This week listeners celebrated Cliff Richard who turned 81 on Thursday, chatted about Telethon in light of the Vaxathon today, and remembered the array of
His serious news-presenting technique would become synonymous with his name, which Sherry would carry from his initial role, presenting radio at his local station, 2YD, in 1960, onto the more notable, including Wellington’s first television bulletin and the country’s first nationwide news programme, and onwards, until his retirement in the 1990s. Here we take a look at some of his more memorable moments from his long run on the small screen throughout the years.
Philip Sherry reading the news A few minutes into this clip from 1975, Sherry fronts the evening news with a story about protestors in San Francisco demanding the impeachment of then US President Richard Nixon, amid the fallout of the Watergate Scandal.
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A robbery and a drug deal gone wrong sets off a chain of events in local drama Vegas.
REVIEW: Waitoki – the town where things get steamy. That’s the barely fictionalised backdrop for TVNZ’s latest Kiwi drama
Vegas (which debuts on TVNZ2 tonight, Monday, at 8.30pm). Filmed entirely in Rotorua, the $6.4m budgeted, six-part series is based on Ray Berard’s 2015 novel
Inside the Black Horse. A potent cocktail of a tale involving debts, drugs, gangs and two disparate brothers, it revolves around the build up to and fallout from the life-changing events of a single night. It was supposed to be the evening when Te Toki ended their reliance on meth sales to find their activities. When one last deal would give them enough money would allow them to buy back some of their ancestral land and give themselves “a place to stand”. Where newly appointed leader Kingi (Eds Eramīha) could prove his mana to the doubters, especially those who believe their former head Waka (