Genre: | Housing/Building, Garden/Landscape, Reality |
Presenter: | Chris Moller (2015-2020) Tom Webster (2022-) |
Country: | New Zealand |
Language: | English |
Num Seasons: | 8 |
Num Episodes: | 66 |
Company: | Grundy-Fremantle Media Group, Department of Post |
Network: | TV3 (2015-2020) TVNZ 1 (2022-) |
Last Aired: | present |
Grand Designs New Zealand is a New Zealand television series.[1] It is based on the British television series Grand Designs and it was originally presented by the architect Chris Moller and aired on TV3.[2] It began airing in New Zealand on 4 October 2015.[3]
Following Moller's departure after the 6th season, it was confirmed that architect Tom Webster would take over from the 7th season in 2022, which would air on TVNZ 1.[4] [5] The eighth series, with Webster as host, began screening on TVNZ 1 on 24 October 2023.
The series' presenter follows the progress of interesting and ambitious house building projects, speaking with the owners and tracking the ups and downs of the design, construction and moving in.
Season | Episodes | Originally aired | |||
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First aired | Last aired | ||||
1 | 8 | 4 October 2015 | 22 November 2015 | ||
2 | 8 | 25 September 2016 | 13 November 2016 | ||
3 | 8 | 19 September 2017 | 7 November 2017 | ||
4 | 8 | 3 October 2018 | 21 November 2018 | ||
5 | 9 | 11 September 2019 | 6 November 2019 | ||
6 | 9 | 14 September 2020 | 9 November 2020 | ||
7 | 8 | 18 October 2022 | 6 December 2022 | ||
8 | 8 | 24 October 2023 | 12 December 2023 |