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Season 1

  • S01E01 True Parliament Stories

    • November 18, 2003
    • TVNZ

    In this episode, the media machine behind the beehive. Talkback, how patient are our hosts? As well as the truth behind our tabloids.

  • S01E02 Targeting Target

    • November 25, 2003
    • TVNZ

    The hidden camera show gets taste of it's own medicine. Anita McNaught live with film maker Michael Moore. Paul Holmes crosses the line again. The curse behind our world cup defeat.

  • S01E03 Uprising

    • December 2, 2003
    • TVNZ

    The sacking of NZ Herald cartoonist Malcolm Evans. Protesters at parliament, Winston under fire. Student TV, including reality tv's finest moment: The Walk of Shame.

  • S01E04 Lord of the Rings

    • December 9, 2003
    • TVNZ

    Jeremy sits down with the cast of the Lord of the Rings and asks the questions others won't. Travel, are our airports really secure? Making fun of members of parliament, it'd be banned now.

  • S01E05 Tough Journalists

    • December 16, 2003
    • TVNZ

    We salute the jorno's who weren't afraid to get stuck in. Celebrity look-alike madness. Jeremy visits the TV Guide awards where his camera man comes under attack.

  • S01E06 Highlights

    • December 23, 2003
    • TVNZ

    A pair of great news readers, Dougal Stevenson and Richard Long. The most shocking moments of 2003 as well as highlights from the first season of Eating Media Lunch.

Season 2

  • S02E01 Media Shocker

    • June 1, 2004
    • TVNZ

    Top 20, we count down the most shocking media moments of 2004 (so far) Anita McNaught talks with Robert Fisk. NZ Idol, the shocking truth. Behind Enemy Lines, the Qantas Media Awards.

  • S02E02 Animal Antics

    • TVNZ

    The top "beastly" moments in NZ Animal History, Noam Chomsky on a North Shore radio station, John Campbell on Media Dog, and what happened to "Shrek The Sheep."

  • S02E03 Survival

    • TVNZ

  • S02E04 Madness

    • TVNZ

  • S02E05 Saucy

    • TVNZ

  • S02E06 Greymouth

    • TVNZ

  • S02E07 Destruction

    • TVNZ

  • S02E08 The Lows

    • TVNZ

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Season 7

  • S07E01 The Most Shocking Moments of 2007

    • October 12, 2007
    • TVNZ

    Eating Media Lunch is back for a seventh season with the most shocking moments of 2007 so far, the bad, the worse and the downright awful. Plus a look at the police party chicken porno.

  • S07E02 Capturing Terror

    • October 19, 2007
    • TVNZ

    Jeremy Wells interviews award-winning Guardian photographer and film maker Sean Smith, whose searing account of being embedded with the US military in Iraq was cited by Osama Bin Laden.

  • S07E03 Media Scrum

    • October 26, 2007
    • TVNZ

    EML examines the media scrums that swirled around David Bain and Millie Holmes and creates its own media scrum that turns on TV reporters with devastating consequences.

  • S07E04 Award Season

    • November 2, 2007
    • TVNZ

    Judging the best and worst award events of the year from the Pie Awards to the Film and Television Awards. Also including the prestigious ACatamy Awards and the National Dog Show.

  • S07E05 The EML Guide to the Apocalypse

    • November 9, 2007
    • TVNZ

    Jeremy Wells examines our most popular end of the world scenarios from peak oil and global warming to The Rapture.

  • S07E06 Haka

    • November 16, 2007
    • TVNZ

    Jeremy Wells leads a special investigation into New Zealand's best known dance, the haka. Later, a retrospective of Auckland music channel Max TV's groundbreaking show Box Dog.

  • S07E07 Shocking Relations

    • November 23, 2007
    • TVNZ

    Wallace heads to Rotorua in seach of alien encounters at the Future Perspectives Conference. Jeremy examines this year's spectacular PR disasters; the Ribena debacle, the Mercury Energy tragedy, and various lapses by members of the New Zealand Police.

  • S07E08 Impersonation

    • November 30, 2007
    • TVNZ

    Jeremy Wells travels to Las Vegas with three of this country's finest celebrity look alikes, Austin Powers, Freddie Mercury and Cher, for the 16th annual World Impersonators Conference.

  • S07E09 EML Awards 2007

    • December 7, 2007
    • TVNZ

    The series final features the [fourth] annual EML awards. Recognising those who have been overlooked for other awards; the absurd and the unusual as seen in the media are honoured.

Season 8

  • S08E01 Republican National Convention

    • November 7, 2008
    • TVNZ

    This week, host Jeremy Wells travels to Minnesota to witness the pomp and protest at the Republican National Convention. While John McCain and Sarah Palin preach to the converted, Wells talks to the delegates. However, his unconventional questions prove to be his undoing and he finds himself detained by the Minnesota State Police.

  • S08E02 New Zealand Election

    • November 14, 2008
    • TVNZ

    In this week’s Eating Media Lunch Special, presenter Jeremy Wells dissects the madness and mayhem of the 2008 New Zealand election aided by some of New Zealand’s leading psychics and astrologers. Wells also travels to the Kingdom of Tonga to witness the coronation of George Tupou the 5th and to discover for himself the truth about this much maligned monarchy. Much has been made of the pomp, pageantry and poverty surrounding the lavish coronation and Wells discovers some surprise celebrity guests. He also meets the winner of the inaugural Tonga’s Next Top Model.

  • S08E03 The Most Shocking Moments of 2008

    • November 21, 2008
    • TVNZ

    This week Eating Media Lunch reviews the most shocking and pointless incidents of 2008.