CELEBRITY TREASURE ISLAND
TVNZ 2, 7.30pm, Monday to Wednesday from September 18; TVNZ+
It’s been shot in Fiji. It’s been shot in Tonga. It hasn’t been shot in Samoa, possibly because the guy who actually wrote Treasure Island is buried there and the sound of him spinning in his mountain grave would ruin the shot.
But now, after Covid-era shows on a bleak andis back on an island. As the publicity says, it’s on the island of “Te Wai Pounamu”. Yes, the biggest, highest, most telegenic and second-most populated of the isles of Aotearoa.
