Oscar Kightley

The show, Pacific Brothers, produced by Kava Bowl Media in conjunction with SKY TV, looks to take a deeper dive into the Pacific world of both past and present athletes across the globe.

Kightley said he was looking forward to having deeper conversations and showing aspects of life other shows wouldn't.

"Kiwis are sports mad, Pacific people are sports mad, but we don't often get to participate when it comes to media coverage or media shows about sports," he said.

Kightley is an award-winning playwright, actor, presenter and director from Auckland.

He was the 2006 Arts Foundation Laureate Award winner and was made a member of the New Zealand Order of Merit in 2009 for services to theatre and television.

Kightley was born in Samoa and immigrated to New Zealand with his mother when he was four years old.

In 2007, he spent a week as an artist resident at the University of Hawaii shortly after the hit movie Sione's Wedding, which he co-wrote and acted in, was released.