Maori Television Highlights - Dec 3 to Dec 9 2007
MAORI TELEVISION HIGHLIGHTS
Week 49: Monday
December 3 - Sunday December 9 2007
ITI POUNAMU
(NZ SHORT FILMS) - Monday December 3 at 9.30
PM
I'm In Here: Frank has created the ultimate
bathroom - a heavenly place where he can go in peace
… if only his family will let him! Followed by Te
Utu - Maori mythology animation directed and written
by Robert Jahnke.
MY BROTHER'S KOSOVA WEDDING
(INTERNATIONAL DOCO) - Tuesday December 4 at 8.30
PM
Kosova-Australian Sel Beha is beckoned back to
Kosova for his brother's wedding. What has happened to the
country since the war against Serbia ended in 2001? What has
happened since Sel was last there, 16 years ago?
NGA
RIPO - Wednesday December 5 at 8.00 PM
Life is love
for 93-year-old Akinihi Wharerau (Ngapuhi, Tainui) - love
of her whanau, love of her late husband, love of her garden,
love of others and above everything, love of her God,
Jehovah.
PAKEHA MAORI (NZ DOCO) - Wednesday December
5 at 8.30 PM
By the early years of the nineteenth
century a few Pakeha had settled amongst Maori, integrated
into tribes and depending on Maori for their livelihood and
survival. Written accounts and interviews with descendents
builds a picture of the world they lived in.
NBL:
HARVEY NORMAN NZ BREAKERS - Thursday December 6 at 8.00
PM, repeats Saturday December 8 at 1.30
PM
Commentators Te Arahi Maipi, Dale Husband, and
Chris and Tania Tupu serve up more high-energy basketball
action from Auckland's North Shore Events Centre as the NZ
Breakers take on the Sydney Kings in round 12 of Australia's
NBL Hummer Championship.
MAORIOKE - Friday
December 7 at 8.30 PM
Contestants from the Bay of
Plenty, Christchurch, Upper Hutt, Porirua and Auckland line
up for the fifth and final set of semi-finals in the popular
nationwide talent search before the top seven finalists are
announced.
MATATAHI (YOUTH) - Saturday December 8 at
5.30 PM
Sex and Romance: They are key
ingredients to life but who's talking about it? The
fast-paced, funky and fun-filled youth magazine show takes a
light-hearted look at our love lives.
KAI ORA (FOOD) -
Sunday December 9 at 7.00 PM
The Maori queen of
cuisine, Anne Thorp, cooks up a storm for her talented
friends - television reporter Tini Molyneux and Matai
Smith from Pukana fame - in this celebration of
fine dining, Maori style.
THE MARKET BOYS (SUNDAY
FEATURE) - Sunday December 9 at 9.00 PM
Nothing -
certainly not law-breaking - stops Palestinian teenagers
from infiltrating Israel to work and practically live in
Beer Sheva Market, the biggest market in the southern part
of Israel. Arabic, Hebrew with English
subtitles.
Ends