Simone Nathan

Meet Ari, an average 20-something millennial living at home with her parents. She also happens to be an MMA fighter with a mum who doubles as her coach. Her mother, Mei, has always planned everything for Ari - her training regime and now her dating regime so she can find the perfect partner, and have the perfect baby at the perfect time in her life. In a bid to escape her overbearing mum-coach, Ari enters an illegal underground MMA fight where she manages to piss off the most dangerous man in town, James Lee. Swords, cakes and the truth go flying when they all collide at her cousin's big fat Indian wedding.

After trading in the seemingly charmed life of a gentleman for one of a swashbuckling buccaneer, Stede Bonnet becomes captain of the pirate ship Revenge. Struggling to earn the respect of his potentially mutinous crew, Stede’s fortunes change after a fateful run-in with the infamous Captain Blackbeard. Stede and crew attempt to get their ship together and survive life on the high seas.

It follows Theo Richter, an Irish detective who teams with Kiwi cop Diana Huia to find a young Irish couple vanish from an infamous rural North Island New Zealand town. Amidst the search and a race against time, the pair have to contend with a community’s growing disquiet that the disappearances may be linked to a series of historical murders.

Charlie Summers, ex-Kiwi Broadway director, is forced by circumstance to return to his home town of Tauranga, where his mum makes him join her amateur theatre society.

A fresh relationship, a family, an intense female friendship. Tetraplegic artist Freya asks her chaotic best friend Jo to be her carer in her new home: her partner Abe’s house.

Lulu, a loveable train wreck, goes on a laugh-out-loud ride as she struggles to balance her love of family and culture with finding her own path… one mistake at a time.