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The show was broadcast on TV3 and streaming service ThreeNow in New Zealand, from 14 August 2023. It was shown on Paramount+ in Australia, and is due to appear on Sundance Now in the United States. It was a huge domestic success, holding the biggest weekly viewing figures for a drama on ThreeNow since it launched.
Children of Fire Mountain was a 13-part miniseries from New Zealand made in 1979 for South Pacific Television. (Now known as TVNZ 2) [1] That year it received the Feltex Television Awards for "Best Drama", "Best Script", and Terence Cooper as "Best Actor" for his role as Sir Charles Pemberton.
The show follows events around the latest in a mysterious chain of deaths which have occurred on a one-lane bridge near the town of Queenstown. [1] The series is also notable for its inclusion of aspects of Māori spirituality as a core part of the plot, such as the notion of matakite , roughly equivalent to divination.
Following the screening of the pilot episode viewers branded the show as "fake" and "pathetic" and within hours a Facebook page called "Cancel the GC TV Show" was started. [6] According to a New Zealand Herald article the Facebook page had over 2100 "likes" within 12 hours of the show's airing. There have also been questions about the show's ...
In the early days of television in New Zealand, Māori-language programming was scarce. Suggestions were made as far back as 1976 by the New Zealand Māori Council to create a Māori and Polynesian current affairs programme, followed by a second petition in 1978 to create a Māori production unit within the BCNZ, with the aim of adding "a Māori dimension to regular viewing".
Davies also co-executive produced, and Lee co-wrote the episodes with Kodie Bedford, Steven McGregor, and Michaeley O'Brien. Greg McLean directed and Paul Ranford produced the series. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It is jointly produced by Easy Tiger Productions and Ronde, [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] with support from Screen Territory and the South Australian Film ...
Mystic is a New Zealand environmental teen drama television series produced by Libertine Pictures and Slim film+television for CBBC, TVNZ and the Seven Network. [2]Created by Amy Shindler and Beth Chalmers, it is based on Pony Club Secrets, Stacy Gregg's series of pony novels, the first of which is Mystic and the Midnight Ride (2007).
Māori cultural history intertwines inextricably with the culture of Polynesia as a whole. The New Zealand archipelago forms the southwestern corner of the Polynesian Triangle, a major part of the Pacific Ocean with three island groups at its corners: the Hawaiian Islands, Rapa Nui (Easter Island), and New Zealand (Aotearoa in te reo Māori). [10]