Airdate: Jonah
Drama on the life of NZ rugby union player Jonah Lomu screens on 7TWO.
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New Zealand drama Jonah, which is produced by Seven-owned Great Southern Television, screens tonight on 7TWO.
It portrays the life of New Zealand rugby union player Jonah Lomu, who died in 2015 aged 40.
Regarded as the first true global superstar of rugby he was widely acknowledged as the top player at the 1995 World Cup in South Africa where he caught the attention of Rupert Murdoch who quickly negotiated a game-changing deal with SANZAR for Super Rugby. But Lomu was also diagnosed with a life shortening and life threatening disease at a young age.
Great Southern Television’s Series Executive Producer Philip Smith said: “In full flight Lomu was an unstoppable human torpedo; his star quality due not only to his size and physicality but his deft and effortless skills as a rugby player.”
10pm tonight on 7TWO.
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where’s the first part of this series David?