The TV and film industry is ready to start rolling.
A slew of TV shows are poised to get cameras rolling when Auckland enters the traffic-light system of Covid management.
The new system means more freedom for the city, with the use of vaccine passes. Under level 3 Shortland Street and Evil Dead Rise were able to film in specially
permitted bubbles — that will all change under the rules coming in on Friday.
Spy understands that pre-production has begun for the second season of Netflix post-apocalyptic series, Sweet Tooth, which is ready for a summer shoot. US high school drama One of Us is Lying, is also understood to be starting its second season filming in Auckland at the beginning of next year.
In January, the third season of New Zealand-British teen horse drama Mystic will start filming — the second season is due to screen on TVNZ and on CBBC in the UK in the New year. It captures Godzone's countryside in its environmentally driven plots as well as earning Best Cinematographer and Best Children's Programme nominations for the NZ TV Awards, which were announced last week.
Another International Netflix show, Cowboy Bebop, is expected to start filming its second season in Auckland at the end of summer. Star Trek star John Cho, who plays Spike Spiegel in the interstellar western, has been full of praise for filming in Auckland on the press junket for the first series that dropped on the streaming giant last week.
