Flatmates (New Zealand TV series)

{{Short description|New Zealand reality television}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}

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| company = Top Shelf Productions

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| executive_producer = Geoff Steven

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| country = New Zealand

| network = TV4

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| first_aired = {{Start date|1997}}

| num_episodes = 5

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| producer = Vincent Burke
Louise Fisher

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Flatmates is a New Zealand reality show.{{Cite web|last=Screen|first=NZ On|title=Flatmates {{!}} Series {{!}} Television {{!}} NZ On Screen|url=https://www.nzonscreen.com/title/flatmates-1997/series|access-date=2021-07-29|website=www.nzonscreen.com|language=en}}{{Cite web|date=2006-10-01|title=Top Shelf Productions|url=http://www.topshelfproductions.co.nz/index.php?page=programmes.php&cat_id=Documentary_Soap_Series&item_id=1&action=showItem|access-date=2021-07-29|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061001223622/http://www.topshelfproductions.co.nz/index.php?page=programmes.php&cat_id=Documentary_Soap_Series&item_id=1&action=showItem|archive-date=2006-10-01}} It followed the lives of several house friends while they were living under the same roof. The show was broadcast on the now-defunct channel TV4 in 1997, and ran for two seasons with the follow-up, More Flatmates.{{Cite web|title=FLATMATES: EPISODE 01|url=https://www.ngataonga.org.nz/collections/catalogue/catalogue-item?record_id=84963|access-date=2021-07-29|website=ngataonga.org.nz|language=en}}{{Cite web|title=MORE FLATMATES: EPISODE 01|url=https://www.ngataonga.org.nz/collections/catalogue/catalogue-item?record_id=99217|access-date=2021-07-29|website=ngataonga.org.nz|language=en}}{{Cite web |last=Screen |first=NZ On |title=Flatmates {{!}} Series {{!}} Television {{!}} NZ On Screen |url=https://www.nzonscreen.com/title/flatmates-1997/series |access-date=2023-02-14 |website=www.nzonscreen.com |language=en}} The show was produced by Top Shelf Productions and funded by NZ On Air.{{Cite web|title=NZ On Air|url=https://www.nzonair.govt.nz/|access-date=2021-07-29|website=www.nzonair.govt.nz|language=en}}{{Cite web|last=Henderson|first=Calum|date=2016-05-26|title=The NZ dream of the 90s is alive in the pioneering reality TV show Flatmates|url=https://thespinoff.co.nz/tv/26-05-2016/throwback-thursday-the-dream-of-the-90s-is-alive-in-flatmates/|access-date=2021-07-29|website=The Spinoff}}{{Cite web|title=Flatmates (2007)|url=https://www.pressreader.com/new-zealand/herald-on-sunday/20210418/281870121269349|access-date=2021-07-29|via=PressReader}}{{Cite web|title=Throwback Thursday: NZ's worst ever reality TV shows|url=https://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/throwback-thursday-nzs-worst-ever-reality-tv-shows/GHCYQMQBPE4DQQB2ZCDWJFL4FE/|access-date=2021-07-29|website=NZ Herald|language=en-NZ}} The show was a finalist for the New Zealand television awards in 1998.{{Cite web|last=Taonga|first=New Zealand Ministry for Culture and Heritage Te Manatu|title=Light entertainment and sport|url=https://teara.govt.nz/en/television/page-7|access-date=2021-07-29|website=teara.govt.nz|language=en}}{{Cite web|title=Weekend Rewind: Remember these? NZ's original reality TV obsessions|url=https://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/weekend-rewind-remember-these-nzs-original-reality-tv-obsessions/OQ4TWRLVODUORMQO4JDVCM5FGY/|access-date=2021-07-29|website=NZ Herald|language=en-NZ}}{{Cite web|last=Screen|first=NZ On|title=Flatmates - 1, First Episode {{!}} Television {{!}} NZ On Screen|url=https://www.nzonscreen.com/title/flatmates-episode-one-1997|access-date=2021-07-29|website=www.nzonscreen.com|language=en}}