Reviews + Press
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Kerry Harvey Sep 16, 2020
It’s 1990 and while Auckland hosts the Commonwealth Games, the West family members are pursuing different goals as the finish-line looms for local drama Westside.
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Fleur Mealing Jul 10, 2019
Westside actress Jessica Grace Smith's refreshing approach to playing iconic character Cheryl West
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Sarah Nealon Jun 9, 2019
Westside's Antonia Prebble talks about the irony of playing a grandmother...
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NZTV Awards Nov 22, 2018
Westside picked up Best Drama at the Huawei Mate20 NZTV Awards at the annual ceremony which recognises excellence in local television.
Antonia Prebble also won the Best Actress category for her role as the show's matriarch, Rita West
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NZTV Awards Oct 24, 2018
Westside has picked up a smashing five award nominations at the 2018 NZTV Awards, including a nod to leading lady, Antonia Prebble for Best Actress for the second year running.
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Sunday Star Times Jul 9, 2018
Westside co-creator James Griffin writes about the legacy of Outrageous Fortune and Westside.
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NZTV Craft Awards Oct 17, 2017
Westside has been nominated for two awards at the 2017 NZTV Craft Awards. Award winners will be announced on November 8th.
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Woman's Day Aug 24, 2017
Westside's Ashleigh Cummings and Reef Ireland dish on playing an iconic couple
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nowtolove.co.nz Aug 15, 2017
Next magazine give Sophie Hambleton (aka Carol O'Driscoll) the five minute snap chat.
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Woman's Day Aug 14, 2017
The talented women of Westside talk about their off-screen friendship.
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Sunday Star Times Jul 30, 2017
Jack van Beynen goes back in time to a 1980s Nightclub in Westside.
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New Zealand Women's Weekly Jul 23, 2017
Westside star Todd Emerson talks about the two 1980's characters he's currently playing.
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Sunday Star Times Jul 10, 2017
Will Hall (Detective Inspector Mike McCarthy) and Esther Stephens (Ngaire Munroe) talk big hair, tight jeans and criminal behaviour in the third season of spin-off drama Westside.
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The Spinoff.co.nz Nov 30, 2016
The Spinoff apologise profusely for doubting the authenticity of Will Hall's moustache. The #WestsideTV star says “If it wasn’t for knowing the moustache intimately, I too would have called it a fake."
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Sunday Star Times Aug 15, 2016
Director Murray Keane talks about the use of real protest footage in the final episode of Westside, series 2.
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NZ Women's Weekly Aug 4, 2016
Kiwi stars take a nostalgic look back at the 80s in celebration of Westside.
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The Spinoff.co.nz Jul 14, 2016
The Spinoff takes a look at the lessons in New Zealand history that Westside explores.
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Westside Podcasat Jun 23, 2016
The official podcast for the hit New Zealand TV series, Westside is now available!
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Stuff.co.nz Jun 17, 2016
Dean O'Gorman on Westside and getting acting advice from Kirk Douglas
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Stuff.co.nz Jun 17, 2016
David de Lautour 'stoked' to be back playing career-criminal Ted West
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Yahoo.co.nz Jun 15, 2016
Yahoo talked to David de Lautour, aka Ted West, about what the West family has up their sneaky sleeves for season two of Westside.
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Stuff.co.nz Jun 15, 2016
Westside's Xavier Horan on playing dumb and training with the SAS.
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TV Guide Jun 1, 2016
It's 1981, a year of big hair, shoulder pads, a royal wedding, political turmoil and, for Rita West, freedom.
Westside is back and Rita (Antonia Prebble) is out of jail. She served time after taking the rap for son Wolf, who shot Horseman gang member Cannonball. A lot has happened in the two years that Rita has been locked up.
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Press Release May 11, 2016
Westside's Todd Emerson (Bilkey van Heeder) is set to perform the award-winning play Daffodils at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
The Daffodils team will put on a Benefit Gala on Friday 3 June at Auckland's Town Hall's Great Hall. The aim of the Gala is to help raise the funds needed to make the Edinburgh season of this critically claimed kiwi hit a reality.
The evening will feature a performance of Daffodils by the original cast (Colleen Davis and Todd Emerson), with special guest performances by Tami Neilson, Julia Deans, Anika Moa, Trip Pony and LIPS.
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Stuff.co.nz Jul 3, 2015
Tackling a younger version of Outrageous Fortune's notorious Wolf West character was a daunting task for Liam Ferguson.
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Stuff.co.nz Jun 16, 2015
We're hooked on TV3's Outrageous Fortune prequel Westside, and while the show is great, yes, we'd watch it for Rita West's styling alone.
With big lashes, bigger hair and sharp black winged eyeliner, her whole vibe is a bogan 1970s dream.
Personally, we want to look like this every day, if you do too, here's how.
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Jane Clifton Jun 3, 2015
Sausage rolls and cheese and pineapple hedgehogs: these are the armaments of a long, dirty and hopelessly addictive crime war in TV3's witty and plot-twisty new local drama, Westside, Sunday.
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Stuff.co.nz Jun 2, 2015
Expectations are a weird thing. They can transform a mediocre show into an acceptable one if they're low enough. Conversely, they can turn a fantastic show into an okay one by being too high.
I've watched no new show in the last decade with higher expectations than the ones I sat down with to watch the debut of Outrageous Fortune prequel Westside at the weekend - and I'm delighted to say nearly every one was met.
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Viva, NZ Herald May 27, 2015
Westside, the new prequel to the beloved Outrageous Fortune, takes us back to a bygone era...
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Glory Days May 26, 2015
Today on the Glory Days Magazine telegram, we preview the new Outrageous Fortune prequel Westside which is set firmly in the decade that taste forgot - the 1970s!
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Taranaki Daily News May 11, 2015
One of New Zealand's most legendary bands has landed the theme song for the highly anticipated prequel to Outrageous Fortune...
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TV3 Oct 14, 2014
Antonia Prebble (Outrageous Fortune, White Lies, The Blue Rose) and David de Lautour (The Kick, NCIS, Once Upon a Time) will headline the cast of South Pacific Pictures’ new comedy drama series WESTSIDE STORY, the six-part Outrageous Fortune prequel which is coming next year to TV3.
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