Frontseat

With five seasons and close to 100 episodes, Frontseat, produced by The Gibson Group, was the longest-running arts programme of its time. Billed in TVNZ publicity as a "topical and provocative weekly arts series investigating the issues facing local arts and culture", it was hosted by actor Oliver Driver. The show (sometimes controversially) took a broad current affairs approach to the arts of the day, covering "all the big events, reporting the stories, and interviewing the personalities".