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7:30pm Tuesday, October 6 on TVNZ 6

TVNZ6's new quirky consumer series, Use As Directed, sees host, Simon Morton, give guidance and ideas on how to be consumer-savvy and get by on a little less.

Use As Directed is a manual for our modern world. Love it or hate it we live in a consumer society where we cannot avoid buying, acquiring and using stuff! The series is family-friendly viewing, with demonstrations and stories that will interest and entertain and leave viewers knowing a bit more about the stuff we use in daily lives.

Tonight's episode is themed around cars and all things automotive. The team looks at tricks of the trade to avoid buying a lemon, we meet the 'Pitchix' founder who's teaching women how to love what's under the bonnet, and do you really need that $500 GPS or will a good old map book do?

The exciting and educational series, Meet The Locals, is heading to the classroom. TVNZ6 is proud to be funding these teaching tools that take some of our natural heritage into the classroom, to enrich the minds of New Zealand’s children.

The set of DVDs and PDF resources are divided into 16 episodes across 4 subjects and suit the curriculum of Years 7 - 9, but can also suit younger levels too.

The topics included in the DVDs are NZ Biology - Reptiles and Insects; NZ Biology - Birds; NZ History; and NZ Geography. Each episode is under 5 minutes in length, so can easily slot into any lesson plan.

7:30pm Sunday, October 4 on TVNZ 6

Presented by Olympic Gold Medallist Sarah Ulmer and Wildlife Park Ranger Jeremy Maguire, Animal Academy continues to entertain and delight animal lovers.

Rudi, the big soft Rottweiler, joins Sarah Ulmer and Jeremy Maguire on this week's episode of Animal Academy as we meet Rennie Bishop who explains what a vivarium, aquarium and field technician does. Deborah's dog, Kane, gets a heart scan, and Jeremy heads into Marlborough Sounds to meet some rare and endangered takahe.

If you have missed an episode check your guide for extra opportunities to view. Full episodes of Animal Academy will also be available free online after the show has aired on TVNZ 6. Go to tvnz.co.nz/animalacademy and click the 'watch episode' button.

7:30pm Tuesday, September 29 on TVNZ 6

TVNZ6 welcomes Use As Directed to its line-up, a new consumer series unlike any other hosted by Simon Morton and produced by Razor TV (makers of the Politically Incorrect Parenting Show and Why We Buy.)

Use As Directed is a manual for our modern world. Love it or hate it we live in a consumer society where we cannot avoid buying, acquiring and using stuff! The series is family friendly viewing, with demonstrations and stories that will interest and entertain and leave viewers knowing a bit more about the stuff we use in daily lives.

Producer, Jill Graham, attests that the series shows, in a light-hearted tone, you don't have to be a mindless consumer with our day-to-day transactions:

7:30pm Sunday, September 27 on TVNZ 6

Presented by Olympic Gold Medallist Sarah Ulmer and Wildlife Park Ranger Jeremy Maguire, Animal Academy continues to entertain and delight animal lovers.

In tonight's episode of Animal Academy Sarah Ulmer and Jeremy Maguire meet Abbie the lovely Labrador. The team goes behind the scenes of the Thames Butterfly and Orchid Garden, and Elder and Marilyn Jenks share their quest to save Kaimanawa horses. Resident Vet, Deborah, takes us through surgery on a young dog that had a run in with a car, and Jeremy heads south to visit our only White Heron Colony.

If you have missed an episode, full episodes of Animal Academy will be available free online after the show has aired on TVNZ 6. Go to tvnz.co.nz/animalacademy and click the 'watch episode' button.

7:30pm Sunday, September 20 on TVNZ 6

Presented by Olympic Gold Medallist Sarah Ulmer and Wildlife Park Ranger Jeremy Maguire, Animal Academy continues to entertain and delight animal lovers.

This week Sarah Ulmer and Jeremy Maguire bring you an episode of Animal Academy accompanied by Louise, the Hungarian Puli, crowned New Zealand's 'Best in Show' dog. Meet Andrew Wilson who cares for marine life, and passionate Guinea Pig breeder, Margaret Stockwell, who has over fifty years experience in breeding prized cavies. Topping off the pet assortment, Alfie, the allergic Bichon Frise, gets a doggy skin test, and Jeremy tries his hand at Polo.

If you have missed an episode, full episodes of Animal Academy will be available free online after the show has aired on TVNZ 6. Go to tvnz.co.nz/animalacademy and click the 'watch episode' button.

Every night at 7pm on TVNZ 6

TVNZ 6 pays homage to a special conservation warrior in the new series Ben's Zoo. Ben Mee, a man with no previous animal care experience, spends his family's life savings in an attempt to save the zoo animals from death row.

The Dartmoor Wildlife Park in Devon, UK, was preparing itself for the worst. Closed to the public and desperate for new investment, a skeleton staff of dedicated workers remained, some spending their own money to buy food and much needed drugs for the animals.

The keepers knew that the chance of re-housing mature big cats, monkeys and wolves in other zoos was minimal. Unless someone could scrape together the $2 million needed to buy the zoo, their beloved creatures were just weeks away from being destroyed.

At the eleventh hour, they heard the news. Against all the odds, Ben Mee, a writer and DIY expert, and his family had been crazy enough to buy the zoo.

6:30pm Sunday, September 13 on TVNZ 6

Prepare to be impressed by the number of New Zealanders who do their bit and get stuck into conservation projects, in TVNZ 6's Meet the Locals special, produced to mark Conservation Week.

Join Nic Vallance and the rest of the Meet The Locals team as they showcase three incredible natural heritage stories which cover the length of the country.

2009 marked a significant milestone for the world's largest parrot, and one of New Zealand's iconic and most endangered species. For the first time ever, the kakapo, perched on the edge of extinction, is experiencing some positive growth, which astounds host Vallance: "The 33 chicks that have survived this season, have increased the kakapo numbers to 124 and will help turn the tide for kakapo survival into the future."