Television

TV reviewer Sarah McMullan has been watching some seriously scary television in Halloween week - some hitting the mark and others not! She reviews the Soho show, A Discovery of Witches, the reboot of… Audio

Auckland-based Joanne Drayton is author of New York Times bestseller The Search for Anne Perry (2014), which was a finalist in the New Zealand Book Awards 2013 and the subject of a 60 Minutes… Audio

In the wild 1970s, Robin Green was the only woman writing for Rolling Stone magazine and she has recently published a funny, candid, tell-all memoir - The Only Girl: My Life and Times on the Masthead… Audio

Death is one of the most ubiquitous settings and plot devices in the TV, films and theatre we consumer, and has been since antiquity. Audio

Broadcasters and advertisers are grappling with “the attention economy” now that so many of us have screens of all sizes engaging our eyeballs everywhere. Dr Karen Nelson-Field tracks how we watch and… Audio

Musician, singer and songwriter Anika Moa has this week released her sixth studio album, a self-titled work, recorded in New Orleans with producer Brady Blade. Moa has been making music for 20 years… Video, Audio

Queer performance artist Mika Haka went from being one of the few Māori at Timaru Boys High School to opening for Grace Jones in New York, and now runs a charitable foundation for talented young… Video, Audio

What is kiwi culture? And do our museums and galleries have a clue? Hayden Donnell thinks they're missing a trick and is bringing a new show to our screens to prove it. Audio

A new show is revving onto our screens at the moment. Start Me Up is an automobile show with a focus on fixing up clapped out classic cars and getting them back on the road. Audio

Mediawatch Midweek is our weekly catch-up with Lately's Karyn Hay. This week: Colin and Karyn chat about expats' takes on the US Supreme Court scrap, non-stop 'property porn' on TV, another major… Audio

Briar reviews Maniac (Netflix), The Good Place (Netflix), and Anika Moa Unleashed (TVNZ on demand) Audio

Linda's had a sneak peak at TV3's comedy pilots which air all this week at prime time, as well as reviewing NZ's version of Gogglebox and Killing Eve. Audio

Last week we looked at the TV3 initiative to get new, exciting, scripted New Zealand comedy on our screens. The Comedy Pilot Week was essentially "New Zealand's Got Sitcom Talent" - five first… Audio