50 Years of New Zealand Television: 3 - Let Us Entertain You
This edition of Prime TV’s history of New Zealand television looks at 50 years of entertainment. The smorgasbord of music, comedy and variety shows ranges from 60s pop stars to Popstars, from the anarchy of Blerta to the anarchy of Telethon, from Radio with Pictures to Dancing with the Stars. Music television moves from C’mon and country, to punk and hip hop videos. Comedy follows the formative Fred Dagg and Billy T, through to Eating Media Lunch and 7 Days. A roll call of New Zealand entertainers muse on seeing Kiwis laugh, sing and shimmy on the small screen.
Chris Knox: In conversation with Roger Shepherd, part two
Chris Knox's music career began with legendary punk band The Enemy, followed by Toy Love, then the Tall Dwarfs and his own solo work. He has appeared as a film reviewer on arts shows The Edge and Backch@t, and hosted series The New Artland. As a musician and music video director, Knox is known as a pioneer of lo-tech, DIY classics. For this special two part ScreenTalk interview, Flying Nun founder Roger Shepherd chatted with Knox about his life and career. In part one, Knox talked about his love of filmmaking, and early Enemy and Toy Love music videos. In the second part of the ScreenTalk interview, Knox talks about: Knox moving from appearing in music videos to directing his own with the Tall Dwarfs' Nothing's Gonna Happen Making the video for the Tall Dwarfs' Turning Brown and Torn in Two Making the video for his solo classic Not Given Lightly Becoming a film reviewer on TV arts shows The Edge and Backch@t Moving into television presenting, with an episode of Intrepid Journeys, and the series The New Artland Knox's long-running cartoon strip Max Media