November Highlights 2013
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If you do not currently receive our monthly highlights and would like to, please email [email protected] Click here for press office contacts Click on logo to go directly to channel Highlights November 2013 Get Out Alive with Bear Grylls is a Bear will send home another team, reality competition series hosted and in the end, only one duo will GET OUT ALIVE by world-renowned survivalist Bear remain - the team that he believes Grylls. has shown the most heart, courage, WITH BEAR GRYLLS This extreme survival journey tests initiative and resolve in their quest 10 teams of two beyond their wildest to ‘get out alive’ and claim a life- UK SERIES PREMIERE imaginations as they venture into the changing grand prize of $500,000. unforgiving and dramatic landscape From dense forests and sheer MONDAYS FROM 18TH NOVEMBER, 9.00PM of New Zealand’s South Island. Their mountain drop-offs, to freezing mission is to survive the wild, journey cold rivers and unforgiving glacier as a group and avoid elimination. In crevasses, the landscapes tackled will each episode, be harsh, remote and physically and emotionally draining. Each team will have to navigate the worst that the wild can throw at them every step of the way. CONTACT [email protected] You Have Been Warned is back for Across the series we meet the man a new series with more fast-paced who can jump out of a helicopter YOU HAVE BEEN countdowns of the world’s top 20 without using a parachute and the homemade YouTube science stunts New Zealander who gets closer to WARNED and experiments. Each episode volcanoes than anyone else, self- finds the cleverest, funniest, most experimenting human guinea pigs, UK SERIES PREMIERE daring, outrageous or just downright nature obsessed natural born thrillers bizarre clips - and uses a top cast and the danger junkies of epic stunts. MONDAYS FROM 18TH NOVEMBER, 8.00PM of the world’s best science experts to unpack and explain them for us. With the help of amazing storytelling graphics, they will explain the what, how and why of the biology, physics, and chemistry that made these clips possible. CONTACT [email protected] Ice Cold Gold follows a spirited Each member thinks he has what it team of miners who are among takes to walk away with gold, rubies ICE COLD GOLD the first Americans to search for and sapphires before winter and precious metals and gems in parts large mining companies swoop in. of Greenland where humans never Are they humbled by their journey? have set foot before. This new series Or do their personalities get in the UK SERIES PREMIERE follows eight men who leave behind way? More importantly, can they their families, friends and homeland strike Ice Cold Gold? TUESDAYS FROM 12TH NOVEMBER, 10.00PM behind to strike it rich against all the odds while struggling to survive against the harshest of conditions. Greenland’s a veritable beast, are the crew of miners are up for the challenge? CONTACT [email protected] 22nd November 1963 is a date that Newly released audio recordings will forever be remembered. The from Air Force One, combined with JFK: THE LOST TAPES assassination of President John F. digitally re-mastered audio from Kennedy left the USA mourning the the Dallas Police Force, and the loss of its Commander-in-chief, and testimonies and radio recordings of set off one of the greatest manhunts on-site reporters, reveal the riveting, UK SERIES PREMIERE in American history. This left the behind-the-scenes story of the American government to answer the Kennedy assassination in one-off SUNDAY 17TH NOVEMBER, 10.00PM impossible question, what happens documentary JFK: The Lost Tapes. now? CONTACT [email protected] Capturing Oswald explores the Dallas police officers arrested assassination of President John F. President Kennedy’s suspected CAPTURING OSWALD Kennedy from an original angle, killer. But many accuse the Dallas through the officers of the Dallas Police Department of botching the Police Department and the family Kennedy assassination. Within 48 and friends who knew Lee Harvey hours, the president, a police officer UK SERIES PREMIERE Oswald best. Within 90 minutes of and the suspect were dead. How did the shooting, something that began so efficiently SUNDAY 24TH NOVEMBER, 8.00PM end so badly? CONTACT [email protected] Just a stone’s throw from London Adrian will find out just what goes is a leafy paradise which is home to into keeping snow leopards, Terry SNOW LEOPARDS OF the secret world of snow leopards. style, along with everyday work Snow Leopards of Leafy London of the Trust and their other cat LEAFY LONDON is a series that captures intimate residents from behind and in front of and never seen before footage, of camera, gaining an insight into the UK SERIES PREMIERE snow leopards that live in London. bigger picture of cat conservation Presented by wildlife filmmaker and developing his own bond with MONDAYS FROM 4TH NOVEMBER, 8PM Adrian Cale, the series takes us to snow leopards. the very heart of one of the biggest snow leopard collections on earth to meet Dr Terry Moore who runs the Cat Survival Trust and has created a haven for these endangered cats. In this series, CONTACT [email protected] Pantone 4-colour process Coated & Uncoated DE 325-5 C/U C:0 M:0 Y:0 K:50 In a sleepy corner of Costa Rica there It’s an upside-down world where is a very peculiar but extraordinary the secrets of one of nature’s most MEET THE SLOTHS sanctuary. Run by Judy Avey- enigmatic creatures are revealed. Arroyo for 20 years, this is the only And it’s not all about snoozing! This UK SERIES PREMIERE sanctuary in the world devoted to series, captures the kookiness of THURSDAYS FROM 14TH NOVEMBER, 8PM saving orphaned and injured sloths, sanctuary life with more than a twist and is home to over 160 of them, of humour, and shows that a sloth’s some of whom have become an life is more than just slothful. internet sensation. CONTACT [email protected] Pantone 4-colour process Coated & Uncoated DE 325-5 C/U C:0 M:0 Y:0 K:50 Rhino Wars investigates a war that is Four current and former members of raging in Kruger National Park, South the U.S. Special Ops are brought in to RHINO WARS Africa. The death toll is astonishing; survey the situation, train the anti- each year, nearly 700 rhinos fall poaching corps, exchange tactical UK SERIES PREMIERE prey to poachers. At the heart of the information and go on the front lines WEDNESDAYS FROM 13TH NOVEMBER, 9.00PM conflict is the worldwide commercial themselves to help defeat these demand for rhino horns, an exotic ruthless criminals before the rhinos commodity that’s more valuable than are brought to total extinction. But gold. This series, witness the conflict can they turn a hopeless situation between the country’s poachers and into a bright future for the majestic South Africa’s anti-poaching unit, rhino? which has recruited armed forces to stop the illegal and lucrative trade. Cameras unveil the incessant violence and excessive carnage as park rangers are murdered trying to protect the wildlife that’s indigenous to their homeland. CONTACT [email protected] Pantone 4-colour process Coated & Uncoated DE 325-5 C/U C:0 M:0 Y:0 K:50 What drives people to bring deadly Each episode of Fatal Attractions animals into their homes as pets? focuses on a different group of FATAL ATTRACTIONS This brand new series examines animals - primates, reptiles, big cats the most extraordinary pet attacks and more and reveals why people UK SERIES PREMIERE of recent years including Antoine bring them into their homes, how FRIDAYS FROM 1st NOVEMBER, 9.00PM Yates who kept a 500lb tiger in his the relationships develop and why, New York apartment and raised an ultimately, these pets attack. alligator in his bedroom. Ted Dres who was bitten on the face and neck by his 13-foot pet python, which then, in a feeding frenzy, coiled around his neck and asphyxiated him as his horrified girlfriend looked on. CONTACT [email protected] Pantone 4-colour process Coated & Uncoated DE 325-5 C/U C:0 M:0 Y:0 K:50 For some, it may seem completely My Extreme Animal Phobia follows reasonable to be afraid of snakes. But many who, as a last resort, turn to MY EXTREME what if you were terrified of moths, the Anxiety Treatment Center of grasshoppers or puppies? In these Sacramento, run by psychologist Dr. ANIMAL PHOBIA extreme cases, the fear can become Robin Zasio in a desperate need to so intense it’s a phobia and can overcome their fears. UK SERIES PREMIERE transform everyday behavior. This series, THURSDAYS FROM 14TH NOVEMBER, 9PM CONTACT [email protected] Pantone 4-colour process Coated & Uncoated DE 325-5 C/U C:0 M:0 Y:0 K:50 This brand new series Hacking the To make for some fun, yet informative Planet tells the fascinating work of interactions, Rennie is joined by HACKING THE PLANET scientists developing strategies for science bloggers Cara Santa Maria preventing, weakening or redirecting and Brian Malow who help gauge the UK SERIES PREMIERE threatening weather conditions plausibility of each scenario. WEDNESDAYS FROM 6TH NOVEMBER, 10.00PM and natural phenomena including tornadoes, hurricanes, lightning, earthquakes and volcanic eruptions. In each episode, host John Rennie takes viewers through a series of field experiments illustrated by quirky animated graphics, to uncover strategies for preventing extreme weather events. CONTACT [email protected] Examine the true evils that push The first episode investigates the everyday individuals beyond the story of David Mead, a married DEADLY SINS limits of the law in the new series playboy, happy to eliminate his of Deadly Sins.