ScreenTalk

Kevin Milne – a fair go for the people

Posted on 11 October 2010

 

Kevin Milne is one of New Zealand’s most popular TV presenters after more than 20 years on Fair Go. In that time he has won settlements worth millions of dollars. Before Fair Go, Milne was a reporter for Eyewitness News and the TVNZ lifestyle shows Production Line and Then Again. He has also been a presenter on the travel show Holiday and Fair Go spin-off Kev Can Do. In September 2010 Milne announced he would be leaving Fair Go at the end of the year.

In this ScreenTalk interview, Milne talks about:

• How saying no to a TV job in Invercargill led to a better job in TV news
• The excitement of working with veteran newsreaders Dougal Stevensen, Philip Sherry, and Bill Toft
• Working on the late night news show Eyewitness News
• Having to be on his best behaviour interviewing former PM Rob Muldoon
• Thinking that the consumer show Production Line was amateurish
• Getting a reporting job on Fair Go without having to audition
• Working for a year with his mentor Brian Edwards
• Presenting the show live in front of a drunk audience
• Getting millions of dollars in settlements for people
• The ethos behind Fair Go spin-off Kev Can Do
• Deciding it was time to leave Fair Go before he got too stuck in his ways
• His hopes and fears for the future of the series

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

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