Maori Television Highlights: 18 - 24 November 2010

Maori Television Highlights

Week 52: Saturday December 18 – Friday December 24 2010

HAPPY ENDINGS (SATURDAY FEATURE) – Saturday December 18 at 9.30 PM
Multiple stories and an ensemble cast are woven together to create this witty exploration of love, family and the sheer unpredictability of life. In the first storylinet, a Mamie is blackmailed by a sleazy aspiring filmmaker. She is also searching for her adopted son. In the meantime Charley believes his close friends Diane and Pam have a child by his Gil’s frozen sperm. Otis is the closeted gay busboy at Charley’s restaurant, but that doesn’t stop Jude from seducing first him and then his father, becoming pregnant by one of them. Starring Maggie Gyllenhaal, Tom Arnold and Steve Coogan.

MAHINGA KAI – Sunday December 19 at 6.30 PM
Eel is a traditional food and a delicacy still enjoyed by Maori today. Its importance as a food source and some of the traditional methods of catching and cooking this food are discussed.

KAI TIME ON THE ROAD – Sunday December 19 at 7.00 PM
More from Maori Television’s beloved chef, Pete Peeti, as he hits the road in search of the local cuisine, and the colourful characters that make it. Tonight: Pete prepares meals for the Rotorua Wearable Creation ‘n’ Colour Awards. His guest Maru Maniapoto has tried all types of food and services the hospitality industry has to offer.

NATIVE AFFAIRS –SUMMER SERIES (CURRENT AFFAIRS) – Monday December 20 at 8.30 PM
Series premiere! A wrap up of the big stories of 2010 from the Native Affairs team, featuring educational, informed and serious current affairs. Julian Wilcox and the team present regional and national stories from a Maori perspective, as well as international indigenous news.

PAYING FOR JUSTICE (INTERNATIONAL DOCO) – Tuesday December 21 at 8.30 PM
A documentary that makes no pretence of objectivity as it tackles Israeli institutions to question their treatment of Holocaust survivors and their descendants. The Rabbinate, the Israeli Defense Forces and the health system are all scrutinized, evaluated - and found wanting - as filmmakers produce their evidence of widespread and cynical neglect. They claim there are 80,000 Holocaust survivors living in Israel who live below the poverty level. They say hundreds of millions of dollars and valuable land and artefacts are being held that rightfully belong to the heirs of those who perished in the Holocaust. They point to conspiracy among banks, government agencies, bureaucrats, and the International Claims Commission.

The filmmakers travel to Europe and the United States in an attempt to confront officials. In the process learn that many survivors left Israel and returned to Germany ,where their medical care is free and their monthly compensation as Holocaust victims is ten times what they were receiving in Israel. Stolen artwork and other recovered articles are catalogued in Holland and are in the process of being returned to the heirs, but in Israel, the land of return, there is no list and no return.
HUNTING AOTEAROA – Thursday December 24 at 9.30 PM
This week on Rangiauria (Pitt Island), Howie Morrison Jnr meets Dorse, who shows him how he traps pigs and shoots wild sheep. Dorse’s nephew Sam takes Howie on an early morning pig hunt with some good results.

Finals:
LOVE PATROL – Tuesday December 21 at 9.30 PM
A drama series set in a police station in Vanuatu. Tonight: Wendy gets a job singing in a bar but Kalo doesn’t approve, and Simon gets involved in a burglary with two escaped prisoners.

TAUTOHETOHE – Wednesday December 22 at 8.30 PM
Leading tribal orators battle with wit and words in this reo Maori debate show.

ENDS

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