WEEK 6: Saturday 6 February - Friday 12 February 2010

ONE News - Breakfast: Waitangi Day Special, Saturday 6 February, 9.30am: Pippa Wetzell will present a two-and-a-half-hour LIVE Breakfast: Waitangi Day Special to mark New Zealand's national day.

The Waitangi Day Special will look at the different ways Kiwis celebrate, commemoratem, or just hang out, on Waitangi Day. Reporters and guests will be at different locations around the country, including Tamati Coffey and Jack Tame LIVE from Waitangi. Matt Mclean will be at the IRB Sevens World Series in Wellington, while reporters will also be based at Onuku Marae, near Akaroa, and around Auckland. Guests will also join Wetzell in the studio.

Local - Good Morning, Monday 8 February, 9am: TV ONE's LIVE daily magazine show Good Morning is back for a new season, packed with celebrity guests, home and living ideas, relationship advice, parenting, fashion, food and music - plus a brand new co-presenter.

Join Brendon Pongia and Sarah Bradley LIVE from Avalon Studios on Monday 8 February, at 9am, as they welcome Hadyn Jones and kick-off the new season's sparkling line-up. Sarah Bradley says: "We're so excited about working with Hadyn. He's a talented journalist who's not afraid to ask the hard questions, but he also has a cheeky sense of humour." Among the coming highlights, Jones and Pongia set up a 'Man Cave' to answer viewers' burning questions about men, and Good Morning begin the search for the country's best recipe, launching a LIVE cooking challenge with thousands of dollars in prizes up for grabs. For viewers who are single, Bradley says don't miss the Good Morning teams dating special later the year: "We know how tough it is to find a partner, so we're going to make your job a little easier. Stay tuned." The show's favourite faces make a comeback, including comedian Ginette McDonald, psychic medium Sue Nicholson, baby whisperer Sharlene Poole, the male panel and gardening guru Lynda Hallinan. Good Morning will have some new fitness instructors, including Anna Gibbons with her 'Active Mums' programme. "This is a great way for new mums to shape up after having a baby," Bradley says. Popular home cook Simon Holst returns to the kitchen, along with cupcake queen Tamara Jane, versatile budget cook Astar, blokey baker Steve Joll, and celebrity chefs Martin Bosley and Adam Newell. Good Morning's expert contributors also keep viewers up-to-date with everything from music, books and movies, to fashion, politics, gossip and gadgets. LIVE and daily, anything could happen. So make every morning a Good Morning. Good Morning screens weekdays at 9am on TV ONE. Local - Beyond The Darklands, Tuesday 9 February, 9.30pm: Tracy Goodman is one of the most complex criminals in New Zealand. Brought up with abuse and neglect, Goodman went on to treat others the same way. She abandoned all five of her children, and beat and abused her partners.

Tonight on Beyond The Darklands, Nigel Latta covers the first female murderer of the series. A serial burglar with drug issues, Goodman habitually robbed the elderly. One of them was Marton pensioner Mona Morriss. When the 83-year-old caught Goodman rifling through her house, Mona confronted her. Goodman reacted the way she knew how - beating, then stabbing Mona Morriss to death. Latta says he thinks the episode will be one of the most controversial the series has seen. "It challenges everything we think about domestic violence, and about female perpetrated violence in particular." Latta, who has spent 17 years working with child sex offenders, rapists, murderers, arsonists and violent offenders, goes behind the headlines to describe the kind of people these men and women were. He meets people who grew up with them, victims who have survived, and the families of those who have not. All have been permanently marked by their experiences, and their stories make for a gut-wrenching journey into the darklands.

Local - MasterChef New Zealand, Wednesday 10 February, 7.30pm: The top 24 contestants are taken to an old air-force hangar in West Auckland for three grueling challenges, to find who will go through to the top 12, on MasterChef New Zealand, tonight at 7.30pm on TV ONE.

First up is the taste test, where the contestants must attempt to identify the 19 ingredients MasterChef judge Simon Gault used to make his large pot of ragout - a meat stew. The contestants' challenge is to identify as many of the 19 ingredients as they can. But how will they fare - especially the only vegan contestant, who hasn't tasted meat for years? Next, the judges bring in a boat trailer full of whole salmon and Gault demonstrates how to fillet a fish. Then it's the contestants' turn, and while some have filleted fish before, for many this is their first time - and they soon find it isn't as easy as it looks. The final phase is the Mystery Box challenge. Under each box the contestants find 13 ingredients, including duck breast, plums, vegetables and rice paper. They have just 30 minutes to cook a dish using only the ingredients in the box, then each will present their dish to the judges for tasting. Only 12 will go through - with the rest going home - so the pressure is on. Watch MasterChef New Zealand to see who makes it to the top 12.

Documentary - Superhuman: World's Tallest Children, Wednesday 10 February, 9.30pm: Superhuman: World's Tallest Children follows the lives of school kids who have reached superhuman heights, including the teen who towers over basketball players, the tallest family in England and the girl from Bangkok hoping to achieve a Guinness World record for her height (tonight at 9.30pm on TV ONE).

Using popular science about the human body and human-interest stories filmed around the world, this documentary asks, what's it like to be head and shoulders above all the other children at school? What are the day-to-day challenges for these children and their parents? And how does their condition affect the children's health? Brenden Adams is the world's tallest boy. At just 13, he's seven feet four and a half inches tall. He has a unique genetic condition which isn't hereditary - the rest of his family are of average height. Adams is two feet taller than his friends, but still attempts to join in the activities of a normal 13-year-old. In the first year of his life, Adams was already the size of a three-year-old. By the age of six, he towered 12 inches over the other children, and by eight he was the height of a fully grown man. Now, at 13, he's a foot and a half taller than the average American man. But his condition is putting his life at risk, and his doctors are struggling to understand why. As he continues to grow, his parents grow desperate. "You want an answer, you want to know what's wrong with your child, why this is happening, and nobody can tell you, nobody can give you an answer," says his mother, Debbie Adams. However, Adams is not alone. Naomi Van Nes, a member of Britain's tallest family, is just 11, but she is already five feet nine inches. When they go out as a family they are the object of curiosity and at times ridicule, but at home they can be themselves. Van Nes says: "I do notice I am the shortest at home, and the tallest at school. I think I feel better at home - because I just feel normal." Super-height is also a positive part of life for Marvadene Anderson, 15, who is tall enough to play for the Jamaican national basketball team. She hasn't seen her father, Garret Anderson since she was seven years old, and came up to his waist, but that's about to change as the pair are reunited. However, not everyone sees their height as a good thing. Angelique Cooper, 8, and Malee Duangdee, 17, have both struggled to fit in and make friends because of their extraordinary height. Duangdee says: "So many times I ask myself why? I sit in front of the mirror and cry. Why am I not the same as other people?"

Factual - The Hotel Inspector, Friday 12 February, 7.30pm: Alex Polizzi is back to whip Britain's troubled hotels and bed-and-breakfasts into shape in a new series of The Hotel Inspector, starting tonight at 7.30pm on TV ONE. For the first time, she's stepping away from home shores, onto the Swiss ski slopes to answer an ex-pat SOS.

As the daughter of Olga Polizzi, the granddaughter of the late Lord Forte and niece of Sir Rocco Forte, Polizzi has all the industry experience and authority needed to turn flagging hotels into profitable ventures. Her mission is to cast fresh and expert eyes over a number of failing hotels and bring them up to the impeccably high standards of excellence synonymous with the Forte name. Polizzi's role as hotel inspector requires her to be both tough and tactful, as she helps often clueless hoteliers turn their failing businesses around. Polizzi says: "If a room is perfect, it's far more relaxing to be in. It needs to be completely tidy and ordered there's nothing worse than piles of junk, which should be shut away elsewhere." Her first project is The Crown Inn in Lewes, a hotel with an illustrious history that stretches back to 1675. But since owner Karen Lloyd took over two-and-a-half years ago, the historic inn is failing dismally and unhappy guests are spreading the word over the internet. Desperate, she turns to Polizzi for guidance, but even the inspector is shocked by what she finds. Maddened at the squalor she discovers in the hotel's interior - from the filthy toilet to the rubbish in the hallways - she turns her fury on Karen and instructs her to shut the hotel for two days. This season, Polizzi's inspections will also take her to an Edwardian hotel, run by an inexperienced and feuding family; a B&B in Blackpool on the edge of bankruptcy; a historic hotel that appears to have no hope of survival; a floating hotel that is rapidly sinking; a Swiss dream that quickly turned into a nightmare; and more. Polizzi trained at the Mandarin Oriental hotel in Hong Kong and has worked at Marco Pierre White's London restaurant Criterion, and runs the award-winning Hotel Endsleigh in Tavistock, Devon. "Too many people go into the hotel business thinking it's going to be an easy option, but it is the toughest job to get right and make money," says Polizzi. "For me, great service should start with the first smile you get when you check in - and that costs nothing."

Factual - Dragons' Den UK, Friday 12 February, 8.30pm: Entrepreneur, venture capitalist and multi-millionaire James Caan makes his debut on Dragons' Den UK tonight, as the fifth series gets underway (at 8.30pm on TV ONE). Alongside fellow 'Dragons' Deborah Meaden, Duncan Bannatyne, Theo Paphitis and Peter Jones, Caan brings a sense of poise and calm to the panel.

"This is very similar to what I do in my day job," explains the newest Dragon. "I am a professional investor and I have a 20-year track record so the appeal was that it's something I'm very comfortable with, something I've done before and something I think I'm probably quite good at." Caan, who lives in both London and Cannes, is founder and CEO of private equity firm Hamilton Bradshaw, through which he has invested millions in both start-ups and mature businesses, in sectors ranging from retail and leisure, to financial services and technology. Caan has been creating, building and selling businesses for more than 20 years. In 1985 he set up the Alexander Mann Group, one of Britain's leading HR outsourcing companies, and achieved a turnover of 130 million pounds before selling it to a private equity firm in 2002. He also founded an executive headhunting firm which he successfully expanded globally through its Humana International brand, and grew to more than 147 offices across 30 countries before it was bought by a New York-listed company. He says he's thrilled to be invited to be in one of the highly coveted dragon positions. "In business I make a point of investing in people, as I'm a great believer that it is people who create a success in business through their passion and conviction. "My philosophy is to observe the masses and do the opposite. Don't follow the crowd. It seems the world has adopted this mentality. They all go one way not realising that peace and tranquility lies in the opposite direction." Once again the 'Dragons' have the power to make or break the business dreams of a lucky few entrepreneurs in need of cash backing to get their ideas off the ground. Opportunities facing the fearsome team in the first episode include a while-u-wait gold plating service; a Cornish music festival; dried fruit and meat snacks; and a celebrity look-a-like business for hens parties. Throughout the series they'll also encounter a fantasy writer who dreams of turning her goblin adventure into a blockbuster film; an entrepreneur who has come up with a jogging machine for dogs; a designer who has made furniture from old shopping trolleys; and many more. Find out whose investment dreams come true and whose will be ripped to shreds on Drangons' Den UK, tonight at 8.30pm.

Local - Leigh Hart's Mysterious Planet, Friday 12 February, 9.30pm: Explorer, archaeologist and crypto zoologist Leigh Hart leaves New Zealand on a journey to solve the world's greatest mysteries in this new local series, Leigh Hart's Mysterious Planet (tonight on TV ONE at 9.30pm). Armed only with his questionable expertise, a healthy dose of scepticism and a credit card, 'That Guy', heads on a quest to some of the most intriguing, remote, and physically challenging locations in the world.

For Hart, the unsolved mysteries of the world, and the plethora of documentaries surrounding them, have always held a real fascination. Part of the series was inspired by this interest but its creation can also be attributed to one of his family members. "While cleaning out my garage I found a book that my grandfather gave me in about 1979 for Christmas. It was called Mysterious Planet. I added the words 'Leigh Hart's' to the cover with a white marker pen and then turned into my 'own' TV show. It was really that simple," he says. Hart brings a fresh, unorthodox approach to his travels, and searches for the truth, whether that means trekking through South America in search of El Dorado: The Lost City of Gold, or joining expeditions to find Bigfoot and the Loch Ness Monster. Meeting many 'acclaimed experts' on matters as diverse as the pyramids, the Bermuda triangle and UFOs, Hart dares to dig deeper and attempts to explain the mysteries of the world, once and for all. Uncovering the world's greatest mysteries was no easy feat for Hart and his team, and the series is home to a number of dangerous, life-threatening incidents: "The amount of snake related dramas we had during the series was an issue. There was one snake bite in the jungles of Peru and then a mix up, when I gave a crew member snake anti-venom as opposed to antihistamine for his sinuses while we were filming on Roswell. A low-light was perhaps getting lost in the Egyptian desert during our Egyptian Mysteries special." The first episode sees Hart tackle two totally unrelated mysteries - Stone Henge and Big Foot. The bulk of the episode is spent at a Bigfoot conference in the United States where Hart meets Bigfoot enthusiasts, experts, and mounts his own high tech in-depth investigation into the mystery. It would be fair to say Hart gets off on the wrong foot with the Bigfoot community. "After speaking at the [Bigfoot] conference, enlightening them about our own beast, the Waitakeri Yeti, and making an appeal for a standardisation of the 'shoe size' when doing international Bigfoot research, I am close to being public enemy number one internationally in the world of Bigfoot. The hate mail is on-going and this is before the show has even gone to air," says Hart. Watch Leigh Hart's Mysterious Planet tonight at 9.30pm on TV ONE.