Howie Morrison’s Last Episode In Hunting Aotearoa

Howie Morrison’s Last Episode In Hunting Aotearoa

The season finale of popular game hunting series HUNTING AOTEAROA – the last with Howie Morrison as presenter – screens on Maori Television on Thursday, 13 October at 9.30pm.

Morrison, who has presented the show since 2005, has decided not to return to the show next year, and will instead concentrate on his music career and nationwide tour with the Howard Morrison Jnr Trio.

For the last episode of series seven, larger-than-life Morrison celebrates another great season of hunting with highlights from previous episodes.

In the past 14 weeks, Morrison has travelled from Blenheim to Mangotane and Waimate to Tokomaru Bay in the adrenalin-pumping pursuit of game.

HUNTING AOTEAROA also headed overseas this season to check out the hunting action in Samoa, Hawai’i and northern Queensland.

This final episode also shows previously unseen footage of the Howard Morrison Jnr Trio performing in a concert to raise funds for the Christchurch earthquake relief effort during the show’s Samoa trip

Producer Piripi Curtis says the concert raised about 120,000 Samoan Tala (NZ$67,442) for Christchurch.

“It was massive for Samoa, but they wanted to do something for Christchurch because New Zealand helped them so much after the tsunami.”

Morrison says he will miss presenting HUNTING AOTEAROA and wishes new presenter Matua Parkinson all the best in the role.

“I will miss the people, there are so many of them and they are friends for life. But I have always wanted to pursue a singing career and I couldn’t with dad around. I can do that now.”

Tune in to Maori Television on Thursday 13 October at 9.30pm to catch the season highlights of HUNTING AOTEAROA.


About Howie Morrison Jnr

Entertainer and broadcaster Howie Morrison Jnr (48) was born and raised in Rotorua and still lives there. He was 7 years old when his entertainer father, the late Sir Howard Morrison, took him on his first hunt near Rotorua. When his dad was performing overseas, Morrison stayed with an aunt and uncle who would get him out hunting most weekends. These days, he prefers pig hunting – “It’s a challenge with the pig and the dog and the mud” – but admits, with a laugh, he has “climbed many a tree” when faced with an angry tusker.

Kapa haka performance as well as hunting have been big parts of Morrison’s life, right through the years he worked in a joinery factory, on a farm, and in jobs such as tree pruner, scaffolder, painter – and rhythm guitarist and backing vocalist in his dad’s band, the Howard Morrison Quartet. Last year, Morrison, Lotto presenter Russell Harrison and Chris Powley formed the Howard Morrison Jnr Trio.

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