Petra Bagust: Ice TV and beyond...

Interview – 2010

Petra Bagust grew up in Christchurch, studied fine arts at Canterbury University and waited tables, before being lured into regional TV station Cry TV. And so began a screen career during which she has hosted many of New Zealand’s most popular shows, starting out with six years of madcap youth show Ice TV.

In this ScreenTalk interview, Bagust talks about:

Choosing a TV career over being an artist
Her first experiences at regional station Cry TV
How she landed her initial audition for Ice TV, and what it was like working on the show
One of the golden rules of doing travel shows
Hosting big live shows like Christmas in the Park
Making What’s Really In Our Food
Her love of NZ design

This video was first uploaded on 15 March 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.

Interview, Camera & Editing – James Coleman. Sound - Cicadas

It was also a journey of discovery. Each of us, the three of us, used to get sent out each week with a camera, and we'd come back and some poor editor had to put together what we'd filmed . . . so we got better at the technical aspect of making television.
– Petra Bagust on learning the craft of making television on Ice TV

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