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Andrew Shaw

Presenter, Executive

Andrew Shaw has experience of both sides of the camera. After debuting in his teens as a popular children's TV host, Shaw went on to spend time as producer and director on a variety of music programmes and live shows. He went on to become a TVNZ executive, responsible for commissioning and buying programmes. In 2020,  the same year he let TVNZ, Shaw won the Television Legend award at the NZ Television Awards.

There’s a hundred audiences, and the same audience is happy today, sad tomorrow, looking for drama one day, wanting to answer the puzzle on Wheel of Fortune the next. Andrew Shaw

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Interview

Andrew Shaw: From kids show host to TVNZ executive...

Interview, 2009

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Give Us a Clue - excerpt

2021, Network Executive - Television

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One Lane Bridge

2020 - 2022, Network Executive Producer - Television

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One Lane Bridge - First Episode

2020, Network Executive Producer - Television

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The Bad Seed

2019, Network Executive - Television

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NZ On Air 30th Birthday - Country Calendar

2019, Subject - Web

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The Bad Seed - First Episode

2019, Network Executive - Television

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Bloodlines

2010, Network Executive - Television

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From the Archives: Five Decades

2010, Presenter - Television

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50 Years of New Zealand Television: 1 - From One Channel to One Hundred

2010, Subject - Television

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50 Years of New Zealand Television: 3 - Let Us Entertain You

2010, Subject - Television

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From the Archives: Five Decades (1960s) - Ray Columbus

2010, Interviewer - Television

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From the Archives: Five Decades (1970s) - Brian Edwards

2010, Interviewer - Television

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From the Archives: Five Decades (1980s) - David McPhail

2010, Interviewer - Television

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From the Archives: Five Decades (1990s)- Peter Elliott

2010, Interviewer - Television

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From the Archives: Five Decades (2000s) - Paul Holmes

2010, Interviewer - Television

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The Cult - First Episode

2009, Network Executive - Television

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To Sir With Love: A Tribute to Sir Howard Morrison

2008, Director - Television

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No Opportunity Wasted - Tough Guy (Episode)

2006, Series Producer - Television

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No Opportunity Wasted

2006, Executive Producer - Television

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Facelift - Series Three, Episode One

2005, Online Editor - Television

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Interrogation - First Episode

2005, Network Executive - Television

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Living the Dream - Full Series

2004, As: Andrew Shaw (episode 7) - Television

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Shortland Street - Tina-Anne Harrison's birth

2004, Executive Producer - Television

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Being Eve - Being Upstaged

2002, Executive Producer - Television

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Shortland Street - 2002 Christmas cliffhanger (Rachel's car crash)

2002, Executive Producer - Television

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Shortland Street - Nick and Waverley's wedding

2002, Executive Producer - Television

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Being Eve

2001 - 2002, Executive Producer - Television

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Letter to Blanchy - An Arresting Experience (Final Episode)

1997, Network Executive - Television

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McDonald's Young Entertainers

1997 - 1999, Director - Television

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Tala Pasifika - A Day in the Life

1996, Network Executive - Television

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Tala Pasifika - Malama

1996, Network Executive - Television

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Footage

1996, Network Executive - Television

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Corbans Fashion Collections - 1995

1995, Executive Producer - Television

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Tala Pasifika - Talk of the Town

1995, Network Executive - Television

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Corbans Fashion Collections - 1994

1994, Executive Director - Television

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Newsnight - Series One, Episode 172

1994, Subject - Television

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Dave Dobbyn in Concert

1994, Network Executive - Television

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Pete & Pio - Series One Compilation

1994, Network Executive - Television

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Clash of the Codes - Series One, Episode 10

1993, Producer - Television

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Petrouchka in Performance

1993, Producer, Director - Television

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Shortland Street

1992 - ongoing, Executive Producer - Television

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Corbans Fashion Collections

1990 - 1998, Executive Producer - Television

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Blind Date - Series One, Episode Three

1989, Director - Television

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Shark in the Park

1989 - 1991, Director - Television

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It's Only Wednesday (Series One, Episode Nine)

1988, Director, Producer - Television

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The Krypton Factor

1987, Director - Television

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Tonight With Cathy Saunders - Series Two, Episode Five

1986, Producer - Television

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Live at Mainstreet - The Idles and The Mockers

1984, Director - Television

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Outlook for Thursday

1983, Director - Music video

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New Boots and Pants

1983 - 1984, Producer - Television

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Live At Mainstreet - Dance Exponents

1983, Producer - Television

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Live at Mainstreet - The Legionnaires

1983, Director - Television

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Live at Mainstreet - The Narcs and Coconut Rough

1983, Director - Television

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New Boots and Pants - First Episode

1983, Producer - Television

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Anything Could Happen

1981, Director - Music video

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Don't Fight it Marsha, It's Bigger Than Both of Us

1981, Director - Music video

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There is No Depression in New Zealand

1981, Director - Music video

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It's Academic - Orgasm Blooper

1981, Presenter - Television

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Virginia

1980, Director - Music video

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Radio Times

1980 - 1983, Director - Television

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Radio with Pictures

1979 - 1983, Director - Television

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Telethon

1979 - 1993, Producer - Television

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Here's Andy

1975 - 1976, Presenter - Television