Veteran US TV programme maker Lee Aronsohn is in Auckland this weekend and will talk at the Big Screen Symposium.
Aronsohn worked on nine series of Two and a Half Men and The Big Bang Theory.
While in New Zealand he will research a screenplay set in Auckland during WWII.
Aronsohn has been making shows for more than 30 years, and began as a writer on The Love Boat in 1978 before going on to contribute to such 80s classics as Charles in Charge, Who's the Boss and Murphy Brown.
In the 90s, as a writer and producer, he helped shape some of the decade's most popular sitcoms, in addition to writing and producing Two and a Half Men for nine seasons.