List of New Zealand television series
Encyclopedia
Drama
- Go GirlsGo GirlsGo Girls is a New Zealand comedy/drama television series centering around four adult friends, Amy, Britta, Cody and Kevin, who live on the North Shore, Auckland...
(2009–present) - The Almighty JohnsonsThe Almighty JohnsonsThe Almighty Johnsons is a New Zealand fantasy comedy/drama television series, which was created by James Griffin and Rachel Lang and is produced by South Pacific Pictures. It began airing its first season of ten episodes in New Zealand on February 8, 2011....
(2011) - Nothing TrivialNothing TrivialNothing Trivial is a New Zealand comedy-drama television series, produced by South Pacific Pictures. The series is created by the duo of Gavin Strawhan and the co creator of Outrageous Fortune, Rachel Lang...
(2011)
Lifestyle & Documentary
- Country CalendarCountry CalendarCountry Calendar is a television series covering rural life in New Zealand. Established in March 1966 and screening every year since, it is New Zealand's longest-running television series...
(1966–present) - Fair GoFair GoFair Go is a New Zealand consumer affairs television program now co-hosted by Gordon Harcourt and Alison Mau. First aired in 1977, it is one of New Zealand's longest-running and highest-rated programmes, frequently placed high in the New Zealand TV Guide list of most viewed programs.Fair Go...
(1977–present) - Close UpClose UpClose Up is a half-hour long New Zealand current affairs programme produced by Television New Zealand. The programme airs at 7.00pm weeknights on TV ONE and is presented by Mark Sainsbury with Paul Henry as the back up supporting host.The show remains the country's most watched night news and...
(2004–present) - Campbell LiveCampbell LiveCampbell Live is a half-hour long New Zealand current affairs programme weeknights at 7.00pm, on TV3 and is hosted by New Zealand television personality, John Campbell...
(2005–present) - Destination New ZealandDestination New ZealandDestination New Zealand is a tourism television program that features major tourism locations in New Zealand. The program is produced by Tourism Network, who work with Tourism New Zealand to promote tourists to travel and explore New Zealand....
(2007–present) - SCU: Serious Crash UnitSCU: Serious Crash UnitSCU: Serious Crash Unit is a New Zealand documentary series, which airs on TV2 in New Zealand, and other networks around the world. The show is currently in production of a 4th series, due to be released early 2008, while an Australian version of SCU is premiering in 2008 under the title Crash...
(2004–present) - Police Ten-7
- Motorway PatrolMotorway PatrolMotorway Patrol is a New Zealand observational documentary show created by Greenstone Pictures. The show follows the daily lives of police officers patrolling the motorways in and around Auckland, New Zealand's largest urban area.- About the show :...
- Sensing MurderSensing MurderSensing Murder is a television series in New Zealand, Australia, and the United States, in which alleged psychics are asked to act as psychic detectives to help solve famous unsolved murder cases in each country. The psychics have not managed to solve any of the cases.-Format:Each episode included...
(2006–present) - New Zealand's Next Top ModelNew Zealand's Next Top ModelNew Zealand's Next Top Model is a New Zealand reality television series in which a number of young women compete for the title of New Zealand's Next Top Model and the chance to start their career in the modeling industry....
(2009-present)
Drama
- Close to Home (1975–1983)
- Mortimer's PatchMortimer's PatchMortimer's Patch was a popular TVNZ police drama from the early 1980s. It featured actors Terence Cooper, Sean Duffy, Don Selwyn and Jim Hickey and depicted detective and police work in the fictional town of "Cobham". It was filmed in and around Henderson, New Zealand.**...
(1980-1984) - Country GP (1984)
- Open HouseOpen HouseOpen House may refer to:*Open house , a common school event held in the United States and Canada*Open House , a 1960 album by jazz organist Jimmy Smith*Open House , a 2004 independent film...
(1986-1987) - GlossGloss (TV series)Gloss was a television drama series in New Zealand that screened from 1987-1990. The series was about a fictional publishing empire run by the Redfern family....
(1987–1990) - Shark in the ParkShark in the ParkShark in the Park wasa New Zealand television drama series. A police procedural, it revolved around the professional and private lives of a group of officers at a Wellington police station under the command of Inspector Brian "Sharky" Finn...
(1989–1992) - Marlin BayMarlin BayMarlin Bay was a New Zealand one-hour drama television series which ran for 39 episodes from 1991 - 1994. The series was set in a fictional resort and casino in the picturesque far north of New Zealand. The series dealt with issues regarding the high-flying lifestyle surrounding the hotel and...
(1991–1994) - Homeward Bound (1992)
- Cover Story (1994–1996)
- City LifeCity Life (TV series)City Life was a New Zealand soap opera that screened on TVNZ from 1996-1998. It was portrayed the lives and loves of ten singles who lived in an upmarket apartment building in Auckland, New Zealand...
(1996–1998) - Tales of the South Seas (1997)
- DugganDuggan (TV series)Duggan was a TVNZ police drama from 1997, featuring New Zealand actor John Bach as Detective Inspector John Duggan and Fiona Mogridge as Ruth Duggan. Unlike other New Zealand police drama series, Duggan was produced as a series of one-off programmes, akin to British crime series of the time such as...
(1997-1999) - Jacksons Wharf (1999–2001)
- Street LegalStreet legalStreet legal or road legal refers to a vehicle such as an automobile, motorcycle, or light truck that is equipped and licensed for use on public roads...
(2000–2003) - Mercy PeakMercy PeakMercy Peak was a New Zealand drama television series that ran for three seasons on TV One between 2001 and 2004.-Cast:*Sara Wiseman as Nicky Somerville*Jeffrey Thomas as William Kingsley...
(2001–2003) - The StripThe Strip (NZ TV series)The Strip is the story of corporate lawyer Melissa Walker, who decides her life needs a new direction and quits her job after finding her husband in bed with his male lover...
(2002–2003) - InterrogationInterrogationInterrogation is interviewing as commonly employed by officers of the police, military, and Intelligence agencies with the goal of extracting a confession or obtaining information. Subjects of interrogation are often the suspects, victims, or witnesses of a crime...
(2005) - The Insider's Guide To HappinessThe Insider's Guide To HappinessThe Insiders Guide To Happiness is a New Zealand drama series that explores the lives of a group of six previously unconnected people. Each life is connected by a bizarre car accident, the outcome of which forces them to examine and explore the happiness in their own lives...
(2005) - The Insider's Guide To LoveThe Insider's Guide To LoveThe Insiders Guide To Love is a New Zealand drama series that explores the lives of a group of seven previously unconnected people. Each is implicated in a bizarre incident, the outcome of which forces them to examine and explore the loves in their own lives...
(2006) - Doves of War (2006)
- Orange RoughiesOrange RoughiesOrange Roughies is the name of a New Zealand drama television show created by Auckland-based film company Screenworks, the first season of which screened on TV ONE from May to July 2006. The second season has recently finished filming and is, according to TVNZ, due to screen sometime between...
(2006–2007) - The Hothouse (2007)
- Rude AwakeningsRude AwakeningsRude Awakenings was a New Zealand comedy/drama series that aired on TV ONE on Friday evenings. The pilot episode aired on February 9, 2007...
(2007) - Burying BrianBurying BrianBurying Brian is a New Zealand television series produced by Eyeworks Touchdown which premiered on Television New Zealand's TV ONE on 2 July 2008, and ran for 6 episodes. The series is about Jodie and her three female friends. At the beginning of the first episode, Jodie's husband Brian dies during...
(2008) - The CultThe Cult (TV series)The Cult is a New Zealand serial drama television series in which a group of people try to rescue their loved ones from a mysterious cult called Two Gardens....
(2009) - This Is Not My LifeThis Is Not My LifeThis Is Not My Life is a 2010 New Zealand television mystery thriller which originally aired on Television New Zealand's TV ONE channel on Thursday nights....
(2010) - Outrageous FortuneOutrageous Fortune (TV series)Outrageous Fortune was a New Zealand comedy/drama television series, which was created by James Griffin and Rachel Lang and was produced by South Pacific Pictures...
(2005–2010)
Comedy
- Market Forces (1997–1999)
- Spin Doctors (2001–2003)
- Willy NillyWilly NillyWilly Nilly is a New Zealand television series originally based on a short film by the same name. In 2002, a TV Guide poll found the series to be the most popular New Zealand comedy. The series' most prominent fan base is made up of women over the age of 60....
(2003) - Serial Killers (2004)
- Bro'TownBro'Townbro'Town is a New Zealand Television animated series. The show used a comedy based format, targeted at a young adult audience.The series is set amongst New Zealand's fast growing Pacific Islander community, and focuses on a central cast of five young boys...
(2004–2009) - Seven Periods with Mr GormsbySeven Periods with Mr GormsbySeven Periods with Mr Gormsby is a satirical New Zealand television series, created and written by Danny Mulheron , Dave Armstrong and Tom Scott. It stars David McPhail as the titular Mr Gormsby, whose politically incorrect attitudes and "old school" teaching style clash and contrast with the...
(2005–2006) - The Jaquie Brown DiariesThe Jaquie Brown DiariesThe Jaquie Brown Diaries is a satirical New Zealand sitcom in which real-life television personality Jaquie Brown plays a fictionalised, over-ambitious, status-obsessed version of herself. The series was created by Gerard Johnstone, Jaquie Brown and Hayley Cunningham and premiered 25 July 2008 on...
(2008–2009) - Diplomatic ImmunityDiplomatic Immunity (New Zealand TV series)Diplomatic Immunity is a New Zealand comedy that follows the misadventures at the consulate of The Most Royal Kingdom of Feausi and a fallen New Zealand Foreign Affairs high-flier who has been sent in to straighten out the consulate staff...
(2009) - Pulp SportPulp SportPulp Sport was a TV show filmed in New Zealand, that mixes sport with various styles of comedy. The hosts Jamie Linehan and Ben Boyce act under their respective pseudonyms Bill and Ben, performing a half hour of various sports based skits...
(2003-2009) - Wanna-BenWanna-BenWANNA-BEn is a comedy show, themed each week on a different celebrity and their achievements. The series is hosted by kiwi entertainer Ben Boyce, former co-host of Pulp Sport, Ben Boyce is looking for a new job. However, rather than looking for a boring, everyday desk job, he looks for one that is...
(2010 onwards) - Melody RulesMelody RulesMelody Rules was a 1993 sitcom created by New Zealand TV station TV3. The series centred on sensible careerwoman Melody and her semi-dysfunctional family consisting of her teenage sister Zoe and their brother. Frequent recurring characters included an unkempt and filthy man as well as neighbour...
(1993-1995) - For the Love of Mike (1991)
Lifestyle & Documentary
- HolmesPaul Holmes (broadcaster)Paul Holmes CNZM is a radio and television broadcaster in New Zealand. he hosts Q+A on TV ONE, and the Saturday morning radio show on Newstalk ZB, where for 23 years until December 2008 he hosted the weekday breakfast show, the long-standing number one rating breakfast show...
(1989–2004) - Mitre 10 Changing Rooms
- Mitre 10 D.I.Y. Rescue
- Mitre 10 Dream HomeMitre 10 Dream HomeMitre 10 Dream Home is a reality television series that screen on TV2 in New Zealand, presented by Jayne Kiely. Two couples are challenged to turn a dilapidated house into their Dream Home. Each week the two teams are to renovate a room or area of the house in just one weekend...
(1999–2009)
Kids
- Son of A Gunn
- Children of Fire MountainChildren of Fire MountainChildren of Fire Mountain was a 13 part miniseries from New Zealand made in 1979. In the UK it was screened by the BBC in 1980, and repeated on Channel 4 in 1989...
(1979) - Terry and the GunrunnersTerry and the GunrunnersTerry and the Gunrunners is a book by New Zealand authors Bob Kerr and Stephen Ballantyne.The authors created the comic book Terry and the Gunrunners in 1982 as part of a series that also included Terry and the Yodelling Bull 1986 and Terry and the last Moa.The comic was a considerable local...
(1985) - Mirror, MirrorMirror, Mirror (TV series)Mirror, Mirror is a television programme co-produced by Australia and New Zealand. Presented as a single complete story given in a serial with 20 episodes, there are cliffhangers between some of the episodes....
(New Zealand and Australian co-production)(1995) - The Tribe (1998–2003)
- Being EveBeing EveBeing Eve is a television series from New Zealand, originally shown on TV3 from 2001–2002, and rebroadcast on The N. Being Eve focused on a teenage girl, Eve Baxter, and her daily problems. Her parents were divorced but lived next door to each other. Eve was in love with a boy named Adam...
(2001–2002) - The Killian CurseThe Killian CurseThe Killian Curse is a 7 part New Zealand kidult horror-fantasy television show, directed by Thomas Robins and Wayne Vinton, and starring Nick Blake, which tells the 21 stories of the students from Room 21, who must each face an evil curse placed on them by the sinister Charles Killian...
(2006) - Maddigan's QuestMaddigan's QuestMaddigan's Quest was a fantasy-based television series set in a post-apocalyptic future. It was based on an original concept by Margaret Mahy and was developed for television by Gavin Strawhan and Rachel Lang...
(2006) - Amazing Extraordinary FriendsAmazing Extraordinary FriendsThe Amazing Extraordinary Friends is a New Zealand children's program featuring the adventures of a modern day superhero teenage boy and his friends....
(2006–2008) - Under the MountainUnder the MountainUnder the Mountain was an eight-part television series based on the novel of the same name written by Maurice Gee and produced by Television New Zealand and first transmitted in 1981...
(1981) Miniseries
See also
- List of Australian television series
- List of Canadian television series
- List of UK television series
- List of US television series