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Please Don't Break Anything - The First Night

$687,477
Funding type:
Scripted
Production company:
Kevin & Content
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Funding Subtype:
Creation Scripted
Genre:
Youth
Episodes & Duration:
5x7 mins
Primary Platform:
YouTube
Date:
Apr 2025
Synopsis:
At a chaotic high school party, a teenage girl proclaims that one of her classmates will be murdered before midnight

How Was Your Day?

$159,990
Funding type:
Scripted
Production company:
Mad Carnival Entertainment
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Funding Subtype:
Creation Scripted
Genre:
Games
Primary Platform:
HEIHEI Games
Date:
Apr 2025
Synopsis:
A narrative-driven point-and-click puzzle game, How Was Your Day? is a supernatural coming of age mystery set in 80s Aotearoa New Zealand.

The Last Moa

$685,997
Funding type:
Scripted
Production company:
Vinewood
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Funding Subtype:
Creation Scripted
Genre:
Children
Episodes & Duration:
10x5 mins
Primary Platform:
Sky Open
Date:
Apr 2025
Synopsis:
The Last Moa is an animated comedy series in which a kiwi finds a frozen egg that hatches into moa, the last of her kind.

Music With Michal 2

$399,220
Funding type:
Scripted
Production company:
Music with Michal Studios
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Funding Subtype:
Creation Scripted
Genre:
Children
Episodes & Duration:
20x6 mins
Primary Platform:
YouTube
Date:
Apr 2025
Synopsis:
Music with Michal is songs, fun, and learning for preschoolers in Aotearoa and beyond.

The School Repeaters

$673,574
Funding type:
Scripted
Production company:
The Niu Wav
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Funding Subtype:
Creation Scripted
Genre:
Youth
Episodes & Duration:
6x10 mins
Primary Platform:
The Coconet TV
Date:
Apr 2025
Synopsis:
Facing expulsion,J ay Jay and his crew must repeat their final year, play rugby and to lead the school to victory while keeping their secret from their parents.

Baddies

$1,665,283
Funding type:
Scripted
Production company:
Brown Sugar Apple Grunt Productions
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Funding Subtype:
Creation Scripted
Genre:
TMP Co-Fund
Episodes & Duration:
6x22 mins
Primary Platform:
TVNZ+
Date:
Nov 2024
Synopsis:
When a group of charismatic bank robbers take over a camp for wayward youth, a lonely 12-year-old must make a decision: become a true baddie or change his ways.

Blue Murder Motel

$2,800,000
Funding type:
Scripted
Production company:
Blue Murder Production
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Funding Subtype:
Creation Scripted
Genre:
Drama
Episodes & Duration:
8x44 mins
Primary Platform:
TVNZ 1
Date:
Nov 2024
Synopsis:
Married Australian police detectives take early retirement to invest in a cute little motel in Aotearoa New Zealand, but murder and mayhem ensue.

My Favourite Dead Person 3

$593,780
Funding type:
Scripted
Production company:
The Downlow Concept
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Funding Subtype:
Creation Scripted
Genre:
Children
Episodes & Duration:
8x8 mins
Primary Platform:
YouTube
Date:
Nov 2024
Synopsis:
Josh Thomson sits down with children as they share their favourite stories, about their favourite historical characters.

Tākaro Tribe Pacific

$285,753
Funding type:
Scripted
Production company:
Cinco Cine Film Productions
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Funding Subtype:
Creation Scripted
Genre:
Children
Episodes & Duration:
9x12 mins
Primary Platform:
The National Pacific Media Trust
Date:
Nov 2024
Synopsis:
Children's animation series to launch in the Language Weeks of Samoa, Cook Islands, and Tonga 2025.

Night Eyes 2

$780,404
Funding type:
Scripted
Production company:
Mukpuddy
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Funding Subtype:
Creation Scripted
Genre:
Children
Episodes & Duration:
13x7 mins
Primary Platform:
TVNZ 2
Date:
Nov 2024
Synopsis:
After closing the portal to the other side in season 1, the Night Eyes crew must keep its hit paranormal show alive while an unknown threat begins.

Head Girl

$3,372,958
Funding type:
Scripted
Production company:
Head Girl
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Funding Subtype:
Creation Scripted
Genre:
Drama
Episodes & Duration:
6x30 mins
Primary Platform:
ThreeNow
Date:
Nov 2024
Synopsis:
Three estranged BFFs navigate the highs and lows of their early twenties in Wellington.

Fresh Fairytales! 3

$708,000
Funding type:
Scripted
Production company:
Tikilounge Productions
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Funding Subtype:
Creation Scripted
Genre:
Children
Episodes & Duration:
5x15 mins
Primary Platform:
The Coconet TV
Date:
Nov 2024
Synopsis:
A musical series featuring topsy-turvy, Island versions of childhood classics.

The Sanctuary

$1,367,556
Funding type:
Scripted
Production company:
KEVIN'S SANCTUARY
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Funding Subtype:
Creation Scripted
Genre:
Comedy
Episodes & Duration:
8x22 mins
Primary Platform:
THREE
Date:
Nov 2024
Synopsis:
An eccentric American billionaire hiding from the law in New Zealand is forced to convert his lavish private island into a Department of Conservation sanctuary.

This Is Home

$1,128,583
Funding type:
Scripted
Production company:
787 Media
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Funding Subtype:
Creation Scripted
Genre:
TMP Co-Fund
Episodes & Duration:
6x24 mins
Primary Platform:
Whakaata Māori
Date:
Nov 2024
Synopsis:
Sisters Nina and Kara must try and make sense of their love-hate relationship when forced to move back home with their whānau.

Bust Up

$2,265,000
Funding type:
Scripted
Production company:
Bust Up Productions
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Funding Subtype:
Creation Scripted
Genre:
Drama
Episodes & Duration:
6x44 mins
Primary Platform:
Sky Open
Date:
Nov 2024
Synopsis:
Deb and Mihi - ex-partners in life - are forced to partner up again as cops on the beat in the Bay of Islands.

Mr Hugo's Little Library

$1,118,603
Funding type:
Scripted
Production company:
LITTLE LIBRARY PRODUCTIONS NZ
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Funding Subtype:
Creation Scripted
Genre:
Children
Episodes & Duration:
8x12 mins
Primary Platform:
TVNZ 2
Date:
Nov 2024
Synopsis:
In this musical world, larger-than-life fables are delivered by larger-than-life characters.

Sgt. Haane

$584,064
Funding type:
Scripted
Production company:
Penny Diver Pictures Limited
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Funding Subtype:
Creation Scripted
Genre:
TMP Co-Fund
Episodes & Duration:
1x80 mins
Primary Platform:
TVNZ+
Date:
Nov 2024
Synopsis:
KIWI is a docudrama that follows WWII Māori Battalion soldier Lance Sergeant Haane Manahi, who,captured a vital enemy stronghold under machine-gun fire.

Suzy & Friends 2025

$227,249
Funding type:
Scripted
Production company:
Treehut
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Funding Subtype:
Creation Scripted
Genre:
Children
Episodes & Duration:
53x60 mins
Primary Platform:
Various Stations
Date:
Nov 2024
Synopsis:
A radio show and podcast that focuses on local content for the tamariki of Aotearoa New Zealand.

Toi Time! 4

$1,226,860
Funding type:
Scripted
Production company:
Rogue Productions
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Funding Subtype:
Creation Scripted
Genre:
Children
Episodes & Duration:
20x30 mins
Primary Platform:
TVNZ 2
Date:
Nov 2024
Synopsis:
Toi Time! is back for a fourth season, showcasing singing and dancing alongside life lessons through entertaining play, movement and music.

Bigsies And Littles

$810,030
Funding type:
Scripted
Production company:
The Downlow Concept
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Funding Subtype:
Creation Scripted
Genre:
Children
Episodes & Duration:
10x7 mins
Primary Platform:
YouTube
Date:
Jul 2024
Synopsis:
Based on the published graphic novels by Raymond McGrath, Big Little Blue is a gentle, thoughtful animated series for 4-to-7-year-olds, about two little kororā