South Pacific Pictures

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South Pacific Pictures is a television production company based in New Zealand. The company produces drama series, mini-series, telemovies and feature films for the domestic market and international market. [1] SPP's largest project is Shortland Street the half hour soap for TVNZ's TV2. In 2006, the company released Sione's Wedding and in 2002, the Oscar-nominated feature film Whale Rider. In 1998 the company produced the feature film, What Becomes of The Broken Hearted?, the sequel to Once Were Warriors.

In August 1999, the company moved from Browns Bay (Auckland) to a new purpose built studio complex in Henderson, West Auckland.

SPP is in a joint venture with Australian company SLR Productions to produce animated shows aimed at international markets and also has a 50% interest in Satellite Media and has also created a joint venture known as Kura Productions with Quinton Hita to produce programming for the Maori Television Service.

South Pacific Pictures is owned by CEO John Daniel Barnett and UK based All3Media.

Production History

1 hour drama series TV3, New Zealand

  • Wasted

1/2 hour eco series TV3, New Zealand

1/2 hour fantasy drama series TV3, CBBC, Nine Network Australia

Feature Film

Entertainment TV2, New Zealand

  • How Clean is Your House? series 1 & 2

1/2 hour factual series TV One, New Zealand

½ hour drama serial TV2, New Zealand

  • Mercy Peak 3

20x1hour drama series (Eps 41-60) TV ONE, New Zealand

250x½ hour drama serial TV2, New Zealand

13x½ hour teen drama (Eps 14-26) TV3, New Zealand

  • Mataku 2002

8x½ hour Maori drama series (Eps 6-13) TV3, New Zealand

  • Mercy Peak 2

20x1hour drama (Eps 21-40) TV ONE, New Zealand

250x½ hour drama serial TV2, New Zealand

35mm feature film

13x½ hour (Eps 1-13) TV3, New Zealand

  • Mataku 2001

5x½ hour Maori drama series (Eps 1-5) TV3, New Zealand

  • Mercy Peak 1

20x1hour drama (Eps 1-20) TV ONE, New Zealand

250x½ hour drama serial TV2, New Zealand

  • Jackson's Wharf 2

20x1hour drama serial TV2, New Zealand

90min action drama telefeature

90min action drama telefeature

250x½ hour drama serial TV2, New Zealand

90min telefeature New Zealand / Canadian Co-Production

  • Jackson's Wharf 1

26x1hour or 52x½ hour drama serial TV2, New Zealand

35mm feature film

90min action drama telefeature

7x½ hour sitcom (Eps 8-14) TV ONE, New Zealand

250x½ hour drama serial TV2, New Zealand

  • What Becomes Of The Broken Hearted?

35mm feature film

250x½ hour drama serial TV2, New Zealand

  • Double Booking

½ hour Comedy Playhouse

  • House of Sticks

1hour Montana Sunday Theatre TV ONE, New Zealand

7x½ hour sitcom (Eps 1-7) TV ONE, New Zealand

  • McPhail & Gadsby

7x½ hour political satire TV ONE, New Zealand

250x½ hour drama serial TV2, New Zealand

  • Tales of the South Seas

22 x 1hour drama

  • Citylife

26x1hour drama series TV2, New Zealand

250x½ hour drama serial TV2, New Zealand

65x½ hour children's series Production Services Only

250x½ hour drama serial TV2, New Zealand

18x1hour adult drama (Eps 1-18) TV ONE, New Zealand

8x1hour adult drama (Eps 19-26) TV ONE, New Zealand

250x½ hour drama serial TV2, New Zealand

1x90min telefeature Production Services Only

  • Deepwater Haven

26x½ hour family drama

  • Fallout

2x2hour mini-series

  • Marlin Bay 3

13x1hour drama (Eps 27-39) TV ONE, New Zealand

  • Mrs Piggle Wiggle

13 x half hour children's drama Production Services Only

250x½ hour drama serial TV2, New Zealand

3x1hour adult drama Production Services Only for Central TV (UK)

25x½ hour family drama Production Services Only

  • Kurt Vonnegut's Monkey House

3x½ hour

  • Marlin Bay 2

13x1hour drama (Eps 14-26) TV ONE, New Zealand

  • Other Side of Paradise, The

2x90min mini-series Production Services Only

  • Ray Bradbury Theatre, The

23x½ hour

250x½ hour drama serial TV2, New Zealand

2x1hour mini-series Production Services Only for Ten-Four Productions (USA)

  • End of the Golden Weather

35mm feature film

  • Growing Rich

6x1hour drama Production Services Only for Granada UK

  • Marlin Bay 1

13x1hour drama (Eps 1-13) TV ONE, New Zealand

  • Old Scores

1x90min telefeature

  • Sound and the Silence, The

2x90min mini-series Production Services Only

  • Boy From Andromeda, The

6x½ hour family drama

20x½ hour family drama

  • Raider of the South Seas

8x½ hour family drama Production Services Only

  • Star Runner

8x½ hour family drama

  • African Journey

6x½ hour family drama

8x½ hour children's drama

13x½ hour family drama

  • Space Knights

22x½ hour children's series

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