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NigelLatta

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Clinical psychologist Nigel Latta, NZOM, first made his mark on Kiwi TV viewers with 2008's Beyond the Darklands, based on his book about New Zealand criminals and how they came to be. Latta hosted the show for five seasons, alongside three lighthearted, politically incorrect series about teens and other humans. Latta explored everything from money to gravity to inequality in a range of shows and one-off specials.

 

Screenography

Kids: An Instruction Manual with Nigel Latta
2020 Presenter Series
The Curious Mind
2018 Writer, Presenter Television
What Next?
2017 - 2019 Presenter, Executive Producer Series
Mind Over Money with Nigel Latta
2017 - 2018 Presenter Series

Biography

Alongside five seasons of Beyond the Darklands, Nigel Latta presented a number of shows about parenting and young people. There have also been many books on parenting, two of them spin-offs from his TV shows — plus two editions of Into the Darklands, whose chronicles of criminals first inspired Latta's move into television.

Awards

2019 Huawei Mate30 Pro New Zealand Television Awards
Nominated for Best Presenter: Entertainment: for The Curious Mind

“What I try to do in the TV show and the book is to give people useful things that they can actually use to make things better, but also just reassure people that life is not that complicated.”

— Nigel Latta on The Politically Incorrect Parenting Show, in The Sydney Morning Herald, 19 May 2010