TV show on the Polynesian beat

A TV show with its "brown finger on the pulse of New Zealand's youth culture" will launch on TV3 next Saturday afternoon at 12.30.

Pacific Beat Street, which is shot in a funky Sandringham house, sounds like the Polynesian answer to TV3's defunct Ice As.

Each week, presenters Nada Tielu, Tuki Laumea, Koryn Dunstan and Sam Cowley-Lupo will cover styles and trends in music, sport, fashion and food, from computers and movies to games, jobs and family.

Guests will perform or chat in the lounge, kitchen or garage.

In the first episode the team go behind the scenes of bro'Town, talk to fashion designers Denise L'Estrange-Corbet and Francis Hooper, cruise in a Cadillac with rapper Dei Hamo, check out mini-chopper bikes and metal sculpture and peer into the fridges of Warriors Monty Betham and Francis Mele.

Producer Stan Wolfgramm - an actor, director and producer who was artistic director at last year's Style Pasifika fashion event - says the popularity of bro'Town shows that New Zealanders want to see more Poly-oriented programmes. "We've finally realised we're a multicultural country," he says.

NZ On Air have fronted up with $409,978 for 10 half-hour episodes.