Border Patrol (2004)

Genre

reality television

Country

New Zealand

Length

15 seasons, 144 episodes

Rated

PG

Rating

7.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A reality series that follows customs officers and biosecurity staff as they check people and goods coming into New Zealand. It shows the different things they find and how they handle them at the border.

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What happens

Border Patrol is a New Zealand reality television series, focusing on the work at New Zealand's borders of New Zealand Customs Service, the Ministry for Primary Industries, and Immigration New Zealand. The series also features appearances by staff from the Department of Conservation. The first season premiered in 2004, and it is an original New Zealand concept which has now been replicated throughout the world. In 2006, Border Patrol was the winner of the Best Reality Series at the New Zealand Screen Awards. It is narrated by Tim Balme. Border Patrol is very popular in New Zealand, and regularly wins its timeslot with usually more than 500,000 viewers per episode. In fact, in January 2012, Border Patrol repeats were screened every night on TV One at 7pm, and in one week it was the most watched show every day, reaching a peak of more than 830,000 viewers during the episode that screened on 9 January. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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