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Drift Lamborghini: Building Mad Mike's Dream Car

2026

Mad Mike Whiddett is addicted to building cars and his latest passion is converting a Lamborghini Huracan into a drift supercar. Will he have it ready for the 2019 Goodwood Festival of Speed?

Billy Connolly's World Tour of New Zealand

2026

Billy Connolly is back with the fourth in his massively popular World Tour series. This time Billy journey's to the other side of the globe to New Zealand, a country he has been visiting since the 1970s and of which he is immensely fond. Billy's extraordinary journey covers the length and breadth of New Zealand and is mixed with the best of his comedy from sell-out shows around the country.Filmed in 2004 during the first leg of his Too Old To Die Young Tour this series is a stunning journey around New Zealand's two islands from the Southern-most tip to the far north where the Tasman Sea meets the Pacific. Along the way Billy takes in Maori traditions, sand paintings, whale-watching, a 90 mile beach and much more to give us a fascinating insight into the spectacular scenery, culture and people of this amazing country.

My Life Is Murder

2026

Investigator Alexa Crowe, cannot help fighting the good fight – whether it is solving murders or combatting the small frustrations of everyday life. Fearless and unapologetic, Alexa's unique skills and insights into the darker quirks of human nature, allows her to provoke, comfort and push the right buttons as she unravels the truth behind the most baffling of crimes.

Wildest New Zealand

2026

The islands of New Zealand are home to an entirely unique menagerie of creatures. It is a place where the normal rules don't apply - the birds can't fly, a small, ancient lizard is a top predator, parrots play in snowy mountain meadows and penguins roam the streets. Seals battle on the beaches, albatrosses soar on the air currents and a monster movie plays out in miniature among the dense undergrowth of this lush, vital land.

Being Eve

2026

Being Eve is a television series from New Zealand, originally shown on TV3 from 2001–2002, and rebroadcast on The N. Being Eve focuses on a teenage girl, Eve Baxter, and her daily problems. Her parents are divorced but live next door to each other. Eve was in love with a boy named Adam. They broke up at the beginning of the second season, and she ends up with another boy named Sam Hooper, whom she had her first kiss with when they were kids.

Outrageous Fortune

2026

After her husband is incarcerated, matriarch Cheryl decides that her career criminal family should go straight and abide by the law.

Kids: An Instruction Manual with Nigel Latta

2026

How often have you wished kids came with an instruction manual? Well, Nigel Latta is returning to deliver what every parent has always wanted…a cutting edge, science based, easy to understand guide to solving problems in families.

Last Chance to See

2026

A follow-up to the 1990 Radio 4 series in which the late Douglas Adams and Mark Carwardine travelled around the world in search of endangered species. 20 years later Stephen Fry and Mark Carwardine go back to see what has become of the animals in two decades, and to discover what has affected their fortunes.

Zoom New Zealand

2026

Backpacking around New Zealand, filled with epic scenery, unique cultural experiences and amazing outdoor activities everywhere will be an eye opener. Fadhlur and Syarif are to go behind the wheels on a road trip where they will drive from one point to the next destination and they make new friends along the way. Getting closer to nature where camping in the wild and hunting for food source will be a challenge for them in order to understand how the aborigines live. In order to receive instructions and for them to send their mission replies, tablets and social networking sites will be used in order to obtain the budget to the next destination.

Shortland Street

2026

The lives and loves of the residents of Ferndale.

World War I: Tales of the Trenches

2026

In the year 1901, and in the 13 years that followed, the peoples of Western Europe and the English-speaking Americas were becoming consumers rather than warriors. Motor cars and motorcycles, airships, electric trains, and submarines, novelties to while away the increasing leisure time

Caravan of Life

2026

Caravan of Life is a seven-part series that travels the New Zealand heartland, visiting A & P shows, schools and small towns, highlighting real New Zealand characters.

Kiwiland

2026

Gloss

2026

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. It was a starting point for many actors who went on to many productions in New Zealand, Australia and around the world including Temuera Morrison, Miranda Harcourt, Peter Elliott, Lisa Chappell, Danielle Cormack and Kevin Smith. Writers for the show included James Griffin, who went on to write Outrageous Fortune, Rosemary McLeod and Ian Mune. The show's title theme song was performed by Beaver Morrison. The show has not been rescreened since its original screening, but selected extracts have been made available for viewing on NZ On Screen.

New Zealand Tomorrow

2026

Comedian Guy Williams presents a spinoff of New Zealand Today, this time looking to the future as he brings his signature sense of humour to investigate some of the challenges facing Aotearoa.