# Patriot Brains

Patriot Brains is a New Zealand comedy panel game show, airing on TVNZ 2 in New Zealand and SBS Viceland in Australia since April 2021.

## Premise

The show, hosted by English comedian Bill Bailey in series 1 and Sue Perkins in series 2, focuses on the trans-Tasman rivalry by pitting two teams of three comics from Australia and New Zealand against each other. The host asks the teams a series of general knowledge questions about their respective countries from a revolving pool of categories.

## Production

New Zealand production company thedownlowconcept produces the series, which receives funding from NZ On Air.

## Broadcast

The first series of Patriot Brains aired in early 2021 in Australia and New Zealand, and the second series was broadcast in February 2023 in New Zealand.

## Episodes
### Series 1

| No. in series | Team Australia | Team New Zealand | Original air date |
| 1 | Mel Buttle, Rhys Nicholson, Tom Ballard | Melanie Bracewell, Guy Montgomery, Madeleine Sami | 7 April 2021 (2021-04-07) (NZ) 13 April 2021 (2021-04-13) (AU) |
| 2 | Mel Buttle, Rhys Nicholson, Harley Breen | Hayley Sproull, Josh Thomson, Ray O'Leary | 14 April 2021 (2021-04-14) (NZ) 20 April 2021 (2021-04-20) (AU) |
| 3 | Mel Buttle, Aaron Chen, Tom Ballard | Mel Bracewell, Hayley Sproull, Josh Thomson | 21 April 2021 (2021-04-21) (NZ) 27 April 2021 (2021-04-27) (AU) |
| 4 | Mel Buttle, Laura Davis, Aaron Chen | Mel Bracewell, Rhys Darby, Laura Daniel | 28 April 2021 (2021-04-28) (NZ) 4 May 2021 (2021-05-04) (AU) |
| 5 | Mel Buttle, Aaron Chen, Tom Ballard | Mel Bracewell, Kura Forrester, Ben Hurley | 5 May 2021 (2021-05-05) (NZ) 11 May 2021 (2021-05-11) (AU) |
| 6 | Mel Buttle, Rhys Nicholson, Harley Breen | Mel Bracewell, Ben Hurley, Laura Daniel | 12 May 2021 (2021-05-12) (NZ) 18 May 2021 (2021-05-18) (AU) |
| 7 | Mel Buttle, Harley Breen, Aaron Chen | Mel Bracewell, Guy Montgomery, James Nokise | 19 May 2021 (2021-05-19) (NZ) 25 May 2021 (2021-05-25) (AU) |
| 8 | Mel Buttle, Tom Ballard, Laura Davis | Mel Bracewell, Pax Assadi, Justine Smith | 26 May 2021 (2021-05-26) (NZ) 1 June 2021 (2021-06-01) (AU) |
| 9 | Mel Buttle, Laura Davis, Tom Ballard | Mel Bracewell, Hayley Sproull, Josh Thomson | 2 June 2021 (2021-06-02) (NZ) 8 June 2021 (2021-06-08) (AU) |
| 10 | Mel Buttle, Aaron Chen, Harley Breen | Mel Bracewell, Cori Gonzalez-Macuer, Ben Hurley | 9 June 2021 (2021-06-09) (NZ) 15 June 2021 (2021-06-15) (AU) |
    Note: Winners are listed in bold.

### Series 2

| No. in series | Team Australia | Team New Zealand | Original air date |
| 1 | Becky Lucas, Nath Valvo, Brett Blake | Angella Dravid, Josh Thomson, Guy Montgomery | 10 February 2023 (2023-02-10) (NZ) 14 June 2023 (2023-06-14) (AU) |
| 2 | Alex Ward, Luke McGregor, Brett Blake | Dai Henwood, Ben Hurley, Hayley Sproull | 17 February 2023 (2023-02-17) (NZ) |
| 3 | Becky Lucas, Nath Valvo, Brett Blake | Urzila Carlson, Hayley Sproull, Pax Assadi | 24 February 2023 (2023-02-24) (NZ) |
| 4 | Nazeem Hussain, Alex Ward, Harley Breen | Josh Thomson, Angella Dravid, Ben Hurley | 3 March 2023 (2023-03-03) (NZ) |
| 5 | Becky Lucas, Nath Valvo, Heath Franklin | Becky Umbers, Chris Parker, Guy Montgomery | 10 March 2023 (2023-03-10) (NZ) |
| 6 | Becky Lucas, Suraj Kolarkar, Nazeem Hussain | Hayley Sproull, Urzila Carlson, Josh Thomson | 17 March 2023 (2023-03-17) (NZ) |
| 7 | Becky Lucas, Nazeem Hussain, Heath Franklin | Chris Parker, Urzila Carlson, Guy Montgomery | 24 March 2023 (2023-03-24) (NZ) |
| 8 | Alex Ward, Luke McGregor, Brett Blake | Josh Thomson, Angella Dravid, Ben Hurley | 31 March 2023 (2023-03-31) (NZ) |
| 9 | Luke McGregor, Alex Ward, Harley Breen | Ray O'Leary, Becky Umbers, Ben Hurley | 14 April 2023 (2023-04-14) (NZ) |
| 10 | Luke McGregor, Alex Ward, Claire Hooper | Ray O'Leary, Becky Umbers, Dai Henwood | 21 April 2023 (2023-04-21) (NZ) |
    Note: Winners are listed in bold.