The Spinoff’s Alex Casey and Duncan Greive discuss the week’s TV ‘happenings’, including the return of Jono and Ben, now longer and earlier, Campbell Live‘s 10th anniversary, MediaWorks’ Dancing with the Stars‘ (!) takeover plus Lightbox’s big drop of new shows including Wolf Hall, The Lizzie Borden Chronicles and DAYS OF OUR LIVES!! Listen below, … Read more
This is the second episode of The Fantasy Suite, our podcast dedicated to all things The Bachelor NZ. Hosted by world renowned Bachelor expert Jane Yee, with support from The Spinoff’s Alex Casey and Duncan Greive. We discuss Danielle L’s shocking self-elimination, Poppy’s masterful power play, the ‘poo’ date, Chrystal and Lisa’s hot war and … Read more
The first episode proper of The Spinoff’s TV Week, a weekly (duh) podcast in which Duncan Greive and Alex Casey from TheSpinoff.co.nz talk about what they’re watching on television and how they feel about it. This installment discusses the exceptional debut of TVNZ’s ‘iZombie’, SoHo’s amazing documentary series ‘The Jinx’ and Better Call Saul’s ‘Five-O’ … Read more
Brand new judges. The same old singers. Slightly different podcast guests. With Joseph Moore fleeing our smiley and sanitised bully-free country to the mean streets of Melbourne, Nic Sampson is joined by Spinoff staff writer Alex Casey and Perlina Lau, soon to be social media presenter on the new Paul Henry breakfast show. Together they … Read more
Welcome to the debut episode of The Fantasy Suite, our podcast dedicated to all things The Bachelor NZ. Hosted by world renowned Bachelor expert Jane Yee, with support from The Spinoff’s Alex Casey and Duncan Greive. Reliving the first two nights at the Bachelor mansion, we discuss Arthur ‘Art’ Green, the bachelorettes, the first dates … Read more
After the most climactic 24 hours in X Factor NZ history, Joseph Moore and Nic Sampson were joined by The Spinoff editor Duncan Greive to discuss the double judge elimination, the first live show and the debut of our sworn enemy, X Factor NZ analysis show Xtra Factor. The episode also features Alex Casey’s excellent … Read more
On Tuesday our intrepid podcasters, Joseph Moore and Nic Sampson, dutifully watched the 12th episode of X Factor NZ and recorded the finest installment yet of our smash hit pod, ‘After the Factor’. They then went to sleep, as humans often do in the nighttime. The following morning Moore was awoken by news he was … Read more
Joseph Moore and Nic Sampson’s X Factor-centric After the Factor podcast is joined by Guy Williams, star of Jono and Ben, voice of The Edge and (most importantly) prolific X Factor live-tweeter. Together they break down the third week of X Factor. Topics include boot camp happenings, Avatar sex and Dom Bowden’s meadow apology. They also rerank … Read more
Joseph Moore and Nic Sampson’s X Factor-centric After the Factor podcast is joined by Spinoff’s staff writer Alex Casey to break down the second and final week of X Factor auditions. Topics include the latest semi-painful-but-much-improved batch of auditions. We also rank the judges, hypothesise about the Simon Cowell/Fuller relationship and Nic and Joseph interview … Read more
Joseph Moore and Nic Sampson’s After the Factor podcast is joined by The Spinoff’s editor, Duncan Greive, to break down the opening trio of episodes. Topics approached include the drudge of wading through the bad-but-not-terrible contestants, the early backstories, the arrival of Fare Thee Well, aka #KiwiHaim and the shocking decision to deny Trend Prince more … Read more
The Spinoff is aroused to announce our first ever podcast. ‘After the Factor’ features in depth X Factor NZ analysis from Joseph Moore and Nic Sampson. // X Factor NZ hasn’t started yet, but we’re talking about it anyway. In episode zero of their weekly recaps, Joseph and Nic look at back on last season fondly, and preview the new … Read more