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Television Production Companies Of New Zealand
New Zealand has a quite large TV industry, producing programs for the local market, and some for the international market. TV production in New Zealand is centred on Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch but other companies exist in towns and cities across the country. Production companies Below is a list of New Zealand television production companies. A * Asia Vision * Avalon Studios B * Beyond Productions C * Channel North Television D * Daybreak Pacific F * Face TV G * Great Southern Television * Greenstone Pictures H Te Hokioi Film and Publishing Company (founded by Tama Poata; defunct) N * Natural History New Zealand O * Orly Creative Media P * Pacific Films (historic) * Phoenix Television * Phoenix TV S * South Pacific Pictures T * Television New Zealand * Touchdown Television * TV3 * TVNZ , type = Crown entity , industry = Broadcast television , num_locations = New Zealand , location = Auckland, New Zealand , ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Zealand
New Zealand ( mi, Aotearoa ) is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It consists of two main landmasses—the North Island () and the South Island ()—and over 700 smaller islands. It is the sixth-largest island country by area, covering . New Zealand is about east of Australia across the Tasman Sea and south of the islands of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga. The country's varied topography and sharp mountain peaks, including the Southern Alps, owe much to tectonic uplift and volcanic eruptions. New Zealand's capital city is Wellington, and its most populous city is Auckland. The islands of New Zealand were the last large habitable land to be settled by humans. Between about 1280 and 1350, Polynesians began to settle in the islands and then developed a distinctive Māori culture. In 1642, the Dutch explorer Abel Tasman became the first European to sight and record New Zealand. In 1840, representatives of the United Kingdom and Māori chiefs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Orly Creative Media
Orly () is a commune in the southern suburbs of Paris, Île-de-France. It is located from the center of Paris. The name of Orly came from Latin ''Aureliacum'', "the villa of Aurelius". Orly Airport partially lies on the territory of the commune of Orly, which gave its name to the airport. Population Transport Orly is served by two stations on Paris RER line C: Les Saules and Orly-Ville. Education Schools in Orly:Etablissements scolaires " Orly. Retrieved on September 3, 2016. * Preschools (''écoles maternelles''): Cité Jardins, Jean Moulin, Joliot-Curie, Marcel Cachin, Noyer-Grenot, Paul Eluard, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wingnut Films
WingNut Films, Inc. is a New Zealand production company based in Wellington, with other offices in Hollywood, United States, London, United Kingdom, and Melbourne, Australia. It is notable for producing and collaborates predominantly with filmmaker Peter Jackson, especially on ''The Lord of the Rings''. WingNut Films also has produced at Pinewood Studios in England. History WingNut Films has been involved in nearly all of Peter Jackson's work. The company is known for being involved in Jackson's ''The Lord of the Rings'' film series, based on the classic fantasy novel of the same name by English author J. R. R. Tolkien. The third film in the series received eleven Academy Awards including Best Picture and Best Director. The company also became involved in ''The Hobbit'' after director Guillermo del Toro left the project. Films * ''Bad Taste'' (1987) * ''Meet the Feebles'' (1989) * '' Braindead'' (1992) * ''Valley of the Stereos'' (1992) * ''Heavenly Creatures'' (1994) * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Whitebait Productions
WhitebaitMedia is a local independent New Zealand production company producing Children's television series, children's programmes. It was founded by Janine Morrell-Gunn in 1998. History Morrell-Gunn worked as an executive producer for TVNZ's Children's Unit while it was based in Christchurch, New Zealand. When the Unit moved to Wellington's Avalon studios, in 1998, Morrell-Gunn remained in Christchurch to start her own company, Whitebait Productions. Whitebait's first commission was ''Bumble (TV series), Bumble'', a preschool series about a bee and his friends. The first actor to wear the Bumble suit was her husband, Jason Gunn. Whitebait Productions has also produced the ''Jessie.com'' series for What Now TV (which sold to Disney Australia, and English programmes for Japan), the interactive pop talent quest ''Wannabes'' for Three (New Zealand), Three, and the series ''Tuhono'', a youth hip-hop show, for Māori Television. The show Animal Academy was produced by Whitebait also f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
TVNZ Natural History
NHNZ, formerly Natural History New Zealand, is a New Zealand-based television production house. It works and co-produces with multiple major global broadcasters: Discovery Channel, Animal Planet, Discovery Science, A&E Television Networks, National Geographic Channel, Travel Channel, NHK (Japan), France 5 and ZDF (Germany). NHNZ's programmes are available in 180 countries. History The early years NHNZ was originally formed as the Natural History Unit of TVNZ. The unit was created in 1977, with the aim of telling stories of New Zealand native and endangered species. The unit's first documentaries made were a series of six 15-minute programmes called ''Hidden Places'' which featured various New Zealand habitats, notably Okarito, White Island, Fiordland, Mackenzie Country and Sinclair Wetlands, near Dunedin. The first programme that captured international attention was the story of Don Merton's rescue of the New Zealand black robin from the brink of extinction. Se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
TVNZ
, type = Crown entity , industry = Broadcast television , num_locations = New Zealand , location = Auckland, New Zealand , area_served = Nationally (New Zealand) and some Pacific Island nations such as the Cook Islands, Fiji, and the Solomon Islands , founded = , owner = Minister of Finance (50%) Minister of Broadcasting (50%) , key_people = Simon Power (CEO) , homepage = , divisions = , products = Television , subsid = Former TV stations , revenue = (2019) , net_income = (2019) , assets = 43.2% (2019) , predecessor = Television New Zealand ( mi, Te Reo Tātaki o Aotearoa), more commonly referred to as TVNZ, is a television network that is broadcast throughout New Zealand and parts of the Pacific region. All of its currently-operating channels are free-to-air and commercially funded. TVNZ was established in February 1980 following the merger of the two government-owned television networks, Television One (now TVNZ 1) and South Pacific Television (now T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
TV3 (New Zealand)
Three ( mi, Toru), stylized as +HR=E, is a New Zealand nationwide television channel. Launched on 26 November 1989 as TV3, it was New Zealand's first private broadcasting, privately owned television channel. The channel currently broadcasts nationally (with regional advertising targeting four markets) in digital free-to-air form via the state-owned Kordia on terrestrial and satellite. Vodafone also carries the channel for their cable subscribers in Wellington and Christchurch. It previously broadcast nationally on analogue television until that was switched off on 1 December 2013. Three is a general entertainment channel owned by Warner Bros. Discovery New Zealand, Warner Bros. Discovery, with a significant news and current affairs element under the banner of Newshub. Three carries a significant amount of local content, most of which airs at prime-time. History Establishment Applications to apply for a warrant to operate New Zealand's third national television network opened ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
