ScreenTalk: The Jam Girls

Jam TV is a boutique production company owned and run by Melanie Rakena  and Jane Andrews. The duo met while working at TVNZ and formed the company to make Intrepid Journeys, the long-running TV ONE show that takes local celebrities out of their comfort zones and into challenging locations around the globe.

Jam has also produced a range of other well-received factual series including Off the Rails, ICE, South, and Off the Radar, as well as the documentary Our Lost War – Passchendaele.

In this ScreenTalk interview, Rakena and Andrews talk about:

* How working together at TVNZ cemented their working relationship

* Being told it would be impossible to film Intrepid Journeys

* How illness and discomfort create close bonds between presenters and crew

* A near death experience on a mountain in Borneo

* Taking Marcus Lush to the ends of the earth in ICE and the ends of New Zealand in South

* Being mistaken for a true-blue West Coaster in Off the Rails

* Living with Te Radar in a paddock while filming Off the Radar

* And wishing Radar would keep his pants on

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

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