by David Farrier. All eight are now out, and the MSM has finally picked up on the biggest story since Dirty Politics, so we’ve compiled the lot into … Read more
‘Real Talk’ is a series of interviews conducted exclusively for The Spinoff’s ‘Street Week’ by David Farrier with Shortland Street‘s Cam Jones and Ben Mitchell. The eighth and final episode features outtakes from the interview – the best strong strange opinions that didn’t make the cut in other clips. Mitchell on Shortland Street: “It fulfils a lot of my … Read more
‘Real Talk’ is a series of interviews conducted exclusively for The Spinoff’s ‘Street Week’ by David Farrier with Shortland Street‘s Cam Jones and Ben Mitchell. The seventh episode has our guys weighing in on ‘Conspiracy Theories’. “There are some things that I wouldn’t call a conspiracy,” says Mitchell. “They’re factual. Supported by archaeological evidence.” “Such as?” asks … Read more
‘Real Talk’ is a series of interviews conducted exclusively for The Spinoff’s ‘Street Week’ by David Farrier with Shortland Street‘s Cam Jones and Ben Mitchell. Episode six has Jones (an environmentalist) and Mitchell (a Holden-lovin’ petrolhead) squaring off over ‘Cyclists’. Jones and Mitchell are Shortland Street’s biggest stars and hunkiest hunks. Mitchell plays TK Samuels, the sculpted head of … Read more
‘Real Talk’ is a series of interviews conducted exclusively for The Spinoff’s ‘Street Week’ by David Farrier with Shortland Street‘s Cam Jones and Ben Mitchell. This fifth instalment features the dashing lads of the ED weighing in on what they look for in a woman. Jones and Mitchell are Shortland Street’s biggest stars and hunkiest hunks. … Read more
‘Real Talk’ is a series of interviews conducted by David Farrier featuring Shortland Street‘s Cam Jones and Ben Mitchell. They’ll give a hot take on a series of important contemporary issues. This afternoon’s lesson is on ‘The Internet’. Jones and Mitchell are Shortland Street’s biggest stars and hunkiest hunks. Mitchell plays TK Samuels, the sculpted head of the Emergency Department, … Read more
‘Real Talk’ is a series of interviews conducted by David Farrier featuring Shortland Street‘s Cam Jones and Ben Mitchell. They’ll give the babe actor demographic’s hot take on a series of important contemporary issues. This morning: ‘the objectification of men’. Jones and Mitchell are Shortland Street’s biggest stars and hunkiest hunks. Mitchell plays TK Samuels, the sculpted head … Read more
In part two (here is part one) of David Farrier’s ‘Real Talk’ interview series with Cam Jones and Ben Mitchell, Shortland Street‘s bench-pressing health warriors weigh in on the internet’s ‘culture of outrage’. Jones and Mitchell are Shortland Street’s biggest stars and hunkiest hunks. Mitchell plays TK Samuels, the sculpted head of the Emergency Department, while Jones is ripped ambo … Read more
Welcome to the centrepiece of Street Week: ‘Real Talk’, an eight part interview by David Farrier featuring Cam Jones and Ben Mitchell. The pair are Shortland Street’s biggest stars and hunkiest hunks. Mitchell plays TK Samuels, the sculpted head of the Emergency Department, while Jones is ripped ambo Dallas Adams. The Herald has published two dynamite interviews with Mitchell, while Jones has … Read more
David Farrier reflects on how a pivotal X-Files casting decision eventually led to Bryan Cranston’s explosive role on Breaking Bad.// It was 1998 and I was 15 years old. It was season six of The X-Files, my favourite show in the whole wide world. It was a brilliant season – the mythology was in place, and … Read more
X-Files obsessive David Farrier chronicles the show’s strengths through three very different episodes of the sci-fi classic. // “I don’t know anybody in the world working in film, and that’s what we work in here even though it appears on television” – Chris Carter, circa 1996 One of the happiest days of my life happened six years … Read more
Before Buffy, before Veronica Mars, there was Xena. David Farrier looks back at the original bad babe. // When Lucy Lawless’ Xena first appeared in 1995, it was as a bad dude on Hercules: The Legendary Journeys. Except she wasn’t a bad dude, she was a bad babe. Which is sort of extraordinary, because there … Read more