If you’re tired of your teenagers constantly online, give broadband the boot, disconnect the dial up and tune them in to TŪ WERA – Māori Television’s cool-as youth show premiering on Friday July 13 at 8.00 PM. 

The second series of TŪ WERA showcases the latest in youth issues, trends and people – with the same irreverence that made the first series a winner. The best talent and the hippest trends in music, sport, fashion and the arts get the TŪ WERA treatment. The presenting line up has changed slightly with Naomi Bradfield anchoring a new team of talented youngsters. 

Naomi Bradfield (Ngāti Porou): Fashionable, beautiful, ceaselessly funny and always up with what’s hot in Aotearoa, Naomi grew up with two brothers and a sister in Lawrence, a small farming community south-west of Dunedin. Her mother is Māori and hails from Te Araroa on the East Coast and her father is Pākehā, of Irish, Scottish and English descent. 

 Daryl Tepania (Ngāti Kahu, Te Rarawa): At 16, Daryl is the show’s youngest presenter. Although hailing from Ngāti Kahu and Te Rarawa in the far north, he grew up in Whangārei. Daryl still attends school in Whangārei in Year 12 and hopes to go to a performing arts school after Year 13.  

Puke Timoti (Ngai Tūhoe): This 23-year-old architecture student from Murupara has dabbled in tutoring Māori, kapa haka, training horses, playing rugby and hunting all manner of wild beasts. Puke will be bringing you all the up-to-the-minute stories about the creative community in Aotearoa. 

Nicole Douglas (Te Arawa): Nicole left Rotorua to come to the bright lights, big city scene in Auckland to join TŪ WERA’s presenting line-up. This beautiful Te Arawa wāhine has previously presented the Māori version of Playschool on Māori Television.  

Give yourself the TŪ WERA treatment and tune in to the premiere on Māori Television on Friday July 13 at 8.00 PM 

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