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[ TVNZ / The TV Set / DVD ]
Release Date: Thursday, 21 June, 2007
M :- Contains offensive language.
All Regions -- Widescreen 16:9 Enhanced -- Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo -- Colour -- 242 Minutes -- PAL
Special Features :-
-60 Minutes of exclusive bonus material -- a humourous interview with Paul Henry recalling the series that changed his life, and we find out what's happened to our offshore kiwis since his visit.
-TVNZ captions for the hearing impaired.
'Ends of the Earth' is a series of documentary travel programmes featuring portraits of New Zealanders who feel the need to go beyond our shores (or the traditional London tube or the Bondi tunnel) to find their way in life. The show discovers each unique corner of the world, and tries to understand how personal culture, heritage and way of life influences life overseas and our interactions with others.
In 'Ends of the Earth', presenter and journalist Paul Henry will lead us further off the beaten track. He offers an intelligent personality, not afraid to experience life and to observe it with his unique quirky sense of humour firmly in place in all conditions. He is an avid traveller with stories of war zone reporting.
All of us know that getting there is half the fun -- or sometimes half the nightmare. The people featured have adapted (some better than others) to life in the desert or a war-zone or minus 40 degrees and offer a more local perspective on the place's pros, cons and idiosyncrasies.
The destinations will sometimes be dangerous and will always be unusual -- Sudan, Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, the Amazon, the Arctic and the Cocos Islands. The series balances, very smoothly, the story between Paul's journey and the New Zealander's living and working in these locations and their life and observations. It is comical, fascinating, enlightening and often surprising.
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