Frontseat, this Saturday 14th April

Frontseat, this Saturday 14th April, 8.00am on TV One.

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THIS SATURDAY: - We unveil the finalists in the Search for NZ’s Greatest Fictional Character - Oliver Driver visits the Corban Estate Arts Centre in Waitakere City - Josie McNaught asks are there now too many arts festivals in NZ? - Noelle McCarthy is on the trail of books we’ve never finished - Comedian Cori Gonzalez-Macuer addresses Wellington’s flatting crisis CULT OF THE BLACK SINGLET Frontseat’s celebrity jury met last week to choose a shortlist from the 50 nominations for New Zealand’s Greatest Fictional Character. Tom Scott, Chris Bourke, Miranda Harcourt, James Ashcroft, Carol Smith, Loren Horsley and our production manager’s mum had a tough job. And just how many black singlet-wearing characters made the finalists¦᾿

THE FRONT ROW: THE BOOKS YOU HAVEN’T FINISHED A recent study revealed that ‘Ulysses’ and ‘Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire’ are among the books least likely to be finished by British readers. Noelle McCarthy seeks out a trio of big readers here to discover the skeletons in their literary closets. What hasn’t Finlay McDonald finished? What won’t CK Stead start? And what can™t Auckland Writers & ReadersᾠFestivaῬ headᾠJill Rawnsley remember reading?! ARE WE FESTIVALLED-OUT? The Auckland Festival and Womad are over, but the Christchurch Jazz & Blues Festival and Wanaka’s Festival of Colour are just around the corner. These days New Zealand has more arts-related festivals than you can shake a stick at, but what kind of pressure is this putting on the cultural infrastructure? Josie McNaught braves the killjoy label to ask whether there are now too many festivals. CORBAN ESTATE ARTS CENTRE Oliver presents the show this week from the Corban Estate Arts Centre, a former winery turned artists’ community in Waitakere City. Along the way he rubs shoulders with some of the higher profile artists who work alongside each other.

ARTISTS AT HOME: CORI GONZALEZ-MACUER Comedian Cori Gonzalez-Macuer won the esteemed Billy T award last year, so he’s probably pretty funny. You can find out for yourself in his NZ International Comedy Festival show next month: “I am Man/Yo Soy Hombre”.

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