B&B

A situation comedy staring Hori Ahipene and Te Radar as Bevan and Beverly Best and their Oneoneroa Bed and Breakfast. Each week they have two special guests who they interview and become part of the situation which develops. Usually ending in a performance of some kind! Half hour programme with live audience for Maori Television

B&B Series 1 2005    B&B Series 2 2006     B&B Series 3 2006

Toru 2006

After the success of Toru 2005 the programme was moved to Prime Time still hosted by the T Sistaz and judged by leading Maori entertainment stars.

Winner DEADLY ALLIANCE from Rotorua

T SISTAZ PRESENT TORU

Hosted by the T sistaz this 13 part entertainment series is a talent quest for groups of Three performers. Twenty seven teams enter and are auditioned on camera in their home, the winners perform in the Auckland Studio to a live audience and the final winner is chosen at the Live Grand Final.

Winner: Learnerz from Gisborne.

QUEER NATION

Livingstone is the home of QUEER NATION, the long running series based on the lives, love and passions of New Zealand’s gay lesbian and associated communities. As the only publicly funded free to air nationally broadcast weekly programme for the queer community Queer Nation is a ground breaking phenomenon. Since 1998 Livingstone has developed the show into a substantial full time operations production 40 half hour episodes a year for Television New Zealand. In 2004 the company produced the eleventh series of Queer Nation. This production won the Best Factual Series at the NZ Television Awards 2003.

Queer Nation SPECIALS

During the production of the Queer Nation Series several one off programmes were produced on single themes such as Gay History of Wellington, Pioneering Lesbians.

In late 2002, two one-hour specials Queer Nation at the Gay Games screened on TV2 during and after the Gay Games VI in Sydney, Australia.

International Queer Television

The G Factor / She Spot

Based on the Queer Nation library, Livingstone Productions piloted two international magazine programmes for gay and lesbian subscribers to Canadian cable channel Pridevision.

The G Factor for men and She Spot for women, each a 13-episode series.

CAPTAIN’S LOG

Now established as an iconic television documentary series, the company produced Captain’s Log, a documentary series of four, hour-long programmes. The show topped the audience ratings on TVONE and won the AFTA Award for Best Documentary Series 2001. The series finds connections between the present and the past as it explores the island nation’s relationship with the sea. Peter Elliot circumnavigates New Zealand following the journey of Captain James Cook and seeing what’s there now!

NGA WAHINE MAURI ORA

A series of short stories each focusing on the life of a rural maori woman. 26 womens tales were produced to launch the new Maori Television Channel.

FARR FROM HEAVEN

TVNZ has commissioned two half hour documentaries on the leading New Zealand composer Gareth Farr following his work and experiences in music over six months in Australia and New Zealand. Featuring the premier of several new works for Wellington’s Orchestra, Australias leadingchoir, and the New Zealand Army Brass Band with precussion group Strike.

Family Ties

A documentary about Kyle McNaughton a young man: not maori enough to be maori, not Scottish enough to be Scottish, and not Chinese enough to be Chinese although he is all those. He is now married to a Papua New Guinean and they have a baby boy. Kyle visits his ancestors to try to find out who he is! A prime time documentary for TVNZ.

SPECIAL EVENT TELEVISION

Montana New Zealand Wearable Art Awards

Spectacular event television and winner of the Best Entertainment Programme of the year in the new Zealand Television Awards.

The Hero Parade

Three years of coverage of the Gay and Lesbian community night parade down ponsonby road in Auckland. Over 300,000 on the side of the road take part in the parade of over 70 floats. Excitement and entertainment on wheels.

New Zealand Music Awards

Three years of the best New Zealand Music of the year with special history notes on events and memories of the year gone buy plus liver performances of the leading musicians.

Millennium Church Service

The First church service of the new millennium on 1 January 2000 from the Catholic church in Grey Lynn Auckland.

THE HILL

Livingstone Productions also produced its first short film for the New Zealand Film Commission Short Film Fund. The Hill was directed, written and performed by Maori and the majority of the production crew were of Pacific Island or Maori ancestry. The production was selected for the indigenous peoples section of the Sundance Film Festival and was in competition at The Berlin Festival 2002.

Uncles Story

In 2003 Livingstone Productions received funding from the New Zealand Film Commission for the development of the feature film script of Witi Ihimaera’s novel ‘The Uncles Story’.