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Today on The Spinoff: Places to cry, presents to buy and apples to try.
“For nearly a decade, Hōmai to Pakipaki became something of a Friday night institution. Aunties, uncles and cousins from around the motu would queue for the chance to belt out their favourite karaoke numbers from Aotearoa’s rugby clubs, RSAs and garages. People from all walks of life were encouraged to ‘bring your keyboard and your mates for a jam’. It delivered something few other reality shows could: authenticity.
Hōmai was just one of many such programmes in the Māori Television stable, as the channel this week marks 20 years since it first launched on March 28, 2004. It brought our language into prime time, it brought our towns, marae and communities onto screens in our authentic way, it challenged us – both Māori and Pākehā – and it entertained us in a unique way. It even introduced phrases that have seeped their way into the national vernacular: ‘Mean Māori mean’.”
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