The town of Whakatane is up in arms over losing the sunshine capital title to Blenheim the wine growing region in the South Island.

Breakfast reporter Amy Kelley takes us to Hamilton for the 10th anniversary of the Balloons over Waikato festival.

Kristen Schaal AKA Mel on Flight of the Conchords has spread some hope today in the St Petersburg times:

A young Kiwi Entrepreneur has developed a Twitter service for restaurant service. The “twitter” service allows  restaurateur to read the feedback in real time.

Anna Paquin is playing Irena Sendler, a Polish resistance member during the Second World War, in a made for TV movie on CBS.

Early last month we covered a story about District 9, a sci-fi movie produced by Peter Jackson’s Wingnut Films and directed by South African Neil Blomcamp.

Mel gives us a lesson on how to talk Kiwi.

Taika Waititi is interviewed at the 2007 International Film Festival Rotterdam, where he presented his first feature film, ‘Eagle vs Shark’ – an offbeat romantic comedy featuring two socially inept misfits. The movie stars Jemaine …

The iconic kiwi shoe polish is to get new owners as Sara Lee is preparing to divest itself of it’s household products division.

Rhys Darby talks at the New Zealand premiere of “The Boat that Rocked”.

According to the Rotorua Tourism Board based in New Zealand, Destination Rotorua, Hugh Hefner has struck a deal with the Rotorua Museum Centennial Trust to convert the final stage of the Rotorua Museum development into …

Magnus and Daniel interview Martin Baynton about Weta’s and Pukeko Pictures’ brand new children’s TV series The WotWots. It turns out to be one of our best interviews yet – pre-school television is truly the …

After 3 years and hundreds of hours of bureaucratic wrangling, Butterfly Creek is allowed to bring into New Zealand two Aussie crocodiles.  In the video you will notice typical Aussie humor…”If you get caught, you …

Rhys Darby aka Murray of Flight of the Conchords riffs on his Grandfathers song. Live from The Classic Comedy Club in Auckland NZ.
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