Billy T James America's Cup Challenge

Comedian Billy T James presents an introduction to The America’s Cup as Team New Zealand challenges for The Auld Mug for the first time. Billy T visits Fremantle in Western Australia — where the Cup is being contested — and meets members of the Kiwi team, including skipper Chris Dickson and backer Michael Fay. Rules and strategy are explained and there’s occasional product placement for sponsor Sony. Billy’s sense of humour is never too far away but this is a largely-factual exercise from a time before the America’s Cup was (briefly) “New Zealand’s cup”.

It’s just like when mum is baking a cake — it never works out if the whole family is in the kitchen. So we’ll see you in February when we return home with the cup.

– A 'No Visitors' sign outside the New Zealand base

Key Cast & Crew

Stephen McCurdy

Composer

Peter Galuszewski

Editor

Billy T James

Presenter

Tony Holden

Producer, Director

Trisha Stratford

Research

Peter Read

Camera