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Good for a Laugh! SECRET SCOTLAND TVNZ 1, Sunday, 11.05am

SATURDAY JANUARY 18

James Watson and Vince McMillan are about to do for Papakura what Toa Fraser did for Mt Roskill. This New Blood Web Series Competition winner is firmly set in “Kura”, even if lead character Billy-John (Dahnu Graham) is planning to leave for a better life on the Gold Coast. The gently funny short series follows his last week in Papakura with his best friend, Hotene (Lionel Washington). “Our approach was to represent Papakura in a more comedic and positive tone,” Watson says, “rather than how South Auckland is

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