Media

When Winston Peters took centre stage this week, he also took a big swing at the media. Other party leaders also criticised the media coverage of the election, but some political players and the media… Video, Audio

The two big TV broadcasters aggressively promoted and reported the opinion polls they paid for during the election campaign, which returned some very different results. How did they compare with the… Video, Audio

These days Playboy is just one of many pornographic products on the shelf and a lucrative logo slapped on other stuff. Its founder has long been a ludicrous figure in a dressing gown and the ship’s… Audio

The concept of the TV show Fast n' Loud is simple – every week Richard Rawlings and his mechanic sidekick Aaron Kaufman scour the US for derelict classic cars to buy, restore and flip. Rawlings gives… Video, Audio, Gallery

The debate over the publication of magazines like Playboy have resurfaced following the death of the magazine's founder Hugh Hefner.

Hefner died yesterday aged 91. Playboy combined softcore… Audio

Violence in movies and on TV has long been seen as a bad influence on children. To combat that we have warnings and ratings to give parents a heads up when guns or fighting is about to be shown. That… Audio

Rhys Mathewson hosts from The Classic in Auckland with guests Lana Walters, Penny Ashton and Cori Gonzalez Macuer. Audio

For almost as long as we have had movies, cinema owners have tried to innovate to encourage audiences to leave their homes. When TV became mainstream in the 1950s, Hollywood and the theatre chains… Audio

Scottish comedian Kevin Bridges is well-known from TV show Would I Lie to You? and his stand-up appearances on Live at the Apollo. Audio

A thorough debrief of media coverage before, during and after the election, that ended in speculation fatigue, and the small island of serenity at the the BBC called "slow TV". Gavin Ellis is a media… Audio

With her two sisters, writer and photographer Kelly Wilson made wild Kaimanawa horses a household name via the TV series Keeping up with the Kaimanawas. She says it's time the Australian public began… Audio, Gallery

The idea held by some Americans that one can simply choose to consider beliefs or opinions as facts goes back long before 'fake news', argues Kurt Andersen in his book Fantasyland: How America Went… Audio