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Oct 21, 2026 47 min

The Trailblazers & The Tech

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We’re heading back to the late 1990s and early 2000s, when shows like Flatmates, Treasure Island, and The $20 Challenge first hit Kiwi screens. It was the wild west of local television, where ambitious producers and crew were basically inventing the rules as they went along, driven in part by the sudden arrival of lightweight digital video cameras and computer-based video editing. Cameraman Craig Wright talks about being both on-screen and behind the camera for Flatmates, while producer Amanda Evans reveals new camera tech made her format The $20 Challenge possible, showing how a wave of new technology supercharged an emerging local industry. Go to this episode on rnz.co.nz for more details

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