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Winners for the 2020 New Zealand Television Awards were announced today, with the event becoming of the few physical screen award ceremonies to be held during the pandemic.

The Luminaries, produced by Southern Light Films and Working Title TV, was the big winner in the drama craft categories with multiple wins including Best Script: Drama for Eleanor Catton, who adapted her Man Booker Prize-winning book for television, Best Director: Drama for Claire McCarthy, Best Cinematographer: Drama for Denson Baker, Best Production Design for Felicity Abbott and Daniel Birt, Best Costume Design for Edward K. Gibbon, Best Makeup Design for Jane O’Kane and Best Post Production Design for Alana Cotton. Lead actor Himesh Patel, who played Emery Staines in the series, won the award for Best Actor.

Taika Waititi, Paul Yates, Jemaine Clement won the Best Comedy award for season 2 of their Wellington Paranormal, while Yates also won Best Script: Comedy for the same program.

Netflix's upcoming feel-good romance Falling Inn Love has everything you need in a cheesy rom-com: a punny title, a gorgeous setting, a scenario built to make its leads fall in love against all odds, and an adorable trailer. And, luckily, the latter has finally arrived!

In the new footage from the film, directed by Roger Kumble, singer and actress Christina Milian stars as Gabriela, a city girl who spontaneously enters a contest to "win an inn" - aka renovating the dilapidated Bellbird Valley Farm - after a breakup. Lo and behold, she's chosen! Which means she has to travel from her home in San Francisco to New Zealand, where the Bellbird is located. Luckily, with the help of a handsome contractor (Adam Demos), Gabriela fixes up not only the building but also her heart (awwww).

In addition to Milian and Demos, Falling Inn Love stars Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman, Anna Jullienne,...

"I was hoping to talk to you about a proposition." Netflix has debuted the trailer for a romantic comedy titled Falling Inn Love, which is the cheesiest way of hinting that this cliche love story is centered around an inn. Of course it is. From the director of Cruel Intentions and "Suits", Falling Inn Love is about a city girl who surprisingly enters a contest and wins a rustic New Zealand inn. She decides to patch it up and sell it, and in the process meets a hunky man who helps her repair the place. Christina Milian stars as Gabriela, with Adam Demos, Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman, Anna Jullienne, Claire Chitham, Blair Strang, Jonathan Martin, William Walker, Daniel Watterson, and Simone Walker. This looks as cheesy and as cliche as they come, with all the usual romcom tropes, like an exotic location and a bearded bachelor. Here's the first official trailer (+ poster...

Melina Vidler, Benson Jack Anthony, Rick Donald and Bridie Carter have joined Erik Thomson in 800 Words, a drama commissioned by the Seven Network and Tvnz.

The 8-part series stars Thomson as George Turner, who quits his job as an 800 word columnist for a Sydney newspaper after his wife dies and, on impulse, buys a house in a remote New Zealand seaside town.

Vidler (The Arrangement, Mako: Island of Secrets) and Anthony (Underbelly Razor, Blood Brothers, Legend of the Seeker) play his teenage children Shay and Arlo Turner.

The family.s hopes of making a fresh start don.t go to plan in their new environment as the locals are both secretive and inquisitive.

Donald (Friends with Better Lives, The Doctor Blake Mysteries) is cast as George.s new best mate Woody, a fellow Aussie and keen surfer, with Carter (McLeod.s Daughters) as Jan, editor of the newspaper George wrote for.