At the start of his new show explaining everything everyone needs to know about Matariki, Tāmati Rimene-Sproat is pondering the heavens. “When I look up, I see the sky in all its majesty,” he says in his best TV-presenter voice as we gaze at a glowing Milky Way. “It’s where we come from … well, I come from Masterton. But that’s beside the point.”
And so begins his second instalment of From Hongi to Hāngī and Everything In Between, the series built around Rimene-Sproat’s engaging, lighthearted and highly amusing ability to explain te ao Māori to anyone who might not know what that term means but may be willing to find out.
Last year, the first show about marae etiquette won him the best entertainment presenter gong at to to , before going out on his own. In his two years on , he’d been largely used as the light-relief reporter on a current affairs show where the just-for-fun factor is already high. Maybe it was the moustache.
