Looking for a family friendly drama to enjoy this lockdown? TVNZ's new teen series Mystic might be the perfect choice. 

The dancing plague of Strasbourg in 1518 is fertile artistic ground to explore – so much so that two identically titled productions have been released in the same year.

The Man Booker prize-winning novel arrives on our screens, but does it make it the transition unscathed?

Eva Green, Eve Hewson and Himesh Patel on taking one of the most acclaimed novels of the past decade from page to screen.

Sam Brooks brings us up to speed on what you need to know before you watch Noughts + Crosses, set in an alternate version of present day Britain.

It was meant to ‘draw a line under the whole episode’. So how did it turn into an unmitigated PR disaster, asks a former Edelman executive.

A lot of British migrants are making the move to NZ – so why shouldn't there be a TV show documenting the process? Elle Hunt watches the BBC's Wanted Down Under.

Ten Brits run around the countryside being chased down by investigators (and also a camera crew) in order to win £100,000. Don Rowe watches the show and finds the hunting bizarre and, quite frankly, lacking in actual hunting.

Tara Ward watches British sitcom Mum, a show for anyone who has found themselves in an inescapable family mess. 

The second season of English drama Doctor Foster might be the best thriller on television, despite its everyday subject matter, writes Duncan Greive.

Sam Brooks watches the new Eva Longoria vehicle Decline and Fall and finds a show more British than a pint of lager and a packet of crisps. 

When Duncan Greive reviewed Filthy Rich earlier this year he was overwhelmed with messages from a depressed New Zealand TV industry. Here he summarises what they had to say. Part of an ongoing series assessing our publicly funded television. Read part two, comparing TVNZ with the BBC, here.

For Monitor this week, Aaron Yap watches BBC series Criminal Justice, the lesser-known original version of HBO sensation The Night Of, and compares the two gripping murder mysteries.

Forget Mummy bloggers, Tara Ward collates all you need to know about pregnancy and childbirth from the 1950's nuns of Call the Midwife.

The reason our dramas lack for aspiration is all about TVNZ's mandate, says Chris Hooper, who last year left TVNZ for a role at the BBC.