New Zealand’s television industry is in trouble – and it won’t recover unless it stops “belly gazing” and starts making shows the world wants to watch, says pioneering reality TV producer Dame Julie Christie.
Speaking to Brodie Kane on her Kiwi Yarns show, Christie – who had a key hand in shows such as Treasure Island, Game of Two Halves and DIY Rescue – said the problem is simple:
“The advertising dollars are pretty much gone… to social media. There’s just not the money there to make it.”
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