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''Love Patrol'' is a ni-Vanuatu television series. It is the first ever locally produced television series in Vanuatu.〔("Wan Smolbag History in Pictures" ), Wan Smolbag official website〕 Produced by Wan Smolbag Theatre with financial assistance from AusAID, NZAID and the Asian Development Bank, it is a soap opera with a serious message, intended primarily to educate viewers on the topic of AIDS.〔〔(Love Patrol - The Pacific’s own HIV prevention TV series" ), Secretariat of the Pacific Community, 22 January 2008〕〔("Love Patrol hits the silver screen in New Zealand" ), ''NewZAID'', n°44, March 2008〕 It also tackles "youth unemployment, police brutality and the hypocrisy of keeping youth uninformed about sex".〔("A Dramatic Education" ), ''Currents'', n°5, 2007, NZAID, p.17〕 UNAIDS reported that it explores "the growing issues of high rates of STIs among young people, high teenage pregnancy, lack of discourse on sex and risk taking behaviours in () Pacific communities".〔("TV Mini Series on HIV premieres in Fiji" ), UNAIDS, May 2007〕 It has been described as an "edutainment" series.〔("Health: LOVE PATROL" ), Nicole Gooch, ''Islands Business''〕 A review in the ''Fiji Times'' explained that the series :''"centres on the life of a detective who works in a police station in an urban centre somewhere in the Pacific. The detective, named Mark, desperately wants his wife to have a child but gets caught up with Rita, a singer in a bar. The series also involves a gang of boys who steal from a minister's house and the search for the boys exposes the other side of paradise. The mini-series aims to look at the causes for the growing HIV/AIDS epidemic in the region."''〔("Village Six screens series on HIV/AIDS" ), ''Fiji Times'', 25 April 2007〕 The series is written by Jo Dorras, and directed by Peter Walker, with Danny Phillips as cinematographer. It stars Noel Aru,James Langdale, Lucy Seresere, Annette Charlie, Bob Homu, Yvette Vatu, Elsie Apia, Morinda Tari, Danny Marcel, Titus Taripu, Florence Vira, Albert Tommy, Betio Albert, Charleon Falau and Gloria Lango. Each episode lasts about 21 minutes.〔(“Love Patrol” ), Australian Catholic University〕 ==Broadcasting== The first season premiered on television in Vanuatu and in Fiji starting in April 2007, and contained ten episodes, focused on Elizabeth, one of the main characters.〔 It has subsequently been broadcast in the Cook Islands, Kiribati, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, the Solomon Islands, Tonga and Tuvalu, with plans to distribute the series on DVD throughout the region.〔〔 In New Zealand, the first season was broadcast on Maori Television from May 2008.〔 In Papua New Guinea, it was broadcast on CHM Supersound channel.〔("Whats on CHM Supersound channel" ), ''Papua New Guinea Post-Courier'', 17 October 2007〕 In Fiji, it was broadcast by Fiji TV, which then conducted a survey and found that "up to 15% of the whole population watched the whole series".〔("Love Patrol series (feedback)" ), Wan Smolbag〕 Subsequently, season 1 was translated into French by the Secretariat of the Pacific Community, and released on DVD under the title ''L'Amour sous haute surveillance''.〔("Love Patrol series (1)" ), Wan Smolbag〕 A second season went into production in 2008.〔 It took "about one year of hard work to get the funding, writing the stories and doing the shooting at the various locations in Vanuatu", including eighteen weeks of shooting.〔("Love Patrol II launched here" ), ''Solomon Star'', 15 December 2009〕 The first four episodes of season 2 were screened at the Asia Pacific HIV AIDS Conference in Bali in August 2009. They were then screened at Wan Smolbag’s Smolbag Haos in Vanuatu on 6 September. All ten episodes were broadcast on local television, one a week, from October.〔(“Love Patrol 2 to be launched Sat” ), ''Vanuatu Daily Post'', 2 September 2009 〕 Initial episodes were also broadcast in cinemas in Fiji in October 2009, and in the Solomon Islands in December.〔 It is due to be broadcast throughout the region on ABC International, Maori TV and several Pacific Island channels.〔〔 The third season also consisted of ten episodes. Production began in August 2009, and was completed in December.〔〔(“Local may be considered for acting role” ), ''Solomon Star'', 15 December 2009〕 The filming of season 4 began in July 2010, funded by the Secretariat of the Pacific Community, AusAID and NZAID.〔("Love Patrol series (3)" ), Wan Smolbag〕 The fourth season was completed in December 2010 and WSB received funding from AusAid to allow a fifth season to be filmed. Season 5 began to air in October 2012, with a focus on "socially transmitted infections such as HIV, crime, gender inequality, family breakdowns violence, politics and also on the effects on the entry of guns into the country". At that time, season 6 "ha() been written and filming () in process".〔("WSB launches Love patrol series number 5" ), ''Vanuatu Daily Post'', 1 November 2012〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Love Patrol」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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