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Highlight for Week 49, 2007 - Dec 3rd to 9th

ITI POUNAMU (NZ SHORT FILMS) - Monday, Dec 3rd at 9:30p.m.
Making Money -  Followed by Te Utu – Maori mythology animation directed and written by Robert Jahnke.

MY BROTHER’S KOSOVA WEDDING (INTERNATIONAL DOCO) - Tuesday, Dec 4th at 8:30p.m.
Kosova-Australian Sel Beha is beckoned back to Kosova for his brother’s wedding. What has happened to the country since the war against Serbia ended in 2001? What has happened since Sel was last there, 16 years ago?  

NGA RIPO - Wednesday, Dec 5th at 8p.m.
Life is love for 93-year-old Akinihi Wharerau (Ngapuhi, Tainui) – love of her whanau, love of her late husband, love of her garden, love of others and above everything, love of her God, Jehovah.  

PAKEHA MAORI (NZ DOCO) - Wednesday, Dec 5th at 8:30p.m.
By the early years of the nineteenth century a few Pakeha had settled amongst Maori, integrated into tribes and depending on Maori for their livelihood and survival. Written accounts and interviews with descendents builds a picture of the world they lived in.

NBL: HARVEY NORMAN NZ BREAKERS - Thursday, Dec 6th at 8p.m.
NBL: HARVEY NORMAN NZ BREAKERS –  repeats Saturday December 8 at 1.30 PMCommentators Te Arahi Maipi, Dale Husband, and Chris and Tania Tupu serve up more high-energy basketball action from Auckland’s North Shore Events Centre as the NZ Breakers take on the Sydney Kings in round 12 of Australia’s NBL Hummer Championship.

MAORIOKE - Friday, Dec 7th at 8:30p.m.
Contestants from the Bay of Plenty, Christchurch, Upper Hutt, Porirua and Auckland line up for the fifth and final set of semi-finals in the popular nationwide talent search before the top seven finalists are announced.

MATATAHI (YOUTH) - Saturday, Dec 8th at 5:30p.m.
Sex and Romance: They are key ingredients to life but who’s talking about it? The fast-paced, funky and fun-filled youth magazine show takes a light-hearted look at our love lives. 

KAI ORA (FOOD) - Sunday, Dec 9th at 7p.m.
The Maori queen of cuisine, Anne Thorp, cooks up a storm for her talented friends – television reporter Tini Molyneux and Matai Smith from Pukana fame – in this celebration of fine dining, Maori style.

THE MARKET BOYS (SUNDAY FEATURE) - Sunday, Dec 9th at 9p.m.
Nothing – certainly not law-breaking – stops Palestinian teenagers from infiltrating Israel to work and practically live in Beer Sheva Market, the biggest market in the southern part of Israel. Arabic, Hebrew with English subtitles.

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