VideoFebruary 11, 2025

Watch the first episode of Bryn and Ku’s Singles Club now

In a brand new documentary series for The Spinoff, comedians and best friends Brynley Stent and Kura Forrester embark on a cross-country quest to find love. 

Bryn & Ku’s Singles Club is a brand new documentary series for The Spinoff following award-winning comedians and friends Brynley Stent and Kura Forrester as they embark on a cross-country quest to find love. Meeting people from all walks of life and relationship statuses, they will explore the realities of dating and relationships in modern day Aotearoa, and learn more about themselves along the way. 

In episode one, the pair reflect on what it is like being single in our country’s biggest city and what they want to get out of the experience. Fed up with the bleak dating scene in Tāmaki Makaurau, they head south for a change of scene in Ōtautahi. 

There, a “roll for romance” games night and a singles cocktail party will force them out of their comfort zones, and reveal that even the most confident among us still feel daunted by walking into a room full of total strangers. Will fortune favour the brave? 

Bryn & Ku’s Singles Club is made with the support of NZ On Air. New episodes weekly.

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VideoNovember 12, 2024

Home Education: The Baker whānau

Photo: Home Education
Photo: Home Education

Home Education follows the everyday lives of six families in Aotearoa educating their children at home. Today, education among whales and horses with the Baker whānau.

The new docuseries Home Education is filmed across Aotearoa, in and around the homes of six families who have taken schooling outside the bounds of a traditional classroom. Each family moulds their days to suit them, fostering a love of learning through incorporating elements of Montessori, Waldorf, Unschooling, Te Kura and mātauranga Māori. The students we meet are just a few of over 10,000 who are educated at home in Aotearoa.

The final episode features the Baker whānau on a farm in Hiruhārama, Tairāwhiti. When a whale washed up on Tokomaru Bay, Israel and Petrina Baker decided it was important to take time out of school so that their tamariki could learn how to harvest the taonga. It took a few weeks, and the truancy officers were not too pleased, so the whānau’s home education began through Te Kura. Now, the kids make time for correspondence school inbetween mustering horses, fencing and planting kūmara, side by side like fish.

Hana is gaining the credits needed to study veterinary science at university. It’s something she wouldn’t have thought she could do without the correspondence teacher Tracy, who teaches the tamariki online and comes to visit every term. Once qualified, Hana’s plan though, is to “come straight back.” A vet would benefit not only the Bakers’ farm, but many around the East Coast. 

Made with the support of NZ On Air.