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The Best TV Shows on TVNZ 2

Every TVNZ 2 Show Ranked From Best To Worst

Dive into our updated selection of TVNZ 2’s finest, featuring more than 20 series as of April 2025. Premiering in 1992 and 2000, Shortland Street and Street Legal are among TVNZ 2’s most celebrated shows. TVNZ 2 has delivered an expansive roster of over 20 shows, dating from 1992 all the way to N/A.

  • 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.

  • TakaPu: A Gannet in the South Seas
    TakaPu: A Gannet in the South Seas (N/A)10.0

    TakaPu, a computer-animated gannet, travels around the Pacific islands and tells about his incredible adventures and exciting encounters with the islanders and diverse cultures of the Pacific. TakaPu is the Maori name for gannet. He is cheeky and precocious, like all young gannets, and, of course, outrageously clumsy. He is driven by his never ending appetite for man made fishfingers and will beg, steal and borrow to get them. The series is aimed at pre-school and primary school kids. In a lightly educational, but nevertheless entertaining and funny way it helps to promote a better understanding of Pacific cultures amongst children of all descents.

  • 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)7.6

    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…

  • Wellington Paranormal
    Wellington Paranormal (2018)7.0

    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.

  • Lego Masters NZ
    Lego Masters NZ (2022)6.5

    Teams of Kiwi master brick builders are put through their paces in the New Zealand version of the hugely popular reality challenge. Who will dream, create it, and win it?!

  • Step Dave
    Step Dave (2014)6.3

    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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Vegas
    Vegas (2021)4.7

    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.

  • 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!

  • Kura
    Kura (2020)N/A

    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.

  • You Got This!
    You Got This! (2020)N/A

    Hosted by Bree Tomasel, You Got This! sees Kiwi bubbles go head-to-head in a hilarious competition that has contestants use what materials they already have at home for the challenges. From whānau to flat mates, it’s time for teams to put their bubbles to the test!

  • 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

  • 60 Seconds
    60 Seconds (2022)N/A

    In a world that's faster, bigger and better than ever, every second counts! With talent from all over Aotearoa, do these hopefuls have what it takes to become famous in 60 seconds?