Pete Salmon: Director and producer of After the Party on BAFTA nomination

New Zealand show ‘After the Party’ has been nominated for a BAFTA TV award in the UK.

The show follows a high school teacher who accuses her husband of sexually abusing their daughter's friend, starring Robyn Malcolm and Scottish actor Peter Mullan.

The shows director and producer Pete Salmon talks to Ryan Bridge about the nomination.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is a real coupe for New Zealand TV drama.
The show After the Party has just been nominated for
a Bathter TV Award in the UK. It stars Robin
Malcolm and Scottish actor Peter Mullin. Back in the day,
women weren't allowed to talk about anything, and that's what
made us kind of victims.

Speaker 2 (00:17):
A lot of women make false accusations that completely destroying
us in men's lives, How do you know they're innocent?

Speaker 1 (00:24):
Director and producer Pete Salmon is with us now, welcome
to the show and congratulations.

Speaker 2 (00:30):
Oh thanks, yes, amazing.

Speaker 1 (00:34):
Yeah. When did you hear about it? How did you
find out? What was your reaction? Oh?

Speaker 2 (00:39):
I woke up this morning. I knew that they were
coming in overnight and I just like told myself, don't
because it is going to be like about one in
the morning that I would find out, and don't wake
up because you'll never get beat to sleep either way,
going either way. So I woke up in the morning
and then my wife had texted she was working late
last night, so she found out first. So yeah, incredible,

(01:01):
So stoked.

Speaker 1 (01:03):
You're nominated in the international category. And it is a
tough it's going to be a very tough field. I've
seen obviously seen your show, but also seen Showgun, which
you're up against. Which have you seen that? I mean,
it's a brilliant show.

Speaker 2 (01:18):
Right I haven't, but yeah, play all accounts. It's incredible. Yeah,
so yeah, I mean just the competition is huge. But
you know, like I think after the Party stands out
in kind of his own way. You know, it's this
little show, you know, up against something like Showgun, which
is ginormous. You know, so it could go either way.
You know, like there's so many great shows in that category,

(01:41):
and you know any one of them deserves us lovely
to be part of that totally.

Speaker 1 (01:46):
Is it? Is it about the winning or is actually
and put it into context for us being nominated in
a category like this at the Bathtter TV Awards quite
a big deal.

Speaker 2 (01:56):
It's it's huge. It's so huge. It's like, yes, one
of the biggest awards nights of the year. You know,
it's like it's up there with the Oscars, you know,
less well known, I suppose it, but the Baptist sort
of holds like quite a lot of respect internationally within
the industry, and it has so much integrity you know,
because the projects that sort of go through there are

(02:17):
often a really high standard. So to sort of be
nominated is just out of the amount of shows that
you can watch nowadays, is phenomenal.

Speaker 1 (02:27):
Really, The reviews since it dropped in the UK have
been excellent. Is it? How successful has it been overseas?
And I guess how do you know, how do you
syndicate it? How do you tell?

Speaker 2 (02:41):
Yeah? Where we sort of get some feedback from Channel four,
who's a broadcaster in the UK, and they, I mean
they just are in love with it. That it was
their second highest drama I think for last year to
broadcasts in streaming, and I think their top top show
for just streaming. So it's the massive achievement what it's

(03:02):
done over there. And just I didn't get over there,
but there was a lot of people who just sort
billboards everywhere, you know, and seeing Robin's face all through
London as you know for a little Kiwi show. I
think it's really lovely, you know. I think the thing
that I find amazing is just how people watch the
whole series through, you know, because I quite often I

(03:23):
just watch it one of things, you know, and never
get past the next one, but the completion rates have
been through the roof, so I think that is a
really good sign that it's doing well.

Speaker 1 (03:34):
You must be doing something right then, Thanks so much,
Thanks so much for congratulations again. Pete Salmon with US,
director and producer of After the Party, which has been
nominated for a baft To TV Award. Over in the UK.

Speaker 2 (03:46):
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