This Town

Acclaimed TV series This Town travelled all over Aotearoa to meet the characters that make up Kiwi communities. The show dispensed with presenters or voiceovers, in favour of allowing "people to open up to us and tell us their stories" (as producer Melanie Rakena put it). Made by Jam TV, This Town screened in a Saturday 7.30pm slot on TV One. A second season followed in 2015. In The NZ Herald, Duncan Greive said of the second series: "it feels like some of the most authentic New Zealand television of the year, stories told with as minimal a mediation as possible."