All Day, All Weekend Omnibus In October – On Māori Television!

History buffs and music fans can binge watch all day, all weekend thanks to Māori Television’s extended OMNIBUS lockdown season for the remainder of the month of October.

Coming up this weekend:

· THE NEGOTIATORS – Friday 15 October 2021 from 10.00 AM to 2.00 PM

Meet the gutsy characters that steered their tribes through a minefield of complex Treaty of Waitangi settlement negotiations in the seven-episode first season. How do ordinary individuals cope with the weight of collective expectation as they come face to face with the formidable might of the Crown?

Featuring Sir Tipene O’Regan (Ngāi Tahu, 1998); Alex Nathan (Te Roroa, 2008); Ella Henry (Ngatikahu ki Whangaroa, 2017); Chris McKenzie (Raukawa Comprehensive, 2014); Mavis Mullins (Rangitāne o Wairarapa-Tāmaki Nui ā Rua, 2017); Jamie Tuuta (Taranaki Iwi, 2016); and Sir Michael Cullen (Ngāti Tūwharetoa, 2018).

· ARTEFACT – Saturday 16 October 2021 from 10.00 AM to 1.00 PM

Dame Professor Anne Salmond takes viewers on adventures through time with a focus on artefacts and taonga at the heart of gripping and often surprising historical dramas. Featuring three episodes in the six-episode first season including:

STAR TRAVEL: Dame Anne travels around the world to find taonga that opened the window to our Pacific voyaging traditions.

THE POWER OF GIFTS: From the first encounters between Māori and Europeans, gifts were exchanged that would last over time and generations.

IN PURSUIT OF HARMONY: Taonga that tease out the story of music and musical instruments in Aotearoa.

· ARTEFACT – Sunday 17 October 2021 from 9.00 AM to 1.30 PM

Featuring four episodes from the second season of Dame Anne Salmond’s acclaimed documentary series:

TE HOKINGA MAI – THE RETURN: The mystery of the Motunui Panels takes Dame Anne from New Zealand to Switzerland and back.

TE ARA O TE RIRI – PATH OF WAR: Dame Anne travels Great South Road and beyond to hear the tragic stories of the country’s early conflicts.

NGĀ KAITIAKI – THE GUARDIANS: Goddesses carved into rock, tuatara, taniwha – these guardians of land and people now need protection themselves.

TE MANA O TE WAHINE – THE POWER OF WOMEN: Dame Anne learns of inspirational wāhine Māori and meets their female descendants.

Coming up over the long Labour weekend:

· LUCKY DIP – Friday 22 October 2021 from 10.00 AM to 3.00 PM and Saturday 23 October 2021 from 10.00 AM to 3.00 PM

Charismatic entertainer Luke Bird hosts Māori Television’s hilarious family game show which combines local knowledge-based and Māori language quiz questions with phyiscal games and challenges.

Binge watch all 19 episodes of the 2021 series as contestants are given an opportunity by co-host Marcia Hopa to swap their prizes in a random draw. “Let’s face it – after the last year of panic and pandemic, we could all do with some great old-fashioned entertainment,” says Bird. “It’s absolutely one hundred per cent awesome-ness!”

· WAIATA NATION II – Sunday 24 October 2021 from 9.00 AM to 1.30 PM

Eight new kaiwaiata, eight new waiata reo Māori and eight new Māori music videos from a new generation feature on the second season of this hit show. Maimoa Music members Nathaniel Howe and Pere Wihongi mentor an entirely new group of up-and-coming Māori artists to take on the waiata reo Māori challenge.

Featuring the artists and their songs: Jaedyn Randell (‘Patupaiārehe’); Thomas Rawiri (‘Hiringa’); Hamo Dell (‘Kōkā’); Rongomai Taiapa (‘Tuia’); Crete (‘Tārua’); Sianne (‘Whakarehu’); Mohi (‘E Ki!’); and Trojahn (‘Moewaka’).

· MY PARTY SONG – Monday 25 October 2021 from 10.00 AM to 3.30 PM

Finally, the Modern Māori Quartet celebrate the songs that make guitar parties great in New Zealand. Featuring 10 episodes from the second season, members James Tito, Matariki Whatarau, Francis Kora and Maaka Pōhatu continue to explore and enjoy the music that makes a guitar party truly rock.

Filmed in the Kāpiti Coast town of Ōtaki at the spacious Māoriand Hub, the Quartet meets up with local and nationally known Māori artists to sing the songs that generations of partygoers have belted out in their garages.

Indulge in Māori Television’s extended OMNIBUS lockdown season for the remainder of the month of October.

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