The Making of The Governor

For God’s sake let’s stop being smug about this place we live in — we didn’t make such a great job of it.

– Governor scriptwriter Keith Aberdein

Redgrave to the set please. Redgrave, can we have you on the set please.

– Corin Redgrave is called back to the cameras in the middle of an interview

... the series is a shot at elucidating the “gory, bloody and brutal background and origins of [...] Godzone country”.

– Lead actor Corin Redgrave

...when I read the scripts and saw what an epic scale the programme was going to be, I was surprised and pleased. I don't think you would find many opportunities to do something on this scale now in television companies anywhere.

– English actor Corin Redgrave, who played George Grey

You really don't appreciate your own culture until an opportunity like this presents itself. And then you're right in the thick of it, you're in the atmosphere of it. You feel it, you know, and...it makes you part of it ... You must feel it too, dressed in uniform, you must feel for your ancestry.

– One of the Māori extras in a battle scene talks to Pākehā who are playing colonial soldiers, in clip two