2014 in Review: The Year NZ TV ‘Did a Jesus’ and Came Back From The Dead

Duncan Greive looks back over a momentous year for the local television industry and catalogues its highs and lows via the timeless medium of a Births, Deaths and Marriages column. 2013 ended with New Zealand’s television in some kind of catatonic state. MediaWorks was limping out of receivership (again), TVNZ had just drowned another of its … Read more

The Genres That Came In From The Cold: The Zone Debuts

For decades fans of pulpy TV genres like sci-fi and fantasy have made do with a few mainstream hits, a lot of late nights and many what-ifs. That changes with today’s arrival of The Zone, and Andrew Todd is thrilled. As a young New Zealander seeking to escape the hellish drudgery that was teenage life, … Read more