Most of the shows made by excellent local production house The Downlow Concept, including Hounds ($1.1 million) and Cover Band ($1.1 million) cannot be found. Despite being available on TVNZ OnDemand until recently, all five seasons of Nothing Trivial ($20 million) have now disappeared. Madeleine Sami’s super hit Super City ($2.5 million) can’t be streamed. Jackson’s Wharf ($3 million) isn’t available.
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You can’t view many of the TV shows made in Aotearoa across the past two decades.
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It isn’t the only local series to meet this fate. Kate Elliott, right, in season two of Insider’s Guide to Happiness. That’s it, all that’s available of two seasons that cost taxpayers nearly $8 million. Go digging and you’ll find episode two on YouTube and episode six on NZ On Screen, a local website dedicated to preserving Aotearoa’s screen history. The series isn’t available on any local streaming services, and it hasn’t been for a very long time. Right now, you can’t watch Insider’s Guide to Happiness, or its six-part sequel, Insider’s Guide to Love, anywhere. Hall’s character became a fan favourite, a second season was commissioned, and the show dominated the 2005 New Zealand Screen Awards, winning seven awards, including best show, and best actor for Hall.Īll that time, all those awards, all those memories, all that money. It had to find somewhere to go, and it landed in me.”įilmed in widescreen, with a filmic hue laid over the top, Insider’s Guide was Aotearoa’s answer to the prestige TV offerings coming out of America at the time, with cable networks like HBO scooping up viewers and winning Emmys with The Sopranos, The Wire and Six Feet Under. The spirit of a Tibetan monk was in this vase that got smashed on the road. “It sounds stupid now,” says Hall, who played the character of James, a foppish, happy-go-lucky chap from Whanganui. Each character was on the hunt for happiness, and episodes posed questions: “Will the truth make you happy?” and “Do you deserve to be happy?” In 2004, that amount placed it among the most expensive shows ever funded in New Zealand.ĭense scripts were based around an intriguing central theme: a car accident sparks a butterfly effect, sending eight 20-somethings onto different life paths that would eventually intertwine. (Photo: Gibson Group)Ī few months later, Hall found himself sitting inside a car wash for two days, filming the opening episode of Insider’s Guide to Happiness, a 13-part series made by Gibson Group with $4,875,000 of funding from NZ on Air. “Sometimes it happens, and it only rarely happens - everything lines up and you’re the right fit for a character.” Will Hall, left, with Madeleine Sami, Ben Barrington and the rest of the cast for Insider’s Guide to Happiness. This is the dream come true for someone fresh out of acting school. “She said, ‘Get him in, get him in now, he’s only here for two days, I think he’s our guy.'” “It happened by accident,” says Hall, who was thrust in front of the agent to read for the lead in a big budget local drama show. But on a quick trip home Hall found himself bundled into the back of a mate’s mail plane, heading up to Auckland to audition for what would become his breakout role.Ī casting agent had seen a photo, heard he was only in the country for a few days, and demanded they meet. In the early 2000s, the Christchurch-born actor moved to Australia in a bid to launch his career. Will Hall remembers the moment he scored his first TV role clearly. The solution is here - why won’t anyone fund it? Many of New Zealand’s biggest and most expensive TV shows have vanished from air with no way for us to watch them.
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