Television highlights of 2019

The finalists for the Huawei Mate30 Pro New Zealand Television Awards have been announced - 115 nominations compete in 37 categories. But the way we view TV is now so spread out - streaming, on demand, on YouTube, as well as old-fashioned linear television - that many of the titles are unfamiliar. So rather than trying to predict winners and losers, we thought we'd look at some of the highlights of the year - big and small. Lynn Freeman and Simon Morris invited one of the most respected TV reviewers in the country - Diana Wichtel of the New Zealand Listener - to help pick some personal favourites. This was the year of Fresh Eggs and Wellington Paranormal, In Dark Places and The Casketeers, The Bad Seed, Mean Mums and Uncharted with Sam Neill.