Friday Night Is Whanau Night on Maori Television

October 8, 2013

Friday Night Is Whanau Night on Maori Television

Maori Television is taking viewers back to an era of light entertainment with WHANAU FACTOR, a new family game show premiering on Friday, October 18 at 8.00pm.

The 13-part series hosted by Matai Smith (Best Presenter Entertainment/Factual at the New Zealand Television Awards 2012) mixes key elements from successful overseas game shows with old-fashioned Maori humour and a dash of family rivalry.

Each week, team leaders Robynleigh Cowan-Emery and Parata Berryman will join a family pair in a series of challenges that will test their general knowledge, mental prowess and Maori language skills over three rounds in the hope of winning a jackpot of fantastic prizes.

Challenges include Out of Time, which takes contestants back to different periods in history; Family Whispers; Listen to Me, which tests the teams’ understanding of commands in te reo Maori, and a look through the pop culture archives for What The #Tag Are You Kids Watching?

The winning family pair then has the opportunity to win a truckload of household appliances, entertainment gear, as well as camping and lifestyle equipment – all supplied by U Buy.

Contestants came from far and wide to represent their whanau and take part in the studio-based game show, which is produced by the award-winning Scottie Productions and sponsored by Te Wananga O Aotearoa.

In the first episode, Raewynne Murray (Weymouth) and her aunty-in-law Kathy Thomas (Atatu North) take on the mother-daughter combo of Riparata and Lineni Tuitupou (Papatoetoe) to compete for $4000 worth of prizes.

Strap yourself in for a rib-tickling half-hour of television that pits family against family in WHANAU FACTOR, starting Friday October 18 at 8.00pm.

BILLINGS:

Episode One: October 18
A mother of nine and her youngest daughter take on an aunty and niece in this new studio-based family game show. The first game is set in 1841 – can you guess which items had been introduced to Aotearoa then and which are ‘Out of Time?’

Episode Two: October 25
A Ngati Hine father and son team take on a dad and daughter combo from Kawhia Moana to compete for $4000 worth of prizes. The opening game Listen to Me will test the participants’ understanding of commands in te reo Maori.

Episode Three: November 1
It’s a cross-generational competition on Whanau Factor tonight. Team Wild, Wild West is a kuia and her great-nephew from Raglan who face off against an aunty and her namesake niece, who hail from Waiuku.

Episode Four: November 8
Whanau Factor kicks off this episode in 1939 with host Matai Smith proudly wearing the Maori Battalion uniform. Can the teams – a Ngati Hine mother and daughter and Ngai Tuhoe mother and son – work out which items had not yet been invented?

Click here to read bios of the contestants.

www.maoritelevision.com

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