Maori Television Highlights: Jan 7-13 2008
MAORI TELEVISION HIGHLIGHTS
Week 2: Monday
January 7 - Sunday January 13 2008
WHAKAREHU -
Daily at 7.50 PM in Maori and repeated at 11.20 PM with
English subtitles
Pantheons of the Maori world
discuss the major news issues of the year in this daily
10-minute segment. This week: Hirini Moko Mead (Jan 7);
Hekenuku Busby (Jan 8); Henare Kingi (Jan 9); Meihana Durie
(Jan 10); Tihi Puanaki (Jan 11); Kingi Ihaka (Jan 12); and
Kaa Williams (Jan 13).
NATIVE AFFAIRS: SUMMER SERIES
- Monday January 7 at 8.30 PM
Maori Television's
current affairs series - a finalist at the Qantas
Television Awards - presents the highlights of 2007.
Tonight: Raids in Ruatoki; Hone Harawira MP lashes out at
John Howard - the controversial panel that made
international headlines; and Joe Hawke reflects on the 30th
anniversary of the Bastion Point occupation.
ITI
POUNAMU (NZ SHORT FILMS) - Monday January 7 at 9.30
PM
Hinekaro: Based on a short story by Booker
prize-winning author Keri Hulme. A young woman known as 'The
Apprentice' discovers her own power once she contacts her
spirit guide. Hosted by Ainsley Gardiner and Tearepa Kahi
with studio guest, director Christine Parker.
WARRANT
FOR FITNESS - Tuesday January 8 at 8.00 PM
The
practical health and well-being show is back with more
empowering and motivational personal stories as well as
no-nonsense, hands-on health information from a
distinctively Maori perspective. Tonight: Hine Haig kicks
her smoking habit but fills the void with high fat
food.
PERU: THE ROYAL TOUR (INTERNATIONAL DOCO) -
Tuesday January 8 at 8.30 PM
Peru is the only country
on earth that can boast a 2,000 mile desert coastline, a
mountain range with 10 peaks over 20,000 feet and the
world's largest tropical rainforest. Peter Greenberg is
escorted through the country by Peru's president, Alejandro
Toledo (2001-2006).
TAKU WAHINE
PUROTU - Wednesday January 9 at 8.00 PM
Iconic
female ancestors who achieved fame and immortality are
celebrated in this new, six-part series about tribal
wharepuni or meeting houses constructed by their descendents
in their honour. Tonight: Hinerupe, north of
Gisborne.
EATING PORK'N'PUHA WITH CHOPSTICKS (NZ DOCO)
- Wednesday January 9 at 8.30 PM
The story of New
Zealand's unique Maori-Chinese community through the
experiences of one Auckland family, following three
generations of the Lee family - beginning in the market
gardens of South Auckland in the 1920s.
NBL: HARVEY
NORMAN NZ BREAKERS - Thursday January 10 at 8.00 PM,
repeats Saturday January 12 at 1.30 PM
More
high-energy basketball action from Auckland's North Shore
Events Centre as the NZ Breakers take on the Gold Coast
Blaze in round 17 of Australia's Hummer Championship
NBL.
BASSLINE - Friday January 11
at 8.30 PM
New Zealand's modern-day musical movement
is captured in action on stage in this new series showcasing
the cream of contemporary local music. Presenters Te Awanui
Reeder and Helen Crown allow viewers to get up close and
personal with Kiwi artists - premiering with hip hop great
Che Fu.
NATIONAL TOUCH SERIES - Sunday January 13 at
3.00 PM
Part two of a three-part sports special
featuring exclusive coverage of the recent mixed touch
nationals held in Upper Hutt - an annual tournament for
New Zealand's largest team sport.
TE HAUKAINGA -
Sunday January 13 at 5.00 PM
New, six-part series
about the people who live within their tribal lands of the
eastern Bay of Plenty - under the shadow of their
mountains and surrounded by their rivers, lakes, forests and
sea. Tonight: The village of Ruatahuna and the sacred Tuhoe
mountain, Maungapohatu
TROUBLED WATER (SUNDAY FEATURE)
- Sunday January 13 at 9.00 PM
Two families
establish homes in Dugit, a fishing village in the northern
region of the Gaza Strip. But man, nature and environment
are hostages - like pieces of a cynical chess game - in
the hands of leaders, politicians and military men. Hebrew
with English language
subtitles.
ENDS