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South Pacific Pictures
South Pacific Pictures is a New Zealand television production company. The company produces drama series, mini-series, telemovies and feature films for the domestic market and international market. SPP's largest property is ''Shortland Street'' the half-hour soap opera for TVNZ 2. In 2006, the company released '' Sione's Wedding'' and in 2002, the Oscar-nominated feature film ''Whale Rider''. In 1998 the company produced the feature film, '' What Becomes of the Broken Hearted?'', the sequel to ''Once Were Warriors''. In May 2000, the company moved from Browns Bay (Auckland) to a new purpose built studio complex in Henderson Henderson may refer to: People *Henderson (surname), description of the surname, and a list of people with the surname *Clan Henderson, a Scottish clan Places Argentina *Henderson, Buenos Aires Australia *Henderson, Western Australia Canada * H ..., West Auckland. SPP is in a joint venture with Australian company SLR Productions to produce animated sho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Subsidiary
A subsidiary, subsidiary company or daughter company is a company owned or controlled by another company, which is called the parent company or holding company. Two or more subsidiaries that either belong to the same parent company or having a same management being substantially controlled by same entity/group are called sister companies. The subsidiary can be a company (usually with limited liability) and may be a government- or state-owned enterprise. They are a common feature of modern business life, and most multinational corporations organize their operations in this way. Examples of holding companies are Berkshire Hathaway, Jefferies Financial Group, The Walt Disney Company, Warner Bros. Discovery, or Citigroup; as well as more focused companies such as IBM, Xerox, and Microsoft. These, and others, organize their businesses into national and functional subsidiaries, often with multiple levels of subsidiaries. Details Subsidiaries are separate, distinct legal entities f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Māori Television Service
The 'Māori Television Service'' is a state sector organisation in New Zealand that was established on 7 May 2003 under the ''Māori Television Service (Te Aratuku Whakāta Irirangi Māori) Act 2003'' to replace the ''Te Reo Māori Television Trust (Te Awhiorangi)''. The service's primary function is to promote the language te reo Māori me nga tikanga Māori. Māori Television is available on the UHF band to approximately four-fifths of Māori speakers, and to all New Zealand SKY Television satellite service subscribers. It is also available on the Freeview satellite service. Like the Reserve Bank of New Zealand, the television service has, according to the State Services Commission, an unusual status in that it is a stand-alone agency within the State sector that does not fall under any State sector category. The Maori Television Service, while established by Statute (The Maori Television Service Act 2003), is not a Crown entity in any shape or form. The Act, however, doe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
TVNZ+
TVNZ+ ( mi, Te Reo Tātaki Ā-Tono), formerly known as TVNZ OnDemand, is an online New Zealand television and video on demand streaming service offered by TVNZ. It offers a variety of free content, such as news updates and programmes seen on TVNZ channels. TVNZ+ offers most of the programmes broadcast on air with licensing agreements to be shown for users in New Zealand. In addition, it offers dozens of local and international titles exclusively available on the platform. History Launch In January 2007, TVNZ announced the launch of a new online service called TVNZ OnDemand in March that year, which would feature a wide range of content including the drama series ''Shortland Street''. TVNZ OnDemand was launched on 20 March 2007 with an initial selection of 300 videos from 100 television shows. Early content included the television series and programs ''Rude Awakenings'', ''Karaoke High'', ''Fair Go'', ''Agenda (New Zealand TV programme), Agenda'', ''Eating Media Lunch'', ''Praise ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stuff (website)
Stuff is a New Zealand news media website owned by newspaper conglomerate Stuff Ltd (formerly called Fairfax). It is the most popular news website in New Zealand, with a monthly unique audience of more than 2 million. Stuff was founded in 2000, and publishes breaking news, weather, sport, politics, video, entertainment, business and life and style content from Stuff Ltd's newspapers, which include New Zealand's second- and third-highest circulation daily newspapers, ''The Dominion Post'' and ''The Press'', and the highest circulation weekly, '' Sunday Star-Times'', as well as international news wire services. Stuff has won numerous awards at the Newspaper Publishers' Association awards including 'Best News Website or App' in 2014 and 2019, and 'Website of the Year' in 2013 and 2018. History The former New Zealand media company Independent Newspapers Ltd (INL), owned by News Corp Australia, launched Stuff on 27 June 2000 at a cybercafe in Auckland, after announcing its inte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
TVNZ 1
TVNZ 1 ( mi, Te Reo Tātaki Tahi) is the first national television channel owned and operated by the state-owned broadcaster Television New Zealand (TVNZ). It is the oldest television broadcaster in New Zealand, starting out from 1960 as independent channels in the four main centres of Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch and Dunedin, networking in 1969 to become NZBC TV (although the individual facilities retained their call signs into the 1970s). The network was renamed Television One (TV ONE, stylized as oɴe) in 1975 upon the break-up of the New Zealand Broadcasting Corporation, and became a part of TVNZ in 1980 when Television One and South Pacific Television (now sister channel TVNZ 2) merged. The channel assumed its current name in October 2016. TVNZ 1 is both a public broadcaster and a commercial broadcaster. Central to TVNZ 1 is news and current affairs, which is produced under the banner '' 1 News''. Also, it broadcasts sports programming under the banner '' 1 Sport''. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prime (New Zealand TV Channel)
Prime is a New Zealand free-to-air television network. It airs a varied mix of programming, largely imported from Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States. It was originally owned by Prime Television Limited in Australia. Prime later entered into a joint-venture agreement with Nine Entertainment Co. (Nine Network Australia), causing the network's graphics to look like Nine Network. On 8 February 2006, the Commerce Commission gave Sky clearance to purchase the station for NZ$31 million. Prime's analogue terrestrial signals had covered 91% of the population via the state-owned Kordia transmission network. It is currently available free-to-air on Sky on satellite and Kordia on terrestrial. Vodafone also carry the channel for their cable subscribers. History During early 1998, the United Christian Broadcasters purchased 34 TV licences of UHF spectrum from TVNZ that had been used for the defunct Horizon Pacific and MTV channels. Then during June 1998, Prime Television ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Brokenwood Mysteries
''The Brokenwood Mysteries'' is a New Zealand television detective drama series that premiered on Prime in 2014. Each of the first six series comprises four distinct episodes. Series 7 began streaming on 29 March 2021 on Acorn TV, comprises six episodes. The programme is set in the fictitious New Zealand town of Brokenwood and is filmed in the greater Auckland region. Tim Balme conceived the series and is lead writer with Philip Dalkin, James Griffin, and Greg McGee. The cast includes Neill Rea as Detective Senior Sergeant Mike Shepherd, Fern Sutherland as Detective Kristin Sims, Nic Sampson as Detective Constable Sam Breen, Cristina Ionda as Dr. Gina Kadinsky, medical examiner, and Pana Hema Taylor as Jared Morehu, Shepherd's Māori neighbour. On 27 February 2022, via Twitter, the production company, South Pacific Pictures, announced that the eighth series had completed production. Acorn TV has announced that Series 8 will start airing from 1 July 2022, with Episode 1 entitl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fremantle Australia
Fremantle Australia Pty Ltd. (formerly FremantleMedia Australia) is the Australian arm of global British production and entertainment company Fremantle. It was formed in 2006 by the merger of market leader Grundy Television and comedy specialists Crackerjack Productions, which had both been acquired previously by Fremantle. History Grundy Grundy Television was founded by Reg Grundy. Its first production, ''Wheel of Fortune'' in 1959, was an original idea devised by Grundy for a radio game show, before he took the idea to Sydney television network TCN9 (now part of the Nine Network). The then 36-year-old worked both as both the show's producer and host. With the show becoming a success, Grundy realized that US network television could serve as a ready source of new quiz show ideas. He began visiting America to spot attractive formats for adapting and re-making back in Australia. It is often said that Reg Grundy was the world's first TV format producer, and the only 'format mo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grundy Television
Reg Grundy Organisation (founded as Reg Grundy Enterprises, later known as both Reg Grundy Productions and Grundy Television and known informally as Grundy's) was an Australian-based multinational mass media company, primarily involved in television as a production company but also in distribution and licensing. Reg Grundy, the company's namesake founded the media enterprise locally in 1959, It branched out internationally in the late 1980s under the banner Grundy World Wide Limited with divisions in Europe, United Kingdom, the United States and Asia The company first produced game shows, then branched into soap operas in 1973. In 1995 Reg Grundy sold the company to Pearson Television, now known as Fremantle, part of the RTL Group (in turn 90% owned by Bertelsmann). In 2006 Fremantle merged Grundy Television and Crackerjack Productions to form the localised arm Fremantle Australia. Until 2013 the Grundy name still existed internationally in Germany as Grundy Light Entert ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scoop (website)
Scoop is a New Zealand Internet news site run by Scoop Media Limited, part of the Scoop Media Cartel. Operational model The website publishes many submitted news and press releases due to their permissive policy. Their website states: "If it's a press release issued in New Zealand, is legible, legal, sane, not hateful and not defamatory we will most probably publish it." In addition to being a general news website, Scoop also contains sub-sites with specific fociWellington.scoop which aggregates Wellington-specific news with editorial comment, and alsPacific.scoopwhich publishes Pacific-related news and is edited by Auckland University of Technology's Pacific Media Centre. As of March 2012, the website claimed to receive 246,500 visitors and 614,500 page impressions per month. Scoop was ranked 3rd by Nielsen Net Ratings in their News Category. History It was established in 1999 by Andrew McNaughton, Ian Llewellyn and Alastair Thompson. In 2003, ''The Guardian'' wrote about t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
White Lies (2013 New Zealand Film)
''White Lies - Tuakiri Huna'' is a 2013 New Zealand film directed by Dana Rotberg and stars Whirimako Black, Antonia Prebble, and Rachel House. It is based on the novella ''Medicine Woman'' by Witi Ihimaera. Regarded as an excellent portrayal of colonial oppression in New Zealand, the film deals with the impacts of the ''Tohunga Suppression Act'' upon Māori traditions surrounding childbirth. The story is about a medicine woman Paraiti, who is approached by Maraea, the servant of wealthy woman, Rebecca Vickers, to perform an abortion. Unbeknownst to Paraiti, Maraea has hidden plans. The unborn baby becomes the central figure in the story, as the women are forced to reconcile their differing perspectives and confront their own expectations of motherhood, life and death. The film premiered in New Zealand cinemas on 27 June 2013. It screened in the Contemporary World Cinema section at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival. The film was selected as the New Zealand entry fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Unfinished Business
Unfinished Business may refer to: Film and television Film * ''Unfinished Business'' (1941 film), an American film by Gregory La Cava * ''Unfinished Business'' (1977 film), a Spanish film by José Luis Garci * ''Unfinished Business'' (1984 film), a Canadian film by Don Owen * ''Unfinished Business'' (1985 American film), a documentary film by Steven Okazaki * ''Unfinished Business'' (1985 Australian film), directed by Bob Ellis *''Unfinished Business'', a 1987 film starring Gina Hecht * ''Unfinished Business'' (2009 film), a South African mockumentary * ''Unfinished Business'' (2015 film), an American film by Ken Scott Television Series * ''Unfinished Business'' (TV series), a 1998–1999 British sitcom *''The Amazing Race 18'', or ''The Amazing Race: Unfinished Business'', a 2011 American reality program Episodes * "Unfinished Business" (''Arrow''), 2013 * "Unfinished Business" (''Bakugan: Mechtanium Surge''), 2011 * "Unfinished Business" (''Battlestar Galactica''), 2006 * "Unfini ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
