Andrew Shaw was a highly influential broadcasting manager, but for New Zealanders of a certain age he will always be remembered for his first job in the medium.
A second series of Queenstown-based TV murder-mystery drama A Remarkable Place to Die is set to be shot in the resort from this November till the end of April.
Years of filming, often in extreme conditions, has provided new insights into the extraordinary challenges endured by penguins for a series to be premiered on the eve of Earth Day.
Living his on-screen life as a put-upon figure, actor Brian Murphy was the mainstay of several hit television shows playing, as he termed it, "old codgers".
Richard Chamberlain, the Emmy-nominated actor and 1960s heartthrob who rocketed to fame in TV medical drama Dr Kildare and starred in the mini-series Shogun and The Thorn Birds has died. He was 90.