How many episodes are in New Zealand Spy?

New Zealand Spy has 6 episodes in this listed season.

When does New Zealand Spy premiere?

New Zealand Spy premieres on 2026-04-29.

Is New Zealand Spy a new series?

New Zealand Spy is a new series (Season 1).

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New Zealand Spy(2026)

Archived · TVNZ 2

6 eps

S01

Comedy

ON AIR: APR 29Season 1Archived listing

What to Expect

PremiereLens read

Set in the 1970s, New Zealand Spy plays the spy genre entirely for bureaucratic deflation. The country's intelligence operation launches with exactly three recruits, because that's how many applied, and the comedy grows from that founding absurdity outward into government dysfunction, institutional ineptitude, and a national self-awareness that never lets the premise get too grand.

The primary threat driving the plot is Australia, which keeps the satire usefully small and specific. Rather than global danger or villain monologues, the show builds sustained comic situations out of mundane procedural friction, the kind that accumulates across episodes rather than resolving in a single punchline.

Best for

bureaucratic spy spoof, 1970s office farce and Comedy

Story lane

Comedy

Commitment

Season 1 · 6 episodes

Where

TVNZ 2

Official Premise

New Zealand's newest spies - and the only three who applied - are tasked with protecting our nation from incoming threats, most notably those noisy neighbours in Australia.

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Strongest Match

President Curtis and New Zealand Spy both mine comedy from people stuck doing crisis work inside a broken system. In President Curtis, the team’s frantic problem-solving keeps getting tangled in paperwork and workplace chaos, while New Zealand Spy turns spy training and recruitment into 1970s bureaucratic farce.

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Why this pick

Ground Up and New Zealand Spy share a taste for story-driven comedy where local institutions trip over their own plans. Ground Up’s mockumentary look at civic ambition and committee friction lands jokes through deadpan meetings and escalating blunders, the same way New Zealand Spy keeps turning spy bureaucracy and Australia rivalry into escalating, laughable messes.

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Why this pick

Slow Horses and New Zealand Spy both deliver humor and tension from disgraced teams working under incompetent authority. Slow Horses brings the danger and workplace humiliation in a steady, tightening pace, while New Zealand Spy keeps it lighter with 1970s spy spoof energy and jokes that come from recruitment failures and petty rivalry.

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