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Sex, drugs, violence and street racing, Ride with the Devil has earned its 11pm Tuesday night screening time on TV2.

The local drama is now up to its third episode and it is well worth a look for all the above reasons but also because it makes a little piece of broadcasting history by being the first New Zealand television drama with an Asian playing the leading role.

Andy Wong plays Lin Jin, a young student from Beijing who gets caught up in local boy racer culture – a kind of Tokyo Drift in Auckland. He is supported by an experienced and able cast that includes Caleigh Cheung, Xavier Horan, and former Shortland Street regulars, Lynette Forday, Angela Bloomfield and Anna Hutchinson.

The NZ On Air Innovation Initiative that funded Ride With the Devil was created to foster new and innovative television. The series writer Murray Keane told the NZ Herald: “We weren’t trying to be culturally sensitive, we were trying to be culturally representative.”

The trailer is here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1ZbXHR7VYw
For more information: www.bebo.com/ridewiththedevil or read this article: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/1501119/story.cfm?c_id=1501119&objectid=10460972