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Including one of the most anticipated prestige dramas of the year, and Amy Adams turning into a dog. 

New to streaming: What to watch on Netflix NZ, Neon and more this week

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'Shortland Street fans still come up and are like ‘Desi! Where's Damo?’ and I’m like ‘I don't know… Christchurch?’'

‘You belong to the people’: Kura Forrester on becoming Ferndale famous

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The Friday Poem: ‘Field-notes: Midsummer, 9pm, walking barefoot in the reserve after a storm, the sky still light, the city strung out across backs of the hills’ by Niamh Hollis-Locke

The Friday Poem: 'Field-notes: Midsummer, 9pm...' by Niamh Hollis-Locke

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'Like a clearing in the woods, it had shown me, in the oddest of ways, that there was life out there and one day I would get to join it.'

What Twin Peaks meant to 10-year-old me

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A selection of the best shows, movies, podcasts and playlists that kept us entertained over the holidays.

The best things we watched (and listened to) over summer

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A frothing primer for season two of Severance.

Move fast: The best TV show of the century so far returns today

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An announcement about the Friday poem

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Review: Robbie Williams goes chimp crazy in Better Man 

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'I thought there would be more meditation,' said one woman in the line for the toilet. 'Me too, but then it was pretty cheap, so can’t complain,' added her friend.

What happens when Rachel Hunter sells out a Christchurch school hall?

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'I didn’t even know what a Fiat was before these ads.'

‘Sometimes I’ll get a free drink’: Bubbah’s double life as Tina from Turners

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10.53am: Our next film is a British 60s flick about a bunch of little kids. Their tiny British accents are adorable, but I don’t care about their sad little lives. What about mine?

Munchies and mania: surviving a 24-hour movie marathon

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Happy 30th birthday to one of the most ambitious, bizarre, beautiful and brutal films New Zealand has ever produced. 

Rewatching Heavenly Creatures, three decades on

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'I looked over and saw Dai Henwood just shaking his head.'

‘The room went dead quiet’: Josh Thomson on his worst 7 Days moment

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Meet the Southland principal who wrote and directed a feature length fantasy epic starring the whole school.

‘Primary school LOTR’: The principal giving Peter Jackson a run for his money

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'I like the home comforts: the food, the bed, the couches, the Sky TV...'

‘You’ll love it, but you’ll hate it’: Christian Cullen on becoming CTI’s most unlikely star

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A soul-to-soul with Married At First Sight's spiritual star, who doesn't own a TV and thinks the show is 'trash'.

A drink with Lucinda Light, the greatest MAFS participant of all time

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It’s 25 years since a dog said ‘bugger’ on TV... and changed the nation forever.

‘It was just the right word’: When ‘bugger’ took New Zealand by storm

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How Mukpuddy conjured up a bold new vision of Badjelly the Witch

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Ladies and gentlemen… this is really, really bad.

What has The Warehouse done to my favourite song? 

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Only read this if you've also had John o' Groats, Fray Bentos and the sword of Damocles stuck in your head since 2002.

A complete list of things I only know about because of The Office

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Recapping a big month for social media, and some predictions for the year ahead.

The Fold: On Meta going Maga, TikTok’s perilous future and NZ media in 2025

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Ten brilliant – and brilliantly short – books to kickstart the year.

One simple trick to conquer your reading goals: read shorter books

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Can either newbie beat the best ice block in New Zealand?

A review of the two new ice blocks vying for the Cyclone’s crown

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It may look like a beautiful piece of abstract art, but the reality of what you're looking at 'raises a few scary questions'.

Great, there are microplastics in our compost now too

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'I’m 14,000 kilometres away from home nine months out of the year and am very much on my own. It’s definitely a bit daunting at times.'

The cost of being: A 19-year-old studying in the US on a full scholarship

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The 45th president becomes the 47th, while the 46th had one final trick up his sleeve.

Reintroducing Donald Trump, president of the United States

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The doctor who patiently waited for his dream role, then lasted barely a year in it.

The rise and fall of Shane Reti

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Shane Reti's demotion is a reminder that the best experience for being a minister is being a minister.

Are past careers important in politics?

 spent an afternoon at Hobsonville Point to bring you this harrowing report.

What happens when The Real Pod invades The Block NZ? | The Spinoff TV

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Jane Yee and Alex Casey from The Real Pod spent an afternoon at Hobsonville Point to bring you this harrowing report.

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Pop CultureSeptember 15, 2018

What happens when The Real Pod invades The Block NZ? (WATCH)

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Pop CultureSeptember 15, 2018

What happens when The Real Pod invades The Block NZ? (WATCH)

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