Maori TV Highlights

Maori Television – Highlights for Week 31: Saturday 23 July – Friday 1 August 2011

New this week

Toi Whakaari – series premiere (repeat), Wednesday 27 July at 5pm

Season finals this week

Indigenous Insight – Sunday 24 July at 6pm

It’s in the Bag – Sunday 24 July at 6.30pm

Coming soon

Bring Your Boots Oz – Sunday 14 August

Rugby World Cup 2011 – All 48 games free-to-air, kick off Friday 9 September: http://www.maoritelevision.com/default.aspx?tabid=579&pid=2037&t=f

Boy – Saturday 1 October (free-to-air exclusive)

SATURDAY 23 JULY 2011

6.30 pm Kaitangata Twitch G

A thrilling drama from Margaret Mahy. The island of Kaitangata is twitching, it’s waking up! Only 13 year old Meredith can stop it. Can she discover what it wants before it is too late?

(REPEAT)

7.00 pm Head Start G

New Zealand’s top hair, makeup and fashion experts will be looking for one winner as 13 hopefuls compete for a position in the edgy world of hair and makeup.

8.30 pm Earthrace AO

Part two of a two part documentary. Follows Pete Bethune and his crew during Earthrace, the challenge to set a new world record for a power boat to circumnavigate the globe in March 2008.

(REPEAT)

9.30 pm Marie Jo and Her Two Lovers AO

Marie Jo is a middle-aged woman living an ordinary life in Marseilles. Outwardly her marriage is fine, but Marie-Jo has been in love with another man for more than a year, and she is forced to make a choice.

(REPEAT)

SUNDAY 24 JULY 2011

5.00 pm Tangaroa with Pio G

Pio heads south east of London for a fish in a little town called Ramsgate, then makes his way to another little town that is famous for its oysters.

6.00 pm Indigenous Insight

An international indigenous news and current affairs programme with stories sourced from members of the World Indigenous Television Broadcasters Network.

(FINAL REPEAT)

6.30 pm It’s in the Bag G

The money or the bag? All the excitement and nail biting action when big decisions are made on tonight’s second half of the It’s in the Bag Grand Final in Porirua.

(SERIES FINAL)

8.30 pm Sunday Feature: Amelie AO

An innocent and naive girl in Paris with her own sense of justice decides to help those around her and along the way discovers love.

MONDAY 25 JULY 2011

8.30 pm Native Affairs

Julian Wilcox and the team investigate regional and national stories from a M?ori perspective as well as international indigenous news.

9.30 pm Manly Monday Night Football Monday night is Manly night on M?ori Television! New Zealand’s second-favourite NRL team returns to our screens, free-to-air, for the 2011 season. Tonight: Sea Eagles v Panthers.

TUESDAY 26 JULY 2011

8.30pm An Uncommon Kindness – The Father Damien G

Robin Williams narrates the heartfelt story of a Belgian priest whose selfless determination to ease the suffering of others came at the height of Hawai’i's horrific leprosy epidemic.

9.30 pm Blackstone AO

A compelling series based on the fictional Blackstone First Nation, suffering as a result of the corruption of its Chief and Council. From within the community, a new generation of leaders rise up to fight.

WEDNESDAY 27 JULY 2011

5.00 pm Toi Whakaari G

Performances of the senior kapa haka participating in the 2010 Tainui Waka Kapa Haka Festival.

(SERIES PREMIERE REPEAT)

8.00 pm Whakatauki G

Today we look at how religion has played a large role in the production and maintenance of various proverbs expressed over the years and today.

9.30 pm Te Kauta PGR

A risqu� chat show featuring guests who reminisce about their younger days and some of their most naughty secrets never told or seen on television before. Tonight: Nau Epiha.

THURSDAY 28 JULY 2011

8.00 pm Rugby World Cup Classic Matches G

The stars come out to play with the most thrilling moments in international rugby from the first Rugby World Cup in 1987 to the grand final in France 20 years later. Tonight: South Africa v Fiji 2007.

8.30 pm Hyundai Code

Fun-loving sport entertainment show with a star presenter line-up of Jenny-May Coffin, Awen Guttenbeil, Glen Osborne and Ruben Wiki, and an array of illustrious sporting guests.

(LIVE)

9.30 pm Hunting Aotearoa AO

Howie heads to the Kaikoura to join a wallaby hunting excursion with Anton Evans and three Canterbury Crusaders rugby players, Luke Romano and brothers George and Adam Whitelock.

10.00 pm Boil Up

A show that takes a bite out of all the latest sporting events. Hosted by Te Arahi Maipi and Melodie Robinson.

FRIDAY 29 JULY 2011

8.00 pm Beneath the M?ori Moon G

The tug of war spanning over a century between rugby league and rugby union, and the Maori players at the centre of it.

(REPEAT)

8.30 pm Homai Te Pakipaki

Tune in to see the finest homegrown talent in Aotearoa sing their hearts out and entertain in style. Viewers’ votes decide the weekly winner of $1,000 and who returns to compete for $10,000 in the final.

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