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Finding J Smith
''Finding J Smith'' is a New Zealand reality show, also known as ''Finding J Smith with Vodafone Live!'' The show aired in 2003 on TV2. The show consisted of contestants calling up as many people in New Zealand with a J. Smith name. $250,000 was the amount of money that was up for grabs, making it at the time the biggest prize ever offered by a New Zealand television program. The show was hosted by Nick Young, Eric Young and Dominic Bowden. Team Murphy was the winning team for the show, who found Jenny Smith, a 32-year-old from Taihape Taihape is in the Rangitikei District of the North Island of New Zealand. It serves a large rural community. State Highway 1, which runs North to South through the centre of the North Island, passes through the town. History and culture Early .... She was revealed as the real J Smith. The show only ran for one season. Teams & Candidates References 2003 New Zealand television series debuts New Zealand reality television series ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eric Young (broadcaster)
Eric Young is a New Zealand journalist and television presenter. He has presented ''Prime News – First at 5:30'' since March 2006. Young's broadcasting career began on radio in Auckland in the early 1980s. After a seven-year diversion to the Auckland Star's sports department, Young returned to broadcasting with the launch of TV3 in 1989. He has been the New Zealand Sports Writer of the Year and New Zealand Sports Broadcaster of the Year. In 2008 he was the Sports Journalist of the Year, largely for work done as editor of ''SKY Sport: The Magazine''. He began as a sports newsreader for Radio-i (Auckland, NZ) in 1981. Subsequently, he worked at the Auckland Star for six years as chief cricket and rugby league writer. Young has also worked for TVNZ, TV3, Optus Vision and ESPN Star Sports, as a sports commentator and news presenter. See also * List of New Zealand television personalities This is a list of New Zealand television personalities, including presenters and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dominic Bowden
Dominic Joseph Bowden (born 15 December 1977) is a New Zealand television personality, host and voice actor. He is best known as the host of New Zealand reality series including ''New Zealand Idol, Dancing with the Stars New Zealand and The X Factor New Zealand''. When based in Los Angeles, he hosted the American reality music competition show, ''The Next Great American Band'' and as a Hollywood reporter for the Erin Simpson show. Bowden has been called "New Zealand's Ryan Seacrest." Early life Bowden was born in Auckland, New Zealand, where he attended Sacred Heart College. His parents are a surveyor and a business manager. Bowden is a graduate of the Auckland University of Technology, with a Bachelor of Communication Studies, majoring in Television which he achieved in 2000. Career After graduating from AUT, Bowden began hosting the popular Saturday morning Children's television programme, ''Squirt'' for TVNZ. Bowden then moved into live television on the weekly late-ni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eyeworks Touchdown
Eyeworks Touchdown (formerly Touchdown Television) is a New Zealand-based television production company specialising in reality and unscripted formats, which has become a leader in the field in New Zealand, and the world. Its formats include ''The Chair'' and ''Treasure Island'', as well as many others. History Touchdown Television was started by producer Julie Christie in 1991,Touchdown sold to Dutch TV company nzherald.co.nz Feb 8, 2006, Retrieved on December 28, 2013 scoop.co.nz 8 February 2006, Retrieved on December 28, 2013 initially producing documentaries, then moving on to some reality shows, including travel and ad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
TVNZ 2
TVNZ 2 ( mi, Te Reo Tātaki Rua) is the second New Zealand television channel owned and operated by the state-owned broadcaster Television New Zealand (TVNZ). It targets a younger audience than its sister channel, TVNZ 1. TVNZ 2's line up consists of dramas, comedies, and reality TV shows. A small number are produced in New Zealand which are either of a comedic, soap opera or reality nature, with rest of the line-up imported from mostly a Warner Bros. or HiT Entertainment or Disney catalogue or a FremantleMedia or Hasbro or Endemol soap opera/reality TV catalogue. TVNZ 2 is New Zealand's second-oldest television channel, formed in 1975 following the break-up of the New Zealand Broadcasting Corporation into Radio New Zealand, Television One and Television Two. It began broadcasting on 30 June 1975, and for most of the 1970s was known as South Pacific Television. In 1980, it became a part of TVNZ when South Pacific Television and Television One merged, and reverted to the name TV2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julie Christie (producer)
Dame Julie Claire Molloy Christie ( Molloy; born ) is a New Zealand businesswoman and television producer. She is the founder and former CEO of international television company Touchdown Productions, acquired by Dutch media company Eyeworks in 2006, and then later sold to Warner Bros. Biography Christie was born in about 1962, and grew up in Greymouth. She is the sister of Leo Molloy. She moved to Wellington when she was 17 and started working in newspaper journalism. After a decade as a sports sub-editor in newspapers, Christie moved into research for broadcaster Neil Roberts at Communicado production house. She started her own company, Touchdown Productions, in 1991. Touchdown became a major exporter of television formats to 29 countries, most notably the gameshow ''The Chair'' for ABC in the US and the BBC, and the reality gameshow ''Treasure Island''. In the 2007 Queen's Birthday Honours, she was appointed an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Taihape
Taihape is in the Rangitikei District of the North Island of New Zealand. It serves a large rural community. State Highway 1, which runs North to South through the centre of the North Island, passes through the town. History and culture Early history The Taihape region was originally inhabited by Māori. These iwi (tribes) still live in the area. The first record of a European to the region is William Colenso's visit in 1845. In 1884, the surveyor's party for the Main Trunk railway line cut a rough track through the district. The town was founded in 1894, when European settlers arrived from Canterbury in the South Island. The site of the town was a small natural clearing in dense native bush, which the first settlers set about clearing. Many of the original families have descendants still living in the area. The settlement was first called Hautapu after the local river, then Otaihape ("the place of Tai the Hunchback"), and finally Taihape. Before the establishment of the rai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2003 New Zealand Television Series Debuts
3 (three) is a number, numeral and digit. It is the natural number following 2 and preceding 4, and is the smallest odd prime number and the only prime preceding a square number. It has religious or cultural significance in many societies. Evolution of the Arabic digit The use of three lines to denote the number 3 occurred in many writing systems, including some (like Roman and Chinese numerals) that are still in use. That was also the original representation of 3 in the Brahmic (Indian) numerical notation, its earliest forms aligned vertically. However, during the Gupta Empire the sign was modified by the addition of a curve on each line. The Nāgarī script rotated the lines clockwise, so they appeared horizontally, and ended each line with a short downward stroke on the right. In cursive script, the three strokes were eventually connected to form a glyph resembling a with an additional stroke at the bottom: ३. The Indian digits spread to the Caliphate in the 9th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
