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

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New Zealand Spy gives 1970s espionage a modest budget and an outsized sense of confidence. Gadgets and secret briefings get the small-country treatment, while amateur agents bluff through assignments beyond their resources. The comedy is dry, deadpan and affectionately silly, puncturing spy-movie grandeur with make-do solutions, Kiwi in-jokes and rivalry with Australia rather than any real menace.

Each episode brings a self-contained mission, giving the trio a fresh opportunity to bicker, overestimate their abilities and cobble together a plan. Their thrown-together teamwork makes the assignments as much about managing one another as dealing with incoming threats. That combination of misplaced confidence and limited resources keeps the stories light and quick-moving, with the agents' behaviour supplying much of the fun.

Best for

deadpan spy spoof, amateur sleuth comedy 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.

Watch Next If This Is Your Lane

Start with the closest match, then check out two more shows with a similar feel, pace, mood, or theme.

SpyOn

ZDFneo • Sep 4, 2026

Comedy

Spy legend Voss shocks his boss Haberland and his colleague Kocabay when he introduces them to the recruits he has chosen for their hands-on spy training: Sami, a perpetually cheerful teacher who believes her father is a top spy; Andi, a muscle-bound provincial policeman with a brilliant sense of smell; Vicky, an ambitious diplomat's daughter with catastrophic exam anxiety; Asel, a gifted mathematician with a photographic memory; and Yuki, a microsystems engineer who is virtually invisible to most people.

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Strongest Match

The fun of watching underprepared people bluff their way through spy work carries from New Zealand Spy to SpyOn, with dry jokes and team mishaps driving the comedy. New Zealand’s tiny unit makes do with little, while SpyOn’s oddball recruits turn training exercises into cheerful chaos.

Slow Horses

Apple TV • Sep 16, 2026

CrimeDrama

Slough House is a dumping ground for members of the intelligence service who've screwed up: left a service file on a train, blown a surveillance, or become drunkenly unreliable. They're the service's poor relations. The slow horses and most bitter among them is River Cartwright, whose days are spent transcribing mobile-phone conversations. But when a young man is abducted, and his kidnappers threaten to behead him live on the Internet, River sees an opportunity to redeem himself. But is the victim who he first appears to be? And what's the kidnappers' connection with a disgraced journalist? As the clock ticks on the execution, River finds that everyone involved has their own agenda.

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Why this pick

New Zealand Spy and Slow Horses both find dry comedy in agents who are far less polished than the job demands. The Kiwi trio bickers through modest missions, while Slough House’s sharp-tongued boss and disgraced officers bring the same office humor to a much darker show, where mistakes can turn dangerous.

SPY x FAMILY

TV Tokyo • Oct 4, 2025

ComedyAction

A spy on an undercover mission gets married and adopts a child as part of his cover. His wife and daughter have secrets of their own, and all three must strive to keep together.

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Why this pick

New Zealand Spy’s deadpan jokes about amateur agents will feel familiar in SPY x FAMILY, where spy work keeps colliding with everyday absurdity. The Kiwi team bluffs through missions with limited resources; the animated series adds a fake family, secret identities, and warmer comedy, with light action alongside the laughs.

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