Maori Television Highlights

Maori Television Highlights

Week 10: Monday March 5 – Sunday March 11 2007

KORERO MAI – Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday at 7.00 PM (repeated Thursday, Friday and Saturday at 7.00 PM)
The soap opera that helps you scrub up on your reo Maori is back with an all-new series, six days a week, complete with a cast of fresh new faces, exciting storylines and more tips to help you learn the language.

GHOST RIDERS (MONDAY FEATURE) – Monday March 5 at 8.30 PM
Saddle up for a healing 300-mile horse trek, the Bigfoot Memorial Ride, held every year by the Lakota Nation. The ride helps ‘wipe the tears’ shed for the massacre of its people at Wounded Knee in 1896, as well as more recent hardships.

THE DREAM AND THE DREAMING (INTERNATIONAL DOCO) – Tuesday March 6 at 8.30 PM
For thirty thousand years, the desert people of Central Australia walked the lands, governed by ancestral laws, until the German Lutheran missionaries arrived in 1877. Discover how two cultures clashed but ultimately saved each other.

KAI KORERO – Tuesday March 6 at 9.30 PM
Sit down to a feast of laughs with top acting talents George Henare and Annie Whittle in a multi-cultural sitcom about two families who meet each Sunday for food, and funny moments.

CHINKS, COCONUTS AND CURRY MUNCHERS (NZ DOCO) – Wednesday March 7 at 8.30 PM
The title doesn’t mince words and neither does this thought-provoking documentary, made a few years back, which looks at the ever-topical thorny subject of racial stereotypes, only this time it’s how Maori see immigrants to Aotearoa.

NGATI NRL – Thursday March 8 at 8.00 PM
Benji Marshall and the other talented players from Aotearoa tackle the tough world of Australia’s top rugby league teams in a new series of the popular fly-on-the-dressing-room wall show.

MAORI REGIONAL SPORTS AWARDS – Saturday March 10 at 6.00 PM
The theme of the 2006 Mataatua Sports Awards is Ruamoko - guardian of the Volcano – so expect lots of bright sparks to be among the finalists in this highlights package of the region’s hottest sporting night.

TAUTOHETOHE SPECIALS – Sunday March 11 at 8.00 PM
Clever wordplay in reo Maori comes under scrutiny in this riveting fully-subtitled debate competition which sees talented teams from different iwi pitted against each other in front of judges.

RUBY AND QUENTIN (SUNDAY FEATURE) – Sunday March 11 at 9.00 PM
Unlikely prison mates Quentin (Gerard Depardieu ), who is a talkative robber, and stony-faced killer Ruby (Jean Reno ) escape and go on the run. Simple Quentin wants to open a café, but Ruby has revenge and murder in mind in this genuinely funny French buddy movie.

ENDS

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