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Too Kiwi for New Zealand

The New Zealand Herald has an article about TVNZ passing on the Conchords pilot. I think they would like a re-do on that decision but their loss was our gain! Lucky for New Zealanders the show will start airing on September 17, hopefully they will love it as much as we do.

“We wrote a pilot for TVNZ,” Clement told the Herald on Sunday from Los Angeles. “I think the script was good, but if we had made that, they would have TVNZ-ed it. And put their magic touch of dullness all over it, and some over-acting sauce.

“We pick on TVNZ because we had written the pilot for them. But also they’re the state broadcaster and I think they’ve got a responsibility to reflect New Zealand culture, which they don’t. They take American programmes and copy them,” Clement said.”

From: The New Zealand Herald