[Wiggles]

Hi all

There are a couple of NZ shows on TV tomorrow

17:30 Tomorrow
Sky Travel
Rough Guide to the World's Islands Travel guide with Magenta De Vine and Rajan Datar journeying into the Southern Hemisphere to visit New Zealand, from fitness-obsessed Auckland on North Island, to earthquake-threatened Wellington and New Age capital Queenstown. Amongst the attractions on offer are panning for gold, bungee jumping, heli-skiing and sheep farming, plus a good dose of Maori culture

Duration: 60mins


19:30 Tomorrow
Sky Travel
Secrets of New Zealand Documentary exploring the active volcanoes, dangerous earthquake faults and violent oceans as well as the breathtaking vistas and tranquil lakes which make New Zealand one of the most exciting places in the world

Duration: 60mins


and of course

21:30 Tomorrow
BBC1
Billy Connolly's World Tour of New Zealand
Billy Connolly turns his attention down under in an eight-part series series exploring New Zealand. Billy travels to Queenstown, a skiing town surrounded by mountains and reputed for its action sports. Billy attempts the highest bungee jump in New Zealand. He then takes a trip down memory lane by catching the ferry that sails over Lake Wakatipu

Duration: 40mins

Wiggles

[markkellaway]

Thanks Wiggles, the video is going to be busy tomorrow!! :nice1

Mark. :P

[Wiggles]

Hi Mark

No problem. Someone on uk2nz posted a really great link to something called on the box, for NZ shows.

http://www.onthebox.com/partner/otb/search.asp?search=new%20zealand

It's really great and shows you day by day if there are any shows on etc. Worth having a look at. Now, off to clean my video machine - it chewed the last tape I used :roll:

Cheers
Wiggles

[markkellaway]

Hi Wiggles,

Yes, OnTheBox is a great site, I use it all the time, although recently haven't been checking as much. I posted it on here a few months ago but it's good to put in people's mind again. :nice1

Cheers,

Mark. :P

[Diny]

The Secrets of New Zealand show that was on Sky travel tonight was pretty good, I've seen it befor but I still found it very interesting. One thing that got me thinking though ..... the way the presenter pronounced some of the names.

I always thought it was Ruapehu not 'Rah-hoo-payoo'.

Never heard Taupo pronounced 'Tarr-poo'

And I thought Wahine was pronounced 'wa-he-ni' not warhine.

I won't even try to describe the way he said Aotearoa ........ well OK I will, it was something like 'ow-toe-arra'.

I know it will take a long time before I am anywhere near confident in the way I pronounce NZ place names etc, but I thought I'd got the above words stitched up .... back to the classroom I guess.

Diny

[MB]

Blikes! We've spent three weeks out of the past month clustered round a library-borrowed video of 'Alex' (1992, colour), about NZ 1960-Rome-Olympics-hopeful teen swimmer. Played by Lauren Jackson. You go, girl:

Coach: "Please yourself".
Alex: "Yes I will".
Coach: "You always bloody do..."

Matt.

[Diny]

MB

What on earth are you talking about :laugh

Diny

[Danpoll]

I found both programmes interesting, what particular struck me was the highest rate of young male suicide and the culture surrounding that and the 3rd highest teenage preganancy in the developed world. Because there too conservative to talk about sex. They stike me as 1940's british. All this sport ideology, and if you dont play sport your a wuss, then a wuss I am.

New Zealands secrets, wonder if that was sponsored by NZ tourism, so auckland can be anialated at any time , welly can be reduced to nothing any day and the cook straight is a little choppy.

Bill and his show, Greymouth will be one place on this planet that I never wish to go to. and Birmingham.

Dan

[Diny]

Dan

You can add me to the list of 'non sport playing wusses' .... you and I can share a beer while the others visit Greymouth :cheers

Diny

[MB]

Diny - put it this way. We have no cable telly, we live at the bottom of a hill in the bad-reception shadow of ordinary TV signals, and we're on the coast in the US.
One of the very few NZ-connected videos/programmes we have got hold of recently is Alex.

So we're in "make do" mode!
:laugh
Matt.

[Diny]

Matt

Ahh I see ....... well actually I don't ..... never heard of the show Alex. But I kind of understand (abit more) where you're coming from.


Diny

[MB]

Diny - it was a weird post, wasn't it, what with my new Shooting-Stars quote making its debut at the bottom, etc.?
Alex is just a feature film. It's the sort of movie that there's probably a few forum members going "Blimey, yeah, that rings a bell"!
And to add to the confusion, there's a very famous Aussie basketball star at the moment called Lauren Jackson who isn't the antipodean Lauren Jackson in Alex.

Why that should add to the confusion I don't know.

Shall I just hand my whole forum membership to my wife, so you can just have regular postings about ordinary things? :uhoh

Matt.

[Diny]

MB

No - don't hand things over to your wife. But whatever it is you're on - share it !!!!

Diny

[Danpoll]

My wife has pointed the out the fact that the NZ programe world tour of islands is actually at minimum 13 years old. The banarama fashion was a dead give away, apparently

So all those interesting facts are dated and unreliable.


great


Dan

[Babette & Andy]

Matt / Diny - your above threads have made me giggle this morning :laugh Matt - shame you live where you do, reading your postings you would've fitted in well with the North West croud who met on Saturday. Enjoy your world, it's not that bad being slightly remote from it all!

Really enjoyed Billy's show on Saturday. Can't wait for the next one: Greymouth (interesting to see what above comments are all about), Nelson (my parents live there), Kaikoura (ok spelling?) and ofcourse Christchurch (our intended new home town :nice1 )

Babette