Suzy Cato

Kia ora, taloa.

How are you?

I'm really good and really excited because, my goodness, tomorrow is going to be a big day for the whole of Aotearoa.

I think that song is in our DNA.

It's certainly in mine.

After 2,000 episodes in the original series, we're only doing 25 this series, aiming for a few more in the next series.

Fingers crossed.

But yeah, to have been a part of that for five years, making the show, and then on repeat, on repeat.

Repeat for decades afterwards.

Yes.

Well, we've actually remade it.

So it's got a new music bed because the original was made on, well, like an 18-track type thing many, many years ago.

And everybody went, OK, kids' television.

Off it went.

It was collecting too much dust, so they got rid of it, understandably.

So we've had the opportunity to recreate everything.

The opening title scene with all those kids doing such amazing things, riding bikes, and we've done that again.

We've recreated brother, sister, mum, dad, and the dog.

I'm talking about the puppets.

They're not puppets.