Calum Henderson is a staff writer at The Spinoff and television columnist for NZ Herald. Email him on calum@thespinoff.co.nz
2018 is going to be a big year for our local reality franchises from Dancing With the Stars to Project Runway, but what's still missing? Calum Henderson fills in the gaps.
To paraphrase early-2000s chart-toppers LFO: Summer beards come and summer beards go, some are worthwhile and some are so-so.
Someone had to do it.
Just how hard is it to win an election and successfully lead a government? Seems easy enough, but there’s only one way to find out for sure: simulate it in a computer game.
Who’s going to replace Toni and Mike behind the Seven Sharp desk next year? Here are one hundred possible combinations.
Runaway’s Emma Johansson tells Calum Henderson about the many benefits of diversity in gaming, the secret to making chilled-out but highly addictive mobile games and why Animal Crossing rules.
Four courses and six very famous chefs stand between our amateur cooking heroes and a $100,000 cheque.
Calum Henderson makes some very well-informed predictions for the finale of My Kitchen Rules tomorrow.
In an unexpected twist, the penultimate episode of My Kitchen Rules NZ pays homage to a classic Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson comedy vehicle.
Chef Gordon Ramsay meets a 'Kiwi megacelebrity' in what deserves to be remembered as one of the all-time great Holmes interviews.
Jaryd and Ben take on the notorious foodie friends in a grim battle for cooking show survival.
Where Three have cornered the Friday night comedy lineup, Calum Henderson finds that TVNZ2 are running with a very different, stripped-back viewing experience.
A vast YouTube archive reveals the weird, wonderful and sometimes genius parallel universe of TopPop – the Netherlands' anything-goes answer to Top of the Pops.
Before she became prime minister, Jacinda Ardern went on a valiant journey to trace her ancestry on TVNZ's DNA Detectives.
It’s out of the instant restaurant frying pan and into the sudden death cook-off fire – and half the Shortland Street cast has come for tea.
Calum Henderson reviews this year’s pretender to the Hatchimals throne, a cool-but-rude robot called Cozmo.
The demon foodies of Christchurch get brought down to size by a French celebrity chef as My Kitchen Rules NZ prepares to enter the sudden-death cook-off round.
This week on My Kitchen Rules NZ, Chris and Bex learn you can lead ten amateur foodies to Wanaka for tea, but you can’t make them like it.
Fascinated by the surprising and often inspired music curation on TVNZ 1’s evening news bulletin, Calum Henderson goes in search of the person responsible.
The youngest contestants in My Kitchen Rules NZ history write the weirdest menu in My Kitchen Rules NZ history, and poor old Pete Evans has to read it out loud.
They’re renowned hairdressers and A+ reality TV talent, but are Wellington couple Teal and Sophie any good at cooking? This week on My Kitchen Rules NZ, we find out.
Calum Henderson watches ITM Hook Me Up, a new fishing show that gets local celebs out in the deep blue.
A Johnny Depp lookalike, a Tourism Wanaka ambassador and 'Paleo' Pete Evans walk into a Great Gatsby-themed dining room in suburban Auckland.
Calum Henderson watches the revamped My Kitchen Rules NZ, with shiny new judges and shady new contestants.
Every week Chartlander travels back through time, landing in a different year on the official New Zealand singles chart in the hopes of (re)discovering forgotten Top 40 gold. Today we continue our tour of classic general elections at the start of Winston Peters' career in parliament.
What could a TV2 election special from 2002 teach modern news producers as they prepare for Saturday night’s big event? Calum Henderson investigates.
