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Maori Television Highlights for Week 21: May 18 - 24
Maori Television Highlights for Week 21: May 18 - 24
New this week
Ka TV (repeat)
The Cave of the Yellow Dog
Uspomeme 677
Tina Cross features in Unsung Heroes of Maori Music
Season finals this week
Nga Pari Karangaranga o te Motu: He Piko He Taniwha
Coming soon
The Shock Doctrine
Fox Memorial Shield
IRB Junior World Championships
Matariki Magic – two hour
LIVE concert celebrating New Zealand’s rising
stars
SATURDAY 18 MAY
2013
7.30
pm Saturday Night at the Movies:
Lassie
G
A family in financial crisis is forced to sell
Lassie, their beloved dog. Hundreds of miles away from her
true family, Lassie escapes and sets out on a journey home.
(PREMIERE)
9.30 pm
Journey to the West
G
The Monkey King stars in this epic Chinese
fantasy series adapted from the classic novel of the same
title. Dubbed in te reo Maori.
10.30
pm Poitukohu NBA
UR
Maori Television is pleased to bring you
action from the 2012-2013 National Basketball Association
(NBA) regular season. Tonight:
Play-off
SUNDAY 19 MAY
2013
2.30 pm
Ka
TV
G
Ka TV is your weekly healthy lifestyle show here to motivate
the whole whanau towards better living through a fun and
entertaining approach to holistic health. (REPEAT
PREMIERE)
7.30 pm
It’s in the
Bag
G
Pukekohe turned out in force for It’s in the
Bag and showed why it is one of the most popular communities
in the North Island.
8.00
pm
Hoiho
G
Maori are the horse people of the South
Pacific. Join Annabelle Lee-Harris as she journeys through
the Maori horse culture of Aotearoa. Tonight:
Turangi
8.30 pm
Pakipumeka Aotearoa: He Toki Huna: New Zealand in
Afghanistan AO
A challenging
documentary by Annie Goldson and Kay Ellmers that explores
the decade of New Zealand’s involvement in the war in
Afghanistan. (REPEAT)
9.30
pm Sunday Cinema: The Cave of the
Yellow
Dog
PGR
This film explores the age-old bond between
man and beast, as a young Mongolian girl rescues a stray dog
against the wishes of her disapproving father.
(PREMIERE)
MONDAY 20 MAY
2013
7.30 pm
Kai Time on the
Road
G
It’s picking time at Mamaku Blue Blueberry
Farm in Rotorua. Chef Peter Peeti dishes up a blueberry
extravaganza with some blueberry pancakes, blueberry pie and
blueberry crumble.
8.00
pm Iwi
Anthems
G
Iwi Anthems are the waiata and haka we love to
perform. They reveal who we are as a tribe and what is
important to us – all the while providing entertainment.
Tonight: Ratana.
8.30
pm Native
Affairs
UR
Mihingarangi Forbes and the award-winning
current affairs team investigate regional and national
stories from a Maori perspective, as well as international
indigenous news.
TUESDAY 21 MAY
2013
8.00 pm
The
Prophets
G
Rev Hirini Kaa uncovers the stories of the
Maori prophets. Tonight: Prophet or warrior? Ringatu faith
founder Te Kooti Arikirangi was a resistance leader who
spent time on the run from colonial forces in the
Urewera.
8.30 pm
Tuesday Festival Documentary: Uspomene
677
AO
677 concentration camps were set up during
the Bosnian War. Uspomene (Remembrances) 677 examines this
toxic legacy through the perspectives of three camp
survivors and three teenagers born after the war.
(PREMIERE)
WEDNESDAY 22 MAY
2013
7.30 pm
Te
Tepu
UR
Prominent kaumatua as well as the country’s
best practitioners of te reo Maori share their views on
local, national and international issues with presenter
Chris Winitana.
8.00
pm He Iwi
Whakapono
G
Tuhitaare Nohotima was
brought up in a strict Ringatu whanau. He and Ruia Aperahama
examine how that led him to be the man, father and teacher
he is today.
THURSDAY 23 MAY
2013
7.30 pm
Hardcase
PGR
Join in the laughs, the tears and the mayhem
in this new bloopers clip show where the fun never ends and
if it does, it ends badly. Presented by comedians Andre King
and Tevita Manukia.
8.00
pm Head 2
Head
PGR
Te Arahi Maipi and Mike King head two celebrity teams in
tearing sport apart. There are plenty of laughs on the field
as Leah Panapa referees, with $1000 prize for charity on the
line. It’s TV’s ultimate sport comedy throwdown.
9.30 pm Hunting
Aotearoa
AO
Tonight: Matua heads to the most remote
island in New Zealand - Pitt Island, where Flower Pot Lodge
Manager Brent Mallinson guides Matua on his first wild
merino hunt.
10.30 pm
Beneath the Maori
Moon
G
A documentary series tracing the evolution of
Maori Rugby and Maori social history over the past 120
years. Tonight: The unique role that whakapapa has to play
in the Maori contribution to rugby.
(REPEAT)
FRIDAY 24 MAY
2013
7.30 pm
Tribe
PGR
A music video series with the hottest clips
in Aotearoa and around the world.
8.00
pm Unsung Heroes of Maori
Music
G
Unsung heroes of Maori music profiles Maori
musicians of past and present who have been largely
unrecognised by mainstream media. Tonight: Tina
Cross.
8.30 pm Homai
te
Pakipaki
G
Warm up those vocal chords and get ready to be
entertained by some of the country’s best homegrown
singers, as Aotearoa’s favourite karaoke show returns with
hosts Brent Mio and Pikiteora Mura-Hita.
9.30 pm The Topp
Twins
G
Tune in for the hilarious antics of The Topp
Twins. Tonight: Ken participates in real Games to impress
the lady of his dreams; all things Scottish with a new spin
on the Braveheart
story.
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