It is impossible to watch everything on television but Te Radar will be giving it his best shot in his latest show Best Bits.
“It is a television show about television,” says Te Radar. “It is a light-hearted look at what has been on the week prior. There is so much on that it is virtually impossible for any one person to watch it all and I am going to attempt to do that.”
Te Radar says the show is part review, part critique of things that have been on in the past week.
“It could be anything,” he says. “If it was this week, I suspect it would be a good look at the fact that the news media is astounded by this phenomenon called winter.”
He says with reality TV, there is so much content and little moments of gold.
“Hillbilly hand-fishing – I love that kind of thing. I want to do a bit on our fetish for extractive industries as television fodder – gold mining, swamp logging, coal mining. There are some really great reality TV shows about coal mining…
“We often go let’s not mine, let’s not cut down trees, let’s not fish. But we watch the programmes about the people who do it and those shows are great.”
Best Bits, which will feature a revolving panel of guests, is filmed as live. It is something Te Radar has not done for a while.
“That weekly turnaround is really intense. As soon as the show is filmed you are looking for material for the next week.”
Te Radar says working in front of a live studio audience is a different beast from a live comedy crowd.
“You have that audience there, they can be there for quite a long time, so you want to be able to give them an entertaining time. The last thing you want is four hours into it, to have people go – the last bus is gone I am not getting home.”
Te Radar welcomes interaction on his show with social media.
“I am hoping that there will be,” he says. “I am hoping people will be able to respond – to suggest clips, to suggest programmes… Hopefully, people will be able to be a part of it.”
Best Bits premieres tonight on TV1
-TV Guide
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