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SENSATIONAL SIBLINGS TO FRONT NEW MĀORI TELEVISION SERIES
 The high-demand environment of the television studio is a long cry from the lush green pastures of Taranaki. But, for siblings Tumehe and Whakaangi Rongonui, the leap of faith is nigh as they gear up for their new roles as presenters on Māori Television’s new rangatahi series HAA.
Scheduled for launch on Wednesday May 18 at 5.00 PM, HAA – or ‘breath’ – is indeed promising a rush of fresh energy on Māori Television’s schedule. The series is an exciting and edgy info-tainment magazine youth show aimed at young teens that taps into all the things that youth are into.
Tumehe – otherwise known as Tutu, Tu, Toomz, Tumalako, Sloomhog, Slumehe, Toomdog or any other variation – is the eldest sibling who claims to have been born in the New Plymouth Base Hospital for Geniuses. By no means humble, this boil-up and milk powder loving fella oozes with a love for life – and mischief! Schooled at Te Kura Kaupapa Māori ō Tamarongo and Te Kura Tuarua ō Opunake, Tumehe couples his skills in te reo and tikanga Māori with an effervescent attitude.
Tumehe the Tutu is joined by his kid sister Whakaangi who also embraces a flair for sports and all things active. Growing up in the rugged surrounds of Taranaki has lent itself to Whakaangi developing a passion for surfing, running, hockey, biking and the occasional tipi haere to check out what’s happening on the local scene.
Each week, the siblings find out what’s happening in youth culture and review the material for the Waka Papaa segment or field reports – from the hottest new fads to the most happening festivals to the freshest music. The Manu Waiata segment is an opportunity for young aspiring artists to compose original material in either English or Māori to submit for broadcast.
HAA will also feature Ngahau, a weekly gig and entertainment guide of what’s happening in Aotearoa and Whakakata – a slapstick comedy skit segment where mundane activities are given the whacky, comical treatment and a local New Zealand music video. Plus, rangatahi viewers can get involved in the Urban Kanikani segment, where each week young people are instructed on the latest dance moves by the hottest hip hop crews in Aotearoa.
HAA premieres on Māori Television on Wednesday May 18 at 5.00 PM.
PROGRAMMES
COMING UP
GOOD VIBES – Tuesday May 17 at 8.30 PM
A documentary about the life of Itzik, a 27 year old Israeli theatre student and party organiser from Haifa, who finds out by chance that he has a malign liver tumor. He has been told he has two months left to live unless he finds a liver donor.
TORU – Sunday May 22 at 5.30 PM
 Māori Television’s trifecta entertainment series this week features Pounamu Soldiers – a group of three kapa haka lovin’ students from the Pounamu Performing Arts course in Glen Innes, Auckland. The episode also features Gisborne-based school mates Learnerz with an original called After Party and Country ‘n’ Western singing sisters R.T.P from Whaataatutu, Gisborne.
OUR NATIONHOOD – Sunday May 22 at 9.30 PM
 A standoff between the Listuguj Mi'gmaq people and the Quebec government over commercial access to ancestral land takes place on this week’s Sunday Feature. In July 1998, Listuguj, the largest Mi'gmaq community in Quebec, took a stand against commerce by staging a sit-in protest. This is their story.
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Issue 62, 16 May 2005
- Sensational siblings to front new Māori Television series
- Programmes
Coming Up
- Getting To Air
- Tuning in to
Māori Television
- More Information
SHIP AHOY FOR THE PREMIERE OF PACIFICA ON MĀORI TELEVISION
“The sand sparkled as with the dust of diamonds”
Robert Louis Stevenson
As many as there are grains of sands on the shores, so too are there tales in the South Pacific. Māori Television launches PACIFICA on Saturday May 21 at 8.30 PM – a 13-part series about that traverses the mighty Pacific and presents the incredible tales of its peoples.
Tales of adventure, tales of wildlife and their extensions into mythology, stories of heroes and colourful characters of the past and present, natural phenomena, spellbinding tales and the customs and traditions of the unique peoples and societies of the South Pacific are due to unravel on Māori Television every Saturday night.
Produced by Australian production company Juniper Films, the series brings to life the mystery and magic of Polynesian, Melanesian and Micronesian cultures to stimulate the minds of viewers from young to old and provide for rich family viewing.
The premiere episode brings to viewers tales from the Solomon Islands and Tahiti – flitting from people who have lived on artificial islands for 500 years to the arrival of the acclaimed painter Paul Gauguin to the tropical paradise of French Polynesia.
Centuries ago, a new race of people evolved in the Solomon Islands on the giant coral reef off the island of Maliata. The surrounding Langa Langa Lagoon is home to a people who have created their own artificial islands from the laborious task of manually stacking coral rocks into heaps for foundations. Some islands are 200m wide and home to over 1000 people and one island has managed to survive for 500 years. However, subject to routine plundering by foreign fishing vessels, the customary lifestyle of the ‘salt water people’ of Langa Langa Lagoon is at threat.
PACIFICA then veers away from the Solomons across the ocean to Tahiti to revisit a famous love story – that of the amorous union between intriguing post impressionist artist Paul Gauguin and his Tahitian wife Pahua. His arrival in June 1881 was, in a sense, an arrival for European painting. The troubled artist came with a passion to live, to renew himself and to find a lost innocence but what he found was a love story and one of the most memorable periods in his painting career.
PACIFICA features 34 tales of adventures and drama over the next 13 episodes and will continue to feature on Māori Television, every Saturday evening at 8.30 PM.
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