Redemption Hill
Created byGlenn Sims
StarringSteve Boxer (warden)
Country of originNew Zealand
No. of episodes10
Production
Executive producersGlenn Sims, Ross Jennings
Running time60 min
Production companies
Original release
NetworkTV2
Release2006 (2006)

Redemption Hill was a New Zealand reality series that followed 10 teenagers identified as being likely to enter a life of crime. The teenagers were selected from a call for participants throughout New Zealand, many nominated by their parents.[1]

Redemption Hill involved a course of discipline and adventure activities, as organised by a "warden" (Steve Boxer). It also involved time behind bars in Napier prison, which was decommissioned in 1993 and subsequently turned into a tourist attraction.

The show was filmed on location at Napier Prison, New Zealand's oldest prison.

Season one

The Teens

  • Aaron
  • Brigitte
  • Ebonee
  • Jesse
  • Jessica
  • Jeremy
  • Jonathon
  • Khelsie
  • Luke
  • Samantha

Updates

A year after the show was first broadcast, just before midnight on 20 April 2007, teen participant Aaron Mark Lambert was killed in a high-speed crash in his home town of Hamilton.[2]

On the 28 July 2009, another show participant Jesse Young died following an accident where he was hit by a motor vehicle.[3]

References

  1. ↑ Redemption Hill | | TV2 | tvnz.co.nz
  2. ↑ "Boy racer dies in Waikato crash". One News. 21 April 2007. Retrieved 5 November 2011.
  3. ↑ "Man dies after being hit by car | infonews.co.nz New Zealand News".


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