Sitcoms
Joe Moran: 'Failure is what unites us'
Do you ever feel like a failure? Enter widely acclaimed observer of daily life Professor Joe Moran, not to tell you that everything will be OK in the end, but to reassure you that failure is an… Audio
The Worst Sitcom Ever Made Ep 1: 'I think of it like a cult'
Kiwi TV show 'Melody Rules' came out in the 90s and is widely regarded as one of worst sitcoms ever made. But just how bad was it? Geoff Houtman – one of the show's original writers – embarks on a… Audio
Was Melody Rules 'The Worst Sitcom Ever Made'?!
The homegrown comedy 'Melody Rules' that came out on TV3 in the 1990s has been panned as one of the worst sitcoms ever made. The critics called it cringeworthy, atrocious, awful, and a disaster in… Audio
The mess, the 25 year old monkey and me - Geoff Houtman explains
It's been a monkey on his back for 25 years. It's time to try to understand what happened to bring about such a monstrous failure Audio
Chris Marcil and the art of serial sitcoms
Chris talks to Lynn Freeman and about How I met your mother, serials in general and the Script To Screen "Episodic Lab" for New Zealand would-be TV scriptwriters. Audio