Backch@t

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Backch@t
Presented by Bill Ralston
Country of originNew Zealand
No. of episodes75
Production
Executive producer Dave Gibson
ProducerGordon Harcourt
Camera setup Multiple-camera setup
Running time90 minutes (1998-1999)
60 minutes (2000)
Production companyGibson Group
Original release
Network TVNZ
Release22 March 1998 (1998-03-22) –
20 August 2000 (2000-08-20)

Backchat (stylised as Backch@t) is a New Zealand arts and culture show that aired from 1998 until 2000 on TV One. [1] [2] [3] [4] The show was hosted by Bill Ralston with movie reviews by Chris Knox. [5] [6] It had won Best Lifestyle Programme at the New Zealand Film and Television Awards for all the years that it aired. [7] [8] [9] It also won Best Television Media Programme at the 1999 Qantas Media Awards. [10] [11] [12] [13]

Background

First aired on 22 March 1998, Backch@t looked at the arts and culture through a broad current affairs lens with each episode focusing around panel discussions, magazine-style segments, topical interviews and film, music and book reviews. [14] [15]

Each episode was initially 90 minutes long and screened at 12:00 pm on Sunday afternoons, with a repeat screening at around 10:30 pm that night. Within two years, the show was reduced in duration to an hour long and screened at around 10:30 pm on Sunday nights. [16] [17]

Backch@t ended on 20 August 2000 and ran for a total of 75 episodes over its three-year run. [18] It was produced by the Gibson Group for TVNZ with funding from NZ On Air. [19]

Reporters included Mark Crysell [20] (1998–2000), Miriama Kamo [21] (1998–2000) and Jodi Ihaka [22] (2000).

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