Maxine Fleming is a New Zealand television screenwriter and producer. She was recognised at the

Women in Film and Television New Zealand Awards The Women in Film and Television New Zealand Awards, also known as the WIFT NZ Awards, are a set of awards that celebrate and encourage the achievements of New Zealand women in film, television and digital media. The awards are administered by Wome ...

in 2018.

Biography

Fleming grew up in

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, and studied journalism at

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. After graduating, she worked in newsrooms in New Zealand and Australia, and worked at news agency

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. She also wrote and performed for theatre groups and eventually stopped working in journalism to work in theatre. In 1992 Fleming got her first scriptwriting position, on the newly launched television soap opera ''

Shortland Street ''Shortland Street'' is a New Zealand prime-time soap opera centring on the fictitious Shortland Street Hospital, first broadcast on TVNZ 2 on 25 May 1992. It is New Zealand's longest-running drama and soap opera, being broadcast continuously ...

''. She has also written for TV series '' Outrageous Fortune'', ''City Life'', ''

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'', and ''The Chosen''. She was head writer on the series ''Interrogation.'' In 2000, Fleming and Gavin Strawhan started working together on a teen television series, ''

Being Eve ''Being Eve'' is a teen comedy-drama television series from New Zealand, originally shown on TV3 from 2001 to 2002, and later broadcast on Noggin's teen block The N in the US. ''Being Eve'' focuses on a teenage girl, Eve Baxter, and her daily p ...

''. The show debuted on TV3 in 2001 and won national awards for Best Drama Series, and Best Children's Programme. It was also Emmy nominated in the Children and Young People category, and Fleming was nominated for best script at the NZ Television Awards. The show sold to more than 40 territories and screened in the US on

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and its sister channel,

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. In 2008 Fleming worked with Strawhan again to create the television series ''

Burying Brian ''Burying Brian'' is a New Zealand television miniseries produced by Eyeworks Touchdown which premiered on Television New Zealand's TVNZ 1, TV One on 2 July 2008, and ran for 6 episodes. The series is about Jodie and her three female friends. At ...

''. In 2013 her series ''

Agent Anna ''Agent Anna'' is a New Zealand comedy-drama television series, created by Maxine Fleming with Vanessa Alexander and devised by Robyn Malcolm. It is produced by Great Southern Film and Television and funded by NZ on Air and Television New Zeal ...

'' debuted, for which she won an award for Best TV Comedy Episode at the 2013 New Zealand Script Writer Awards. In 2016 she co-created series ''800 Words,'' which was nominated in three categories of the

Logie Awards of 2016 The 58th Annual TV Week Logie Awards were held on Sunday 8 May 2016 at the Crown Palladium in Melbourne, and broadcast live on the Nine Network. Public voting for the Best Award categories began on 16 November 2015, and ended on 17 January 2016. ...

. In 2016, Fleming was appointed producer of ''Shortland Street.''

Awards and recognition

* Images & Sound Award for Success in Television and Digital at 2018

* Best TV Comedy Episode (shared with

Vanessa Alexander Vanessa Alexander is an Australian, New Zealand and British screenwriter, director and producer best known for writing on '' Vikings: Valhalla'' and ''The Great''. Early life and education Alexander was born in New York to a New Zealand fathe ...

) at 2013 Scriptwriters Association of New Zealand Awards

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Fleming, Maxine People from Thames, New Zealand New Zealand television producers New Zealand television writers Living people Year of birth missing (living people)