Jeremy Wells first met Mikey Havoc at student radio station 95bFM. The pair teamed up again for MTV talk show Havoc, before hosting travelogue/social commentary series Havoc and Newsboy's Sell-Out Tour and Havoc's Luxury Suites and Conference Facility. Wells then worked with producer/director Paul Casserly across seven seasons of media satire show Eating Media Lunch, plus The Unauthorised History Of New Zealand.
In this ScreenTalk interview, Wells talks about:
- Being sent to boarding school for possessing marijuana
- Being expelled from boarding school for possessing marijuana
- Starting out as a newsreader on 95bFM
- The fun he had working on the Havoc shows
- The ideas behind The Unauthorised History Of New Zealand
- The challenges of making seven seasons of Eating Media Lunch
- His experiences in Libya on Intrepid Journeys
- How the Birdland series came about and observations on the birding community
- His career path
- TVNZ
Interview Credit
Copyright
This video was first uploaded on 01 February 2010, and is available under this Creative Commons licence. This licence is limited to use of ScreenTalk interview footage only and does not apply to any video content and photographs from films, television, music videos, web series and commercials used in the interview.
