THE GOOD WORD SERIES 4 RETURNS TO YOUR SCREENS EARLY 2012 ON TVNZ7 AND SKY 77

Books Back On The Box

They said television was the enemy of the book. There were even heavy suggestions quite some time back that reading would have long since become an endangered activity.
The thought that there’d actually be such a thing as a show about books on TV in these days of the sound bite and pre-chewed info-tainment should have been – well, unthinkable.
But, flying in the face of logic and technology, comes a fourth series of The Good Word, the trend-setting TVNZ 7 show about books and the people who love them.

The 15-episode series, presented by star New Zealand novelist Emily Perkins, will make its return in 2012, with a few surprises on board.
The Good Word will retain its lively mix of studio and documentary elements – Perkins on the show’s set with an all-star book-review panel and interviewing a notable guest about his or her favourite book, journalist Finlay Macdonald in the field with his Under the Covers series, looking at the stories behind famous New Zealand books.

The new two-minute documentary strand ‘Write Space’ that was introduced in Series 3, is kept, which gets us up close and nosey with a variety of Kiwi writers in their private creative places, in a lyrical sort of way.
District Court judge – and former Chief Censor – Bill Hastings, actor Jennifer Ward-Lealand, funnyman Te Radar, columnist Steve Braunias, TV presenter Miriama Kamo and journalist Gordon McLauchlan return to the regular book review panel along with a notable new regular, Carol Hirschfeld.