13 Mar 2022

Greenstone TV looks ahead

From Standing Room Only, 12:16 pm on 13 March 2022
Rachel Antony

Rachel Antony Photo: supplied

More than two hundred TV series and and one-offs - Greenstone TV has been producing local shows for more than 20 years.  And despite the many challenges facing the screen sector at the moment, it has a bunch of new shows in production this year. 

Long-running prime-time hits include Border Patrol, Dog Squad and Renters, while  documentaries include The Women Of Pike River, Decades In Colour and Keeping It Pure.  

More recently, Greenstone's become involved in drama too - teen-sci-fi thriller series, The Cul de Sac, and gritty drama Vegas.    A new series Kid Sister has recently wrapped filming, and the next series of the Lucy Lawless show My life is murder is  scheduled to start shooting this week.

Lynn Freeman talks to Greenstone CEO Rachel Antony, and first asks why the enduring appeal of reality series like their long running Motorway, Highway and Border Patrol: