Māori Television Highlights: April 4 to April 10

Māori Television Highlights - Sunday April 4 to Saturday April 10 2010

LUCKY MILES (SUNDAY FEATURE) (2007) - Sunday April 4 at 8.30 PM
A boatload of illegal immigrants are abandoned on a remote beach in Western Australia. Most of the men are rounded up but three evade capture and begin an epic journey into the desert. Both dramatic and comedic, the story picks up on what has been a delicate political issue in Australia. It shows their point of view as they attempt to survive both the harsh environment and each other, and paints a picture of the promised land they hope to find.

MANLY NIGHT FOOTBALL – Monday April 5 at 9.30 PM
Monday night is Manly night on Māori Television! New Zealand’s second-favourite NRL team has a new free-to-air home in 2010.

NO SWEAT PARENTING – Tuesday April 6 at 8.00 PM
Season premiere! Pio Terei and Stacey Morrison present a fun filled entertainment series that’s all about the joys and challenges of raising a family. Tonight: Family Commissioner Bobby Newson and Ben Tawhiti.

FIRST AUSTRALIANS – Tuesday April 6 at 8.30 PM
Series premiere! With breathtaking cinematography and powerful narration, highly-acclaimed documentary series FIRST AUSTRALIANS recounts the events of first contact between Australia’s Aboriginal people and white settlers. A seven-part series that begins with a 90-minute pilot. Tonight: the story begins in 1788 with Bennelong, a young aboriginal warrior who befriends British envoy Arthur Philip. The relationship becomes strained after violence breaks out between settlers and the natives, and the bloodshed worsens as settlers spread out across Australia, and scores of Aboriginal clans are alienated from their traditional homelands and practices. In future episodes, there will be emotional first-hand stories of the Australian government’s ‘unhealthy experiments’, which involved the removal of half-caste children from Aboriginal parents, and ‘protective legislation’ which incarcerated Aboriginal people to outback reserves.

MŌTEATEA – Wednesday April 7 at 8.00 PM
Series premiere! The ancient songs were whakapapa put into song. They are often laments that depict something that happened in life, such as the loss of a beloved relative. For fluent reo speakers, the language is very distinct, like a modern day person translating Shakespearean English. It is a gift to be able to write this way. Different iwi sing their own waiata. Today: Mōteatea from Taranaki and Ngāpuhi, plus a Radio New Zealand archive recording of ‘Rakaiwetenga’ sung by Sir Apirana Ngāta.

HYUNDAI CODE – Thursday April 8 at 8.30 PM
This fun-loving sport entertainment show is back with a re-freshed line up of Jenny May Coffin, Awen Guttenbeil, Glen Osborne and Ruben Wiki, and the usual array of illustrious guests from the world of sport.

HUNTING AOTEAROA – Thursday April 8 at 9.30 PM
Join host Howie Morrison Jnr as he finds out who takes out the Pine Ridge bow hunting open in Auckland. Howie also joins Keith Watson on a bow hunt for some deer north of Auckland, and then talks gun suppressors with Robbie Tiffin.

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