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Interview – 2010

Jeremy Wells first met Mikey Havoc at student radio station 95bFM. The pair teamed up again for MTV talk show Havoc, before hosting travelogue/social commentary series Havoc and Newsboy's Sell-Out Tour and Havoc's Luxury Suites and Conference Facility. Wells then worked with producer/director Paul Casserly across seven seasons of media satire show Eating Media Lunch, plus The Unauthorised History Of New Zealand.

In this ScreenTalk interview, Wells talks about:

Being sent to boarding school for possessing marijuana
Being expelled from boarding school for possessing marijuana
Starting out as a newsreader on 95bFM
The fun he had working on the Havoc shows
The ideas behind The Unauthorised History Of New Zealand
The challenges of making seven seasons of Eating Media Lunch
His experiences in Libya on Intrepid Journeys
How the Birdland series came about and observations on the birding community
His career path
TVNZ

This video was first uploaded on 1 February 2010, and is available under this Creative Commons licence. This licence is limited to use of ScreenTalk interview footage only and does not apply to any video content and photographs from films, television, music videos, web series and commercials used in the interview.

Interview, Camera and Editing – James Coleman

We were kind of like these outsiders that were inside the building, which was a great place for us to be and meant that we could actually make the kind of television that we wanted to make, which was really . . . basically being silly, and using TVNZ's resources to, well, I guess make fun of them in a way.
– Jeremy Wells on making shows with Mikey Havoc at TVNZ

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