James Griffin
Writer James Griffin has been pivotal in an eye-opening proportion of the successful TV comedies and dramas made in New Zealand since the mid 1980s. His credits stretch from Gloss to award-winner 800 Words and big screen comedy Sione's Wedding. Working alongside writer Rachel Lang, he also co-created Westie family drama Outrageous Fortune and hit show The Almighty Johnsons.
We don’t actually draw that much from our own experiences because if we had behaved like the West family in our lives, we probably would be in prison rather than writers on a TV show. James Griffin on writing for Outrageous Fortune
James Griffin - Funny As Interview
Interview, 2019
James Griffin: Getting serious about Kiwi comedy...
Interview, 2014
Funny As: The Story of New Zealand Comedy
2019, Subject - Television
Westside
2015 - 2020, Creator, Writer, Script Editor, Executive Producer - Television
800 Words
2015 - 2018, Creator, Writer, Executive Producer - Television
800 Words - First Episode
2015, Creator, Writer, Executive Producer - Television
Westside - First Episode
2015, Co-Creator, Executive Producer, Script Editor - Television
Step Dave
2014 - 2015, Writer - Television
The Brokenwood Mysteries
2014 - ongoing, Writer - Television
The Naughty Bits - Free Speech and Sensitive Information
2014, Subject - Television
The Naughty Bits - The 'S' Word
2014, Subject - Television
The Naughty Bits - Violence, Drugs and the 'F' Word
2014, Subject - Television
The Blue Rose
2013, Creator, Writer, Executive Producer - Television
The Blue Rose - Episode One
2013, Creator - Television
Sione's 2 - Unfinished Business
2012, Writer, Associate Producer - Film
The Almighty Johnsons
2011 - 2013, Writer, Executive Producer, Creator, Script Editor - Television
The Almighty Johnsons - First Episode
2011, Writer, Creator, Executive Producer - Television
Reel Late with Kate
2010 - 2011, Guest Film Critic - Television
50 Years of New Zealand Television: 5 - Telling Stories
2010, Subject - Television
Rocked the Nation
2008 - 2011, Subject - Television
Diplomatic Immunity - First Episode
2008, Creator, Writer, Executive Producer - Television
We're Here to Help
2007, Script Editor - Film
Sione's Wedding
2006, Writer, Associate Producer - Film
Outrageous Fortune - First Episode
2005, Creator, Writer, Script Editor, Executive Producer - Television
Maddigan's Quest
2005, Writer - Television
Outrageous Fortune
2005 - 2010, Executive Producer, Writer, Creator - Television
bro'Town - Get Rucked
2004, Story Producer - Television
Serial Killers
2004, Creator, Writer - Television
bro'Town - The Weakest Link (First Episode)
2004, Story Producer - Television
Serial Killers - Full Series
2004, Creator, Writer, Associate Producer - Television
Spin Doctors - Series Four, Final Episode
2003, Writer - Television
Spin Doctors - Election Special
2002, Writer - Television
The Strip
2002 - 2003, Writer - Television
Being Eve
2001 - 2002, Writer - Television
Mataku - The Sisters (Ngā Tuāhine)
2001, Script Editor - Television
Mercy Peak
2001 - 2003, Writer - Television
Spin Doctors
2001 - 2003, Co-Creator, Writer - Television
Spin Doctors - First Episode
2001, Writer - Television
Street Legal
2000 - 2005, Writer - Television
Jackson's Wharf
1999 - 2000, Script Supervisor, Writer, Writer - Television
Lawless
1999, Story - Television
Double Booking
1998, Principal Writer - Television
City Life
1996 - 1998, Creator, Writer, Associate Producer - Television
City Life - First Episode
1996, Creator, Writer, Associate Producer - Television
Plainclothes - First Episode
1995, Writer - Television
Riding High - First Episode
1995, Script Producer - Television
Shortland Street - The birth of Carrie's triplets
1993, Script Editor, Script Supervisor - Television
Shortland Street
1999, Writer - Television
Marlin Bay
1992 - 1994, Writer - Television
More Issues
1991 - 1992, Writer - Television
The New Adventures of Black Beauty
1990 - 1992, Writer - Television
The Boy from Andromeda - The Guardian
1990, Script Editor - Television
Night of the Red Hunter - Telefeature
1989, Script Editor - Television
Funny Business - Excerpts
1988 - 1991, Writer - Television
Funny Business
1988 - 1991, Writer - Television
Gloss
1987 - 1990, Writer - Television
Steel Riders - Bloodstones (First Episode)
1987, Script Editor - Television
Steel Riders
1987, Script Editor - Television