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Introducing the DAMP – a new tool for predicting future NRL scandals
Could the NRL’s latest off-field scandal have been predicted with the help of a mathematical formula similar to cricket’s WASP? Probably the weirdest thing about the NRL’s latest boozy scandal, in...
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Premier League Week – Alli’s stunner, Crouchy’s tears, and Captain Morgan’s...
While we enjoy the magic of the FA Cup’s fourth round and await confirmation of Chelsea’s transfer deadline-busting signing of Neymar this weekend, let’s have a long hard think about the reality that...
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Premier League Week – Return of the Crouch
Leicester are the new Barcelona (at least until Pep Guardiola arrives in Manchester), Spurs are inching ever closer to the top of the table, and a rare start for Peter Crouch can’t help Stoke as...
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History in pictures – the 2016 Waitangi Dildo Incident
It was another ordinary Friday until a pink sex toy whistled through the air, hit Steven Joyce’s jowls, and changed our lives forever. This is our frame-by-frame analysis of the 2016 Waitangi Dildo...
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Premier League Week – Leicester march on despite shocking Mahrez kneeslide
A horrible goal celebration in Manchester, a horrible knee injury in London, and horrible weather in Stoke – all-in-all another great weekend of Premier League action. Yet another milestone in the...
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“I wondered how much he’d charge to do a wedding or birthday”– A review of...
Instagram celebrity Max Key made his radio debut last night. Somewhere in suburban Auckland, Calum Henderson was listening and judging. Without ever really trying, I seem to have spent a lot of time in...
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Salesman of the Century: The stellar ads that helped make Richie McCaw our...
The All Blacks great is more than just a Versatile home owner – he’s a surprisingly versatile actor. Richie McCaw was named New Zealander of the Year last night. Some people are angry. They say setting...
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Family Feud might just be an unlikely winner for TV3
Calum Henderson watched the first episodes of Family Feud and was transported back to the glory days of New Zealand reality television. 2015 will go down in history as TV3’s year of reality, when big...
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Classic moments in New Zealand shopping television – Bachelor NZ host Mike...
He’s back as the host of The Bachelor NZ, but are Mike Puru’s greatest TV performances hidden in plain sight over on shopping channel YesShop? Calum Henderson watches one of his hypnotic advertorial...
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Throwback Thursday: Five of the best Country Calendar spoofs
To celebrate Country Calendar turning the big 5-0, Calum Henderson looks at five of the show’s famous spoofs on NZ On Screen – and one which seemed like a spoof but was totally real. Jim Hickey:...
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Are the Warriors the most depressing team in the NRL? A Spinoff data project
Is there a more depressing NRL team to support than the Warriors? A man who failed 6th form maths has developed a simple formula to find out. The New Zealand Warriors’ season was barely 20 minutes old...
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‘It’s just a feckin’ laugh’– The slow, strange rise of Mrs Brown’s Boys
Brendan O’Carroll, aka Mrs Brown, tells Calum Henderson how a five-minute radio play he created 25 years ago slowly turned into one of the most popular shows on television. Brendan O’Carroll: “We had a...
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Throwback Thursday: The New Zealand dating show that set Suzanne Paul on the...
More than just a glimpse of what dating was like in bumbling, awkward, pre-internet New Zealand, this 1989 episode of Blind Date on NZ On Screen unwittingly introduced the nation to the woman who would...
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All 16 NRL team mascots ranked at last
In the beginning there was darkness. Then professional sports said: let there be garish uniforms, nonsensical team names and frightening, hallucinatory mascots. Calum Henderson looks at the real heroes...
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Mike Puru ascends to morning television heaven in The Café
Calum Henderson sat down to watch The Café, a morning show set in a café. “This is the perfect show,” Mike Puru raved halfway through Monday morning’s first episode of The Café. “We’ve got a barista on...
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What’s actually in Harvey’s record collection? Gabriel Macht reveals a...
In the middle of a whirlwind New Zealand press tour, Gabriel Macht, star of Lightbox legal drama Suits, reveals the show’s darkest secret to Calum Henderson: there are no actual records in Harvey...
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‘I’ve started so I’ll finish’– Watching the brainy battle for the Mastermind...
With Mastermind returning to our screens this week for the first time in over 25 years, Calum Henderson visits the set to watch the brainiacs at work. A couple of days before I went to watch the new...
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All the names the NRL Bunker has been called by angry league fans on Twitter
The NRL set up the @NRLBunker Twitter account in an attempt at transparency. Instead it has become a multi-media sideshow brimming with fan fury. Calum Henderson scoured the account for this list of...
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‘I Can’t Stop Farting': a trip through the smelly world of extreme flatulence
Calum Henderson watches I Can’t Stop Farting, a TVNZ On Demand documentary about those afflicted with bad smells and sounds. Sarah counts her farts. She keeps a daily tally, using a colour-coded...
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Throwback Thursday: The dream of the ’90s is alive in Flatmates
Before the Housewives, before the Bachelorettes, there were the Flatmates. Calum Henderson revisits one of New Zealand’s first gritty, no-frills attempts at reality television. Like everything else on...
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