Where and When Can I Watch the Tōku Reo Television Show?

Tōku Reo airs on Māori Television at 7pm, Monday to Friday. Each episode is half an hour long. If you miss the broadcast or prefer to watch on your own schedule, the official Tōku Reo website (tokureo.maori.nz) hosts episodes and podcasts online, so the show isn't limited to its television time slot.

Broadcast Details

The site's homepage welcomes visitors to "a new season of Tōku Reo – Series Five," which indicates Series Five is the current season featured on the website.

Watching Online Instead

The website is the official Tōku Reo hub and offers more than just broadcast information. According to the site, you can "join Raimona and Naomi online with interactive exercises, podcasts and a forum to reinforce what you're learning on the TŌKU REO television show." The site organizes content by series, with pages for Series 1 through Series 5, so you can work through earlier seasons or catch up on the current one.

This makes the site a practical alternative if 7pm on weekdays doesn't fit your schedule, or if you want to rewatch episodes alongside the exercises and podcasts.

What the Show Covers

Tōku Reo is a language learning show based on Te Whanake, the Te Reo Māori course created by Professor John Moorfield. In every block of five episodes, viewers learn vocabulary built around a role-play plus a small number of sentence structures. Episodes also include segments on newly coined words from the Māori Language Commission, different tribal dialects, and homework from Professor John.

The first episode is a sample of the format: it teaches how to greet one person, two people, and three or more people, and introduces a "top 10 words" segment that includes toku and reo — so by the end of that episode you understand what "Tōku Reo" means.

If You Want to Follow Along

The show is designed as a beginners' programme that combines kaumātua, rangatahi, learners, and native speakers. To get the most from the broadcast, the website's exercises, podcasts, and forum are meant to reinforce each episode. The site also points to the wider Te Whanake resources — textbooks, study guides, audio CDs, a Māori dictionary, and teachers' manuals — for learners who want structured material beyond the show itself.