The Real Pod assembles to dissect the week in New Zealand pop culture and real life, with special thanks to Nando’s. This week on The Real Pod, the podcast studio is extremely hot and we’re extremely distracted by live-streaming to 10+ people on Facebook. There’s so much reality TV news that we don’t know what to … Read more
The hugely popular British show about people watching telly is finally getting a New Zealand version. And Calum Henderson, for one, can’t wait. Good news: TV’s not dead. There are still people out there who regularly sit down, in their living rooms, and just… watch it, sometimes for hours at a time. Now, some of … Read more
Calum Henderson watches Common Sense, a reality show that asks real people for their real reckons on current events. Who hasn’t watched the vox pops on the news and thought: these random people on the street should have their own show? In Australia, that dream has become a new reality series called Common Sense. A spinoff … Read more
Put it On My TV is a new occasional feature which will explore an overseas show that deserves to be shown or made in the land of the long white cloud. This week Tara Ward campaigns for Gogglebox, a British reality show where normal armchair folk talk telly. // While enjoying a recent journey from these fair … Read more