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Orange Roughies - First Episode

Television (Excerpts) – 2006

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1 May 2010 - 06.30pm
For a New Zealand drama that was stopped stone dead because it was supposedly not good enough it seems to have been rescreened an 'awful lot'.

I enjoyed it the first time around and was very annoyed when it ended without any consultation.

The first couple of episodes were slightly self conscious and leaden but raced ahead in the further episodes. I still don't understand why they canned it. It was getting better and better.

I see it as a bit of a cult classic now.
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