Reo Maori Channel Highlights
Reo Maori Channel Highlights
Week 13: Friday March 28 – Sunday March 30 2008
TE WHAKAMANUTANGA O TE TEIHANA HOU
– Friday March 28 at 8.00 PM
One-hour live-to-air
broadcast of the official launch of the new Maori language
channel at the gala dinner of the World Indigenous
Television Broadcasting Conference in Auckland. (Maori
language)
JUBILEE – Friday March 28 at 9.00 PM
Comedy
set in heartland New Zealand about Billy Williams, his
family and the small town of Waimatua – the sweet potato
capital of the world. Stars Cliff Curtis and Theresa Healey.
(Maori language)
WHARE TAPERE – Sunday March 30 at 8.00
PM
New! Series premiere of a studio-based show –
fronted by kapa haka enthusiast Tamati Waaka – that
explores the dynamics of kapa haka through discussion with
special guests. Learn and appreciate the stories behind the
moves, the songs and the people. (Maori language)
TE WAO
TUTURU – Sunday March 30 at 8.30 PM
Natural
history documentaries from throughout the world –
reversioned into the Maori language. Tonight: A drama of
adaptation and survival in America’s most brutal landscape
– Death Valley National Park in southern California.
(Maori
language)
Ends