Mitch (Hayley Sproull) aced her journalism degree — so to be back in small-town Crawdon chasing 'news' stories for her mother's newspaper while working at the dairy is a bitter pill to swallow. Younger brother Tama (Boy's James Rolleston) is a bona fide big deal, an All Black boy wonder whose every move is celebrated by proud locals, not to mention Mitch's rugby-mad family. In this pilot, Mitch works on an expose of Tama, with help from the local celebrity snooper (Chris Parker). Golden Boy was one of a series of five comedy pilots which screened on Three. It was one of two shows chosen to become a series.