7 Days final tonight

This week sees Jeremy Corbett and two teams of New Zealand’s finest comic talents blast the last seven days of news out of the water for one last time this season, the finale of 7 Days screens on Friday, December 11th at 10pm on 3.

“This series has been awesome. Normally when you start getting to about episode eight of a series, you start thinking quietly to yourself, ‘oh, not another episode of this’ but 7 Days is a real adventure to shoot,” says Producer Jon Bridges about the series that over the last 17 weeks has established itself as one of New Zealand’s most critically and commercially successful comedy series.

Bridges says that it’s the series’ incredible rotating roster of comedians, which over the season have included Rove McManus and Peter Helliar, which have made 7 Days the success it’s become.

“The comedians are so high energy; the studio is like a cage full of monkeys,” he says. “Sometimes the other producers and I look at each other and think ‘why didn’t we do a nice reality programme?’.”

“Every time you say something to one of the comedians in a meeting they treat it as an opportunity to make a joke or, if more than one is there, to start a hilarious conversation,” Bridges continues.

“Sometimes we just go and get lunch, they don’t even notice us leaving, and by the time we return hopefully they are either ready to listen seriously or have wandered off home.”

As for what he, Corbett, and the team will be getting up to in their time off, Bridges says that the Friday night routine they have gotten into will be a difficult one to break.

“Nobody is ready to stop recording 7 Days, but the season is almost over,” he explains. “From now on we are planning to meet at Ben’s [Hurley] house every Friday night and talk about the news stories of the week, maybe caption a few pictures, Jeremy can hand out points.”

“Every few minutes I’ll just put down my beer and yell out ‘Quiet on the floor please. Coming to us in Five, Four, Three, Two…’. It will get us through.”

Fans however have something much more exciting to look forward to over the summer 7 Days drought, according to Bridges the series will be bringing us an end-of-year special.

“It is a year-in-review show where instead of taking the piss out of the last seven days’ events, we take the piss out of the events of 2009,” Bridges says about the special which will be coming to our screens towards the end of December.

But before that time make sure not to miss this series’ final official episode when 7 Days screens on Friday, December 11th at 10pm on 3.

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