By Ricardo Simich in Spy on the NZ Herald…

Kiwi comedy Kid Sister has a new addition, with an award-winning comedian joining its stars.

TVNZ’s identity comedy Kid Sister is coming back for a second season with comedian Bailey Poching adding to the chaos, as the fourth wheel to the repartee Simone Nathan, Paul Williams and Roxie Mohebbi created two years ago.

Nathan wrote and produced the semi-autobiographical comedy, which is about her character Lulu navigating her train-wreck ride through life as a young Jewish woman dating across a religious divide, with love interest Ollie played by Williams.

Poching (Ngāti Whatua ki Kaipara, Sāmoa) was raised in Wakefield in the UK, and since living in Aotearoa has become a regular on 7 Days and took out Best Debut at last year’s NZ International Comedy Festival, alongside Anthony Crum, for their outrageous duo show Hot Filthy Garbage!

He tells Spy his character Raymond on Kid Sister is a struggling actor and improviser flatting with Lulu, Ollie and Sina (Mohebbi).

Read the full story on the NZ Herald here.

Also – here’s what this week’s Listener has to say: 

The second season of writer-actor Simone Nathan’s acclaimed comedy series about Lulu, a young Jewish Kiwi woman dealing with her family’s cultural expectations, has already debuted on streaming platforms in Britain, Canada and Israel.
Despite being the show’s originating broadcaster, TVNZ has delayed showing the $1.3 million NZ On Air-funded second series for six months because of the Israeli invasion of the Gaza strip.
“TVNZ and the /Kid Sister/ production team jointly decided that in light of the current conflict in Gaza, the launching of the second season should be postponed,” the broadcaster told Israeli newspaper /Haaretz/ in a profile on Nathan earlier this year.
Inspired by growing up in one of Auckland’s most prominent Jewish families, Nathan’s character Lulu spent her first season working out what to do after falling pregnant to gentile boyfriend Ollie (comedian Paul Williams who Nathan married last year).
The second season does some art-imitating-life things with Ollie converting to Judaism – as Williams did himself – while they plan a wedding.
*Kid Sister streaming: TVNZ+ from 17 June