Facelift - Series Two, Episode One

Look, I’m just as normal as any other Kiwi woman who earns 250 grand a year, lives in a different town from her husband and listens to operas by Bellini.

– Prime Minister Helen Clark competing on How Normal Are You?

Welcome to Dancing with the Desperate — the show starring people you’ve forgotten even existed.

– Dancing with the Desperate host Murray Deaker (Grant Walker)

Since Lord of the Rings introduced audiences to armies of monster-faced Orcs it was only a matter of time before some lateral-thinking producer — in this case Gibson Group— decided to explore the comedy potential of prosthetics.

– Article on the launch of Facelift, The Dominion Post (TV Week liftout), 29 June 2004, page 11