Introducing the top 100 NZ TV shows of the 21st century
The Spinoff Daily, Monday October 21
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Today on The Spinoff: Toby Manhire has fallen in love. Plus: riding shotgun with Auckland’s newest dog patrol, and a new poem by Tusiata Avia.
“Over 10 years ago The Spinoff launched as a site hopelessly devoted to the weird and wonderful world of television. While our scope has evolved a lot since then, we’ve always made it a priority to keep celebrating and interrogating local TV. Whether it is the newest prestige drama or the latest episode of Celebrity Treasure Island, we’re so mad for television in all its forms that we even went as far as making a TV show ourselves in 2018 (RIP).
To celebrate our 10th birthday, we wanted to do something big and bold that both spoke to our humble television roots and signalled a brave and ambitious step into the next decade. We are proud to be a place that New Zealanders can turn to for both in-depth reflections and plenty of laughs about New Zealand popular culture, which is why we have launched a week-long celebration looking back at the last quarter century of local television.
Starting this morning and counting down 20 shows every day this week, we will be arguing the case for each show, and why they deserve a place in the history books. Our genius audience team has made a nifty interactive function where you can check off all the shows you’ve seen, and be sent a custom watchlist to flesh out your television education. The comments section will be open for debate, reminiscing, and gently telling us that we forgot a cult favourite webseries from 2011.”
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We’re huge fans of local television here at The Spinoff, and for one night only we want to celebrate some of our all-time faves. Join Alex Casey, Kura Forrester, Rhiannon McCall, Stewart Sowman-Lund and Lyric Waiwiri-Smith at Q Theatre on October 31 as we unearth some beloved TV gems and argue for their place in our history.
