Jemaine Clement compares dealing with the New Zealand, American and British media agencies.

Jemaine Clement has fired another shot at TVNZ.

This time the Flight of the Conchords star says Kiwi television networks are far less friendly than those overseas.

While he's continued to pitch shows to the network that famously rejected international hit Conchords, Clement says he's been unsuccessful getting anything going at home.

LAWRENCE SMITH/FAIRFAX NZ Jermaine Clement says he's still frustrated by New Zealand TV.

The cult comedy which proved Clement's big career break ended up becoming a major hit with British and US audiences after HBO put faith in the show.

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An as-yet-unnamed comedy mini-series was originally dismissed by Kiwi networks, but was met with immediate enthusiasm when pitched to director and producer Judd Apatow.

Apatow was sold so quickly that filming begins next year.

Clement made his comments during an interview with Stuff to promote his latest movie, People, Places, Things, which opened in New Zealand cinemas on Thursday.

"I pitch a lot [at home]," Clement says. "And I still do…In New Zealand you just tend to write a document and you send it away. You don't know who sees it. And eventually you hear 'no'. That's sort of the way it seems to work.

"In Britain and the US, where we ended up doing [Flight of the] Conchords stuff, we did radio shows [beforehand]. It's a great system.

"With the BBC they'd come to our show, for a start. I've never met anyone from TVNZ go to one of our shows. They [The BBC] would wait for us afterwards, say 'we're from the BBC, we loved listening to you'.

"It's a much friendlier system."

Under the guidance of Apatow, Clement is working on a series of unconnected mini-films with long-time ally and What We Do in the Shadows co-star Taika Waititi.

Described as a "comedy version" of the British comic Charlie Brooker's Black Mirror, Clement found exporting the idea the only option if it was ever going to make it on air.

"It's an idea we [Taika and I] had floating around for a long time. My agent said, 'would you like to meet Judd Apatow' and I said, 'I guess so!'.

"I went and met him and he said, 'do you have any ideas', and I said 'Ah, there's this thing'.

"And he said 'let's do it!' So we've written a few episodes."

Clement says there's a lot more crative freedom in the US and Britain.

"I think [that] can only help with comedy and drama - to have the voice of the creator on it rather than the network."

For all his success pitching ideas abroad, there has been hope of a Clement-inspired series hitting our screens.

The show would feature the pair of naive police officers from Clement and Waititi's horror-comedy hit, What We Do in the Shadows.

"It's like a Kiwi X-Files, but comedy. So you look into their characters, [paranormal] possessions, zombies and maybe some of the characters from the film."

So what of the possibility of TVNZ finally commissioning a series? He shares a sarcastic, staccato laugh.

"I dunno. Maybe.

"Whenever I get home I try and start something … At the moment I rest here, honestly. I just have a think about what to do and go overseas and do it usually."

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