Step inside the lair of the Manly Sea Eagles

THE CLUB, Māori Television’s exclusive behind the scenes series documenting the 2010 season of the Manly Sea Eagles, Mondays at  8.00 PM.

In this historic partnership with Māori Television, iconic NRL club the Manly Warringah Sea Eagles, have opened their doors, taking you behind the scenes as they fight their way to the top of the NRL ladder and rugby league’s ultimate prize, a Grand Final win.

20 years ago, coach Graham Lowe left the Manly Sea-Eagles after suffering a massive brain hemorrhage, his dream of winning a premiership with the club in tatters. Flash forward twenty years, and the club’s board, despite a recent championship, is in disarray.

Signing on to a one-year deal, this time as CEO, Graham Lowe returns with a clear mission: unite the board and win the NRL competition for 2010. We join Graham Lowe, kiwi internationals Steve Matai and Joe Guluivao, rising star Kieran Foran and the NRL’s toughest coach Des Hasler, at the midway point in the 2010 season to follow all the on-field and off-field dramas as they unfold. It’s the ultimate reality series on the sport, the industry and the heroes of rugby league.

Never has an NRL club been opened up in such detail to reveal the day-to-day considerations and

personal intrigues that are forever at play in the world’s toughest league competition. THE CLUB, Mondays at 8.00 PM.

New episode screens on Saturdays at 6.10pm with repeats on Sundays at 12.35pm and Saturdays at 6.10am

This week:

Through a series of insightful interviews, TVNZ 7’s Ever Wondered? charts the miraculous technological advances in modern medical science.

In this episode, host John Watt discovers just what the latest advances in science and technology are doing to assist the unwell and infirm citizens of New Zealand.

Ever Wondered? sheds light on a flow cytometry suite in Wellington, where lasers are used to excite fluorescent dyes in a quest to develop immune-based therapies for the treatment of a host of diseases.

Back in Auckland, we are introduced to ‘biomimetics’ where artificial muscles, soft machines and prosthetics are being used to imitate and assist our natural systems. Plus, Watt stops in at a rest home where a bunch of helpful healthbots are hard at work.

About the show:

New to TVNZ 7, and presented in partnership with the Royal Society of New Zealand, Ever Wondered? is a local science and technology series hosted by the 2009 Prime Minister’s MacDiarmid Emerging Scientist, Dr John Watt.

In a series set to inspire Kiwi minds and spark curiosities alight, Dr John Watt searches high and low for answers to today’s most challenging scientific questions by dropping in on Kiwi scientists and researchers and joining in on high-tech and at times hair-raising experiments.

Dr John Watt is a host who knows his stuff and works on a whole other frequency! An exemplary bloke with a head for questions, John will explore the scientific landscape with the TVNZ 7 audience.

From natural disasters to food technology innovation, from repairing the ozone layer to science in sports, John will take us on a journey of discovery that we will never forget.

Ever Wondered? is a lively and informative family series brimming with scientific facts and technological trickery that gets us rubbing shoulders with some of our top scientists in an informative celebration of some of New Zealand’s greatest minds.

The Royal Society of New Zealand is the perfect partner, bringing professional skills, knowledge, resources and networks to help create this series. The Royal Society is passionate about the shows potential to create excitement around science and has been involved throughout all stages of production in an advisory role.

TVNZ 7 will be taking this series to the classroom with education resources, freely available both online and on DVD. This informative and entertaining 10-part series will run until mid-September.

South Auckland’s finest voice, Wayne Anderson, recently wrapped up his second series on PRIME.

Glory Days rejoins Wayne and this three and a half octave voice eighteen months on as he attempts to pull off one of the most audacious comebacks in pop history. Brimming with a plethora of songs that many of us were conceived to and a spectacular supporting cast, Wayne Anderson: Glory Days is champagne television and a timely reminder that dreams only die when we allow them to. Gritty, manly and lavishly laced with humour, this is observational documentary at its finest — an intimate portrait of a man and his dream.

Wayne Anderson: Glory Days aired on PRIME.

Since bursting onto the nation’s TV sets four years ago, ButoBase has established itself as a leading producer of vibrant and engaging bicultural programming in Aotearoa.

ButoBase has now finalised an exciting deal with Australia’s first National Indigenous Television Network, NITV, which will see many of ButoBase’s Māori television series air on the channel. Reaffirming the company’s vision and commitment to creating relationships with indigenous networks both in Aotearoa and around the world, Australian viewers will now be able to watch some of Māori Television’s hottest programmes.

NITV have selected and invested in a broad selection of series for their station, including Ngāti NRL, the hit show that follows our young Māori and Pacific talent trying to make the grade in Australia’s top rugby league competition, the NRL.

Ngāti Porou Hauora is an observational documentary series that follows health providers on the East Coast, revealing the relationships between practitioner and patient. Ihi Toi is a documentary examining the lives and inspirations of two established Māori artists, Tracey Tawhiao and George Nuku, taking a behind-the-scenes look into their lives as both artists and business people.