Season 9 of one of my favourite shows, New Zealand murder mystery series Brokenwood, has just started. This 28 minute radio interview with head writer and co-producer Tim Balme is very interesting. 📺

Brokenwood is somewhat Tardis-like, he says.

It may appear like a small town, but once you enter it, it’s as big as you need it to be.

@Miraz my first job out of uni was as a production runner for a kiwi movie and I worked with him!

@herself Cool. I remember him from something I watched — maybe Shortland Street back in the day. (A long way back. 🤣)

@ppel It’s available on Acorn Australia if you have the technological means for that. Apparently the show is very popular around the world…

@Miraz Acorn U.S.A. aswell - big fan of Brokenwood in this house - but we are only up to series 9 - which finished here a while back.

// @jean @ppel @herself

@jean One of the things I like about Brokenwood, this fictitious small town, is that they have everything a story could demand — amateur operatics, commercial fishing wharves, surf beach, riverboat tours, wineries, hunting clubs, famous authors, world class archers. There’s an endless list of the kinds of things any real small town may have two or three of, but not all. 😀

@ppel We have NZ Acorn (which doesn’t have the older episodes). When I set my VPN to Australia and login then I can watch the show.

@Miraz I believe it’s on NRK here in Norway.