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This show is like James Bond, except it’s a comedy set in New Zealand
Rose Matafeo, Joe Thomas and Paul Williams star as three hapless spies, guided by their boss, Bret McKenzie. (Supplied: ABC TV)
As a young boy growing up in Nelson, Aotearoa/New Zealand, he would rent out a different James Bond film every week from the video shop. And the obsession didn't end with childhood.
"It's weird I even remember it, but when I was 16, I had this blog that no-one followed, and I remember writing: 'I'm going to be James Bond one day, just you wait'," Williams laughs.
He's the creator, writer and star of new comedy TV series, New Zealand Spy.
Bond, James Bond? Not quite, but this Kiwi comedy is a delightfully dry spin on spy thrillers
Lovers of endearingly mild-mannered New Zealanders being polite, careful and deadpan in risky, high-stakes circumstances, rejoice. New Zealand Spy is a six-part comedy series from New Zealand comedian, writer and musician Paul Williams (Taskmaster NZ), whose love of James Bond and Alfred Hitchcock films has engendered a deeply dry-witted retake on classic spy films.
Kicking off with the panache and adventure of any Bond movie, we meet Williams’ spy protagonist, Michael Brown (spy name: Michael Riviera), piste skiing in a pearly white snowsuit down a vast Queenstown slope chased by an Australian spy agency guard.
Brown is eventually trapped and his identity requested at gunpoint. Does he answer “Riviera, Michael Riviera”? No. What follows is an awkward silence as he tries to remember his undercover alias. A squabble ensues, the guard is perplexed and infuriated but we flash back to how Riviera became a spy a few weeks previously.
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