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Paula Whetu Jones’ last screenwriting credit was for , a powerful, challenging drama about child abuse. Her new one could hardly be more different: is a series of 10-minute comic episodes for TVNZ OnDemand about a group of friends who are rejected by a swish dating agency and decide to start their own. It’s light, clever and contemporary – and with its cast of young Māori and Pacific people, it feels like New Zealand.

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