What’s going on with Grand Designs NZ?
New Zealand’s favourite architectural series is undergoing a transformation of its own.
On Tuesday, Chris Moller, architect and affable host of building series Grand Designs New Zealand, made the shock announcement that he was leaving the show. In a statement on the show’s Facebook page, Moller said that after six years it was time to “pass the batten” (classic building pun) and move on to new adventures.
“2020 was a crazy year for all of us,” Moller said, speaking with the same gentle honesty he uses to tell someone renovating a clifftop heritage villa that they won’t get building consent in three short weeks. “It has been a time of reckoning, a time to stop and reflect, to consider more deeply how we live on this miraculous planet. It’s a time to make important decisions in life about things that matter.”
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Tom Dillane is a reporter at the New Zealand Heraldtom.dillane@nzme.co.nz@tomdillane1
The teams were already hammering and bickering away on their Point Chevalier townhouses when The Block was halted two weeks into its 2020 shoot.
The scaffolding still remains abandoned on that television construction site. Kiwi TV productions collectively downed tools on March 25 as Covid-19 lockdown had directors scrambling to adapt their film sets to a socially-distanced world.
Tuesday, 22 December 2020, 5:41 pm
From Thursday 17th to Sunday 20th December, New
Zealanders had the first opportunity to view all entries in
the 36th America’s Cup presented by PRADA, racing each
other in the PRADA America’s Cup World Series, Auckland
and then the PRADA Christmas Cup on Sunday.
Event
organisers and TVNZ are hailing local success after more
than 1.5 million people watched the first races on TVNZ
last weekend.
TVNZ’s Director of Content, Cate
Slater was impressed, “To have more than 1.5 million
people watching on TVNZ’s broadcast channels and a further
quarter of a million OnDemand streams over the four days is
Press Release – TVNZ
From Thursday 17th to Sunday 20th December, New Zealanders had the first opportunity to view all entries in the 36th America’s Cup presented by PRADA, racing each other in the PRADA America’s Cup World Series, Auckland and then the PRADA Christmas Cup on Sunday.
Event organisers and TVNZ are hailing local success after more than 1.5 million people watched the first races on TVNZ last weekend.
TVNZ’s Director of Content, Cate Slater was impressed, “To have more than 1.5 million people watching on TVNZ’s broadcast channels and a further quarter of a million OnDemand streams over the four days is phenomenal. Saturday 19th December was the most popular day for viewing with 817,500 watching on TVNZ’s broadcast channels.