Best New Zealand reality series

Welcome to The Traitors NZ, Paul Henry's devilish little game with one main goal - find and unmask the traitors, the secret saboteurs within the group, before they get you.

We all want to love and be loved. From first dates and first times to being friend-zoned, this heartwarming reality show follows several New Zealanders with Down syndrome as they navigate the joys and difficulties of dating and finding true love.

Comedian Guy Montgomery hosts a spelling competition with a mixture of simple and unconventional rounds.

The stories of creative and enterprising Kiwis who are taking on the challenge of building their own unique and inspirational homes. No design is too ambitious, and no obstacle too large in their quest for the perfect house.

Kiwis will battle it out for the ultimate prize and title of "Sole Survivor". It's the ultimate test of physical, mental and emotional strength.

Francis and Kaiora Tipene are the passionate proprietors of Tipene Funerals. This is a unique opportunity to look behind the scenes of their business and into this little-explored but vital service, where our culture's last taboo is being addressed with dignity and aroha.

The Block NZ is the first local version of an international hit renovation-reality series in which four couples compete to renovate four dilapidated houses in a very upmarket suburb – room by room, week by week, challenge by challenge – and sell them at auction for the highest price. The teams can be couples, family members, or friends, and do not need any DIY experience. Once selected, the contestants live and breathe their DIY project for the nine week shoot, living on site in The Block NZ houses. There are no further eliminations, and the winning couple is decided by the toughest judge of all, the real estate market! All four renovated houses go to a live TV auction, with The Block NZ crown going to the couple whose house fetches the highest price on the night!. All the couples receive profits from the sale of their house at the televised auction, and the winners will take home an additional cash prize of $80,000.

New Zealand Today began on Jono And Ben as a parody of click-bait journalism and modern media culture. The segment went on to become its own 'show within a show' and clips have since racked up hundreds of thousands of views online. New Zealand Today takes Guy Williams around the country checking out strange and unusual goings-on in regional New Zealand.

Can science find your soulmate? Find out on Three when our singles get paired up and Married At First Sight, right here in NZ!

The Real Housewives of Auckland gives an exclusive look into the glamorous galas, scintillating scandals, and enormous egos of this group of luxury-loving ladies as they navigate the social scene of the city’s elite, all while juggling their husbands, boyfriends, careers and families. Pedigree and status may grant an automatic invite to the glitziest gatherings in town, but one stiletto out of place could shift anyone on to the blacklist and trigger a social catastrophe. Pecking orders and relationships are at stake when old-money meets new-money meets no-money, and these ladies soon realise who will survive the twists and turns, and who will be left in the dust to lick their wounds.

Heartbreak Island will set hearts racing and temperatures rising when a group of single guys and girls put everything on the line to find their perfect match and be in the chance of winning $100,000. Beforehand, they have already been able to rate each other online and tick their favorites. On the island it is checked whether there is a match or not. The lucky ones are linked to their favorite date and the less popular ones have to make do with the leftovers. Then the game really starts. Every week, the couples have to do a few challenges together, where the losers threaten to leave the island unless they are saved by their competitors.

From biscuits to bread, pies to pavlovas, 12 amateur Kiwi bakers have their skills put to the test. Will they rise to the challenge?

New Zealand version of the reality dating competition where a single bachelor dates multiple women over several weeks, narrowing them down to hopefully find his true love.

Finding forever homes for rescue dogs isn't easy, but that's exactly what the staff of Country Retreat Animal Sanctuary do every day. Set inside a rural Kiwi animal rescue known for its tireless commitment to rescuing animals in trouble, The Dog House NZ captures the joy and complexity of the human-dog "dating" experience.

Rowan, Adam, Alan and Britt (dungeon master Robert) play D&D. The four players play as their characters from Epic NPC Man, with whatever happens to the characters being deemed as canon in the Epic NPC Man universe.

Fraternal twins Ron and John Daniels run their tree house and theming business, Daniel's Wood Land.

Thousands of amateur cooks apply from right around the country, aged from 18 to 70, from students and young mums to golf pros and lawyers - all dreaming of making it big in the culinary world.

One chef, one truck and a whole heap of new ideas on how to tackle our addiction to junk food. The Food Truck is open for business.

The all favourite Border Patrol follows staff at the New Zealand Customs Service and Ministry for Primary Industries as they work the frontline checking for drugs and illegal goods and monitoring the border for potentially harmful diseases that could cripple New Zealand's economy overnight.

The international blockbuster has come to New Zealand! Our Bachelorettes, Lesina and Lily are ready to find love. Hosted by Art Green.

Adventurous teams of two compete in the ultimate survival test! Facing the unpredictable outdoors of New Zealand, they must evade a unit of elite trackers to reach a pick-up point.

New Zealand's Next Top Model is a New Zealand reality television series in which a number of young women compete for the title of New Zealand's Next Top Model and the chance to start their career in the modeling industry. The show's format was originally created by American talk-show host and model Tyra Banks. The New Zealand series is hosted by former model and 62 Models Management founder Sara Tetro, and airs on TV3 NZ. The winner of NZNTM wins a modelling contract with Sara's agency. Like its American counterpart, NZNTM features a photographer and international model on its judging panel, Chris Sisarich and Colin Mathura-Jeffree, respectively. Mathura-Jeffree also acts as runway coach to the girls, much like Miss Jay on America's Next Top Model.

This award-winning programme has total access to the men and women who patrol the main arteries of Auckland City. Each series has a whole new helping of adrenaline packed stories and lunatic motorists.

In Aotearoa's hot new dating series three stunning Kiwi women are searching for the guy of their dreams. But can they tell the difference between the genuine 'nice guys' and the 'Fboys' who are there to compete for cold, hard cash?

The Masked Singer NZ is a reality singing competition where 12 celebrities compete against each other in song. The contestants are masked head-to-toe in extravagant costumes, which completely conceal their identities. With the help of some clever clues along the way, New Zealanders and the celebrity guessing panel will have to try to work out which well known celebrity is hiding behind the mask!

New Zealand’s best balloon artists battle it out to showcase their skill and creativity. Within a limited timeframe, the contestants must complete unique challenges and wow the expert judges with their mesmerising creations. These one-of-a-kind creations bring audiences into the magical world of balloon art and highlight the potential each balloon poses.

Join Sonia Gray on a thrilling journey of discovery as she helps New Zealand families with a mystery to solve… starting with a single clue. Seekers present Sonia with something that poses the fundamental question they want answered. She then works with an ensemble team, from DNA experts to internet sleuths, to follow the clues, overcome red herrings and dead ends, travelling to wherever the story leads… all in the quest for the truth to give the family mystery closure.

This highly entertaining series follows two famous cricketers, Brendon 'Baz' McCullum and Phil 'Tuffers' Tufnell, travelling the length and breadth of New Zealand playing golf and discovering the country's most famous and picturesque courses, playing the game they love, sharing great stories, eating the finest food, drinking the finest wine and meeting New Zealand's wonderful people.

Travel Guides NZ will follow five different groups of Kiwi travellers on their domestic escapades around the land of the long white cloud. Our travellers will become critics too, rating and reviewing their holiday experiences in a way only Travel Guides can deliver. One person’s idea of paradise is another’s nightmare, and our opinionated travellers will be thrown out of their comfort zones as they deliver brutally honest and hilarious reviews of NZ’s unique tourist attractions. Join them on adventures from Northland to Southland, Gisbourne, Marlborough Sounds, Fiordland, and Auckland. Re-discover our magical country through the eyes of ordinary families on extraordinary adventures. Bon voyage Kiwis!

Superstar judges Rachel Hunter, Ali Campbell and Jason Kerrison begin their search for the next Kiwi superstar.

This iconic all-things-rural show is the longest running programme on New Zealand television. It first went to air on 6 March 1966. With its typical patient observational style, which allows stories of people and the land to gently unfold, the award-winning series is an unlikely broadcasting star, but New Zealanders continue to tune in. Amongst the bucolic tales of farming, fishing and forestry, there are high country musters, organic brewing and tobacco farming. There have also been occasional excursions into comedy, including a fencing wire-playing farmer-musician, and Fred Dagg and the Trevs.

Professional dancers pair with kiwi celebrities to train and compete in ballroom dancing, battling it out in order to take home the coveted mirrorball trophy.

Police Ten 7 features unique, behind the scenes access to cases, being the first to reveal new information in high profile crimes. As well as telling the different stories of policing, providing insight into the important, varied and often difficult work the New Zealand Police face each day.

Kiwi stars face off in paradise for the chance to win money for their chosen charities. With eliminations each week until the final celebrities remain, it will be a treasure hunt to end all treasure hunts!

For these people, weight loss surgery is their last chance in our increasingly fat and sugar-fuelled society. Set in the Manukau Super Clinic and community, each patient must put in the effort to lose weight in order to qualify for potentially life-saving bariatric surgery, more commonly known as stomach stapling. As they are forced to change their eating habits and start exercising, will they have the strength and determination to reach their goal weight for surgery? We'll share their highs and lows during their year-long quest back to health. The Big Ward is a series about overcoming the challenges faced by the patients, their families and the medical staff who care for them, while also addressing the wider issues that this spiralling pandemic has created. This 10 part series is proudly funded by NZ on Air and TVNZ.

Journey back through the hardships and triumphs of some of Aotearoa's earliest Anglo Indian, Cook Island, Chinese & Bohemian settlers through the lens of their modern day descendants.

Follows the life-threatening and emotionally charged situations encountered by St John Ambulance Officers as they tend to and save the lives of people in their homes, work-places and on the streets. Delivers diverse and moving real-life medical emergency stories.

"We started in Bluff and ended up in Opua and, in-between, we've been on coal trains, freight trains, steam trains, railcars, even a jigger or two". This highly popular series, produced by Jam TV, has garnered awards across most production categories, and rightly so. All aspects of the programme, from filming, to editing, to the soundtrack, make this a stand-out series, and Marcus Lush is the perfect minstrel to tell the tale. On his journey along the railroad, Marcus catches the train wherever he can, but if the tracks are gone or out of use, he walks, rides, cycles and pedals his way along the old railway line tracks. Along the way he meets locals and recounts the social history of the area, all with his trademark mix of warmth and wryness.

This all-new entertainment series celebrates New Zealand's love affair with home baking. The series features eight top amateur home bakers from across New Zealand competing each to test their baking skills. From cupcakes, pies and pavlovas, to baking and decorating the perfect cake, each episode holds a fresh and delicious challenge for the contestants testing their versatility and inventiveness baking against the clock.

Lost & Found is a new ten part documentary series that sets about reuniting families, uncovering cultural identity and discovering lost family heritage. Each week seasoned investigative journalist David Lomas, along with a specialist search team of genealogists and researchers, tackles the cases of up to three seekers who are on an emotional journey to discover their family members and cultural pasts that they have not been connected to. Lost & Found is real, raw and - at times - heartbreaking as each episode showcases a basic primal need – just how important it is to know who we are and where we’ve come from. Tissues advised.

Gogglebox NZ takes viewers into a diverse selection of Kiwi living rooms to watch some of the country's sharpest armchair critics laugh, cry and shout at the highlights of the week's television.

Reality Trip is a documentary series (seven one hour episodes), which takes five young Kiwi consumers to three different countries to see where the products they buy come from – computers, bananas, costume jewellery, clothes, and tea. They’re products most New Zealanders buy without thinking about their origins and who makes them.

Take one long hot summer, NZ's capital city, the general public and our paramedics - it's a recipe for carnage! Made with the support of NZ on Air

What would you do for your family? Our First Home aims to find out, as three Kiwi families put everything on the line to help their children onto the property ladder. Bringing the fun, feel-good factor to the nation's DIY obsession, Our First Home is a multi-night series that tells the story that thousands of New Zealanders are living today.

Through the eyes of the best dancers in the country follow the Royal New Zealand Ballet Company as they rehearse, cast and then tour their notoriously tough Triple Bill season. With an unprecedented all access pass the series goes behind the glitz and the glamour of showbiz into the dressing rooms, hotel rooms and even the dancers’ homes to expose the gruelling training schedules, the fierce competition for roles, and the devastation an injury can bring for a dancer. Through the deeply personal journeys of these extraordinary dancers we also find out what happens when romance between dancers moves off-stage, explore the hierarchy of the company and witness the heartache when things don’t go to plan. See behind the scenes the workings of a major production, from the choreography and rehearsals, to the costuming and the sets, and the logistics of touring a professional production around the country. Funny, candid and revealing this fresh new series will challenge stereotypes and change the way we think about ballet dancers forever.

Five strangers, five nights, five dinner parties. At the beginning of each week, host Guy Williams introduces five strangers who will battle it out over the course of five episodes for the title ‘ultimate dinner party host.’ Each night, one of the five must host a dinner party for the others. Throughout five episodes, aired Monday–Friday, contestants take turns to host a dinner party and score the efforts of the other contestants out of 10. At the end of the week, the winning host walks away with a cash prize of $2,000.

Five Kiwi teams of two gamble with the most important possession in their lives: their home. Each week one team hands over the keys to their home to host Duncan Heyde, to be renovated by their rival teams in just five and half days.

New Zealand has over 11,000 kilometres of stunning yet dangerous highway. Meet the police men and women tasked with keeping our highways safe

With the help of Matt Gibb, Kiwi couples escape the rat race to look for their dream homes in regional New Zealand.

PURINA Pound Pups To Dog Stars follows the rescue work of Auckland animal behaviour expert Mark Vette and his talented trainers at 'Animals on Q'. Dealing with dogs of all shapes, breeds, and sizes, Mark works with the SPCA, animal control officers and foster carers to learn the back stories of each rescue dog and how they came to be mistreated, abandoned or surrendered. Devising rehab and retraining plans for each pooch, Mark and his team embark on potentially life saving journies to try to turn the Pound Pups' lives around.

New Zealand's fire fighters battle more than 20,000 fires every year; blazes that devastate homes, businesses, farmland and forestry, causing millions of dollars of damage and loss. But what happens after the smoke clears and the embers fade? For a small, highly trained team specialising in the science and art of fire investigation, the fire is just the beginning of the story. Where did the fire start? What was its cause? How can it be prevented from happening again? It's their task to find the answers. Fire Scene Investigation is a ten-part local series that tracks the investigation from the initial fire call-out through to the determination of origin and cause. Witnesses are interviewed, leads are followed, theories explored and evidence unearthed and analysed - all in a quest for the truth. Fire Scene Investigation also reveals the human cost of fires - the loss of homes, livelihoods and life at the hands of one of the world's most powerful forces. It is an emotional time, often filled with raw pain and horror - through the midst of which the investigators must navigate a steady course as they search for answers to the devastation that faces them.

For these brave few, there is a killing to be made. Millions of dollars' worth of abalone lay there, just below the surface ripe for the picking, but can the divers make it out alive? The Southern Ocean, off the tip of South Australia is home to more sharks per square kilometre than almost anywhere else in the world. The risk of death by shark attack is very real here, many divers personally know the heart ache felt from losing loved ones. But that doesn't stop this group of fearless men who, every season, battle against their nerves plunging to the depths and scouring the ocean floor for the much-prized green and black abalone.

Women in Blue, follows the lives of seven Kiwi female police officers, working the beat in cities and towns across the country.

They are the most talked about mother and daughter duo in New Zealand; tabloid fodder and twitter targets who are famous for being famous. But who are Sally and Jaime Ridge…really? Meet the real people behind all those headlines in this surprisingly candid, funny and heart-warming reality series, from the producers of Secret Lives of Dancers.

A New Zeland half-hour factual entertainment series that proves you don't have to be extreme to be green. From worm farms to rainwater butts and solar power to heat pumps, we take your average household of eco horrors and turn it into a clean green haven, saving our families serious cash in the process. Every week we take a different family, audit their waste and energy usage with our unique eco calculator and confront them with the terrifying truth about their long-term impact on the planet. Our eco-expert will put them on a green regime to clean up their act. After tracking the family we re-calculate their household footprint and hand over their cash savings. WA$TED! is an information-rich series that transforms your average eco criminal into your ultimate green convert.

PlaceMakers Big Angry Fish is a New Zealand fishing television show hosted by Milan Radonich. The programme began airing onwards from the end of April 2012, with thirteen episodes screening weekly on Sundays on TV3. A second season began at the end of July 2013.

Shot in the high country of the South Island, this series gives viewers the true story of hard-working, hard-playing Kiwi shearing gangs.

Nabbed is a New Zealand reality television show, produced with the assistance of the New Zealand Police Traffic Division for Television New Zealand's TV2. The show profiles and follows the work of traffic police officers in their patrols and other police duties.

You'd think Intrepid NZ would be bursting with man talk and show-offery. Two brawny guys pulling off dangerous stunts for the cameras. But this is no Marc and Matthew road trip. Kevin Biggar and Jamie Fitzgerald are the businessmen-turned-adventurers who also made First Crossings, and who famously made it through the 5000km Transatlantic Rowing Race in 2003. They take this stuff seriously. Their new series involves similar perils to their first, only the focus this time is miraculous survival tales and awe-inspiring journeys from history. Clearly you need to be serious to do this sort of thing.

TV2's brand new series: Aotearoa Social Club is an irreverent, off the wall new show featuring an array of well-known Kiwi panellists. The all Maori panel include celebrities such as Nesian Mystik's Te Awanui (Awa) Reeder, actor Tammy Davis, Silver Fern Catherine Latu and radio DJ and singer K'Lee where they discus, dissect and disrespect all things pop-culture.

Mitre 10 Dream Home is a reality television series that screen on TV2 in New Zealand, originally presented by Jayne Kiely and presented by Simon Barnett in 2013. Two couples are challenged to turn a dilapidated house into their Dream Home. Each week the two teams are to renovate a room or area of the house in just one weekend. Viewers vote for the room they like best with the votes from the viewers and judges help determine which team will win the competition. The winning team take will win the Dream Home they create and the second team will have the option to purchase their Dream Home at a public auction. In 2013 the competition changed from renovating an existing home to building a new home from scratch.

Follow South Auckland’s finest as they go after the gangsters, dealers and thieves with the latest in crime science, intelligence gathering and crime prevention strategies. The mission: to drive down crime and make New Zealand’s meanest streets safer. Narrated by Jesse Mulligan, Crime Exposed is the first New Zealand series to look beyond the thin, blue frontline of policing and delve deep into the inner workings of our police force, to discover the strategies, technologies, men and women that are the new wave of law enforcement. Crime Exposed is a new kind of cop show for a new kind of policing. Our cameras follow a diverse range of crime fighting tales including a massive drug seizure operation and the intelligence behind it, we see how cutting edge surveillance technology is used to take down members of a prolific street gang and how the latest in crime prevention strategies leads to a colourful night amongst rowdy partygoers. With unprecedented access to police officers and procedures, Crime Exposed tells the real story of how New Zealand police are waging the war on crime.

With fame and fortune, Tem's star was flying high, until the acting jobs dried up. So, what did he do next? Made with the support of NZ on Air