The Best TV Shows on TVNZ 2

Every TVNZ 2 Show Ranked From Best To Worst

Premiering in 1992 and 1992, Shortland Street and The Adventures of the Black Stallion are among TVNZ 2’s most celebrated shows. TVNZ 2’s extensive portfolio includes more than 20 shows, spanning the years from 1992 to 2023. Stay up-to-date with over 20 of TVNZ 2’s elite series, with our list refreshed for June 2025.

  • Street Legal
    Street Legal (2000)10.0

    Street Legal is a New Zealand drama focused on the lives of a small group of lawyers. A total of 52 episodes were aired and reruns currently can be seen around the world. The show was produced by Screenworks.

  • Down for Love
    Down for Love (2022)10.0

    We all want to love and be loved. From first dates and first times to being friend-zoned, this heartwarming reality show follows several New Zealanders with Down syndrome as they navigate the joys and difficulties of dating and finding true love.

  • Friday Night Bites
    Friday Night Bites (2015)9.0

    Friday Night Bites is an awkward comedy about a bunch of young women who don't know what they're doing in this life - but trying their damnedest to make it awesome. Examining what it is to be young, diverse, and female in an Auckland flat, Friday Night Bites explores everything pop-culture, political and emotional - from sexual foibles to quantum physics.

  • Creamerie
    Creamerie (2021)8.3

    Creamerie is set in a post-apocalyptic future where a viral plague has wiped out 99% of men, and Earth has become a planet run by and for women. There’ll be plenty to laugh at when three Kiwi-Asian women running a dairy farm encounter – shock, horror – a man!

  • Renters
    Renters (2011)8.0

    You won't believe how some tenants treat other people's homes in this fly-on-the-wall series.

  • Taskmaster NZ
    Taskmaster NZ (2020)7.8

    Jeremy Wells and his loyal assistant Paul Williams torment some of Aotearoa's best, brightest, and most available comedians. Who will earn the Taskmaster's respect and a gold statue of his head?

  • Have You Been Paying Attention?
    Have You Been Paying Attention? (2019)7.5

    New Zealand's best and brightest comedians showcase their current affairs prowess unpacking the hot topics of the week: politics, sports, pop culture news and international affairs to test just who’s been paying attention…

  • Beyond the Veil
    Beyond the Veil (2022)7.0

    Horror has a long and spooky history on our television screens. Shows such as The Twilight Zone, The X Files and Goosebumps have all successfully made us afraid of the dark, sent shivers down our spines, or both. TVNZ’s new anthology series Beyond The Veil does exactly that

  • Wellington Paranormal
    Wellington Paranormal (2018)6.9

    New Zealand's capital is a hotbed of supernatural activity... so Officers Minogue and O'Leary, who featured in the vampire documentary What We Do In The Shadows, take to the streets to investigate all manner of paranormal phenomena.

  • Step Dave
    Step Dave (2014)6.5

    Dave, a 24-year-old ordinary kiwi slacker, finds his life turned upside down when he meets the girl of his dreams Cara - and her three kids. Step Dave is a light-hearted, feel-good family drama which demonstrates one of the realities of modern life that families come in all different shapes and sizes.

  • The Adventures of the Black Stallion
    The Adventures of the Black Stallion (1992)6.3

    After being shipwrecked on a remote desert island, courageous, young Alec Ramsay and a wild Arabian stallion named the "Black," form an irrevocable bond that continues after their rescue. Now teammates in the horse-racing circuit, they are poised to take the racing world by storm. No one else can ride the stunning fire and silk stallion but Alec; and though the Black's spirit is untamed, his speed is unmatched and he is swiftly becoming the fastest racehorse in the world.

  • Time Trackers
    Time Trackers (2008)6.0

    Time Trackers is a children's television series produced for the Seven Network in and TV2 in New Zealand The 13 half-hour episodes first screened in 2008. The series is a co-production of Gibson Group in New Zealand and Taylor Media in Australia.

  • Vegas
    Vegas (2021)6.0

    A business owner is thrust into New Zealand's dark underbelly after a million-dollar drug deal goes wrong on a blood-stained night, setting off a chain of events between dangerous factions.

  • Go Girls
    Go Girls (2009)5.5

    Amy, Britta and Cody are three young women suffering their quarter century crisis: 25 and what have they achieved? They make a vow that in one year they’ll each fulfill their ambition. Their mate-since-childhood Kevin, admires their pluck but, to be honest, since Amy, Britta and Cody are currently Tragically Poor; Tragically Unknown; and Tragically Single, he reckons it’s going to be a bit of an ask.

  • Shortland Street
    Shortland Street (1992)5.3

    The lives and loves of the residents of Ferndale.

  • Kura
    Kura (2020)2.0

    Billy-John is sick of doing nothing, going nowhere, and nothing ever-changing so he decides to leave small-town Papakura and head for the bright lights of the Gold Coast. He just needs to break the news to his best mate, his girlfriend, and his ragtag but close-knit family.

  • The Bachelor New Zealand
    The Bachelor New Zealand (2015)N/A

    New Zealand version of the reality dating competition where a single bachelor dates multiple women over several weeks, narrowing them down to hopefully find his true love.

  • Celebrity Treasure Island
    Celebrity Treasure Island (2019)N/A

    Kiwi stars face off in paradise for the chance to win money for their chosen charities. With eliminations each week until the final celebrities remain, it will be a treasure hunt to end all treasure hunts!

  • Toi Time
    Toi Time (2022)N/A

    Meet Tama, Māia, Jojo, Buzz and their whānau Aunty Anika, Wolfy, Oma and Mōhio as they dance, sing and have fun around their whare. Produced by Rogue Productions for TVNZ

  • Close Encounters Down Under
    Close Encounters Down Under (2023)N/A

    From the Australian Outback to the alps of New Zealand, Close Encounters Down Under investigates some of the most bizarre alien contacts of all time.