Anika Moa Unleashed

M Season Finale. Part 2 of 2: TrueBliss are back in the studio to record a 2019 version of their 1999 smash hit 'Tonight'. Anika gathers the girls, but there's a problem, original member Carly Binding refuses to join the fun. But who will sing Carly's part? Could it be Anika?

M Part 1 of 2: Twenty years ago a new reality show called Popstars hit NZ's screens. The girls from TrueBliss, the band that emerged from the show, were reality show guinea pigs who briefly became household names with a number one album and a national tour. Anika Moa tracks the girls down with a view of getting the band back together.

16L Anika tricks star children's entertainer and educator Suzy Cato into an adult themed encounter with wild special effects, some seriously unhealthy fast food and a dead cat.

M It's fair to say that Tim Shadbolt; New Zealand's favourite mayor, former student radical, and now Knight of the Realm, was somewhat bewildered by his encounter with Anika Moa. Perhaps it was the bizarre costume change, or was it the challenge to "wipe the smile" off that famously grinning mug?

16L Hilary Barry of all people should have known it wasn't a good idea to invite Anika to invade her pristine home on Auckland's North Shore. The house proud Barry is soon aware of the her folly as the encounter unravels in a haze of party streamers, smeared chocolate cake, shocking sexual innuendo and an actual clown.

16L Anika can barely contain her excitement when she invades the Auckland home of film and TV star Robbie Magasiva, partly because she is the number one fan of Wentworth, in which Robbie plays wayward prison guard Will Jackson.

ML Things start badly when Anika is late for her interview with our most respected broadcaster and national journalistic icon, John Campbell. Moa picks away at John's mana with series of strange questions and encourages the usually well mannered newshound to descend to her level.

16L But wait, there's Moa! Anika invades the home of infomercial queen and cultural taonga Suzanne Paul; mother of Natural Glow, the Suzanne Clip and the novelty hit single The Blue Monkey. Anika challenges the great saleswoman to create a series of infomercials for increasingly bizarre products and she delves into Suzanne's past life as a Playboy Bunny!

16L Part 2 of 2: Anika grills Shortland Street producer Maxine Fleming, undertakes a steamy audition with T.K. (Ben Mitchell) and talks about penises with Michael Galvin (Dr Warner). She also sings with Ngahuia Piripi (Dr Esther Samuels) and, in an unexpected twist (SPOILER ALERT) she gives birth in the Ferndale Hospital!

16L Part 1 of 2: Anika is unleashed into the studios where Shortland Street is made. The first stop is an unsettling encounter with the street's most popular male double act and bro-mancers, Boyd and Drew.