The Truth Files

A 7-part half-hour series for a mid-evening week-day slot on TV2.

Each show is a journey or quest in which host Geoff Houtman goes in search of answers to questions about a specific topic.

Will my cell phone give me brain cancer?

Should party pills be made illegal?

Is there any such thing as a miracle diet?

Can people really communicate with the dead?

Who's spying on me?

Geoff meets many people in the course of each show who help him on his quest - by providing expert advice, medical or scientific know-how, anecdotal evidence, first-person experience or straight-out personal opinion.

Part of Geoff's mission is to explore and debunk urban myths - where did they come from - how did start - are they true - how can they be tested - should they be discredited?

By the end of each episode, Geoff will have sorted fact from fiction and discovered answers to the questions he started out with. Hopefully.