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All Videos February 18, 2020

Was 2009 Shortland Street’s greatest year ever?

Shocking deaths, forbidden love, multiple Harry Warners and TK in a fedora – revisiting the glory of Shortland Street in 2009.

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The annual free concert featuring the top local pop stars of the day is one of New Zealand’s most enduring Christmas traditions. James Mustapic looks back at its most memorable moments.

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What do you get when you mix a bizarre selection of celebrities who have nothing in common with each other and a Gin Wigmore track? It’s an Air New Zealand safety video! And James Mustapic is here to rank them from worst to best.

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Sensing Murder

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Sticky TV

Once again James Mustapic dives deep to check up on a beloved TV viewing memory from his childhood. In this episode, James enters the black hole of well loved kid’s TV show: Sticky TV. Can he make it back alive?

NZ Idol

James Mustapic goes back, way back to the glory days of NZ Idol. He specifically looks at the three titans of the show: Lummis, Murphy and Shaw. Does he like what he sees? Is it simply a mirror into his own soul? Will the memories stay repressed?

Sensing Murder 2018

Sensing Murder is back on New Zealand screens, and it’s just as terrible as ever. In the latest in his series on New Zealand’s most questionable pop culture, James Mustapic looks back on Sensing Murder’s early years, and what has and hasn’t changed since.

Was 2009 Shortland Street’s greatest year ever?

Shocking deaths, forbidden love, multiple Harry Warners and TK in a fedora – revisiting the glory of Shortland Street in 2009.

A salute to the NZ pop stars of the early 2000s

Remember Dane Rumble, Fast Crew, J. Williams, Evermore and Scribe? James Mustapic does.

What Now in the 2000s

Each week on The Spinoff TV’s Repressed Memories, James Mustapic delves into pop culture’s graveyard and digs up the bodies. This episode: it’s been going since 1981– but what was New Zealand’s favourite kids’ show like in the first decade of this century?