Following up their 2021 International Emmy win, New Zealand production company Luminous Beast’s second series, AFTER THE PARTY, has been picked up by both the UK’s CHANNEL 4 and Australia’s ABC network. AFTER THE PARTY premiered on TVNZ October 2023, .
It was heralded as a great social experiment: 36 adults and eight children sent to live on an uninhabited island for a year. The BBC s Castaway 2000 marked the dawn of reality TV.
SIR – Ignoring the fact – as successive governments have done for 20 years – that the Royal Navy is a third of the size this country needs it to be, one despairs of the predictability of the Ministry of Defence’s response to its shortage of manpower (“Navy has so few sailors ships must be scrapped”, report, January 5).