KevanMoore
- Producer
- Director
Sometimes referred to as New Zealand's godfather of music television, Kevan Moore was behind some of the iconic entertainment shows of the 1960s and 70s (Let's Go, C'mon). Joining Kiwi television at its birth, Moore was also responsible for shaping early current affairs content, such as Town and Around, and devising popular astronomy show The Night Sky. Moore died on 1 January 2024, aged 86.
Screenography
Biography
Kevan Moore was 11-years-old when his family arrived in New Zealand from the English city of Bradford. Later a bus ride from his home in Governors Bay to Christchurch Boys' High School set him on the path of a career in broadcasting. Asked by fellow passenger and writer Douglas Cresswell what he planned to do after leaving school the next year, Moore replied he didn't know. Cresswell suggested he get into something new, and that the newest thing was television.
Awards
2001 Variety Artists Club of New Zealand
Scroll of Honour
“When I was doing C’mon, the guy who was in charge of the Broadcasting Corporation, the Director General, was Gilbert Stringer — an old radio accountant. His view of television, and he said it in fact, was that television is just … radio with pictures. That was the attitude and I had the pleasure of enshrining his remark into a television title...”