Greenstone TV

Greenstone TV is a New Zealand-based television production company who produce television shows – popular factual, entertainment, drama and documentary. They have created characters, documented histories and captured real-life stories – around 100 documentaries in total, and more than 100 series. They have won numerous awards.

Greenstone was founded in 1994 by John Harris, and in December 2013 Greenstone was purchased by Australian company Cordell Jigsaw Zapruder, known as CJZ,^[1] creating an independent international production group.^[2]

Greenstone is currently filming factual series for TVONE, TV2, TV3 and Prime in New Zealand, and the Seven Network in Melbourne and Sydney. All are for prime time.

Greenstone is now best known for classic series like Motorway Patrol,^[3] Highway Patrol (filmed in Victoria, Australia), Highway Cops, Neighbours at War,^[4] Border Patrol, Dog Squad, and Coastwatch. Many have successfully occupied prime time slots for many years and are still going strong.

Greenstone has made a number of dramatized documentaries, and also produced two children’s drama series – The Amazing Extraordinary Friends and Secret Agent Men both created by Stephen Campbell. Greenstone's latest drama from Stephen is The Cul de Sac ^[5]

Greenstone’s MD is Richard Driver, appointed in 2014.^[6] Richard has over 25 years experience across a diverse range of roles in the industry. In 1998, Greenstone was awarded a Bravo award by the New Zealand Skeptics for The Mighty Moa.^[7]

Productions

Drama

• Secret Agent Men ^[8]
• The Amazing Extraordinary Friends ^[9]
• Bella. ^[10]

Factual / reality series

• The Big Ward 2015 NZ On Air funded for TV2 ^[11]
• Highway Cops (2012–Present) Series 3
• Renters (2009–Present) Series 5
• Coastwatch Oz (January 2014 – January 2015) Season 1
• Dog Squad (2008–Present) Series 7
• Border Patrol (2009–Present) Series 7
• Highway Patrol (September 2009 – Present) Series 8
• Motorway Patrol (September 1999 – Present) Series 16
• The Zoo Series 1 - 12
• Crash Investigation Unit (August 2008 - July 2011) Seasons 2
• Emergency
• Neighbours at War (2005–Present) Series 8
• School of Home Truths
• Fighting Fat
• Serious Crash Unit (2001 - 2015) Series 7
• Going Going Gone
• Ask Your Auntie
• Special Investigators
• The Tem Show
• Mike King Tonight
• How’s Life?
• Secret New Zealand
• Mercury Lane
• Epitaph ^[12]
• Shipwreck
• Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner?

Documentaries

• Decades In Colour" 2015 ^[13]
• The Kiwi Who Saved Britain: The Keith Park Story^[14]
• Stolen Memories ^[15]
• Fatal Fires
• Baby Charlotte
• One of a Kind – Baby Keegan
• BIG
• Private Lives of Little People
• To Hell and Back - Tanjas’ story
• Cave Creek - The Full Story of a National Tragedy
• Back from the Dead - The Saga of the Rose Noelle
• Crump
• Do or die - Lost in the Bush
• Secrets of Car Thieves
• The Business of Burglary.^[16]

References

External links

• Greenstone TV website
• IMDB entry