Even the undies are recycled round here!

Trailer for local programme Hearts In Crafts, which included an endearing how-to demonstration as continuity (memory suggests, probably inaccurately, that a typical episode showed "how to cover a box in sequins"), interspersed by interview segments with prominent Kiwi crafters.

... turn gay for which member of parliament?

... followed by "Oh come on, is that even a question?"

(It's not clear whether the two quotes come from the same episode, or were just edited together).

This was the trailer for "Back Benches", a programme that many of our Kiwi friends considered the best thing on TVNZ 7 - and perhaps one of the reasons it was closed down, given the political context of the debate.

Back Benches was pretty cool though - set in a pub, the Backbencher, located near the Parliament buildings in Wellington - anybody who happened to be drinking in the bar that night formed the audience for a panel show of parliamentarians and political commentators. Host Wallace Chapman was also the source of one of our other catchphrases ...

Holy Moly, would you look at that!

One of our favourites among the locally produced TVNZ 7 programmes - The Sitting. Each episode ends with a "reveal", where portraitist Stephen Martyn Welch shows his subject, a local personality, what he has painted. The trailer repeats the reaction by Dick Frizell, when he saw this image (image from an exhibition at the Pah homestead, the setting for the series).

That's ya news

Cheery sign-off from Greg Boyed at the close of the evening news. Often followed ("over to Renee for the weather forecast") by "that's ya weather"!

Turn on things Green Lantern-style

Another project from Make: - we couldn't wait to see the episode itself, but it turned out rather different to the impression given in the trailer. (Magnets were involved).

Today, I'm gonna show you how to make a burrito blaster

Trailer for Make:, the hobby construction series in which we see presenters constructing and demonstrating eccentric inventions such as this air cannon for wrapped food delivery, as built by host John Park.

Oh my gahd, you can actually see like the wings are raisin' up

From the trailer for Concrete Canvas, in which we see a lady comment on the realistic appearance of Julian Beever's animorphic rendering of a bald eagle, chalked on an American pavement.