A meticulous, unflappable producer and director, John Lye’s career spanned three decades – most of it spent with TVNZ in Christchurch and Avalon. Lye did time as a cameraman and floor manager. Later he commanded two major productions of the 1980s — That’s Country and McPhail and Gadsby. After leaving TVNZ in 2000, he helped launch Big Brother Australia and live broadcasts of New Zealand Parliament.
He was the only person I fully trusted with transforming a script into a finished sketch… I had complete faith in John’s judgement. If the plants needed light, then let there be light and if John said a sketch wasn’t working, we knew it wasn’t working. David McPhail, on page 170 of his autobiography The Years Before My Death
Interview, 2022
2006, Studio Director - Television
2004, Studio Director - Television
1996, Director - Television
1994, Producer - Short Film
1993 - 1994, Director - Television
1993, Director - Television
1993, Director - Television
1991, Director - Television
1991, Producer - Television
1990, Director, Producer - Television
1989 - 1992, Director - Television
1988 - 1991, Producer, Director - Television
1985, Producer - Television
1983, Director, Producer - Television
1982, Producer, Director - Television
1981, Director - Television
1980 - 1987, 1998, Director, Producer - Television
1981 - 1984, Producer - Television
1980, Director, Producer - Television
1980, Director - Television
1979, Director - Music video
1979, Director - Music video
1976, Director, Producer - Television
1980 - 1983, Director - Television
1978 - 1979, Producer, Director - Television
1970, Director (Christchurch) - Television
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