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SBS On Demand New Zealanders always seem to pull off quirky comedy-dramas and this dystopian series is masterful, with deadpan humour and a terrific cast. Creamerie opens eight years after an unexplained virus has wiped out the world’s men and boys - we get a brief, gory montage of the virus taking hold in a men’s locker room, swiftly followed by huge pyres of men’s bodies - and New Zealand is now run by women. But life in the fictional Hiro Valley is not the feminist Utopia it appears to...

The TV show without any men Free healthcare and education, plus mandatory menstruation leave. Sounds great. But then why is utopia so creepy? TV by Wenlei Ma 25th May 2021 5:01 PM A post-apocalyptic vision of the future doesnt usually make for laughs-a-plenty but theres plenty of dry, dark humour in Creamerie, a six-part comedy series from New Zealand. Set eight years after a pandemic - not Covid - wiped out half the worlds ...

CORONER (TVNZ ONDEMAND) Serinda Swan stars in this adaptation of M.R. Halls novels about recently widowed Toronto coroner Jenny Cooper, who probes suspicious deaths. This latest third season sees her dealing with new struggles and new cases – including Covid-related demises. “Swan is appealing as Jenny, and were always happy when a procedural focuses as much on characters as it does on the case-of-the-week,” wrote CREAMERIE (TVNZ ONDEMAND) Despite the premise, initial aesthetics and t...

CORONER (TVNZ ONDEMAND) Serinda Swan stars in this adaptation of M.R. Halls novels about recently widowed Toronto coroner Jenny Cooper, who probes suspicious deaths. This latest third season sees her dealing with new struggles and new cases – including Covid-related demises. “Swan is appealing as Jenny, and were always happy when a procedural focuses as much on characters as it does on the case-of-the-week,” wrote CREAMERIE (TVNZ ONDEMAND) Despite the premise, initial aesthetics and t...

CORONER (TVNZ ONDEMAND) Serinda Swan stars in this adaptation of M.R. Halls novels about recently widowed Toronto coroner Jenny Cooper, who probes suspicious deaths. This latest third season sees her dealing with new struggles and new cases – including Covid-related demises. “Swan is appealing as Jenny, and were always happy when a procedural focuses as much on characters as it does on the case-of-the-week,” wrote CREAMERIE (TVNZ ONDEMAND) Despite the premise, initial aesthetics and t...

BIG SHOT (DISNEY+) Former Full House star John Stamos plays temperamental basketball coach Marvyn Korn in this 10-part David E. Kelley ( Boston Legal, Big Little Lies) dramedy. He’s a man who finds himself having to rebuild her career at an elite girl’s private high school after he is fired from a more lucrative role. “The charismatic cast certainly helps,” wrote Time magazines Judy Berman. “Stamos may never win an Oscar, but hes a reliably likeable TV presence who makes it easy...

Creamerie is a new dystopian comedy about three New Zealand women and the last man on earth. Its co-creator and co-star, Perlina Lau, explains how they made a show about the aftermath of a deadly pandemic, during a pandemic. In 2018, when we sat around a dining table spitballing ideas about a TV

Karl Puschmann: No men, no problem? TVNZs black-comedy Creamerie shows otherwise 15 Apr, 2021 05:00 PM 5 minutes to read In a post-apocalyptic world where 99.9% of men have died, we find three Kiwi-Asian women who are running a dairy farm. They discover a man. Can their friendship survive the quest to make sense of this world? Video / Flat3 In a post-apocalyptic world where 99.9% of men have died, we find three Kiwi-Asian women who are running a dairy farm. They discover a man. Can their friend...

Iconic Outrageous Fortune house demolished to make way for $700k townhouses 1 Mar, 2021 08:15 PM 3 minutes to read NZ Herald A two-storey house in West Auckland made famous as the set of crime dramas Outrageous Fortune and Westside has now been demolished. A photo shared on Facebook shows a pile of rubble on the Te Atatū site where the Kiwi icon once sat. Now seven townhouses selling for around $700,000 each will be built in its place. Outrageous Fortune, which followed the story of Wolf West,...

Outrageous Fortune iconic TV house to be bulldozed for seven townhouses at $700k each 13 Feb, 2021 05:55 AM 2 minutes to read The 1960s-era property in the Auckland suburb of Te Atatū sits on a 931sq m site and is zoned for intensification under Aucklands unitary plan. Photo / Hayden Woodward The 1960s-era property in the Auckland suburb of Te Atatū sits on a 931sq m site and is zoned for intensification under Aucklands unitary plan. Photo / Hayden Woodward NZ Herald Seven townhouses costing ...