QTV is a New Zealand children's science-based multimedia series designed to engage young people in the world around them.
The series is fronted by the "Q Team", four young people with a passion for discovery and science. The Wellington-based team is Barnaby Fredric, Chelsie Crayford, Tess Devereux, and Paora Durie.
Each week one of the team throws down a new scientific challenge and kids are encouraged to post their findings online, where further opportunities for exploration and participation abound.
Mitre 10 Dream Home is a reality television series that screen on TV2 in New Zealand, originally presented by Jayne Kiely and presented by Simon Barnett in 2013. 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. Viewers vote for the room they like best with the votes from the viewers and judges help determine which team will win the competition. The winning team take will win the Dream Home they create and the second team will have the option to purchase their Dream Home at a public auction. In 2013 the competition changed from renovating an existing home to building a new home from scratch.
A funny and fascinating tour through New Zealand’s rich comedy history. Interviewing comedy greats alongside the best and brightest up-and-comers, the series is a candid and hilarious look at the untold stories behind some of New Zealand’s most iconic performances.
10 troubled New Zealand teenagers were chosen to experience a course of discipline and adventure activities in Napier Prison for 3 weeks to hopefully help them turn their lives around.
Seven Sharp is a half hour long New Zealand current affairs programme produced by Television New Zealand. The programme was created after the axing of Close Up. It started on Monday 4 February 2013 at 7.00pm on TV ONE. Seven Sharp presents up to 8 stories within a 30 minute timeslot every night. Seven Sharp is also intended to be more integrated with social media and real time opinions.
Seven Sharp competes mostly with TV3 current affairs show Campbell Live but Seven Sharp also shares the same time slot with TV2 drama Shortland Street and Channel Four's The Simpsons.
Fill-in presenters include Stacey Morrison, Heather du Plessis-Allan, Te Radar, Clarke Gayford, Tamati Coffey and Rose Matafeo.
A cooler dog there has never been - Hairy Maclary is charming and sophisticated. Hairy Maclary and his posse of pooches feature in 10 animated tales, based on the best-selling books by New Zealand author, Lynley Dodd. Having sold more than 4 million books worldwide and already over half a million copies in Australia, Hairy Maclary is certainly one popular canine. Join Hairy Maclary from Donaldson's Dairy, Hercules Morse as big as a horse, Bottomley Pots covered in spots, Muffin McLay like a bundle of hay, Bitzer Maloney all skinny and boney and Schnitzel von Krumm with a very low tum in these irresistible stories set around the dairies (general stores) and weatherboard houses of country New Zealand. The original Hairy Maclary was the Winner of the 1984 Children's Picture Book of the Year Award and subsequent stories have won numerous awards worldwide.
Ghost Hunt is a reality TV show from New Zealand. It is an investigating series in which a team of three investigators, Carolyn Taylor, Michael Hallows and Brad Hills, visited alleged haunted hotspots around New Zealand. It is currently aired in Europe on the channel Zone Reality.
U live is the flagship show of TVNZ U. It is a live show airing from 4pm - 7pm daily. The show features music, interviews, and other general interest content. Viewers are invited to participate via a Facebook application, where they can vote in polls, take part in discussions, and view the show via a live commercial and graphic free stream. Comments and polls are then selected and displayed on screen during broadcast. U live is hosted by Connor Nestor, Matthew Gibb, Kirsteen Mackenzie, Eli Matthewson and Monika Barton. U live draws many parallels to TVNZ's rival network Mediaworks' youth-oriented show FOUR Live, which airs on FOUR. Although U live tends to have a more distinctive style of its own.
The show is produced live on set by the show's presenters using a NewTek TriCaster.
Jase TV was a short-lived New Zealand children's television show in which hosts Jason Gunn and Thingee introduced cartoons. It aired on TVNZ in 1992 and eventually led into The Son of a Gunn Show.
This Is Your Life is a New Zealand television documentary show based on the American show of the same name, in which the host surprises guests with a show documenting their lives, with audience participation from their friends and family.
Thirty-nine New Zealanders have been honoured in the New Zealand version of the show, which has been broadcast on and off since 1984 on Television New Zealand's TVOne. It was originally hosted by Bob Parker, but more recent episodes have been presented by Paul Holmes and Paul Henry. Most recently, racecar driver Scott Dixon was honoured, on 21 September 2008. Other recent recipients have included extreme sports pioneer, A. J. Hackett. Mark Inglis, the subject of an episode that was broadcast on 5 June 2007, and former All Blacks winger Jonah Lomu, who was honoured in a show that aired on 9 April 2007.
Prior to that, the last This Is Your Life programme in New Zealand was broadcast in September 2000. The subject of that episode was the great New Zealand runner, Peter Snell.
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Top Town was a New Zealand game show series where teams from different towns in New Zealand competed in various obstacle challenges against each other, along the lines of the earlier British series It's a Knockout. The show first ran in New Zealand between 1976 and 1990 and made a return in a slightly different form in 2009. The new format has similarities to Wipeout.
Top Town first screened on New Zealand television in 1976, the original Top Town competition took place at a different town each week with all competitions taking place on a local sports field. The show made a return in 2009 but due health and safety regulations the new competition had to take on water with all teams now competiting at Jellie Park in Christchurch.
Sunday is a current affairs programme broadcast on TV ONE in New Zealand on Sunday nights at 7:30 pm. Presented by Miriama Kamo with a team of New Zealand reporters, the programme began when TV ONE did not renew its rights to 60 Minutes which had aired previously in this time slot. The hour-long show usually features two reports from the local reporters and one report from an overseas current affairs programme. The programme's tagline is "Where there's a story we'll find it".
The show has been reduced to half an hour and moved to a new time slot of 7.00pm due to the New Zealand's Got Talent series. TVNZ has also been reviewing the future of the show