Eyeworks Touchdown is a New Zealand

New Zealand

New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...

-based television production company specialising in reality and unscripted formats, which has become a leader in the field in New Zealand, and the world. Its formats include The Chair and Treasure Island, as well as many others.

History

Touchdown Television was started by producer Julie Christie in the early 1990s, initially producing documentaries, then moving on to some reality shows, including travel and adventure series such as Mountain Dew On The Edge and Travel.co.nz, as well as foreign formats such as Changing Rooms

Changing Rooms (TV series)

Changing Rooms is a Do It Yourself home improvement show broadcast in the United Kingdom on the BBC between the years 1996 and 2004. The show was one of a number of home improvement and lifestyle shows popular in the late 1990s and early 2000s...

, and Ready Steady Cook

Ready Steady Cook

Ready Steady Cook was a BBC daytime TV cooking programme it first debuted on 24 October 1994 and the last edition was broadcast on the 2 February 2010. The programme was hosted by Fern Britton from 1994 until 2000 when celebrity chef Ainsley Harriott became the new host...

.

More recently the company has focused on creating formats for local television as well as formats for international sale. These include Treasure Island

Treasure Island (show)

Treasure Island is a popular reality television game show produced in New Zealand by Eyeworks Touchdown as well as in Ireland and Australia. In the show, contestants are isolated on a remote Fijian island and compete for a cash prize...

 and The Chair

The Chair (game show)

The Chair is a game show television program that premiered on ABC in January 2002. It was hosted by former tennis champion John McEnroe and directed by Michael A. Simon...

 which have both been produced in a number of countries.

In 2004, Touchdown produced a joint-venture show called The Resort for broadcasters Network Ten

Network Ten

Network Ten , is one of Australia's three major commercial television networks. Owned-and-operated stations can be found in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth, while affiliates extend the network to cover most of the country...

 (Aus) and TV3

TV3 (New Zealand)

TV3 is a New Zealand commercial television network, owned by MediaWorks New Zealand. Launched on 26 November 1989, the first private television network in New Zealand...

 (NZ), allowing voting and featuring contestants from both countries, the show did not rate as well as hoped, and was ended early when contestants failed to meet the demands of the competition.

In February 2006, Touchdown was sold to Dutch TV company Eyeworks

Eyeworks

Eyeworks is an Amsterdam-based international television production company founded by Reinout Oerlemans.-Eyeworks UK:Eyeworks UK formerly At It Productions is a British TV production company set up in 1997 by Martin Cunning and Chris Fouracre...

, and has been renamed Eyeworks Touchdown since April 1, 2006.

Eyeworks Touchdown began production of a New Zealand series of Dragons Den in Mid-2006 which screened later that year on TV One and is currently casting for a second series.

Programmes

Programmes Touchdown has produced include the following:

• Top of the Class
• At Home on their Own
• DIY Rescue
• Going Straight
• My House My Castle
• Game of Two Halves
• The Resort
• Treasure Island
• Treasure Island Extreme
• Celebrity Treasure Island
• So You Wannabe A Popstar?
• Ready Steady Cook
• Miss Popularity
• City Celebrity Country Nobody
• Matthew and Marc's Rocky Road
• Hot Property
• How Normal Are You?
• The Fence
• The Chair
• Captive
• Common Law
• Garden Wars
• The Sports Hour - All Fired Up
• April's Angels
• Arnotts Dreams Come True
• Bounty Hunter
• Can You Hackett
• Circus
• Coke RTR
• Colonial House
• Coming Home
• DIY Dads
• DIY Fantasies
• Driving School NZ
• Finding J Smith
• Ground Force
• Home on Their Own
• House Dates
• It's Your Money
• Living The Dream
• Mike King
• Money Doctor
• Park Rangers
• Pioneer House
• Profilers
• Property Rescue
• Some Like It Hot
• The Mating Game
• The Money Game
• The Player
• This Is your Life
• Trading Places
• Troubleshooters
• Unichem Medlife
• Unsolved
• Weakest Link
• Weddings
• Whose House Is It Anyway?
• World Famous
• You've Gotta Have It

External links

• Touchdown TV (New Zealand)
• Touchdown TV (International)
• Eyeworks TV - Eyeworks Television
• Hugh Palmer's Blog - A story about being on 'Home on their Own'