Maori Television Highlights

Maori Television Highlights

Week 10: Sunday March 1 – Saturday March 7 2009

KAI TIME ON THE ROAD – Sunday March 1 at 7.00 PM

Season premiere!  The irrepressible Pete Peeti returns with his down-to-earth approach to food, the land and everything in between. Pete’s years of experience culminate in his finely-honed recipes, with the best in kai from around the motu. Tonight: Pete is in Tuwharetoa country at the Wairakei Huka Prawn Farm.  Pete is impressed by the abundance of kai that can be harvested in Taupo.

LOST IN TRANSLATION – Sunday March 1 at 8.30 PM

Mike King hits the road to find out about the Treaty of Waitangi, who signed and who didn’t, and to talk to descendants who shed new light on events in 1840. Tonight: It’s called the Manukau-Kawhia Sheet, because it was the version of the Treaty signed in these places, but there is a question mark over where the signings occurred.  King tries to get to the bottom of this and explores the possibilities.  From the old mission station at Orua Bay, King takes a water taxi to the place Ngati Whatua believe it took place.  This episode looks closely at a prominent Catholic bishop of the time – Pompallier – an influential man some say may have discouraged some chiefs from signing. 

King also goes to Kawhia to meet local historian, Frank Thorne, a descendant of signatory, Te Matenga.

OMAGH (SUNDAY FEATURE) – Sunday March 1 at 9.00 PM

On August 15, 1998, a car bomb detonated in the small market town of Omagh, in Northern Island.  Thirty-one people were killed and hundreds more were injured. Screenwriter Paul Greengrass has dramatised the tragic event, and the moving story of one grieving father's search for justice.

ITI POUNAMU – Tuesday March 3 at 9.30 PM

Series Final.  Short films have long been the small but lovely gems in the crown of the New Zealand film industry, and this is the show that celebrates that film genre.  Presenters Ainsley Gardiner (Ngati Awa) and Tearepa Kahi (Tainui) are back for a final time to showcase some of the finest short films ever made in this country, and meet the filmmakers themselves. Tonight: ‘Careful With That Axe’ and ‘The Knock’, with director Miles Murphy and writer Nick Ward.

TE KOHA O WHAEA IRIHAPETI (NZ DOCUMENTARY) - Wednesday March 4 at 8.30 PM

A documentary profiling Sister Elizabeth, the last in line of the Bishop Pompallier ‘Sisters of Mercy’ who, as a gift to her hometown of Pawarenga, organises an Easter celebration in the community hall.  The sister has set up a display of their family trees, going back to the time of the early missionaries, and her hope is to give the people something many have lost – the connections with one another, and their whakapapa.  But how will they react, and will her efforts give her the acceptance of her community?

RINGSIDE: CAMERON’S BOXING HIGHLIGHTS – Friday March 6 at 9.00 PM

Maori Television presenter Te Arahi Maipi is joined in the studio by Shane ‘The Mountain Warrior’ Cameron, to review all the hard-hitting action of 2008, and to discuss what lies ahead in Cameron’s quest to become heavyweight champion of the world.

CAMERON’S HOME COMING FIGHT – Saturday March 7 at 4.00 PM

Get ready to rumble when New Zealand heavyweight champion boxer Shane Cameron returns to his hometown of Gisborne to fight for the first time. ‘The Homecoming Fight’ at Rugby Park is sure to be a knockout live-to-air broadcast – both for locals and for viewers!  Cameron takes on Detroit fighter Leo “Paco” Nolan with his WBO Oriental and Asia Pacific Heavyweight titles on the line.

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