I’m on the hunt for a new TV show, for the 7.30 slot, now that Married at First Sight is nearly over. I’m yearning for more. The 8.30pm Viking-themed rape-fests available these days — they aren’t really for me. Isn’t there… Continue Reading
I’ve sat through the second season of The Bachelor—like everyone else who has bothered to watch—with a sense of despondency, shame, bemusement and stupefaction. It’s nothing like the first series, with the strapping, amusing Art Green who—despite being some sort… Continue Reading
Tim Metcalfe is a hapless Englishman, stuck in the middle of others’ drama, in a suburb called Weatherfield. If you thought Steve MacDonald or Peter Barlow had fairly hard existences, think again. Windass Tim entered the show in 2013 as… Continue Reading
I used to stand in Britomart, waiting for the Howick bus to pull up to take me all the way back to Howick and dump me in its safe, suburban arms at the table of my mother who invariably… Continue Reading
Like Orion’s Belt, Deidre Barlow’s belt is hopefully taking in the great wonder of life from the sky. Deirdre is still alive and well on our screens as are Ken, Norris, Rita, and the one that got bashed by Richard.… Continue Reading
Of a weekday, you get The Chase after your “Maori News”. I’ve always watched Te Karere, always. I love it. It makes me feel like a proper New Zealander, unlike when I watch the news at 6pm. And then, The… Continue Reading
Last night, Episode Two of The Bachelor of New Zealand screened, and didn’t we all cringe though another episode, and ask ourselves why we were doing this, what with so much other quality viewing to choose from on terrestrial television.… Continue Reading
I am really feeling for the families of the TVNZ show, Our First Home, tonight. After the shit storm of X Factor (which it clashes with on several nights), I was thinking how such a show — one that is… Continue Reading
Just before Coronation Street of a Friday is a show about home ownership, the current force/trend of western European history. It’s no longer imperialism; it’s Location. In about 100 years’ time, there will be papers to take at university in… Continue Reading
Gail Platt is everywoman. Think you’re not like her? You are. All women are, or become her at some stage. Who is she? She’s an oversexed llama at first glance. She falls in deep, and lusts with all her… Continue Reading
If you are at home tonight, saving yourself for the Big Waitangi weekend, you are not alone. I imagine that you, like me are sat in your living room, watching television and thinking it’s Friday when it’s just Thursday and… Continue Reading
What we all need after the divisive election result — of The Block — is something to unify us as a nation. For me that is pretty much it. Last year was so depressing, really, with the politics and all… Continue Reading
After all is said and done, what has happened on The Block NZ 2014 is no real surprise, given that a) it’s set in Auckland, b) it stars people from Auckland, and c) it thrives on the kind of festering… Continue Reading
In about July of this year, I did what bloggers sometimes do. I read an article in a newspaper (online, not even the paper version) and had a white, middle-class reaction to it. I then hopped on my blog and… Continue Reading
In terms of great reality television quotes of Western Civilization, “How cool is it to live on the Shore” deserves a prize. Doesn’t it. Tonight on My Kitchen Rules New Zealand, the Corporate Dads, Aaron and Josh take helm… Continue Reading