John Milligan is an award-winning producer, director and writer who has worked on a wide range of shows for television. His many series credits include Maggie’s Garden Show, Epitaph, Shipwreck and Mucking In. Milligan was also producer and director of the documentaries Trio at the Top, New Zild and Von Tempsky’s Ghost.

John Milligan is an award-winning producer, director and writer who has worked on a wide range of shows for television. His many series credits include Maggie’s Garden Show, Epitaph, Shipwreck and Mucking In. Milligan was also producer and director of the documentaries Trio at the Top, New Zild and Von Tempsky’s Ghost.

In this ScreenTalk, Milligan talks about:

• Working on live, non-commercial morning show Weekend
• Commanding 14 cameras on his first documentary Monza Monaco Macau Wellington
• Not knowing anything about plants when he began on Maggie’s Garden Show
• Being surprised at how long it took to make Kiwi bach documentary A Summer Place
• Digging into history for his motor racing documentary Trio at the Top
• The challenge of creating battle scenes in the rain for Von Tempsky’s Ghost
• Convincing people Kiwis have an accent when making New Zild
• Thinking there’s too much TV nowadays

This video is available on YouTube to embed and distribute via a Creative Commons licence.

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