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Highlight for Week 36, 2007 - Sep 3rd to 9th

WARRANT OF FITNESS (HEALTH) - Monday, Sep 3rd at 8p.m.
Immobility: A painful bout of gout landed former Ngati Porou body builder and diver Chris Knight in bed. But Chris went from bed-rest to bed-ridden – morbidly obese and dependent on his wife. Help arrives but will it be too little too late?

ITI POUNAMU (NZ SHORT FILMS) - Monday, Sep 3rd at 9:30p.m.
Lemming Aid: Human nature collides with mother nature in this prize-winning Cannes short film. Hosts Ainsley Gardiner and Tearepa Kahi korero with studio guests Grant Lahood (writer/director) and John Keir (producer).

THE NATURE OF THINGS: YEARS FROM HERE (INTERNATIONAL DOCO) - Tuesday, Sep 4th at 8:30p.m.
The Maisin of Papua New Guinea travel to the Fraser Valley in British Columbia and see the Stolo, a people who have survived great losses and emerged with a wisdom and vision they are now sharing with indigenous communities worldwide.

KETE ARONUI (ARTS) - Tuesday, Sep 4th at 9p.m.

Ngati Maniapoto weaver Kahutoi Te Kanawa hails from a long line of distinguished whanau `weavers from the Waikato. She completed her first korowai at 26 and has exhibited and sold many artworks at home and abroad

RISKY BUSINESS (COMEDY) - Tuesday, Sep 4th at 9:30p.m.
Real-life sitcom follows the dramatic and hilarious stories of four small businesses and the people who run them. The charismatic cellular cowboys are part of the rising breed of hip twenty-something businesses.

MARAE DIY - Wednesday, Sep 5th at 9:30p.m.
The hapu of Ngāti Rangiwewehi set the bar high and a record number of more than 350 people turn out for the most comprehensive DIY yet. Every part of Rotorua’s Tarimano Marae complex gets a spruce up. 

SOME OF MY BEST FRIENDS ARE SOLO MOTHERS - Thursday, Sep 6th at 8p.m.
Are solo mothers promiscuous teenagers, opting for an easy life of watching the soaps and trotting to WINZ to collect the DPB? Pio Terei meets four ‘solo’ mums who defy notions of irresponsible decisions and benefit dependency.

NZ RUGBY LEAGUE NATIONAL PREMIERSHIP - Saturday, Sep 8th at 2p.m.
It’s the climax to a long hard season with the two top teams going head-to-head in the grand final of the national competition from Auckland’s Mount Smart Stadium – live and exclusive on Māori Television.

MAUMAHARA – SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 8 AT 8.00 PM - Saturday, Sep 8th at 8p.m.
Reo: Sixty years ago, Māori children were smacked at school or ‘fed soap’ for speaking Māori. Some of them, now kaumatua, speak about the trauma of those early days in this nostalgic programme which celebrates their stories from the 1920 to 1950s.

TURTLES CAN FLY (SUNDAY FEATURE) - Sunday, Sep 9th at 9p.m.
Set in Ghobadi's native Kurdistan – close to the Turkey-Iran border – 13-year-old Soran orders other children around as he installs an antenna for villagers keen to hear of Saddam's fall.

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