5 hours Ago By Tara Ward
Originally published by The Spinoff . We round up the best of the homegrown content coming to your screens this year. 2025 is a new year, and with it comes a new year of television and films.
While the local screen industry endured a brutal year in 2024 – and there are more challenges to come – TVNZ, Three, Whakaata Māori and Sky/Neon have all recently revealed their upcoming year of local programming, with plenty to look forward to. It includes a lot of factual and documentary shows, a mix of scripted drama and comedy, and a Lower Hutt man who discovers an alternative reality inside his garden shed. (Then again, who hasn’t?) There are also plenty of old favourites returning this year.
Three has new seasons of Homebound 3.0 , Paddy Gower Has Issues and David Lomas Investigates , while on TVNZ, The Brokenwood Mysteries returns, as does The Gone , Hui Hoppers , Educators and My Life is Murder . Shortland Street and Country Calendar are back on TVNZ too, as well as Taskmaster NZ , NZ’s Best Homes with Phil Spencer , Grand Designs NZ , Down for Love , Eat Well for Less NZ and Endangered Species Aotearoa .
Award-winning series Homesteads returns to Whakaata Māori for a second season, as does architectural series The Drawing Board . (Sad face: there’s no mention of beloved reality shows such as Celebrity Treasure Island or The Traitors NZ ). Here’s our hand-picked selection of the local TV shows and films to look out for in 2025.
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