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2018-2019

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With a rich and respected catalogue, TVF International is ideally placed to offer broadcasters a unique programming service. Our specialist sales executives work closely with clients to select themed series and quality collections that are carefully tailored to the individual needs of different channels and programming schedules the world over. Please consult your TVF sales contact to discuss how our programming expertise can work for your platform. our senior team

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CELEBRITY & BIOGRAPHY 2

HISTORY 11

WORLD AFFAIRS 25

LIFESTYLE & ENTERTAINMENT 38

EXTRAORDINARY PEOPLE 51

CRIME & MILITARY 62

RELIGION & PHILOSOPHY 70

ARTS 77

SCIENCE & ENVIRONMENT 89

WILDLIFE 105

TRAVEL & ADVENTURE 113

FOOD 126

HEALTH & FAMILY 133

SEX & RELATIONSHIPS 148

FORMATS 155

INDEX 168

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Peer to Peer

Format: 18 x 24/48 (HD) Broadcaster: Bloomberg Television

What makes a truly great leader? Renowned financier and philanthropist David Rubenstein sits down with the most influential business people on the planet, from Oprah Winfrey to Bill Gates, Eric Schmidt to former presidents Clinton and Bush, to uncover their personal stories and explore their fascinating paths to success.

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Inside Windsor Castle Inside Buckingham Palace

Format: 4 x 44 (HD) Format: 2 x 46 (HD) Broadcaster: Channel 5, Smithsonian Channel Broadcaster: Channel 5, Smithsonian Channel

What secrets lie behind the walls of Windsor Behind the pomp and ceremony of Buckingham Castle, the iconic Royal Family home? For nearly a Palace lies a closed and secretive world. Featuring thousand years, the castle has seen controversy, stunning re-enactments and never-before-seen battles and countless family occasions. Through documents revealing the building’s many secrets, dramatic reconstructions, exclusive interviews and this show unveils the turbulent history of the archive footage, we uncover the fascinating real palace through the good times and the bad, from stories behind Britain’s most famous family. publicity triumphs to unspeakable scandals.

Diana: 20 Years On Diana: The Night She Died

Format 1 x 50 (HD) Format: 1 x 52 Broadcaster: Channel 5 Twenty years on, there are still questions about the terrible crash that killed Princess Diana, Dodi Al An intriguing documentary about the failings Fayed and the driver Henri Paul. With new previously of the official investigation into the 1997 car crash unseen evidence and access to CCTV footage, which killed Princess Diana, Dodi Al Fayed and censored documents and eye-witness accounts, this their driver Henri Paul. Showing how much of the film re-examines the evidence in order to find the evidence needed to establish the truth has been truth behind the extraordinary conspiracy theories. covered up, this film is compulsory viewing for Featuring interviews with Princes William and Harry. conspiracy theorists.

Diana: The Inquest Keeping It in the Royal Family

Format: 1 x 47 Format: 1 x 50 (HD) Broadcaster: Channel 5 Broadcaster: ARTE, ZDF

This is a remarkable documentary investigating the Ever wondered just how closely linked Europe’s mysterious inquest into the deaths of Princess Diana Royal dynasties are? This documentary investigates and her lover Dodi Al Fayed. It features previously the roots of the British Royal Family, unveiling the unseen CCTV footage from the cameras at the Ritz fascinating legacy of Leopold I of Belgium who Hotel where Diana and Dodi spent a significant part masterminded marriage policies between all the of their last hours in the Imperial Suite, the grandest major European monarchies, from Norway and the hotel has to offer. Sweden to Portugal, Greece and Bulgaria.

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The Making of a Queen The Queen: A Monarch for All Seasons Format: 1 x 48 Broadcaster: Channel 5 Format: 1 x 54

Featuring rare and previously unseen archive She was born a princess, but never expected footage, this is an exclusive look at a defining period to be Queen. This social record explores the in the Queen’s life – from the moment her father unprecedented archive history of the great events in the King died on February 6th 1952, to the day of the Queen’s public life, set against the joys, sorrows, her Coronation on June 2nd 1953, when the shy trials and passions of her private life up to the 25-year-old was suddenly thrust into the limelight present day. In the 21st century, the Queen remains and crowned Queen of England. the calm centre of a tempestuous age.

William & Kate: A Royal Love Story Royal Paintbox

Format: 1 x 44 (HD) Format: 1 x 51 / 1 x 71 (HD) Broadcaster: TLC Broadcaster: ITV

The definitive account of the love story between For the first time on film, HRH the Prince of Wales Prince William and the girl who became his Queen. reveals an extraordinary treasure trove of rarely seen Unveiling William and Kate’s intriguing royal artworks by members of the Royal Family, past and courtship and discovering the real Kate Middleton present. With exclusive access and featuring the with impressive access, exclusive photographic spectacular royal landscapes of Balmoral, Highgrove material and captivating archive footage, this and Windsor Castle, come along as he explores a programme reveals where it all began… colourful palette of intimate family memory. Royal Paintbox

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Charles at 60 The Madness of Prince Charles

Format: 1 x 52 Format: 1 x 47 Broadcaster: ITV No heir to the British throne has ever spent more years in waiting than Prince Charles. It has been Against the background of Prince Charles’ wedding a long, sometimes painful journey for this king-in- to Camilla Parker Bowles, The Madness of Prince waiting, a dedicated prince and complex man, who Charles examines the current heir to the throne’s – rare among royals – has become wiser and happier difficult relationships with women, family and with age. Through extensive archival footage, we the public, and takes an intriguing look at his follow his extraordinary life, in scrupulous and controversial ideas, particularly on architecture, occasionally shocking detail. medicine and religion.

The House of Windsor: The Queen’s Mother in Law A Royal Dynasty Format: 1 x 48 (HD) Broadcaster: Channel 4 Format: 3 x 52

From abdication to Afghanistan, from fairytale The Queen is famous across the world, but few have princesses to terrorist attacks, this is the real story heard of her mother-in-law, Princess Alice. This is of the Windsors. The series chronicles nearly a the incredible story of Prince Philip’s mother who century of royal triumphs and misfortunes, from the fled revolution in Greece, suffered a breakdown, was reign of the first Windsors, George V and Queen experimented on by Sigmund Freud, hid Jews from Mary, to the long rule of Queen Elizabeth II and her the Nazis, gave her possessions to help the poor, expanding House of Windsor. and even founded her own religious order.

The Queen Mother: Edward VIII: The King Who A Woman of Her Century Threw Away His Crown

Format: 1 x 52 Format: 1 x 52

The extraordinary life of Elizabeth Bowes Lyon, Edward was the King of England with the charm of known around the world as the Queen Mother, a Hollywood movie star. When he fell in love with spanned the 20th century. When she died in 2002 divorced American socialite, Wallis Simpson, it led in she was 102 years of age. This unique film reveals December 1936 to a crucial decision that shocked how this distinguished and devoted monarch, the the world. Featuring remarkable archive footage mother of Queen Elizabeth, was once named by from the time, this is the intriguing real story of a Hitler as ‘the most dangerous woman in Europe’. throne abandoned for love.

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Princess Margaret: Constantine: A King’s Story Her Real Life Story Format: 1 x 48 Broadcaster: Channel 5 Format: 1 x 52

Princess Margaret was born into a life of privilege. The Olympics returned to Greece in 2004. This was Yet scandal, misfortune and controversy surrounded also a big year for King Constantine of Greece who her, and it is often said that she lived in the shadow re-entered his homeland after the European Courts of her sister, Queen Elizabeth. Princess Margaret: ended his 36 year-long exile. This documentary is Her Real Life Story is an intimate biography exploring a fascinating portrait of the workings of a monarch the truth behind the least understood of the 20th in exile and his crucial role in securing the Olympic century royals. Games for Greece.

True Footballers’ Wives Family Confidential

Format: 7 x 27 (HD) Format: 8 x 30 (HD) Broadcaster: ABC This entertaining series reveals the passions, ambitions and dreams of extraordinary women This unique biography series takes us behind the who share their lives with the world’s best football headlines to uncover the home truths and private players. With exclusive access to inspiring motivations of international icons and their families. characters such as fashionista Thaissa Carvalho Exclusive access reveals the extraordinary stories – girlfriend of Daniel Alves, and model and actress of Deborra-Lee & Hugh Jackman’s family, the Amra Silajdzic – girlfriend of Edin Dzeko, we show visionaries behind Westfield and Yellow Tail Wine, the highs and lows of living a life with football. and the family life of supermodel Miranda Kerr.

Kate! The Making of an Icon Pictures of Status Quo

Format: 1 x 52 (HD) Format: 1 x 52 Broadcaster: ARTE, Sundance Channel Broadcaster: Sky Arts

Kate Moss: idol of an entire generation. No other The definitive history of infamous rock band Status supermodel has ever been on the covers of so many Quo, from their rebellious origins in the ‘60s right different magazines. Shot in New York, London, through to the present day. With rare performance Paris, Milan, Berlin and Beijing, this is the first film archive and unprecedented access to the band to trace the origins of her iconic status. Features members on tour and at home, this documentary exclusive interviews with Vivienne Westwood, US reveals the scandals and triumphs behind some of artist Chuck Close, and filmmaker Mike Figgis. the most iconic rock songs of the 20th century.

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Mothers and Daughters Sibling Rivalry: Near, Dear and Dangerous Format: 1 x 52 (HD) Broadcaster: ARTE, NDR Format: 1 x 43 (HD) Broadcaster: CBC An insightful documentary that brings new light to the complex bond between mothers and A riveting look at the most infamous family rivalries. daughters. Exclusive interviews with prominent Including the fiercely competitive Staal brothers figures, including Elisabeth Badinter, the bestselling of hockey fame, Hollywood actresses Olivia de author and agent provocateur, and Nathalie Rykiel, Havilland and Joan Fontaine, who fought over men, daughter of fashion icon Sonia Rykiel, give intimate money and Oscars, and the tragic falling out of perspectives into their often troubled relationships. potato magnates Harrison and Wallace McCain.

What Makes Jeffrey Tick? Celebrities

Format: 1 x 52 Format: 35 x 45 Broadcaster: Channel 5 Broadcaster: TV8

Jeffrey Archer’s novels are published in 118 In this exclusive interview series we meet some of languages and have made millions. Not bad for a the biggest names in the world – from U2’s Bono man who has completed a lengthy jail sentence for and EasyJet founder Stelios, to French actress perjury! With unique testimony from friends, lovers Juliette Binoche. These characters are shaping and even the odd enemy, this documentary charts the future of media, business, science, the arts how Archer rose from nothing to become a senior and public affairs. Celebrities explores both the politician and best selling novelist. personal and professional side of each personality. Family Confidential - Miranda Kerr

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The Changing Face of... The Changing Face of the Queen

Format: 9 x 52 (HD) Format: 1 x 47 (HD)

A glittering celebrity biography series with a twist: Queen Elizabeth II is the most iconic woman in telling the incredible stories of A-listers who have the world. This is the story of her remarkable life changed their image and style to keep themselves from her carefree childhood in Windsor Castle and in the spotlight across the decades. With unique romance with Prince Philip, to her coronation and access to the key image-makers behind icons reign over a rapidly changing Britain. In the sixty from Madonna and Elizabeth Taylor to the Queen, years since this petite, softly-spoken woman came the series explores the amazing life stories of to the throne, her style has defined the image of these highly talented and inventive celebrities. the British monarchy across the world.

The Changing Face of The Changing Face of Elizabeth Taylor Arnold Schwarzenegger

Format: 1 x 52 (HD) Format: 1 x 52 (HD)

Elizabeth Taylor was a child star brought up and A classic rags-to-riches story – the American schooled on the MGM lot. As a pioneer and icon, dream come true. From a poor family in Austria, her story has been at the heart of all the biggest Arnie became a champion body-builder and Mr. changes in celebrity culture: the arrival of the jet Universe. It gave him a ticket to America where he set, the paparazzi, the first actress to earn $1million starred in a movie and married a Kennedy before dollars, the first to launch a signature perfume and conquering Hollywood, creating a series of new the first to campaign on behalf of AIDS. identities for himself: athlete, actor, governator.

The Changing Face of Madonna The Changing Face of Elton John

Format: 1 x 52 (HD) Format: 1 x 52 (HD)

Madonna is the mistress of re-invention and Elton John is rock royalty. From mild-mannered understands the power of the visual image. piano player to dazzling sequin-clad showman, From her ‘Boy Toy’ days via the ‘Material Girl’, to he’s frequently changed not just the way he looks, her latest incarnation as a movie director, she has but his way of life too. He’s been straight, bisexual never lost the ability to shock, grabbing headlines and gay, a shopaholic, workaholic and cocaine and selling records, books and films. Unique access addict and then in 2010, a father. From massive to her entourage reveals what makes Madonna’s specs and spandex to Versace suits and wigs: ever-changing image always relevant to the times. Elton is an international institution.

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The Changing Face of Liza Minnelli The Changing Face of Joan Collins

Format: 1 x 52 (HD) Format: 1 x 52 (HD)

Liza Minnelli was born into Hollywood royalty – the How did a young, serious drama student become daughter of Vincente Minnelli and Judy Garland, but the starlet Joan Collins? Her varied career has life hasn’t been easy. Though highly talented, she spanned film, TV and literature whilst her private struggled to emerge from her mother’s shadow. life left her labelled ‘The British Open’ for her After Broadway success and an Oscar, she was promiscuity in her younger years. Starring on the recognised as a star in her own right, but the cover of Playboy at 40, she became an international hedonistic days of New York’s Studio 54 and many icon playing Alexis Colby on the long running classic disastrous relationships left their mark. soap, Dynasty.

The Changing Face of The Changing Face of George Michael Barry Manilow

Format: 1 x 52 (HD) Format: 1 x 52 (HD)

From chart topping hits to being the youngest This shy Brooklyn boy became the biggest selling ever recipient of the Ivor Novello Award, George recording artist of the 1970s, with 10 number one Michael’s success was astronomical. But it was his singles in the Billboard charts. He’s weathered knack for reinvention which kept him in the public storms of critical derision and confounded the consciousness. Following his untimely death in 2017, reviewers by remaining one of the most popular discover how he became a bonafide superstar, and singers of a generation, with millions of fans and how he secured himself a legacy as a pop titan. continuing sell out shows across the world. The Changing Face of Elton John

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Living the Life, Series 1 Living the Life, Series 2

Format: 12 x 50 (HD) Format: 10 x 50 (HD) Broadcaster: Sky Arts Broadcaster: Sky Arts

Living the Life injects intimacy back into the chat This blockbuster season brings us up-close-and- show by taking out the interviewer. Two celebrities personal with the most influential figures of fashion, reflect on everything from childhood memories to stage and screen. Swinging-sixties designer Mary their darkest moments. Series 1 brings together the Quant talks to long-reigning editor of British Vogue, likes of Stephen Fry and Rolling Stone Bill Wyman, Alexandra Schulman; revered actor John Hurt talks writers Caitlin Moran and Fay Weldon, as well as to legendary screenwriter Sir Alan Parker; and Anna Doctor Who’s Paul McGann and Charles Dance. Friel opens up to Oscar-winner Brenda Fricker.

Living the Life, Series 3

Format: 8 x 50 (HD) Broadcaster: Sky Arts

The engrossing format returns with a music-themed edition. Join illusionist Derren Brown’s discussion with Oscar-winning film composer Hans Zimmer; peer-in on 60s idol Marianne Faithfull’s tête-à- tête with Likely Lad Ian La Frenais; and the king of musical theatre Andrew Lloyd-Weber meets legendary Indian composer A. R. Rahman.

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The Asian Century, Series 1 & 2

Format: S1 4 x 48 (HD), S2 4 x 48 (HD) Broadcaster: Channel NewsAsia

This landmark series deconstructs the pivotal events which have shaped the current Asian Century. From the death of Mao in China and the Partition of India, to North Korea’s development of a nuclear weapon, the series uses rare archival footage and eyewitness testimony to reveal the personalities and rivalries that continue to make history.

A Century on Film China on Film

Format: 6 x 52 (HD) Format: 2 x 48 (HD) Broadcaster: NHK Broadcaster: Channel NewsAsia

This landmark series looks back at the history of Renowned filmmaker Christopher Doyle narrates this the turbulent 20th century. With access to rare uniquely vivid picture of Chinese history through film, archive footage, from World War I to Vietnam compiled with exclusive access to the British Film anti-war protests, Nazi propaganda to the rise of Institute China collection. These never-seen-before global terror organisations, witness a truly defining films provide new insights into China’s momentous century in human history as it happened, captured changes, from the first ever Chinese film in the Qing on film by the people who lived through it. dynasty through to the Communist era.

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The Man Who Shot Tutankhamun George III: The Genius of the Mad King Format: 1 x 60 / 1 x 48 (HD) Broadcaster: BBC Format: 1 x 59 (HD) Broadcaster: BBC In Egypt’s Valley of the Kings we uncover the story of an unsung hero of the Tutankhamun excavation, After 200 years under lock and key, the personal whose photographs created a global sensation papers of Britain’s longest reigning king are in the 1920s. Harry Burton is perhaps the world’s finally being revealed. George III may be chiefly most famous photographer you’ve never heard of. remembered for his madness, but these private We reveal the importance of his images, and how documents shed new light on a man who oversaw he pushed the boundaries of photography. some of the most important events in British history.

Burma’s Lost Royals WWII: Forgotten Ally

Format: 1 x 56 (HD) Format: 1 x 60 / 2 x 48 (HD) Broadcaster: HISTORY In 1885 the British invaded Burma and deposed its King, ending a thousand years of monarchy Europe’s WWII began in 1939, but China had been and plunging the country into the longest military fighting Imperial Japan since 1937. This brutal war dictatorship of modern times. One century later, lasted for seven years and cost 14 million Chinese the Royal Family are back and on a mission to lives, and China’s resistance was crucial to the overall reunite. Filmed over three years of seismic change Allied victory. Interviews with the war’s last remaining in Burma, this is the gripping story of a family and survivors and animated reconstructions combine to a country emerging from darkness. re-write WWII history as we know it. WWII: Forgotten Ally

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Enemy of the Reich The Real Inglorious Bastards

Format: 1 x 55 (HD) Format: 1 x 53 (HD) Broadcaster: PBS Broadcaster: HISTORY

Featuring high-budget dramatisations, this gripping This is the incredible true story behind Tarantino’s docudrama tells the remarkable true story of Noor film Inglourious Basterds; Jewish American refugees Inayat Khan, one of WWII’s greatest heroines. Joining of Nazi Germany who boldly went behind enemy Churchill’s secret espionage unit, Noor used her wit, lines for vengeance. Dramatic reconstructions and charm and determination to work as an undercover poignant interviews with the OSS veterans reveal radio operator deep behind enemy lines in occupied one of the most successful and daring covert France, saving the lives of countless Allied pilots. operations of World War II.

Nancy Wake: Codebreaker Gestapo’s Most Wanted Format: 1 x 53 / 1 x 82 (HD) Broadcaster: Channel 4 Format: 1 x 52 / 1 x 70 (HD) Broadcaster: TVNZ Codebreaker records the brilliance and destruction The thrilling true story of Nancy Wake, the allied spy of one of the 20th century’s greatest minds. Alan who became the Gestapo’s most wanted woman Turing was the visionary scientist who gave birth to in WWII. Gripping dramatisations showcase her the computer age and was a hero of World War II, incredible life; from supporting the French resistance breaking the German naval Enigma Code and saving and marrying an aristocrat, to fleeing Nazi spies and millions of lives. Yet instead of receiving accolades, becoming the Allies’ most decorated woman. Turing faced terrible persecution…

Operation Valkyrie: Operation Jaywick: Sinking Japan The Plot to Kill Hitler Format: 1 x 45 (HD) Broadcaster: HISTORY Format: 1 x 48 / 1 x 70 (HD)

This is the definitive documentary revealing the Operation Jaywick was one of the most celebrated thrilling real story behind the Tom Cruise Valkyrie special operations undertaken in World War II. It feature film - the attempted assassination of Hitler was a daring attack by 14 British and Australian by high-ranking Nazis in July 1944. Based on commandos on Japanese ships anchored in eye-witness accounts and interviews with scholars Singapore harbour. For the first time, six men re- worldwide, the film also features CGI animation and enact the entire mission to discover the true feat of gripping dramatic re-enactments. this dangerous operation.

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Uncle Hitler Hitler’s Favourite Royal

Format: 1 x 52 Format: 1 x 49 Broadcaster: Channel 4 Uncle Hitler tells the shocking unknown story of Adolf Hitler’s descendants, acquaintances and Prince Charles Edward was Queen Victoria’s employees, unveiling the dramatic fates and favourite grandson. Sent to Germany by his possibly Jewish ancestry of those related to the grandmother, he was transformed from a British most hated man in history. Betrayal, murder, Prince to a German Duke. This fascinating film tells deformity and incestuous love are all part and how he fought against the country of his birth, was parcel of the ongoing tale of the exceptionally branded a traitor and ultimately became embroiled dysfunctional Hitler family. in the darkest aspects of the Nazi regime.

Churchill’s Secret Son 1945: The Year That Changed the World Format: 1 x 57 / 1 x 89 (HD) Broadcaster: Discovery Format: 5 x 46 (HD) Broadcaster: UKTV Meet the man who inspired the character of Big Brother in George Orwell’s “1984”; the man who This series analyses the events and legacy of Churchill’s family would have liked history to bury; 1945 – a tumultuous year which witnessed fierce the man so secretive, he ordered to burn all his fighting, peace and the beginnings of a new official records upon his death. What was he hiding? world order. Britain, America and Russia were Take a peek into the unforgettable, unbelievable determined to defeat their enemies but following and breath-taking life of Brendan Bracken. their victory, they fought each other for supremacy.

Hidden Histories: War Horse: The Real Story WWI’s Forgotten Photographs Format: 1 x 47 (HD) Broadcaster: Channel 4 Format: 1 x 60 (HD) Broadcaster: BBC Even more brutal than Spielberg’s feature film, The untold stories of soldiers’ photography in this is the epic true story of the million British WWI. Their photos – many never seen in public – horses who served in World War I. Rare archive provide a surprising and deeply moving document and testimony, combined with the latest historical of their lives in the trenches. We join their close research, uncovers the horses’ incredible relatives on an emotional journey as they search contribution to the war effort, and the deep bond for the secrets hidden within these photographs. that developed between man and horse.

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Shooting the War The Story of British Pathé

Format: 3 x 59 Format: 4 x 60 Broadcaster: BBC Broadcaster: BBC

A portrait of World War II as it has never The Story of British Pathé charts the history of been shown: through the lens of amateur film the world’s first moving news company. Featuring enthusiasts. Some of these were German and incredible archive footage, see how Pathé informed British soldiers filming the horrors of war on the and entertained generations on everything from front line; others recorded life on the home front. major wars and political crises to the curious Their remarkable films poignantly reveal the traditions of foreign lands. This is a definitive wartime experiences of ordinary people. history of the role of the media in the 20th Century.

The Last Passage The Welsh Great Escape

Format: 1 x 53 (HD) Format: 1 x 52 Broadcaster: France 3, ETB, RTBF Broadcaster: Channel 4

This is the moving and dramatic story of the In March 1945, over sixty German prisoners of secret World War II network which helped Allied war escaped from a camp in Wales. With dramatic soldiers escape capture by the Nazis. A force of reconstructions and personal testimony, this human courage in a climate of fear, the story is film follows the fate of the POWs, many of them seen through the prism of one fateful night in 1943 committed Nazis, as they were tracked by the when six strangers from five different countries Home Guard, dogs and local children in one of were arrested in a farmhouse near the Pyrenees. the largest manhunts of the whole war. War Horse: The Real Story

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The Lady in Number 6 Spell Your Name

Format: 1 x 38 (HD) Format: 1 x 84

Alice Herz-Sommer was the world’s oldest living Produced by Steven Spielberg, Spell your Name pianist… and its oldest Holocaust survivor. is a poignant journey of discovery around Ukraine, This Oscar-winning film tells her incredibly uncovering the testimonies of those who rescued uplifting story, from a childhood in Prague friends and neighbours during the Holocaust, and surrounded by luminaries including Franz Kafka, those who escaped brutal execution. The moving followed by incarceration at Theresienstadt film also offers an insightful glimpse into modern concentration camp. This is a universal tale of an day Ukraine and the ethnic stereotypes that inextinguishable love for life. continue to exist in this post-Soviet society.

The Bielski Brothers Forced March to Freedom

Format: 1 x 52 Format: 1 x 52 / 1 x 66 Broadcaster: BBC The Bielski Brothers is a compelling film which presents the remarkable and previously untold At the end of World War II, the Nazis forced story of the only Jewish partisan army outside thousands of prisoners of war, waiting for of the Warsaw ghetto to fight the Nazis during liberation, to march in the dead of winter towards World War II. Incorporating unique testimony the centre of the collapsing Third Reich. This is an from several survivors of the war, this moving film extraordinary story of endurance told though the celebrates the triumph of the human spirit over eyes of Robert Buckham, a bomber pilot and artist unthinkable adversity. who chronicled the march with his art.

Desert Generals Going Home

Format: 2 x 48 Format: 1 x 48 Broadcaster: BBC On 15th May 1948, the British government, Tim Collins re-investigates Britain’s critical desert officially responsible for maintaining law and order campaign, and the controversial battle tactics in Palestine, abandoned the country, leaving needed to take on the unbeaten Panzer army in behind a war which has led to the dispossession total war, preventing Hitler from gaining Egypt, of millions of Palestinian Arabs and the creation of Iraq and the oil fields. These are the World War II the State of Israel. An officer who witnessed those battles that shaped the Middle East and created final days goes back to recall his experiences all the world in which we live today. those years ago.

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Promises and Betrayals: Britain Dead in the Water and the Struggle for the Holy Land Format: 1 x 52 Broadcaster: BBC Format: 1 x 52

Uncovering shocking foreign office During the 1967 Six Day War, Israel attacked the communications and using fascinating footage USS Liberty, an American spy ship. Dead in the never seen on television before, Promises and Water reveals the full story of the collusion and Betrayals: Britain and the Struggle for the Holy cover-up behind the attack for the first time. It also Land shows how British double-dealing during the shows how Egypt, initially blamed for the incident, First World War ignited the conflict between Arabs only narrowly avoided a retaliatory nuclear strike and Jews in the Middle East. by the USA.

Vietnam Nurses Of Civil Rights and Wrongs: The Fred Korematsu Story Format: 1 x 52 Broadcaster: SBS Format: 1 x 52 Broadcaster: PBS Six Australian army nurses tell the untold stories of the Vietnam War. Based at Vung Tau in the only Fred Korematsu was an American civil rights Australian field hospital, they were little prepared hero who boldly resisted the forced internment for the horrific injuries they were confronted with. of Japanese-Americans during World War II. The Even for those with trauma experience, the horrific constitutional issues raised by his Supreme Court life and death situations they faced made the Case and his vindication 39 years later stand as experience a momentous learning curve. civil rights landmarks.

Kissinger Sacco and Vanzetti

Format: 1 x 97 (HD) Format: 1 x 80 Broadcaster: National Geographic Channel Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were Italian A unique insight into the controversial man who immigrant anarchists who were accused of murder shaped the post-war foreign policy of the United in 1920 and executed in Boston in 1927, after a States. This unparalleled film is made with exclusive notoriously prejudiced trial. This is the first major access based on 25 hours of tape – not only the documentary about their fascinating landmark most wide-ranging interviews Kissinger has ever story which continues to have great resonance as given but also, contractually, the last extended civil liberties and immigrant rights are under attack interviews conducted in his extraordinary life. in the USA.

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China’s Forgotten Emperor 1421: The Year China Discovered the World? Format: 1 x 49 (HD, 4K) Broadcaster: Channel 4, Smithsonian Channel Format: 2 x 56 Broadcaster: PBS “Murderess”, “tyrant”, “pervert” – Empress Wu was condemned by historians as a monstrously A gripping exploration of the mystery of China’s evil woman who brought China to the edge of legendary Zheng He and his spectacular early ruin. For more than a thousand years that verdict 15th century Ming fleet. With insights from leading stood. But now, China is uncovering a new story... historians and archaeologists, it investigates a Featuring groundbreaking archaeology and startling theory: did the daring Chinese admiral stunning CGI and re-enactments. reach America 71 years before Columbus?

Mulberry Child China’s 3 Dreams

Format: 1 x 55 / 1 x 85 (HD) Format: 1 x 52 (HD) Broadcaster: PBS “In the 1970s there were only 3 dreams in China: Mao’s Cultural Revolution destroyed millions of a watch, a radio and a bicycle…” But what are the lives in 1960s China. Through rich archival footage dreams of Chinese people today and how will they and gripping cinematic re-enactments, author Jian shape the nation? Filmed over fifteen years, featuring Ping courageously traces her family’s story through rare archive of the Cultural Revolution and testimony three generations, including her American raised from former Red Guards, this is the incredible story daughter Lisa, who on a trip to China finally realises of a generation confused by the past, struggling with the impact her roots have on her present life. the present, and hopeful for the future… The Battle of Waterloo with Sean Bean

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The Battle of Waterloo Fight Club: A History of Violence with Sean Bean Format: 4 x 47 (HD) Broadcaster: UKTV Format: 2 x 44 (HD) Broadcaster: HISTORY Narrated by Emmy Award-winning actor Sean Bean, More than 200 years on from Waterloo, Sean Bean this series uses dramatic reconstructions and state- tells the story of one of history’s bloodiest battles of-the-art CGI to tell the gripping history of how men through the eyes of the soldiers who fought it. Working and women fought each other through the Victorian, with present-day and retired soldiers and experts in Georgian, Elizabethan and Tudor ages. Fight Club: A military history he stages hands-on challenges and History of Violence uncovers these ruthless one-on- experiments to discover the reality of warfare. one contests and puts them into vivid social context.

The Real Sherlock Holmes The Man Who Murdered Sherlock Holmes Format: 1 x 52 (HD) Broadcaster: HISTORY Format: 1 x 58 (HD)

How has the ever popular Sherlock Holmes With a spate of major motion pictures released influenced modern-day crime-solving, espionage about the detective, Sherlock Holmes is enjoying and even space travel? NASA scientists, pop an international renaissance. How was this culture experts and top detectives reveal the incredible character formed and did he, as many fascinating impact of Holmes, through exclusive believe, really exist? Discover how the real life of interviews, reconstructions and memorable clips Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was at times as dark and from popular Sherlock productions. mysterious as the sleuth he created…

The Machine That Made Us Mechanical Marvels: Clockwork Dreams Format: 1 x 56 Broadcaster: BBC Format: 1 x 60 (HD) Broadcaster: BBC Stephen Fry investigates the world’s finest piece of mass production technology. The Gutenberg Energetic Cambridge Professor Simon Schaffer Printing Press ignited a cultural revolution which brings to life the untold story of early robots – or shaped the modern age – it is one of the machines androids – where art, science and history meet. that made us who we are today. Fry’s journey is The film showcases 300 years’ worth of remarkable shaped by the search for answers to two central androids, uncovering the incredible social, political questions: how did Gutenberg do it, and why? and technological strands which unite in each device.

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Love and Marriage: Queen Victoria’s Letters: A 20th Century Romance A Monarch Unveiled

Format: 3 x 58 Format: 2 x 60 (HD) Format: BBC Format: BBC

This touching series follows the ups and downs of The story of Queen Victoria as never heard before; marriage in Britain from the 1900s to the present day a psychological insight told through her own words – from the Victorian marriage ideal to the challenges from diaries and letters. A.N. Wilson travels to Britain of the 60s and survival of the institution in the modern and Germany to meet leading historians and discover era. Featuring the deeply moving personal stories of the significance of the Queen’s relationship with her couples, and their children, from all walks of life. mother, husband, Prime Ministers and servants.

The Real Tom Thumb: Bedlam History’s Smallest Superstar Format: 1 x 47 (HD) Broadcaster: HISTORY Format: 1 x 90 / 2 x 45 (HD) Broadcaster: BBC The rip-roaring story of Bedlam – one of London’s The incredible true story of General Tom Thumb, leading tourist attractions for 100 years, long the world’s first global show business celebrity. Just satirised as a ‘human zoo’. Combining captivating 31 inches tall, he went from humble beginnings in drama with illuminating expert interviews, Bedlam America to international superstardom, eventually reveals the landmark events and colourful performing on stage to over 50 million people, characters making up the shocking 750-year history including President Lincoln and Queen Victoria. of the world’s most notorious mental institution.

The Pendle Witch Child The Tudor Age

Format: 1 x 60 (HD) Format: 1 x 46 (HD) Broadcaster: BBC Broadcaster: Smithsonian Channel

The extraordinary story of the most disturbing The Tudor dynasty lasted 118 years and changed witch trial in British history. In 1612, one nine-year- England forever. The Tudor Age looks at this old girl’s mother, brother, sister and neighbours period of history from the air, reliving it through were all hanged due to her own chilling testimony. a spectacular aerial tour of its key landmarks. The trial’s issues resonate today as much as ever Among the buildings featured are Hampton Court – when should we believe our children, and just Palace, rebuilt by Henry VIII, and the Tower of how powerful can the fear of evil be? London where Anne Boleyn was executed.

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Royal Britain: An Aerial History of Britain’s Treasures From the Air the Monarchy Format: 1 x 52 (HD) Format: 1 x 52 (HD) Across the world, Britain is famed for its idyllic Beautifully filmed from the air, this is the intriguing countryside – an incredibly diverse landscape of story of the British monarchy, told through the natural beauty, farmland and settlements, and places that bore witness to murder, romance, countless historic treasures from castle ruins and politics. In this majestic landscape, battles to great gardens. This aerial programme takes were fought for the crown and dynasties changed. the viewer across England, Wales and Northern These age old castles, palaces and houses still Ireland to witness the wealth of natural beauty and exist to connect to the present House Of Windsor. heritage currently in the care of The National Trust.

Dan Snow’s Norman Walks National Treasures

Format: 3 x 29 (HD) Format: 4 x 29 (HD) Broadcaster: BBC Broadcaster: BBC

Join historian Dan Snow as he traces the foot- The National Trust is responsible for the steps of the Normans to uncover their ‘forgotten’ conservation of great swathes of the UK including Empire, one that has been largely overlooked the world-famous Lake District and the castles and yet laid significant legacies. In this forensic country houses which are the sets of countless TV examination of the past, each episode has a shows and Hollywood movies. Griff Rhys Jones different line of inquiry, taking in important Norman takes us behind the scenes as he uncovers how landmarks en route. The walks are enhanced by the Trust looks after our best loved treasures. beautiful aerial footage. National Treasures

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The Flying Scotsman: The Golden Age of A Rail Romance Steam Railways

Format: 1 x 54 Format: 2 x 60 (HD) Broadcaster: BBC Broadcaster: BBC

The untold story of the iconic Flying Scotsman – A two-part series telling the remarkable story of a the very best in the engineering of its time. Built in band of visionaries who rescued railways and steam 1923, it was the first steam locomotive to run at 100 engines in the years after 1945, starting a movement miles per hour and to star in its very own feature which spread throughout the world. Their home film. Featuring wonderful archive and fascinating movies reveal how they helped millions reconnect interviews with the key people who recall its history. with a past they thought had gone forever.

Phantoms and Shadows: Deadliest Crash: 100 Years of Rolls Royce Disaster at Le Mans

Format: 2 x 24 Format: 1 x 52 Broadcaster: Channel 5 Broadcaster: BBC

This is the tale of the rise and fall of a great British On 11th June 1955, the world of playboy racers and institution – a company that once proudly claimed their exotic cars exploded in a devastating fireball to make the best car in the world. The series looks at Le Mans. Exclusive footage and interviews with back at 100 years of the Rolls Royce, examining key eye witnesses and survivors reveal exactly what the ambitions of and relationship between Charles happened, why so many people died, and who was Rolls and Henry Royce. responsible for motor-racing’s worst ever disaster. Curse of the Axe

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Ships That Changed the World No. 57: The History of a House

Format: 3 x 39 Format: 6 x 52 Broadcaster: BBC Broadcaster: Channel 4

Hosted by Colonel Tim Collins OBE, Ships That A 200-year journey through the history of British Changed the World presents an insightful portrait interior design, this programme examines how of the 20th century by following the fortunes of design has affected a beautiful Georgian house history-making ships. From the Titanic’s fateful and its various inhabitants from when it was first launch to the sinking of the Bismark, Ships That built in 1779 right up to the present day. The Changed the World re-lives an exciting century of series reveals how fashions in interior design have famous ships and momentous ship-building. mirrored social, political and economic trends.

The Story of Agriculture - Curse of the Axe Mud, Sweat and Tractors Format: 1 x 90 (HD) Broadcaster: HISTORY Format: 4 x 59 Broadcaster: BBC The remarkable story of a recent archaeological This unique series tells the story of man’s changing discovery that will fundamentally change our relationship with the land. It profiles the revolution understanding of North American life before the that food production underwent in the 20th century, arrival of the Europeans. Narrated by Robbie examining its impact on the lives of farmers and Robertson from rock group The Band, this riveting consumers alike. With episodes focusing on milk, investigation plunges viewers back in time 500 years fruit and vegetables, wheat, and beef. through rich dramatic recreations and CGI.

Whispers of Angels Pearl Diver

Format: 1 x 50 Format: 1 x 52 Broadcaster: PBS Long before the oil industry transformed the Gulf This is the story of the Underground Railroad region, pearl diving was the biggest industry and the role it played in the 19th century anti- in Bahrain and the quality of Bahraini pearls slavery movement in America. The film focuses was world-renowned. Pearl Diver offers unique on the collaboration between black Abolitionist historical insight into those times, featuring the William Still and white Quaker Thomas Garrat, fascinating stories of the old remaining crew and chronicles their efforts to help thousands of members, and capturing their rare experiences fugitives to freedom. with beautiful underwater filming.

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1929: The Year of The Crash The Internationale

Format: 1 x 52 Format: 1 x 28 / 1 x 60

This compelling film puts the Wall Street Crash in An award-winning documentary about idealism, a historic perspective, giving crucial context to this social change and the fate of the left, featuring momentous event. From the thrilling decadence stories from a literary professor to a Spanish and glamour of the roaring ’20s to the dole queues Civil War volunteer, from idealistic Chinese and squalid soup kitchens of their aftermath, it students to long term American activists with a traces the background and backlash of 1929 prison record. This is the story of the emotionally with fresh and detailed archive footage and a charged anthem of the left which has been sung in soundtrack of classic period songs. hundreds of different languages around the world.

Comrade Philby Michael X

Format: 1 x 52 Format: 1 x 46 Broadcaster: Channel 4 Broadcaster: UKTV

The fascinating story of Harold Adrian Russell From pimp to politician, celebrity guru to vilified Philby, the infamous British agent and Oxbridge murderer, Michael X was Britain’s most notorious gent who turned spy for the Russians and then Black Power leader. This is a tale that spans the defected to the Soviet Union in 1963, working as a racial and social turbulence of the sixties and British affairs consultant until his death. A traitor in seventies. It is also an intriguing incursion into his native Britain, a hero in Russia, he was buried Trinidadian culture and the legacy of slavery and with the military honours reserved for KGB agents. white colonialism. The Internationale

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Conflict

Format: 1 x 52 / 6 x 6 (HD) Broadcaster: Ovation

This award-winning film takes the audience behind the lens of the world’s leading conflict photographers. Across diverse, interwoven stories we follow the photographers’ attempts to engage with, understand, capture and present different forms of conflict, with the ultimate goal of making the world a better place by bearing witness.

Accidental Anarchist Power and Piety

Format: 1 x 60 / 1 x 84 (HD) Format: 5 x 46 (HD) Broadcaster: BBC, SBS Broadcaster: Channel NewsAsia

This is the remarkable story of how Carne Ross, BAFTA Award-winning reporter Mobeen Azhar once a leading UK diplomat, became an anarchist. travels across the world to investigate the destructive Rebelling against the establishment, he discovers links between religion and conflict. He digs deep a new form of politics, so relevant for these into Islamic extremism in his native countries - UK turbulent times. From Spain to Syria, he reveals and Pakistan - explores right-wing Christianity in the how anarchist ideas of self-government and USA, Indonesia’s secular state, Hindu Nationalism in equality are being put into action across the world. India, and Myanmar’s hardline Buddhists.

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The New Silk Road The Maritime Silk Road

Format: 8 x 48 (HD) Format: 6 x 48 (HD) Broadcaster: Channel NewsAsia Broadcaster: Channel NewsAsia

The New Silk Road is China’s plan to create new The Maritime Silk Road is China’s US$1 trillion trading routes, galvanize its economy, and expand dollar plan to link up 65 countries and 4.4 its global leadership. But how will this US$200 billion people – over 60 percent of the world’s billion plan impact all our lives? In this award- population. Host Anthony Morse travels from winning series, Anthony Morse travels from China China through Asia, Africa and Europe to find out through Central Asia, where China, Russia and the how China’s power and ambition is impacting lives USA are competing for influence, to find out. and shaping the geopolitics of the 21st Century.

Danger Zone ISIS: Road to Radicalisation

Format: 7 x 24 (HD) Format: 2 x 45 (HD) Broadcaster: Channel NewsAsia Broadcaster: Channel NewsAsia

This award-winning series ventures into some This gripping film investigates the threat to the Asia of the most dangerous regions on the planet Pacific region from supporters of the Islamic State to uncover why these hostile environments are group. With unprecedented access to counter- plagued by conflict and how ordinary people terrorism units, top analysts, convicted terrorists make do in such challenging circumstances. From and family members of IS supporters who have Kabul to ISIS-controlled Iraq, how did these areas gone to fight in Syria, the two-part special explores become off-limits and how are things changing? the reasons behind radicalisation in Asia.

My Millennial Life America By The Numbers

Format: 1 x 52 / 1 x 80 (HD) Format: 8 x 27, 1 x 57 special (HD) Broadcaster: TVO Broadcaster: PBS

Millennials are the most educated generation Behind every number, there’s a story. This ground- ever, but over half of college graduates end up breaking series is the first ever to focus on the unemployed or in dead-end jobs. This intimate dramatic demographic shifts currently shaping the film follows four twenty-somethings as they fight USA. Under reported stories reveal the human face to find their place in today’s world, from the highs of this epic population change and show how the of internships at Vice and Google, to the lows of new multicultural American mainstream influences cleaning hotel bathrooms. everything from elections to culture and commerce.

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Professor Green: Suicide and Me Professor Green: Hidden & Homeless

Format: 1 x 57 (HD) Format: 1 x 57 (HD) Broadcaster: BBC Broadcaster: BBC

World-famous rapper Professor Green takes an Professor Green discovers the modern face of intensely personal journey to uncover the truth homelessness, challenging perceptions of who behind his father’s suicide, and why suicide is the the homeless are and the reality of their lives. A biggest killer of men under 45. By understanding shocking look at how young people failed by the the complex factors behind it, and the ways it system live, he meets those trapped in cycles is being tackled, Professor Green highlights the of rough sleeping and temporary hostel life, and urgency of addressing suicide in today’s society. uncovers a generation cut off from normal society.

Professor Green: Dangerous Dogs The Checklist Effect

Format: 1 x 57 (HD) Format: 1 x 50 (HD) Broadcaster: BBC Inspired by surgeon and author Atul Gawande’s Celebrity rapper Professor Green uncovers why award-winning book ‘The Checklist Manifesto’ both hospital admissions from dog attacks and this ground-breaking film goes behind the scenes the number of dangerous dogs seized by police of operating rooms and communities around the are escalating rapidly. From an illegal pitbull owner world wrestling with the challenges of ensuring fighting in court, to the underworld dog dealer selling safer surgical and anaesthetic care. Discover puppies to pay the rent – this is a story of poverty, how a seemingly simple checklist can make the social class and a fierce debate about blame. difference between life and death.

Beyond Right and Wrong I Am a Girl

Format: 1 x 52 / 1 x 90 (HD) Format: 1 x 53 / 1 x 88 / 6 x 10 (HD) Broadcaster: ABC How do whole societies recover from devastating conflict? This life-changing documentary Being born a girl means you are more likely to be explores stories of justice and forgiveness as subjected to violence, poverty and disadvantage victims and perpetrators work together to rebuild than any other group on the planet. Follow six their lives. The film brings together IRA bombers girls on the brink of womanhood, from the USA, and blast victims, parents of children killed in Afghanistan, and Papua New Guinea, to Cameroon, Israel and Palestine, Rwandan genocide survivors Cambodia and Australia. I Am a Girl reveals what it and the murderers themselves. means to grow up female in the 21st century.

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Breaking The Taboo The Term: Opposing Putin

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Narrated by Morgan Freeman, this groundbreaking This is the inside story of the Russian opposition documentary uncovers the UN sanctioned war movement and its key leader, Aleksei Navalny – on drugs, charting its origins and its devastating anti-corruption blogger and one of the President’s impact from the USA to Colombia to Russia. greatest enemies. With exclusive access to Featuring former Presidents Clinton and Carter, Navalny and opposition figures including Putin’s the film confirms the urgent need to break the goddaughter Ksenia Sobchak and Solidarnost political taboo on drugs and exposes the biggest leader Ilya Yashin, the film is crucial to our failure of global policy over the last 50 years. understanding of Russia’s political landscape.

How To Start A Revolution Road to Revolution

Format:1 x 52 / 1 x 80 (HD) Format: 1 x 24 (HD) Broadcaster: Current TV A groundbreaking film profiling Nobel Peace Prize nominee Gene Sharp and his methods The crucial accompanying back-story to one of the of nonviolent direct action which continue to most important films of our time, the award-winning topple dictators across the world. Inspiring How to Start a Revolution. We follow charismatic footage reveals how his controversial book ‘From director Ruaridh Arrow behind the scenes, from the Dictatorship to Democracy’ has been used against film’s inception through securing internet crowd authoritarianism from Serbia through Iran to the funding to his stirring experiences on the ground Egyptian revolution and the Syrian uprising. with revolutionaries during the Arab Spring. The Term: Opposing Putin

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Iraq: War, Love, God & Madness Gill Hicks Surviving 7/7

Format: 1 x 58 / 1 x 83 (HD) Format: 1 x 45 (HD) Broadcaster: Bio Director Mohamed Al-Daradji and his film crew return to Baghdad after 35 years of dictatorship Gill Hicks was the last person to be rescued in under Saddam Hussein to make the first post- the London terrorist bombings of 7th July 2005, revolution feature film in this war-torn country. and lost both legs in the attack. With exclusive Struggling against persecution, imprisonment, interviews and striking footage of the bombings, injuries, terrorist attacks and the American army, we trace one woman’s battle to refuse to hate the Iraq is determined to survive. This is a film crucial terrorists who tried to kill her, instead pledging the to our understanding of a nation at war. rest of her days to working for peace.

Jihad: The Men and Ideas Behind Afghanistan: Behind Enemy Lines Al Qaeda Format: 1 x 52 (HD) Broadcaster: Channel 4 Format: 2 x 52 Broadcaster: Channel 4, PBS In this BAFTA nominated film, award-winning Jihad: The Men and Ideas Behind Al Qaeda is the Afghan reporter Najibullah Quraishi goes inside definitive history of the world’s most dangerous the most dangerous enemy camp in northern terrorist organisation. With exclusive footage and Afghanistan, gaining access to an army of extreme first-hand testimony from friends and enemies, Islamic combatants who are known to be among this is the inside story of Osama Bin Laden and Al the most fanatical factions involved in the war, with Qaeda’s other big leaders. close links to Al Qaeda and Osama bin Laden.

The Dancing Boys of Afghanistan Pakistan’s Hidden Shame

Format: 1 x 52 (HD) Format: 1 x 47 (HD) Broadcaster: Channel 4 Broadcaster: Channel 4

An exclusive and unsettling investigation into the In Pakistan, 25 per cent of boys are sexually re-emergence of sex slavery involving young males abused by older men before they reach 16 years of in Afghanistan. Bought, sold and traded amongst the age. This powerful new observational documentary warlords and powerful men, hundreds of poverty- takes us into the lives of the child victims in the stricken boys as young as 10 are lured off the streets town of Peshawar, bordering Afghanistan. We also on the promise of a new life, unaware that their real encounter the men behind this horrific practice and fate is to be used for entertainment and sex. the police who turn a blind eye in return for bribes.

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Opium Brides Transgenders: Pakistan’s Open Secret Format: 1 x 52 (HD) Broadcaster: PBS Format: 1 x 54 (HD) Broadcaster: Channel 4 In Afghanistan, the world’s foremost opium producer, poppy farmers are being forced to sell their Many among Pakistan’s marginalised transgender daughters to drug traffickers. How has the dreadful community are forced into prostitution. Investigating fate of these Opium Brides been sealed? From the a hidden side of life in Pakistan, this film from an producers of the award-winning Dancing Boys of Oscar and Emmy award-winning director follows the Afghanistan, this film exposes the horrific abuse of incredible stories of three transgender people, unveiling girls by traffickers closely allied to the Taliban. the complex truth behind this country’s open secret.

Sex, Death and the Gods The Forced Marriage Unit

Format: 1 x 58 Format: 1 x 50 (HD) Broadcaster: BBC Broadcaster: Current TV

Director Beeban Kidron travels to India to uncover With unrivalled access to the UK government’s the current state of the once respected and Forced Marriage Unit and its partner offices revered Devadasi tradition which has given way to in Bangladesh and Pakistan, this is a gripping a devastating practice of ‘dedicating’ young village investigation into the growing phenomenon of girls into sexual slavery. Sex, Death and the Gods forced marriages. The programme lifts the lid on is shot with incredible intimacy and unparalleled the victims’ chilling experiences as well as the access and features ravishing archive material. dramatic and difficult rescue operations involved.

Children of the Sex Trade Left by the Ship

Format: 1 x 58 (HD) Format: 1 x 53 Broadcaster: ABC Broadcaster: Rai, YLE, PBS

In Children of the Sex Trade, former Australian A moving portrait of Filipino Amerasians: the sons police and Special Forces officers go undercover and daughters of Filipino sex workers and American in a mission to rescue underage girls from sex servicemen stationed at Subic Bay, once the largest bars in the Philippines. With crucial inside US Naval Base outside mainland USA. We follow information from two young Filipino sisters, the lives of these Amerasians, never recognised by Michelle and Marisol, they can now complete their the US government, as they struggle to overcome a investigations and bring the offenders to justice. past that they are in no way responsible for.

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IMPACT: Stories of Asia Behind the Labels

Format: 13 x 23 (HD) Format: 1 x 46 Broadcaster: Oxygen Through the spyglass of Asia, IMPACT presents a series of workable solutions to overcome poverty Susan Sarandon narrates this unforgettable – solutions that are at the forefront of technology, investigation into the Chinese and Filipino women and ecologically sound. Includes episodes on who, driven by desperation, pay high fees for civil war in East Timor, energy insecurity in Nepal, jobs in clothing factories on the Pacific island of environmental mismanagement in Tajikistan, Saipan, a US territory exempt from minimum wage urbanisation in China, desertification in Mongolia, and certain immigration laws. The clothes they and the post Soviet collapse of Kyrgyzstan. sew are shipped to the US for major retail sale.

The Indian Miracle? The Interconnected World

Format: 1 x 49 Format: 1 x 45 Broadcaster: Channel 4 With unique access to the International Monetary Well-known UK journalist, Krishnan Guru-Murthy, Fund, this film uncovers how the economic order explores the dark side of modern India – is being shaped by the global crisis. It discusses discrimination against Muslims, farmers driven to key issues including the implications of the rise suicide by debt and a caste system which prevents of Asia and the discovery of new oil in Africa, and those at the bottom securing anything but the also charts the transition of an Eastern European most menial jobs. A multi-layered investigation into country from communism to a market economy the real costs of an economic boom. and membership of the European Union. Transgenders: Pakistan’s Open Secret

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After The Wave - The World’s Tsunami: The Third Wave Greatest Forensic Detective Story Format: 1 x 46 Broadcaster: TVNZ Format: 1 x 54 / 1 x 75 (HD) Broadcaster: Discovery Channel, SBS This documentary gives a human account of the More than a decade on from the Boxing-Day people who survived the 2004 tsunami, the future Tsunami, this is the definitive story of the epic they face and the people they are still trying to forensic operation in its aftermath; a global effort help. The first two waves brought devastation with 30 international teams. After the Wave traces to Asia in a matter of only half an hour. The third victims and survivors’ stories, examining the wave – of reconstruction – is a much longer and global response to catastrophe on a vast scale. far more complicated process.

Deadliest Earthquakes: Christchurch: Christchurch A Shocking Reminder

Format: 1 x 44 / 1 x 59 (HD) Format: 1 x 52 / 2 x 46 (HD) Broadcaster: TVNZ Broadcaster: Prime TV

This life-affirming film features never-seen-before This exclusive film goes behind closed doors of interviews from the immediate aftermath of the 2011 those in Christchurch, New Zealand, whose lives earthquake in Christchurch. Hard-hitting archive and were devastated by the earthquake in 2011. stylish dramatic reconstructions create a compelling Witness how the residents struggle to rebuild their story of how the day unfolded for the trapped, the homes and re-live the events of the catastrophic rescuers, the hopeful and the grief-stricken. day from first hand accounts and CCTV.

Inside the Firestorm Bomb Harvest

Format: 2 x 45 / 1 x 111 (HD) Format: 1 x 55 / 1 x 88 (HD) Broadcaster: ABC Broadcaster: ABC

On 7th February 2009, a catastrophic mega fire in Over the course of the Vietnam War, Laos became Australia – faster, hotter, and more dangerously the most bombed country, per capita, in history. dynamic than ever before – claimed 173 lives, left This film follows bomb disposal specialist Laith 8,000 homeless and destroyed millions of hectares Stevens as he teaches Lao technicians how to of bush-land. A dramatic documentary giving new diffuse the bombs. It is a nail-biting story which insight into the disaster, this is a blow-by-blow vividly conveys the consequences of war and the account seen through the eyes of key witnesses. bravery of those trying to clear up the mess.

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The Secret Life of Your Clothes Ade Adepitan: Journey of My Lifetime Format: 1 x 60 (HD) Broadcaster: BBC Format: 1 x 48 (HD) Broadcaster: Channel 4 Ever wondered where, and on whose back, your cast-off clothes end up? In this extraordinary film, Legendary Paralympic medallist Ade Adepitan returns Paralympic champion Ade Adepitan journeys to to his birthland, Nigeria, to find out why Polio is still Ghana to uncover the secret lives your clothes are a widespread threat to children in the country. He living. Adepitan gleans insight into how a deluge discovers the mix of religious extremism, superstition of cheap western clothing is displacing traditional and suspicion of the outsider, the so called ‘White dress and decimating the local textile industry. Witch’, that has made eradication so difficult.

Dear Mandela Mandela’s World Cup

Format: 1 x 53 / 1 x 93 / 1 x 35 (HD) Format: 1 x 52 (HD) Broadcaster: HISTORY When the South African government begins to eradicate Durban’s slums by force, three ‘young Mandela’s World Cup reminds us of the power of lions’ of the country’s new generation refuse to be this sporting tournament to bring positive change. evicted from their homes. Invoking Nelson Mandela’s Featuring interviews with Shakira, FIFA members example, they set up a social movement and take and sporting legends, this inspiring journey shows their government to the highest court in the land. how football can be used to overcome prejudice, Their inspiring struggle reveals a devastating and break boundaries and unite a continent, as it did in fascinating portrait of South Africa coming of age. 2010 when it was hosted by South Africa.

Geldof in Africa Africa Rising

Format: 6 x 30 (HD) Format: 1 x 55 (HD) Broadcaster: BBC International efforts to eradicate African poverty Written and presented by Bob Geldof and shot have failed, but is there another way? With more entirely in Africa, this original series guides the Africans living in extreme poverty today than ever Live 8 generation through the continent to create before, this film presents the extraordinary story of awareness of and inspire response to the beauty how a large rural area of Ethiopia is taking its fate of Africa’s inhabitants and landscapes. The series into its own hands. Controversial, colourful and celebrates Africa and unravels its complexities: uplifting, it opens the eyes of the world to a new cultural, historic, climatic and political. dawn of Africans solving Africa’s problems.

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The Promoters Big Brother AIDS

Format: 1 x 52 (HD) Format: 1 x 52 Broadcaster: DR TV, NRK Broadcaster: Rai

This is the shocking, previously untold story of Big Brother AIDS explores how the attitudes how Kenyan police have executed over 8,500 of everyday people towards the virus can be boys and young men in the name of fighting crime. detrimental to the war against AIDS in Sub- The Promoters investigates official complicity in Saharan Africa. With many people living in slums mass murder, police support for mob executions, stating that AIDS is the work of witchcraft and has and how even parents seeking justice for their nothing to do with unprotected sex, the fight is children can be rewarded with death. made even more difficult.

Behind the Crisis: Behind the Crisis: Winning the War on HIV in Africa Eritrea’s Struggle to Survive

Format: 1 x 58 Format: 1 x 55 Broadcaster: PBS Broadcaster: PBS

This compelling episode of the Behind the Crisis Eritrea, a recently independent nation, struggles to series examines the continued battle against HIV preserve the health of its children and its incredible in Africa. The film tells the remarkable stories of cultural riches, while balancing a population half three courageous Kenyan teachers who, after Muslim and half Christian. We investigate this learning they are HIV-positive, decide to stand up complex situation through inside stories of how it to the disease and take their lives back. affects individuals, families and communities.

Liberia: A Fragile Peace Chat the Planet

Format: 1 x 52 Format: 6 x 30 / 2 x 52 Broadcasters: ABC, Fly TV, Link TV, SABC At a critical moment in Liberia’s bitter history, this award-winning documentary bears witness to the A revolutionary television series which allows war weary nation’s attempts to refute a quarter of 15 to 22-year-olds to speak their minds. In the a century of bloodshed, corruption and collapse. 6-part series young people from South Africa, The fragile peace of this country’s democracy Australia and Jordan discuss issues such as is grippingly captured and celebrated through political correctness, materialism, the family and a stunning spyglass of different perspectives, war. In the 2-part series youths from the USA voices and personal experiences. and Iraq discuss the war.

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The F-Word: Rough Aunties Who Wants to Be a Feminist? Format: 1 x 104 Broadcaster: Channel 4 Format: 1 x 44 (HD) Broadcaster: CBC Fearless, feisty and resolute, the Rough Aunties Feminism. Does the word have any meaning? Did it are a remarkable group of women unwavering achieve its goals? Over a hundred years on from the in their stand to protect and care for the abused, first International Women’s Day, world renowned neglected and forgotten children of Durban, South feminists Germaine Greer, Susan Faludi and Naomi Africa. Directed by the internationally acclaimed Wolf consider what feminism means today and what Kim Longinotto, this moving documentary brings the future looks like for women’s rights. us an intimate portrait of change from Africa.

Operation Fine Girl Forbidden Marriages in the Holy Land Format: 1 x 48 Format: 1 x 66 A powerful, personal and hard-hitting documentary which has been instrumental in This documentary looks at several varied kinds promoting a national dialogue for peace of mixed marriages between Israeli Jews and building in Sierra Leone, through tracing the Palestinian Arabs, ranging across different devastating impact of a decade-long civil war on generations and social classes, to examine the the country’s young women, thousands of whom human side of the Arab-Israeli conflict. The were abducted, raped and forced into slavery by programme calls for a civil code of marriage which soldiers on both sides of the conflict. gives people freedom of choice.

The Cardboard Train Peacekeepers

Format: 1 x 55 / 1 x 75 Format: 15 x 23 Broadcaster: UKTV Set in the sprawling urban capital of Buenos Aires, this is the story of a young girl and her Peacekeepers documents British troops who family who, with 30,000 others, scavenge have been on a NATO peacekeeping regiment cardboard from the street to sell it on for in Bosnia for over a decade, highlighting the real recycling in order to earn just a few coins. It is low-down of their duties including clearing mine an amazing account of Argentinean culture and fields. It is a timely and poignant series which the will to survive, and an honest and inspiring may mirror many of the issues facing forces narrative of a community riddled with poverty. deployed in war torn countries today.

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Marx Reloaded Us Now

Format: 1 x 52 (HD) Format: 1 x 60 Broadcaster: ARTE, ZDF Broadcaster: Channel 4

Featuring a stellar array of philosophers including Us Now is a ground-breaking documentary Žižek, this film offers an electrifying examination of about the power of mass collaboration and the contemporary relevance of Karl Marx’s ideas the internet. It introduces the key people and for understanding the current global social and online communities pioneering new web-based economic crisis. The film asks whether we should networks, from a democratic football club owned accept the crisis as a side-effect of rampant and run by its fans, to an online lending service capitalism, or if there is another explanation... which allows everyone to be a bank manager.

Greenpeace: Making a Stand The Boat and the Bomb

Format: 1 x 48 Format: 1 x 52 Broadcaster: Global An engaging film about international espionage, In this exciting documentary, Greenpeace is a case government cover-up and the nuclear arms race, study for what happens when people join together The Boat and the Bomb looks back at the French to fight for what they believe is right. With dramatic Navy’s bombing of the Greenpeace flagship stories from the early days of environmentalism Rainbow Warrior in New Zealand, July 1985, and the front line of a more recent campaign in which was revealed as an attempt to silence the Argentina, it reveals how extraordinary things can truth of the French government’s nuclear weapons happen when individuals make a stand. testing in the Pacific Ocean.

Lethal Legacy To Kill a Whale

Format: 1 x 52 Format: 1 x 52

When the Israeli forces retreated from Southern Despite huge protests against the killing of whales Lebanon in 2000 after 20 years of occupation, and the massive impact of international whaling the battles had left a greater legacy than the bans, the people of the Faroe Islands, a Danish emotional impact of war. This is a remarkable community, still practise a brutal annual whale film which reveals how 57,000 mines were prised cull. Each year they entice a pod of whales into from the soil in one of the world’s most successful their harbour and slaughter them. In this film both de-mining operations. Narrated by past British the Faroese people and the conservationists Member of Parliament Martin Bell. present their arguments on this contentious issue.

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God’s Business Massacre in Luxor

Format: 6 x 24 Format: 1 x 59 Broadcaster: Al Jazeera Broadcasters: BBC, NHK

Journalist John McCarthy explores the complex An emotional documentary that reveals the wider relationship between religion, money and power, social significance of a seemingly singular vicious reporting on religious sects and scandals. How attack at the temple of Queen Hatshepsut in did a small Hindu sect become an international Luxor where 58 tourists were brutally murdered business? Are French Muslims creating a new by Islamic fundamentalists. British, Swiss and Euro-Islam? How is the Anglican Church reshaping Japanese relatives of the victims travel to Egypt itself for survival in the global marketplace? seeking answers to the motives of the killers.

God Bless You Barack Obama? A Team for Peace

Format: 1 x 58 Format: 1 x 52 Broadcaster: BBC Broadcaster: CTV, NRK

Where did America’s 44th president find religion? Touching, passionate and provocative, A Team for Was it the cynical move of an ambitious politician Peace follows a group of young soccer players, half or a deep spiritual awakening? Theologian Robert of them Arab, half of them Israeli, who compete Beckford travels across America, tracing Obama’s as a team in the world’s largest international youth journey from sceptic to devout Christian and soccer tournament. Can mutual respect and meeting those who influenced him, including Rev. understanding be discovered on the pitch and Jeremiah Wright and Jesse Jackson. translated into off-field life in the Middle East?

Battle for the Holy Land

Format: 1 x 49 Broadcaster: Channel 4

An in-depth investigation into the day to day struggle of both Palestinians and Israelis living on the West Bank led by acclaimed journalist Rod Liddle. Battle for the Holy Land features frank interview footage from both sides of the wall, as well as footage shot by local residents for a starkly raw and real insight into life on the West Bank.

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Celebrity Car Wars, Series 1 & 2

Format: S1 8 x 48 (HD), S2 8 x 48 (HD) Broadcaster: A+E

Strap on your seatbelts for this adrenaline-fuelled action reality series that’s a mix of competition, fun, and adventure! Six celebrities are trained by motor racing experts to compete in extreme driving challenges. From racing rally cars to tackling obstacle courses in 4x4s, only the best will win a place in the Celebrity Car Wars Hall of Fame.

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Upscale with Prentice Penny You Can Do Better

Format: 12 x 24 (HD) Format: 26 x 22 (HD) plus 4 x 22 specials (HD) Broadcaster: TruTV Broadcaster: TruTV

Upscale your life! Join creator and host Prentice From planning your wedding day to making difficult Penny as he explores everything from drinks and life decisions, comedy lifestyle gurus Matthew travel to fashion, and shows us how to turn a and Abbi offer top tips and life-hacks to carry you normal date into something special. How can you through being an adult. Whether it’s work, sex, sweeten your apology? How can you improve your money, or tech, through a mix of fun sketches, man- food menu? Prentice demystifies what it takes to on-the-street and expert interviews, learn how to be improve the quality of your life. better at the subjects no one teaches in school!

The Dunk King Rio Rescue

Format: S1 2 x 65 + 2 x 42 (HD), S2 4 x 42 (HD) Format: 16 x 23 (HD) Broadcaster: TNT Broadcaster: Discovery

A high adrenaline reality competition series which Rio’s beaches are famously beautiful, but strong gives amateur basketballers a global platform currents also make them some of Brazil’s most to show off their dunk styles, with the chance dangerous. Enter the Rio Rescue team, real-life beach of winning $100,000! Hosted by former NBA heroes with the motto “ready for the worst” – the best champion Kenny Smith, it features an expert lifeguards in the world. In action-packed episodes, we judging panel including basketball legend Shaquille follow the team’s friendships and dilemmas, as they O’Neal. Who will be crowned the next dunk king? train, save lives and keep watch over paradise.

The World’s Best Airport: Changi The Beautiful People

Format: 4 x 46 (HD) Format: 10 x 48 (HD, 4K) Broadcaster: Channel NewsAsia Behind the glitz and glamour of the fashion world is a Singapore’s Changi airport has been voted the dramatic, often cut-throat reality. Follow the lives of a world’s best airport for five years running. With group of international models seeking fame and fortune unprecedented access to its dedicated staff of in one of the most sought-after locations on the planet. 40,000, we follow immigration teams, emergency With unprecedented access to one of the world’s top crews, Singapore Airlines crew training, and customer fashion agencies in Cape Town, an industry hub for services helping passengers through passport losses, international brands, we discover what life is really like Star Wars invasions, volcanic eruptions and more! for professional models on and off the catwalk.

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Pop Up Start Up Supershoppers

Format: 6 x 50 (HD) Format: 14 x 23 (HD) Broadcaster: CNBC Broadcaster: Channel 4

This new, original show pits budding entrepreneurs No nonsense power duo Anna Richardson and against each other as they battle to grow their Andi Osho bring you the inside scoops on the fledgling businesses and win a major investment biggest brands and retailers. The Supershoppers from a panel of retail experts. They have just eight uncover the latest marketing secrets and tricks weeks to secure major deals before presenting of the trade, to help you save money. From the their final product to the judges. Who has what it surprising truth about washing powder to advice takes to turn their start-up into a success? on travel insurance, this is the show in the know!

My Money & Me Luxe Asia, Series 1-4

Format: 6 x 25 (HD) Format: 30 x 24 (HD) Broadcaster: RTE Broadcaster: Channel NewsAsia

Do we ever stand back and ask: Where does our Visit luxurious locations across Asia to experience money go? Are we all sleepwalking spenders, buying the region’s most exclusive experiences. Fly to things we don’t really need? Kathriona Devereux is secluded eco-islands in your private jet, take a joined by personal finance expert Sinead Ryan to spin in a supercar, get your hands on priceless help people take control of their cash! With simple designer jewellery, and stay over in one of Asia’s lifestyle changes, we reveal just how much money top presidential suites. See Asia like never before - can be saved, with surprising results. ready for anyone with deep enough pockets! Pop Up Start

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Monster Carp, Series 1 & 2 The Big Fish Off, Series 1-3

Format: S1 4 x 46 (HD), S2 4 x 46 (HD) Format: 15 x 46 (HD) Broadcaster: ITV4 Broadcaster: ITV4

Monster Carp is man’s global pursuit of the A competitive fishing format like no other! Each mysterious and powerful carp species! Crazy carp week, experienced team captains coach two fanatic Ali Hamidi and his exuberant fishing buddies celebrities through three fishing challenges in a seek out giant carp across the world – from battle to become top fisherman. The Big Fish Off Morocco, Japan and Croatia all the way to Texas – is full of fun, banter and fish, and is aimed at both overcoming some dangerous trials and tribulations anglers and non anglers alike. What’s at stake? in their quest for the ultimate angling adventure. Egos, kudos… and pride!

Big Angry Fish, Series 4-6 Gone Fishin, Series 1-7

Format: 39 x 42 (HD) Format: 64 x 23 (HD) Broadcaster: TV3 Broadcaster: TV3

Join energetic duo Nathan and Milan on an epic Gone Fishin boasts great characters, spectacular fishing adventure as they battle with monster fish scenery and incredible outdoor action. Amiable in both deep and shallow waters. Throughout angler Graeme Sinclair shows us some of the each episode they share their knowledge and offer world’s best sport fishing in spectacular spots techniques for catching trophy fish (and sharks!), ranging from New Zealand to Antarctica to Samoa. at the same time as appreciating the stunning Packed with fantastic underwater footage and scenery and wildlife around them. heaps of useful fishing tips.

Reality Trip Eubank VR

Format: 7 x 45 (HD) Format: 1 x 7 (VR) Broadcaster: TV3 Join Chris Eubank Jr. as he trains for a World Follow five young adults as they leave their Championship fight. With incredible access to comfortable lifestyles behind to go on the Reality Trip Eubank’s gym in Brighton, cinematography by of a lifetime! From working in cotton fields under a award-winning director Darren Emerson, and blazing sun, to sleeping on cardboard beds alongside footage of Eubank’s fight with German slugger the factory workers, learn the origins of their favourite Arthur Abraham at Wembley Arena, this is as close brands; this is a world they were not prepared for. as you can get to a living legend of boxing.

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At Her Majesty’s Service Hidden Villages, Series 1-4

Format: 4 x 48 (HD) Format: 15 x 48 (HD) Broadcaster: Channel 4 Broadcaster: Channel 4

Former royal employee, Dame Penelope Keith, Actress Penelope Keith uncovers that most ventures behind the scenes of the Queen’s official quintessential of British institutions: the village. royal residences. She travels up and down the Travelling through Britain’s spectacular countryside United Kingdom to meet the people upholding and along its coast, she discovers how industry, fascinating yet sometimes bizarre royal titles and tourism and tradition characterise each region. ancient appointments, from the Royal Falconer to Why are villages so loved? And what is the secret the Washer of the Sovereign’s hands. behind the longevity of their quirky traditions?

A Year in an English Garden Ageless Gardens

Format: 1 x 50 / 1 x 58 (HD, 4K) Format: 5 x 22 (HD) Broadcaster: BBC Broadcaster: Vision TV

This stunning 4K, slow TV documentary is a This series is a visual celebration of gardening with striking and poignant portrayal of time passing in a a special emphasis on the role this activity can play beautiful English walled garden. With contributions in healthy ageing. The physical, mental and social from gardeners, astronomers and archaeologists aspects of gardening can be important therapeutic the film presents an intriguing vision of the factors in health and wellness. Gardening can bring relationship between the seasons, the plants and us food, exercise and keep our mind sharp as we people who work within the garden. age, long into our retirement years.

Carry on Caravanning The Billion Dollar Flower Market

Format: 7 x 44 (HD) Format: 1 x 46 (HD) Broadcaster: Channel 5 Broadcaster: Channel 4

In this hilarious, character-driven documentary The flower industry is a $100 billion global business series, we join a cast of fun-seeking, slow- where the Dutch control the market. But there’s lane hogging caravan enthusiasts from across a chink in their armour and the UK – the world’s the UK and Europe as they set out on a very fourth largest buyer of cut flowers – is fighting back. different type of holiday. Carry on Caravanning Meet the new generation of florists revolutionising puts a microscope to the peculiar obsession of the trade, from quirky home-grown buds to caravanning and asks why it remains so popular. luscious displays at London’s National Gallery.

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Chelsea’s Greatest Gardens Country Dreams: Series 1-3

Format: 4 x 48 (HD) Format: 38 x 26 (HD) Broadcaster: The Lifestyle Channel Broadcaster: ARTE, ZDF, Servus TV

The RHS Chelsea Flower Show is the most This beautiful series seeks out some of the most prestigious flower and garden show in the world, picturesque gardens in Europe, from grand, attended by A-list celebrities and the Royal Family. sweeping estates to the picture perfect smaller Renowned Australian landscape designers take garden with an organic vegetable patch. With on the challenge to win Best in Show with the help helpful insider tips for the home, kitchen and of some familiar faces, such as Alan Titchmarsh, garden, it has something to offer all viewers, from along the way. Can their dream become a reality? amateur city gardeners to dedicated professionals.

Wild Gardens Farmers: A Year on the Land

Format: 6 x 23 Format: 6 x 47 (HD) Broadcaster: ITV Broadcaster: TV3

Want to attract wildlife to your garden but don’t The complex, shocking and inspiring story of how know how? In Wild Gardens, passionate ecologist our food is produced, told by the people who Mike Dilger visits different habitats for inspiration produce it. With unprecedented access to every and finds out how to create space for nature in type of farm – from free range and organic to even the smallest garden. The series shows how to commercial factory-type operations – this beautifully encourage an array of wildlife, and offers ideas on shot series captures the compelling annual cycle how to plant in harmony with the local environment. that is life on the modern farm. At Her Majesty’s Service

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Secrets of the Paranormal World Dog’s Best Friend

Format: 3 x 47 (HD) Format: 13 x 22 (HD) Broadcaster: Love Nature TV Featuring Derren Brown and Uri Geller, this series follows one believer and one non-believer as Dogs aren’t only man’s best friend – and we’ve they search for the truth behind the paranormal, got the viral videos to prove it! From monkeys to specifically dark forces. Through controlled cheetahs and even dolphins, this series reveals the experiments, such as demon summoning, séances true stories of these unlikely companionships, from and talking board rituals, and with the help of leading the fun times to the challenges that dog and owner figures in the paranormal and academic communities, face. A pop culture phenomenon, this show is can they make contact with the supernatural? packed with fun facts, dog psychology and more.

Street Hospital, Series 1 & 2 The Bunker

Format: S1 10 x 23 (HD), S2 10 x 23 (HD) Format: 6 x 22 (HD) Broadcaster: TVNZ Broadcaster: Seven Network

Follow New Zealand’s revolutionary free Think you know golf shows? Think again. Hit ambulance paramedic team who work through the course with golf-mad sports stars for an the night on Wellington’s busiest party street and entertaining and tongue-in-cheek look at the at the front lines of huge sport and music events. inspiring and often frustrating aspects of one of From pop-up tents and motorbikes they treat the world’s most popular sports. With pro tips to injured revellers on the spot, saving lives and improve your game, fun challenges and crazy trick money for the emergency services. shots, this is a show for the whole family to enjoy!

Driving Crashes SupermodelMe, Series 3-5

Format: 13 x 26 (HD) Format: 33 x 45 (HD) Broadcasters: Mediacorp, Starhub, DIVA Buckle your seat belt and get ready to witness the wildest driving in the world! Crazy dash cam Combining high fashion and action packed sports footage is combined with thrilling animated re- challenges, SupermodelMe pits 12 aspiring caps to show you everything from running red models against each other in a series of mentally, lights to ill-advised overtakes and disastrously physically and emotionally gruelling tasks that aim distracted drivers. Whether you are still a to prime them for their careers in the cutthroat beginner, or an experienced roadster, with world of fashion. Who will have what it takes to Driving Crashes, it’s OK to be a backseat driver… prove that they are more than just a pretty face.

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Full Frontage The Grand Plan

Format: 4 x 45 / 8 x 27 (HD) Format: 3 x 46 / 6 x 23 (HD) Broadcaster: Choice TV Broadcaster: Prime TV

Imagine you’re trying to sell your home but it lacks The Grand Plan follows an ambitious restoration street appeal. A house that suffers from an ugly project through four earthquakes to transform a frontage will never get top dollar. With the best real dilapidated Christchurch hotel into a 21st century estate agent around and a top landscape designer gastro-pub. With ongoing aftershocks and the leading the charge, the Full Frontage team is here birth of their second child, the husband and wife to transform your front yard from worst house on team face delays. Do they have what it takes to the street to number one on the block. make their dream a reality?

The Property Hunter Spare Time

Format: 8 x 22 (HD) Format: 1 x 48 Broadcaster: Channel NewsAsia Broadcaster: Channel 4

This fun and high energy show explores the Turner Prize-winning artist Grayson Perry explores booming property markets of Asia. We follow the landscape of modern leisure, investigating expatriates house-hunting in Asia’s hottest whether people are getting any emotional rewards locations – from swanky Bangkok apartments from their spare time. Whereas older folks’ and Singapore’s tallest condominium, to Danang pursuits were creative, gregarious and largely free, seaside villas. Packed with tips and insights, the communal and participatory leisure activities are in series brings a candid twist to lifestyle slots. decline across the developed world.

Ice Girls Ice, Sweat and Tears

Format: 2 x 40 / 1 x 89 Format: 1 x 44 (HD) Broadcasters: BBC, CBC Broadcaster: CBC

Shot over three years, Ice Girls paints an intimate Death defying stunts, spectacular athleticism and portrait of the trials and tribulations faced by intense rivalry make up the world of competitive three young figure skaters as they pursue their figure skating. But what does it really take to win? dreams of ascending to the Olympic podium. The Filmed over the course of a season, this insider’s programme captures their admirable dedication to look follows Olympic and World Champion figure a sport that demands tremendous physical power skaters from back stage jitters to on-ice heartbreak and psychological strength. and triumph, proving it takes more than talent to win.

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The Tim Ferriss Experiment Kung Fu Motion

Format: 13 x 20 (HD) Format: 5 x 45 (HD) Broadcaster: HLN Broadcaster: National Geographic Channel

Life-hacker Tim Ferriss pushes himself to the American fitness coach and sports science edge, decoding tough-to-master tasks —parkour, graduate Harry Yuan goes to China to train in the rally car racing, Jiu-Jitsu, surfing, starting a new ancient art of kung fu and learn how its techniques business—with master efficiency. In each episode, can be applied to ordinary movements. From stilt Ferriss takes viewers through the tasks step- running to Chinese acrobatics, Harry must push by-step, providing takeaways that people can his body and reflexes to their limits. Does he have translate into their own everyday lives. what it takes to become a master of movement?

Freddie Flintoff Versus the World Freddie Flintoff: The Gloves Are Off

Format: 8 x 46 (HD) Format: 3 x 45 (HD) Broadcaster: ITV4 Broadcaster: Sky1

This is the action packed show that pits celebrity This adrenalin-fuelled series follows celebrity sports star Freddie Flintoff against other big sport sports star Freddie Flintoff as he undertakes a stars in a series of death defying competitions. gruelling training schedule to transform himself Thrust into a world of dangerous sporting events into a professional boxer. Boxing superstars Mike across North America – from wing walking in Palm Tyson and Sugar Ray Leonard take Freddie under Springs to cliff diving in Mexico – Freddie and his their wings, culminating in a professional fight in competitors are tested like never before! front of 15,000 spectators and broadcast live.

Savage Sports The Rivals

Format: 6 x 22 (HD) Format: 1 x 88 (HD) Broadcaster: Channel NewsAsia Broadcaster: Smithsonian Channel

Throw away your old perceptions of sport. These The moving story of two very different towns in bizarre and brutal competitions of speed, strength Maine – the blue-collar Rumford and wealthy Cape and stamina are like nothing you’ve ever seen Elizabeth – whose residents only ever interact on before! From traditional Mongolian Yak Racing to the High School Football field. More than a sports contemporary Chess Boxing in London, this unique film, The Rivals explores the complexities of class, series explores the fascinating customs and risks pride and perseverance represented by the of the dangerous world of Savage Sports. competition between the teams and their coaches.

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Phil’s Fantasy The Storm

Format: 1 x 52 Format: 1 x 43 / 1 x 52 Broadcaster: Nine Network In this David and Goliath story about undaunted determination against the odds, a group of Most sensible humans avoid extreme weather ordinary people holding down normal jobs invest conditions if possible, but surfers long for the every free hour into running a race team, ultimately cyclone season which brings wild storms and entering into the Privilege GT Championship – a thrilling waves. This gripping documentary high profile televised series that supports the introduces world famous surf tracker Mike Perry British Grand Prix. Is motor racing still a sport for who has a reputation for forecasting the greatest amateurs, or does big money always win? waves around the world.

Cowboy 101 High Stakes Backgammon

Format: 13 x 26 Format: 4 x 52 Broadcaster: PBS Broadcaster: Poker Zone TV

Sul Ross State University is a Texan university Attracting a number of celebrity fanatics and some where rodeo rules above both soccer and basket of the world’s sharpest minds, backgammon is ball. It is a small but unique institution where a high stakes game with a growing profile that college rodeo began and where the National offers an alternative to audiences already watching Intercollegiate Rodeo Association was first formed. poker. This is the first ever televised backgammon With alumni including some of the greats of pro event, bringing to screen the most accomplished rodeo, it has won numerous championships. players on the planet, all vying for the world title.

Superstar DJs Flash

Format: 4 x 26 Format: 3 x 52 Broadcaster: Channel 4 Flash looks at a group of very rich cosmopolitan With the phenomenal rise in profile of house young people with roots ranging from all around music, clubs have become the new Meccas of the world. Tracing them as they jet set around the decadence and DJs have become iconic figures globe, from Bangladesh to the South of France revered by clubbers. But what happens when the and from Dubai to Italy, the three episodes lift clubs close, the party finishes and the adoring the lid on the day-to-day existence of their little- masses leave? This ob-doc series illustrates the known or understood lives, their attitudes to true reality behind the glamorous façade… privilege and to making money.

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Classic Car Rescue, Series 1 & 2 Road Madness

Format: S1 6 x 47 (HD), S2 8 x 44 (HD) Format: 8 x 23 (HD) Broadcaster: Channel 5, Discovery Broadcaster: TV3

In this wildly popular series, fiery duo Bernie This jaw-dropping new show reveals some of Fineman and Mario Pacione restore iconic cars, the most crazy and frightening driving calamities scouring scrapyards and backyards to find bargain ever caught on tape. Petrolhead Ewan Gilmour wrecks with potential. Sparks and spanners fly as presents extraordinary footage collected from they work to tight deadlines and budgets, meeting ‘trucker cams’ in New Zealand, Australia and designers, engineers and owners along the way. But the United States, uncovering the hair-raising can they do enough to impress the expert valuers? behaviour behind our road crash statistics.

Millionaire Motors Hawk Speed

Format: 14 x 4 (HD) Format: 14 x 24

The Kingdom of Bahrain is home to some of Get up close and personal with one of the most the world’s most remarkable car collections. exciting super bike teams around as they race Fuelled with facts, fast driving and fun anecdotes, through a crucial season. Hawk Speed is an Millionaire Motors introduces the wealthy owners for entertaining fly-on-the-wall documentary series whom money is no object when it comes to owning which allows viewers to have VIP unrestricted the most exquisite luxury, sports and vintage cars. access to the racing team and their adrenaline- This is a tour de force of interviews, test-drives and fuelled antics; from the workshop to video diaries, detailed focus on each of the exclusive cars. from Pitlane to VIP hospitality.

Landspeed Shootout Ack Attack: The Fastest Bike in the World Format: 1 x 52 (HD) Broadcaster: Discovery Channel Format: 1 x 50 (HD) Broadcaster: Discovery Channel This exhilarating documentary boasts exclusive access to the fastest vehicles in the world as Meet team Ack Attack, striving to break the World they battle to break international motorcycle and Motorcycle Landspeed Record. Achieving this car landspeed records. It is a thrilling look at the goal takes years of dangerous struggle, including world of landspeed racing, including terrifying 300mph crashes. An inspiring, human story of a accidents, mechanical setbacks and larger-than- team’s quest, battling the laws of physics and the life characters with a need for speed. fickle desert salt, to go faster than anyone before.

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Gumball 3000: Gumball 3000: 10th Anniversary Tour Around the World in 8 Days

Format: 8 x 24 Format: 6 x 30 Broadcasters: Channel 4, Extreme Superstars and supercars come together for the 10th Anniversary Tour of the Gumball 3000 The Gumball 3000 rally brings a tough drive rally. The A-list rock stars, supermodels, sporting through Europe to Belgrade. Giant planes transport legends, eccentrics and billionaires gather for a the cars to Thailand where the teams party in jaw-dropping car display before setting off on an paradise then drive to Bangkok where more planes incredible 3000 mile, 8 day drive to the Beijing wait to jet the rally to the US - and a private party Olympics via West Coast USA and North Korea! with Snoop Dogg at the Playboy Mansion.

Gumball 3000: 2004 and 2005 Ultimate Gumballers and Rules of the Road Format: 6 x 30 and 6 x 30 Broadcasters: Channel 4, Extreme Format: 1 x 30 and 1 x 30 Broadcaster: Channel 4, Extreme Featuring the world’s slickest cars, the 3000 mile Gumball rally is the year’s most high-octane event. A teasing and entertaining glimpse into the In 2004 the rally ventures into Africa via Paris and glamour, furor and fun of the annual Gumball Madrid, shooting through Marrakech and back 3000 rally. In Ultimate Gumballers we meet all the through Barcelona to finish in Cannes. In 2005 characters who bring the glitz and drama to the it hits Eastern Europe before going to Italy and rally, and in Rules of the Road, Ed Leigh reveals Monaco for the F1 Grand Prix. exactly what it takes to be a Gumballer.

The Big Eat Spotters

Format: 1 x 54 Format: 1 x 50 Broadcaster: Channel 4 Every nation has its odd eccentrics. Spotters Competitive eating is recognised in the USA and goes in the footsteps of three engaging vintage Japan as a sport of champions – gastronomic transport enthusiasts as they travel across the UK gladiators skilled in the ancient arts of Kung-food pursuing their curiously wonderful interests. The and Pie-kwan-do. In Britain the sport is virtually narrative of the programme is divided into themed unheard of, but finally a British challenger is found chapters in which the characters brilliantly express with the guts for glory to take on the greatest themselves on a wide raft of issues, delivering global gurgitators and become top hog! bizarre views and political leanings.

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The Paranormal 5 Paranormal Files

Format: 8 x 23 Format: 10 x 26 Broadcaster: ITV Broadcaster: UKTV

The Paranormal 5: a team of investigators whose A series which examines extraordinary stories aim is to prove the existence of paranormal that have happened to ordinary people. These activity. Visiting haunted dwellings, the team events include one of the most controversial cases run technical tests before their medium tries to ever recorded in the UK – the alien abduction connect with spirits, uncovering some remarkable of a former police officer – as well as the bizarre tales from the past. Believers will find it irresistible; appearance of crop circles in fields, and many sceptics must watch and judge for themselves. unexplained sightings of UFOs.

Trick of the Light The British UFO Files

Format: 1 x 28 Format: 1 x 52 Broadcaster: NRK Broadcaster: Channel 5

In a remote Norwegian valley, there have been The British UFO Files reveals for the first time the frequent appearances of both craft and light orbs. secret history of alien aircraft investigations led Trick of the Light follows the scientists looking to by powerful forces within the British government. snap one clear spectrograph of these illusive orbs Featuring eye-witness accounts by top-ranking as they dodge the ridicule of their peers and the military personnel and rare archive footage, the hunger of UFO groupies in their efforts to discover film presents a range of cases including the the science behind the myth. alleged production of Nazi UFOs.

The New Art Doctor

Format: 6 x 50

Filmed on location in England’s outstandingly picturesque Lake District, this series allows viewers to watch a work of art being created before their eyes in one hour of real time. Artist Keith Fenwick share techniques and tips from his forty plus years of painting, with his skill and humour encouraging anyone and everyone to pick up a paint brush and have a go!

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Double Happiness: China Love

Format: 1 x 52 / 1 x 90 (HD) Broadcaster: ABC

Forty years ago, marriage in China was arranged by the state, with only one black and white wedding photo allowed. Today, China’s $30 billion wedding photography industry produces often extravagant symbols of love, freedom, status, and money. What is the new China Dream when it comes to love?

The Will to Fly Don’t Look Down

Format: 1 x 52 / 1 x 95 (HD) Format: 1 x 93 (HD)

Olympic aerial skiing champion Lydia Lassila This is the definitive, untold story of Richard attempts to write history by being the first woman Branson’s death-defying hot air ballooning ever to perform the most complex and dangerous adventures and how they became pivotal to his manoeuvre of any acrobatic sport – a quadruple success both in business and everyday life. Using twisting, triple somersault on skis. With archive intimate interviews with Branson and his team, footage and interviews with Lydia, her family and never before seen footage and beautiful dramatic coaches, this award-winning film showcases her reconstructions, this is a true story of courage, lifelong quest to fulfill her sporting aspirations. determination, despair and, above all, triumph.

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The African Ladies Troupe My Enemy, My Brother

Format: 1 x 60 / 1 x 85 (HD) Format: 1 x 18 / 1 x 52 / 1 x 85 (HD) Broadcaster: SBS Broadcaster: Bravo Network, Super Channel

Four African Australian refugee women, all victims In time for the 30th anniversary of the end of the of sexual abuse and violence, take on the challenge Iran-Iraq war, this award-winning and Oscar short- of performing their stories in a professional theatre listed film follows the true story of two former production; from local theatres to the Sydney enemies who become blood brothers for life, after Opera House. Filmed over five years, this is an one decides to save the other on the battlefield. inspirational story of courage, resilience, and the Three decades later, they journey back into the transformative power of the arts. heart of a region ravaged by war and ISIS.

The Hotel for Refugees The Surgery Ship

Format: 1 x 46 (HD) Format: 1 x 54 / 1 x 78 (HD) Broadcaster: BBC, TV3 Broadcaster: SBS

Two worlds meet when a small town in Ireland A team of volunteer doctors are sailing to the poorest becomes the new home for hundreds of Syrian nations on earth, facing some of the most severe asylum seekers, brought over from refugee camps in medical issues they have ever seen. Huge tumours Greece. How will the Irish Catholic community deal left to grow unchecked, massive deformities and with the arrival of these refugees now settled in a more. But the medical challenges are only half of the former luxury hotel in the heart of their town and what story. They will confront ethical decisions as they can both sides learn from each other in the process? decide who will be helped and who will not.

Swim League of Exotique Dancers

Format: 1 x 59 / 1 x 86 (HD) Format: 1 x 58 / 1 x 90 (HD) Broadcaster: BBC Broadcaster: CBC

More people have climbed Everest than swum the With a blast of brassy jazz and a spin through Channel between England and France – 34 kilometers the glitz of modern Las Vegas, award-winning of treacherous sea. With a moving musical score from director Rama Rau’s documentary, League of Damon Albarn, this remarkable documentary profiles Exotique Dancers, sets the stage for a provocative the modern day endurance swimming community and eye-opening “backstage tour” of the golden and the unlikeliest of athletes who risk it all. A story of age of Burlesque through the colourful lives of those who seek to push their limits… unforgettable women who made it glitter.

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Living the Game Rocking Cambodia: Rise of a Pop Diva Format: 1 x 59 / 1 x 88 (HD) Broadcaster: WOWOW, CNEX Format: 1 x 59 / 1 x 75 (HD) Broadcaster: BBC, ABC, SVT, DR The world of professional video-gaming is a high- stakes arena where cash prizes are worth millions, In a Phnom Penh karaoke bar, musician Julien and international fame and glory await the best. But Poulson hears the voice of poor village girl Srey Thy. who are these pro gamers? With unprecedented The result is romance and the birth of the Cambodian access to top players from the USA, Japan, Taiwan Space Project, a dynamic rock ‘n’ roll band that and France, we experience their highs and lows, wows audiences across the world, reviving sounds and discover what it takes to become a true legend. from the golden age of Cambodian rock.

Domino’s Pizza: A Slice of Life Hotline

Format: 1 x 46 (HD) Format: 1 x 53 / 1 x 82 (HD) Broadcaster: Channel 4 An intensely intimate and spellbinding look into Domino’s Pizza: A Slice of Life is a fly-on-the-wall the secret world of hotlines. From psychics to sex, documentary which gives intimate access to one suicide to prayer lines, Hotline explores the hidden of the world’s best loved brands. We go behind the lives of callers and operators. As the universal quest counters of the pizza giant and meet the people that for human connection grows, we hear how strangers deliver sixty five million pizzas to us every year – from fight isolation, whether on a personal line set up by the UK’s fastest pizza makers to the big cheeses ‘One Lonely Guy’ in NYC or through a rare glimpse who are competing for the title Manager of the Year. into The Samaritans suicide prevention hotline. The Surgery Ship The Surgery

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Living Dolls Chubby Chaser

Format: 1 x 52 / 1 x 72 (HD) Format: 1 x 46 (HD) Broadcaster: Shaw Media Broadcaster: TVO

An intimate look at the weird and wonderful A gripping POV documentary from a filmmaker subculture of doll collecting – featuring a mother who appreciates fuller figured women. Exploring who spends more money than the family earns to the fashion industry and meeting the ‘Hugh feed her habit; a Barbie-loving man who never left Hefner of Fat Chicks’, he asks: “Why do I feel home; an animator who transforms dolls for an epic like a pervert because I prefer larger ladies? And robot-porn film; and a married man who believes why won’t other men admit publicly to liking big love dolls give him the best of both sex and art. women despite their popularity online?”

FANomenon A Brony Tale

Format: 1 x 51 (HD) Format: 1 x 52 / 1 x 80 (HD) Broadcaster: Shaw Media Brony (n): A (typically middle-aged) male fan of FANomenon is a moving documentary that follows the children’s TV series My Little Pony. In A Brony rural retail worker, Suzie Beckner, as she goes on Tale explore the explosion of Brony culture and a life-changing quest to meet her fictional space join voice-actress Ashleigh Ball as she enters explorer hero from Stargate: Atlantis – Lt. Colonel the surprising world of manly Pony-wannabes, John Sheppard, played by actor Joe Flanigan. An Brony DJs and underground pony parties. A eye-opening journey through the world of female quirky, fascinating and heart-warming look at an sci-fi fandom. unstoppable phenomenon.

Bizarre Burials Cat Ladies

Format: 1 x 44 (HD) Format: 1 x 59 (HD) Broadcaster: Channel 5 Broadcaster: TVO

This quirky show explores the variety of bizarre A brilliant verité documentary about ‘crazy cat and shocking ways to go out on a high note, and ladies’ – women whose lives and self-worth have the people who make it all happen. From airplane become intractably linked to cats. Some have only coffins and dolly cars to ashes being tattooed a few cats; others share their small homes with onto surviving loved ones – it is an exploration of hundreds. With intimate access to four different a strange yet lighter side of death that can be both cat ladies, this is a sensitive and honest portrait of unique and at times outrageous! these intriguing women.

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Peep Culture Second Life

Format: 1 x 60 (HD) Format: 1 x 52 Broadcaster: CBC A quirky and compulsive programme which takes Why are we tripping over ourselves to get on reality an in-depth look at the weird and wonderful world television, post intimate secrets online, broadcast of online role-playing and cyber alter egos. This our lives via webcam 24/7, or drop our drawers intriguing film introduces several representatives for amateur non-profit porn? Peep Culture is an of gamers from the USA, residents in Second Life insightful romp into a world where the internet and since its early years, and exposes the bizarre and reality TV can make you a star. But what does it all ambiguous ways in which their real worlds and mean and how is it changing us? virtual lives collide.

Exploring Quirky My Mate Manchester United

Format: 13 x 24 (HD) Format: 1 x 57 (HD)

In Exploring Quirky we see the world through the Following the quest of a man’s awkward dream whimsical lens of Don Polec’s fun and entertaining to be named after his favourite football club, My series. Filled with extraordinary finds from all walks Mate Manchester United brings us close to a of life, Don highlights the weird and wonderful Bulgarian builder, his memorable friends and their stories all around us – from dog yoga to tooth shared passion for football. The journey takes us pick architects, 3D printing to $100,000 razors, from a small rural town all the way to Manchester. this programme celebrates the bizarrely fantastic. A moving portrait of contemporary Bulgaria which Explore quirky! raises important questions about identity.

Jackpot The Russians Are Coming

Format: 1 x 51 (HD) Format: 1 x 26 Broadcaster: Canwest Broadcaster: Channel 4

Jackpot takes viewers inside the strange, This film lifts the lid on the exclusive world of compelling, sometimes hilarious and heart- super rich Russians who want an English public breaking world of hardcore Bingo players. This school education for their children. It features film is about much more than Bingo: the nature of glamorous Dina Karpova who fast-tracks her luck, superstition, chance, and the human need to Russian clients’ children into English high society, feel like victory is possible, even if it is always just introducing them to aristocratic families and one number away. getting them into prestigious schools.

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Transgender Kids Pretty Boys

Format: 1 x 49 (HD) Format: 1 x 49 Broadcaster: Channel 4 Broadcaster: CTV

Most transgender children still live in the shadows, Being a runway model is every girl’s dream… hiding from a world that sees them as freaks of But is it every boy’s? This candid documentary nature. In this shocking yet touching film, we follow brings viewers up close and personal with many the lives of four transgender children, uncovering beautiful male models and the fashion world which how their families cope with having a transgender consumes them at the different stages of their child and discovering what it was like for them to careers. This film goes behind the scenes on the realise they were born in the wrong body. catwalk and in the magazines.

Becoming Julia: Why Men Wear Frocks Fast Cars and a Sex Change Format: 1 x 50 Broadcaster: Channel 4 Format: 1 x 52 Broadcaster: SBS Grayson Perry is a happily married man and An intimate portrait of Paul, a straight bus driver, devoted father. He is also the transvestite potter as he undergoes a gender transition to begin living who won the prestigious British art award, the as a woman called Julia. With endearing honesty Turner Prize. Why Men Wear Frocks asks: How and determination not to fall into pre-ordained has Grayson managed to reconcile his compulsion expectations, Julia gives an engaging account of to wear women’s clothes with his roles as an the difficulties involved in having a sex change. artist, husband and father? Transgender Kids

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Love for Sale: The Escort Agency Tales from Two Brothels Format: 1 x 48 Broadcaster: Channel 4 Format: 10 x 29 Broadcaster: BBC John and his boyfriend Douglas run the biggest Love for Sale follows the highs and lows of the escort agency in the North East. This is a clients, girls and madams in two brothels located compelling take on their secretive business. on the outskirts of Carson City, Nevada, the With unprecedented access to their escorts and only state in the US where prostitution is legal. clients, the programme asks: Is this prostitution Schooled in the art of a sale, these prostitutes aim under another name? And if so, how do John and to make buying sex as easy as buying a burger. Douglas get away with it?

My Sister the Geisha My Brother’s Kosova Wedding

Format: 1 x 26 Format: 1 x 51 Broadcaster: BBC Broadcaster: SBS

After graduating from university, Chloe and Dalia A Kosovan-Australian boy, Selmon Beha, is move to Japan to work as hostesses in Tokyo’s called back to Kosova for his brother’s arranged infamous red-light district where they earn good wedding. What has happened to the war-torn money to talk, flirt and get drunk with Japanese country since Selmon was there 16 years earlier? businessmen. This documentary unveils a very Have his parents returned to Kosova to feel more strange world where hostesses are a special comfortable with their Muslim faith at a time when kind of modern-day geisha. international hysteria against Islam is rising?

Royal Wedding Bali Style Honeymoon in Kabul

Format: 1 x 30 / 1 x 48 (HD) Format: 1 x 52 Broadcaster: ABC Honeymoon in Kabul is an inspirational film which For most mothers, organising a lavish wedding traces the journey of newly weds, clown doctor for 2000 guests is stressful enough. But what if Jean-Paul Bell and midwife Maggie Haertsch you are an Australian-born Balinese Princess, as they spend their honeymoon on a mission expected to supervise complex, ancient Hindu delivering donated clothes and medical aid to the traditions, and your son is marrying a beautiful children of Kabul. In the process they discover Muslim actress? Discover the glamour and grit of that sharing love in Afghanistan can be as delicate a royal wedding, Bali style. and complex as any second marriage.

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Whispers of the Horse A Girl, a Horse, a Dream

Format: 1 x 50 Format: 1 x 47 Broadcaster: TV2 Broadcaster: SBS

Princess Martha Louise of Norway, a former This documentary tells a universal story of fulfilling international show jumper, goes in search of great a childhood passion as it profiles Bernadette human-equestrian partnerships that demonstrate Cooper, a top female jockey in Australia, and the fascinating connection and capacity for her battle to compete with men for victory in communication between horse and man. Among Australia’s richest races. From near-fatal falls others, she meets famous horse whisperer Monty to shock victories, it is a journey that proves Roberts and blind rider Anne Cecilie Ore. unpredictable, euphoric and unnerving.

A Little Bit Mongolian The Good, the Bad and the Ugg Boot Format: 1 x 54 (HD) Format: 1 x 54 A Little Bit Mongolian is the charming story of Angus, Broadcaster: SBS a 12-year-old Australian boy who dreams of being the first foreigner to win one of Mongolia’s biggest horse The funny, brave and tragic story of a bunch of races, the Naadam. Angus travels to the stunning feisty family businesses in Australia and America straights of Mongolia with his family, searching for as they take on a giant US shoe company. a trainer to take him on. A heart warming and often Through their dramatic cases, the film uncovers dangerous journey of discovery where the stakes are the strange history of the Ugg boot and how it high and there can be only one winner… became a global fashion sensation.

Navajo Springtime Federation of Black Cowboys

Format: 1 x 52 Format: 1 x 47 Broadcaster: France 5 Broadcaster: PBS

The Navajo people are the largest Native American In Brooklyn, in the most notorious gangland in nation and, more than any other Indian nation of New York, the good guys are the Federation North America, they have maintained their identity, of Black Cowboys. Seven days a week these values and customs. Navajo Springtime recounts modern-day urban wranglers can be found at the their struggle and celebrates a fascinating people Cedar Lane Stables, fulfilling their mission to pass that is proud of its history, proud of its traditions down the legacy of the black cowboys and their and proud to exist. respect for life to inner city youth.

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The First Movie Three Days to Change the World

Format: 1 x 56 (HD) / 1 x 76 Format: 1 x 26 Broadcaster: More4, ARTE, ZDF, YLE, Knowledge Filmed at the Education Without Borders Filmed in a village in northern Iraq, this film conference in Abu Dhabi and in other countries explores the magic of children’s imaginations where participants have been testing new against the backdrop of a troubled region where approaches to e-learning. This is an engaging, thousands of families have been expelled from entertaining and emotional film that highlights one their villages. The children there are terrified of war of the greatest challenges of the age: delivering and insecure about the future, yet their sense of education without borders through a worldwide play, creativity and adventure is robust. network of young people.

When Sally Met Selma The Boy Who Rushed

Format: 1 x 50 Format: 1 x 52 Broadcaster: HRT Sally, the Angel of Mostar, saved Selma’s life during the Balkan war. She evacuated Selma and Set in Croatia after the Balkan War, The Boy her brother from their devastated home in Bosnia Who Rushed is the intimate story of a filmmaker after a bomb fell on their house, costing Selma searching for her brother Ivor, who went missing her arm and her brother his leg. This moving whilst in action along with many other young documentary is the story of how Sally saved soldiers. Featuring interviews and footage shot Selma, how they lost each other, and how during the war, the film is a personal, revealing – 17 years later – they were reunited. and touching account of how civilians cope. The First Movie

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Jimmy’s Kitchen GIFTS: Great Ideas For Transforming Societies Format: 1 x 28 Broadcaster: ABC Format: 6 x 23 (HD) Broadcaster: Channel NewsAsia This documentary tells the story of Jimmy Pham, an extraordinary and humble Vietnamese From a bank for and managed by children to Australian, who set up a restaurant and training an eBay-styled site connecting donors to social school to provide working opportunities for the causes, this unique series uncovers some of the street children of Hanoi. As a result, many of them most innovative ideas, projects and solutions for have left the streets behind them, better equipped positive global change. Meet gifted pioneers and for the future with their new skills. see how their work transforms people’s lives.

Beyond Sorry Dhuway

Format: 1 x 53 Format: 1 x 56 Broadcaster: ABC Broadcaster: SBS

Beyond Sorry is the moving story of two mixed Generations ago the Yiidhuwarra people were race Aboriginal women – Zita, kidnapped and removed from their native lands. In 1993, the brought up as a white Australian, and Aggie, a people presented their case to have these lands traditional elder. The film offers a window onto returned. Dhuway is the story of the first land the lives that each could have led, challenging claim in the history of Queensland and it depicts our understanding of identity and belonging at a heartbreaking history of holocaust, diaspora, every turn. survival and homecoming.

A Song for Africa Comrades

Format: 1 x 53 Format: 1 x 60 Broadcasters: Vision TV, ARTV A vibrant snapshot of modern South Africa, this A Song for Africa follows four months of music film follows six diverse South Africans as they boot camp in Kampala which transforms a ragtag train for and run in the grueling 90-kilometre group of Ugandan orphans into a superb choir. Comrades double marathon. Through rare archive Led by an Albertan music teacher, the children footage, we learn the story of the race, which has embark on a road tour of North America, moving witnessed the country’s most significant social audiences to tears with their emotionally charged and political changes, emerging as a powerful music and dance. symbol of the new South Africa.

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Jaffa La Mienne The Happy Dictator

Format: 1 x 52 Format: 1 x 49 Broadcaster: ARTE Broadcaster: Channel 4

A poignant record of one of the most beautiful In this quirky and highly entertaining documentary, and least known towns of the Mediterranean. Fifty well-known cultural critic Waldemar Januszczak years after the Palestinian exodus, Jaffa remains journeys to Turkmenistan to investigate the bizarre a landmark for her exiled children, while those left truth behind the now deceased Turkmenbashi behind are trying to preserve their identity. This the Great who retained absolute control over the film brings to life a vivid, enterprising world which country, forbidding photography, reporters, dogs, has remained silent until now. cinemas, circuses, car radios and ballet!

A Bipolar Expedition How to Start a Sex Cult

Format: 1 x 56 Format: 1 x 49 Broadcaster: Channel 4 Broadcaster: Channel 4

The extraordinary story of Paul Downes, a 49-year- A powerful, disturbing documentary which old businessman with bipolar disorder, who invites explores the links between love, fantasy and abuse 12 Ukrainian women to join him in a Jamaican through the story of Lee, who appoints himself the castle where he experiences a full-blown mania. leader of a cult called the Kaotians and convinces The film comes face to face with the extremes of his a married woman in Australia to become his sex condition, exploring its origins, and the impact that slave. Who is Lee, who are the Kaotians, and why manias and subsequent depressions have on his life. does this woman accept a life of servility?

Dancing with the Devil

Format: 1 x 52 Broadcaster: Channel 4

An award-winning film which investigates Christian and secular organisations’ claims that rock music, and heavy metal in particular, is an evil force pushing the youth of America into suicide, sexual violence, drug abuse and Satanism. Dancing with the Devil examines the basis of these claims and looks at their implications.

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Special Forces

Format: 7 x 48 (HD) Broadcaster: HISTORY

A heartstopping incursion into the world of Asia’s elite Special Forces, revealing their brutal training and cutting-edge combat capabilities. Explore the incredible physical and mental endurance needed to join the world’s toughest units. Unprecedented access brings you to the core of Chinese, Malay, Thai, Philippine, Taiwanese and Sri Lankan Special Forces.

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The Military Tech Show Commandos

Format: 12 x 23 (HD) Format: 4 x 46 (HD) Broadcaster: Forces TV Broadcaster: Nine Network

With exclusive access, this eye-opening series reveals Australian Commandos are ranked in the world’s the latest must-see military innovations. Featuring top three elite military units. With exclusive access, futuristic fighter pilot helmets that allow pilots to see Commandos follows the Forces’ instructors in the dark; new lightweight but highly protective body through the highs and lows as they punish and armour; virtual reality headsets for military medics; the prepare the next generation of ‘green berets’. From ground-breaking armoured vehicle being pushed to its training to live conflict in Afghanistan – some men limits; and 3D printing of drones. will fail, some will be injured, some may even die.

Hacked: Looking for Mike The Bangladesh Bank Heist Format: 1 x 44 (HD) Format: 1 x 48 (HD) Broadcaster: CBC Broadcaster: BTVI An investigation into the mysterious sudden death This film investigates one of the world’s biggest of computer salesman Mike De Bourcier – an cyberheist crimes where hackers outwitted two of the unsolved cold case with the Toronto Police, until most respected names in international banking - the the filmmakers behind this documentary started to SWIFT messaging system and the New York Federal dig deeper. The film uncovers Mike’s real identity, Reserve - taking $81 million in the process. But who searches for his family and friends, and explores were these hackers and how did they pull it off? the strange series of events leading up to his death.

Murder in Paradise My Brother the Serial Killer

Format: 1 x 47 (HD) Format: 1 x 52 / 1 x 88 / 2 x 46 (HD) Broadcaster: Channel 4 Broadcaster: Investigation Discovery

In the early hours of 15th September 2014, two America’s most notorious serial killer Glen Rogers backpackers were found dead, brutally beaten just boasts of killing over 70 people. With Rogers now yards from their hotel in Koh Tao, Thailand. Since on death row and soon to be executed, his brother then, six other westerners have died in suspicious Clay takes us back to the start and reveals Glen’s circumstances on the island. This film puts shocking death row confession to the infamous Thailand under the spotlight, asking whether it is murders of Hollywood victims Ron Goldman and still the travel destination from heaven, or hell. OJ Simpson’s ex-wife Nicole Simpson.

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Prison Families Asia’s Underworld, Series 1 & 2

Format: 10 x 23 (HD) Format: S1 8 x 24 (HD), S2 6 x 24 (HD) Broadcaster: TV3 Broadcaster: Crime & Investigation Network

How does a family survive with one of their own This award-winning show exposes the shocking behind bars? Behind every headline is a personal Underworld of crime in Asia, uncovering the secret story and a family serving a sentence of their own. operations of some of the world’s most ruthless This is a groundbreaking series revealing the criminals – from Filipino assassins, Mongolian pimps, life-changing experiences of ten families. Gripping and Taiwanese gambling syndicates to deadly dramatisations explore how they are thrown into a South-East Asian pirates. A sobering, disturbing and world where only the toughest survive. utterly captivating look at Asian criminality today.

Crime Shock: Asia Exposed The Fishermen: A Journey into the Mind of a Killer Format: 8 x 23 (HD) Broadcaster: Channel NewsAsia Format: 1 x 52 Broadcaster: ABC This chilling docu-drama series reveals some of the most shocking crimes in Asia and traces the Former detective Gordon Davie strikes up a psychology, culture and sociology behind them. relationship with a long-serving prisoner, Each episode examines one notorious crime, from convinced that the felon has committed even more brutal gender selection under China’s ‘one child horrific crimes. A harrowing and controversial look policy’ and youth rage crime in Japan, to honour at child killer Jim O’Neill, this crucial documentary killings within India’s caste system. resulted in a four year court battle.

In the Shadow of Feeling Cult Killer

Format: 1 x 56 Format: 1 x 49 Broadcaster: Channel 4 The idea of sociopaths and psychopaths has become very prominent in the media, with The suicide tape of Rick Rodriguez details a the general public misunderstanding the true childhood of abuse at the hands of The Children meanings and causes of these illnesses. Centred of God, a cult which took the 1960s culture of around the story of a 14-year-old boy who free love to its wildest extremes, especially with murdered his classmate, this film examines the children. This is an exclusive look at the cult, factors that create psychopaths and the effects Rick’s life and his tragic last gesture – murdering that they can have on society. his former nanny before killing himself.

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Night Guard, Series 1 & 2 Crime Down Under, Series 1-4

Format: S1 13 x 40 (HD), S2 13 x 40 (HD) Format: 12 x 46 (HD) Broadcaster: Fox Crime Broadcaster: TVNZ

Take an unflinching look at the gritty under-belly of A high-octane crime series which takes a bold South Africa’s most dangerous city. Night Guard and blistering look at the many facets of top-level serves the people of Johannesburg by taking on crime and crime-fighting. Unique access and jobs the police can’t. From tackling drug gangs to insights from undercover cops and detectives recovering missing people, the Night Guard boys on the front line combine with thrilling dramatic must trust each other and their SWAT training to reconstructions to reveal the challenges of stay alive and one step ahead of the enemy. working in the line of fire of dangerous criminals.

The Kangaroo Gang: Real Outlaws Thieves by Appointment Format: 1 x 60 Format: 2 x 57 / 1 x 97 (HD) Broadcaster: BBC Knowledge, UKTV Welcome to contemporary Britain, a Britain in crisis, whose streets are overrun with teenage This dramatised documentary tells the true story of thugs, street gangs and hooligans, where CCTV a brazen band of Australian thieves who moved to is ignored, ASBOs are collected as trophies and London in the 1960s and ran riot for more than a police seem to have lost any control. Real Outlaws decade, pulling off the most daring heists ever seen transports the viewer into the world of Britain’s across Europe. Thirty years later the gang returned real vigilantes who have taken the law into their to London for the biggest heist of them all. own hands.

MEET THE AUSSIE CRIMS WHO TOOK THE POMS FOR MILLIONS. A TRUE STORYThe Kangaroo Gang: Thieves by Appointment OF DAYLIGHT ROBBERY AT ITS BEST.

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Of Dolls and Murder The Soham Murders: Ten Years On

Format: 1 x 67 (HD) Format: 1 x 45 (HD) Broadcaster: Crime & Investigation Network Before forensics, DNA, and CSI, there were dolls’ houses to help solve crime – and these are still From the producers of the definitive Josef Fritzl used today. Small installations that recreate the documentary comes this film commemorating scene of the crime to the tiniest detail have been the horrific murders of two 10-year-old girls in at the heart of detective work for over 80 years. the village of Soham, England. Through exclusive These surreal dolls’ houses reveal a dystopic and interviews with people who knew convicted disturbing slice of domestic life where the corpses killer Ian Huntley, the horrific actions of this of dolls represent actual murder victims. manipulative sexual deviant are revealed.

Sabrina: Daddy’s Girl FBI Critical Incident

Format: 1 x 52 Format: 3 x 52 Broadcaster: SABC Broadcasters: Bravo, TLC

This documentary follows the prison reunion of When criminals and violence strike, local law a father and daughter with blood on their hands. enforcement responds. But sometimes further In the 1980s, Louis van Schoor was responsible help is required. This is when the specialists are for the deaths of 39 men as a security guard in brought in – the CIRG. FBI Critical Incident covers East London, South Africa. In 2002, his daughter the crisis negotiation unit in action with three 52 Sabrina began a 25 year prison sentence for hiring minute case studies which will have viewers an assassin to kill her own mother. on the edge of their seats.

The Negotiator Water Cops

Format: 1 x 52 Format: 13 x 23 Broadcaster: Court TV Broadcaster: Court TV

How do you reason with a madman? Featuring real Set in Florida, this series follows detective and law life footage, this programme is a tense and harrowing enforcement agencies that specialise in different study of the negotiation process where life hangs in areas of marine crime. With a high volume of the balance. Cliff Van Zandt, Chief Negotiator with marine traffic, the Florida marine patrols encounter the FBI, explains the psychology behind his nerve- piracy, drug smuggling, illegal alien smuggling, wracking skill, making for riveting television. illegal fishing, drink driving and speeding.

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Inside Broadmoor Inside the Criminal Mind

Format: 1 x 52 Format: 6 x 45 Broadcaster: Channel 5 Broadcaster: UKTV

Broadmoor is the UK’s most notorious hospital This series explores the world of forensic and prison for the criminally insane whose infamous clinical psychology, examining the processes inmates have included Ronnie Kray and Yorkshire undertaken by police, criminal specialists and Ripper Peter Sutcliffe. From inside the hospital, psychologists to attempt to understand the this film offers a unique insight into how a civilised criminal mind. Each episode focuses on a different society treats the most difficult, disturbed and area of criminal behaviour, including hostage dangerous people in the country. taking and false confessions.

Vanessa George: The Worst Offenders: Wife, Mother, Paedophile Can They Change?

Format: 1 x 44 (HD) Format: 1 x 47 (HD) Broadcaster: Crime & Investigation Network Broadcaster: TVNZ

Nursery teacher Vanessa George was convicted A gripping investigation into the psyche of child of sexually abusing children and feeding indecent sex offenders which introduces a psychological images to an online paedophile ring. Exclusive treatment programme that has the potential to access to her family and prosecutors reveals the stop cycles of abuse. With unprecedented access truth about being up close and personal with one to prisoners, we gain first hand experience of sex of Britain’s most evil women. offenders’ thought patterns and capacity for change. The Negotiator

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Robert Blecker Wants Me Dead Inheritance

Format: 1 x 52 (HD) Format: 1 x 50 Broadcaster: MSNBC Broadcaster: Channel 4

An engrossing and often disturbing documentary, Inheritance is a dramatic, serious and quirky Robert Blecker Wants Me Dead traces the exploration into the mystery of a treacherous puzzling friendship between Daryl Holton, who mother and her daughter who act together to shot his four children to death, and one of trick lonely old men into appointing them as the America’s most impassioned crusaders for capital beneficiaries in their wills. The shocking story punishment. It is a heart-stopping story that unearths a mindblowing legacy of crime which plumbs the depths of the American death penalty. dates back over 40 years.

Trial and Error Double Jeopardy

Format: 14 x 52 Format: 1 x 52 Broadcaster: Channel 4 Broadcaster: Court TV

Justice is sometimes deaf to the pleas of those The double jeopardy law protects the innocent who are serving long sentences for crimes they from unfair persecution. Sometimes it protects the did not commit. This acclaimed award winning guilty as well. This programme follows the case of series has brought hope to the innocent through Mel Ignatow who was tried and acquitted for rape its re-investigations of major crimes, and has and murder. Evidence found a year later proved succeeded in getting substantial numbers of his guilt beyond reasonable doubt, yet the double convictions referred back. jeopardy rule means he is still a free man.

Facing Life After Facing Death In the Name of My Father

Format: 1 x 52 Format: 1 x 75 Broadcaster: TVNZ Facing Life After Facing Death documents the plight of Duma Kumalo who is wrongly convicted This is the story of Ernie Paerata, former prison of murder, spends time on death row, and is finally officer, soldier and poet. A man who had an granted a reprieve, moments before he is to hang. unblemished personal history until 1991 when, The documentary is a harrowing and thought- suffering a mental breakdown, he was caught at provoking account of human suffering which Bangkok Airport with 425 grams of heroin. Paerata shows that according to Kumalo, “facing death is then began a 30 year sentence in Klong Prem, one hard, but facing life after facing death is harder”. of the world’s toughest prisons.

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Bioterror Bioterrorism: The Truth

Format: 1 x 52 Format: 1 x 52 Broadcaster: Channel 4 In today’s world, the possibility of biological This is the chilling story of how scientific advances weapons being used in a terrorist attack is an ever- in germ warfare are fast outstripping the science present threat. Bioterrorism: The Truth examines of detection and prevention, threatening nations whether it could happen, how it would be executed all over the world. Bioterror is a grim reminder that and what we can do to protect ourselves from the the idea of a deadly germ warfare is no longer just consequences. Interviews include the Pentagon a dramatic futuristic nightmare, but rather a very Chief of Biological Defence and Japan’s National real danger to us all. Institute of Infectious Diseases.

Bodies of Evidence

Format: 6 x 23 Broadcaster: UKTV

An incredible series that explains how the bodies of murder victims can help catch their killers. An astonishing variety of gruesome clues including the pattern of wounds, the contents of the stomach, the degree of decomposition and even the insects at the murder scene, can all help to lead investigators towards the culprit.

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The Mosque Next Door

Format: 3 x 57 (HD) Broadcaster: SBS

In many countries around the world, one building is increasingly shrouded in controversy. For the first time ever, cameras were given 24/7 access to an Australian mosque, to reveal life in the mosque as never seen before. We follow a diverse community over one tumultuous year, as they deal with the realities of life and struggle for acceptance in society.

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Critical Thinkers The Institute of Art and Ideas

Format: 13 x 26 (HD) Format: 12-45 minute debates and talks (HD) Broadcaster: Canal Curta! This series offers exclusive access to the most What are the latest ideas from the world’s most brilliant minds of today, in the fields of science, prominent intellectuals? In this unique interview philosophy, politics and art. Each debate and talk series, great minds of our time discuss arts, politics, addresses a pressing question at the very forefront literature, economics, and more. Featuring radical of current thought, offering rare insights into French philosopher Jacques Rancière, German the ideas that are shaping our future. Speakers sociologist Axel Honneth, Italian philosopher Umberto include the likes of Nobel Prize-winning economist Galimberti, and American art critic Jonathan Crary. Paul Krugman and CERN Physicist John Ellis.

The Mindful Revolution E-motion

Format: 1 x 59 (HD) Format: 1 x 87 / 1 x 60 (HD) Broadcaster: SRF Imagine a world where inner peace, longevity Mindfulness meditation promises less stress, and loving relationships abound. Imagine we are better concentration, and increased productivity. sacred, spiritual beings here for a much greater No wonder it’s been brought into the boardrooms reason. This thought-provoking documentary at corporate giants like Google and SAP. But is it explores the philosophy of how emotions affect only being used to increase profit margins? This is the physiology of the human body, and how once a critical insight into the sometimes controversial negative emotions are replaced with positive influence of a modern spiritual phenomenon. emotions, bona fide physical changes occur.

Holy Switch The Monk Who United Europe

Format: 3 x 27 (HD) Format: 1 x 59 (HD) Broadcaster: ABC Broadcaster: RTÉ, BBC

In this series, Muslim, Jewish, Catholic, Anglican, In the chaos following the Roman Empire’s Buddhist and Hindu communities discover what collapse, an Irish monk named Columbanus happens when they invite a young adult from established over a hundred centres of a different faith into their lives for two weeks. scholarship and spirituality throughout Europe. Holy Switch delves into the big questions This beautifully shot investigative film retraces facing any multicultural society today – can his journey through Ireland, France, Austria, we understand and live alongside each other Switzerland and Italy, uncovering his legacy and despite our differences? contemporary relevance.

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Veiled Voices Mum I’m a Muslim

Format: 1 x 58 (HD) Format: 1 x 52 Broadcaster: Channel 4 Through the eyes of three influential women in Lebanon, Syria and Egypt, Veiled Voices Mum I’m a Muslim introduces three white British investigates the public and private lives of Muslim women who make the decision to convert to women religious leaders – a world rarely filmed Islam, committing one hundred per cent to their before now. As each woman triumphs over choice despite the increasing anti-Islamic public difficult challenges, their stories show how Muslim feeling in today’s world. The film examines these women are increasingly willing to challenge the women’s motivations and the issues they have status quo from within Islam. faced on the road to conversion.

Divorce Sharia Style Buddha in Suburbia

Format: 1 x 49 Format: 1 x 58 (HD) Broadcaster: Channel 4 Broadcaster: BBC

From a terraced house in East London, the Sharia Buddha in Suburbia tracks the extraordinary Council presides over hundreds of court cases journey of Lelung Rinpoche, one of Tibetan every year. Divorce Sharia Style delves into the Buddhism’s three principal reincarnations, as he human stories behind the cases, particularly sets out to gather the lost teachings of his faith. the increasing problem of divorce in the Muslim His fascinating odyssey takes him from a garden community. The documentary unveils the shed in London all the way to India, Mongolia and workings of Sharia law. China as he tries to find a way back home to Tibet. Buddha in Suburbia

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Timeless Journeys: India Cave in the Snow

Format: 1 x 60 (HD) Format: 1 x 52 Broadcaster: SBS A spiritual journey into the history and teachings of Buddhism. With timelapse photography and Featuring exclusive interviews with the Dalai beautiful slow-moving portraits, this film flows Lama, this film tells the story of British born Tenzin through the landscapes of rural India, through the Palmo who in 1976 isolated herself in a remote pink city of Jaipur, the floating palaces of Udaipur, Himalayan cave, engaging in 12 years of Buddhist the magnificent Taj Mahal, the burning ghats at meditation. Now a globe-trotting fundraiser, she Varanasi and the place where the Buddha gained is spearheading the last frontier of women’s ultimate enlightenment. liberation – equal spiritual rights.

The Path of Wisdom Catholics

Format: 2 x 52 (HD, 4K) Format: 3 x 60 (HD) Broadcaster: NDR Broadcaster: BBC

Follow the Saigoku pilgrim trail through the Kansai This beautiful new series explores what it is region. Experience Japan’s natural beauty and actually like to be Catholic in today’s world. splendid architecture in glorious 4K and meet the Each of the three films – one about men, one people breathing life into ancient traditions. From about women, one about children – is an intimate a monk comedienne to the modern business of portrait of a different Catholic world, revealing how traditional knife craft, discover how the roots of Catholicism is a rich but complex identity, and modern Japan run deep into its cultural past. observing how this identity shapes people’s lives.

The Mission The Legend of Pastor Bill

Format: 4 x 26 Format: 1 x 49 Broadcaster: ABC Broadcaster: Channel 5

The Mission is the story of missionaries in reverse, In the ghettos of New York lies the largest Sunday as three young Nigerian Catholic priests, who school in America. Led by Pastor Bill Wilson and haven’t volunteered and who have never left Africa attended by up 20,000 kids a week, its services before, are sent to save Tasmania’s struggling include hip-hop music, fast games and prizes. This Church. Will the dwindling congregations and the compelling documentary follows the controversial, resistance of the local clergy prove too heavy a maverick preacher who drives these frenetic services. cross to bear? And can they fulfil The Mission?

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The Ark of the Covenant Revealed Mystery of the Shroud

Format: 1 x 52 Format: 1 x 52 Broadcaster: TLC Broadcaster: ITV

According to the Bible, the Ark of the Covenant In a tomb located in Jerusalem’s Hell Valley, vital housed the two tablets of stone inscribed with the information has been uncovered to paint a picture Ten Commandments. Over the centuries it has of what Jesus’ grave would have looked like and remained an object of great mystery, inspiring what his burial process may have involved. One infinite questions. This film sheds new light on the of the key moments in Christian history is made Ark of the Covenant, unravelling the truth behind real and contemporary through this exciting one of the greatest biblical mysteries of all. archaeological discovery.

God Bless Ibiza Traders of the Lost Scrolls

Format: 1 x 52 Format: 1 x 52 Broadcaster: Channel 4 Broadcaster: BBC

What happens when a group of clean-living Traders of the Lost Scrolls introduces Jim Christians hit Ibiza for a summer of love, Jesus style? Charlesworth – professor, entrepreneur and Dead God Bless Ibiza follows a young, hip and radical Sea Scroll Hunter – a man convinced that a large team of Christians to the notorious party island. number of the scrolls have yet to come to light. More at home in a club than a church, they have Other scroll hunters, archaeologists, scholars and dance tracks as their hymns and invoke the Holy scientists share his conviction. For those who deal Spirit when out clubbing. in scrolls, the story is far from over. Quest for the True Cross

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It Ain’t Necessarily So Quest for the True Cross

Format: 6 x 24 Format: 1 x 50 Broadcaster: LWT Broadcaster: Discovery Channel

Presented by leading journalist and Britain’s In a Church in Rome there is a piece of wood longest-held hostage in Lebanon, John McCarthy, inscribed with the remains of the line ‘Jesus of It Ain’t Necessarily So is an enlightening series Nazareth, King of the Jews’. Quest for the True which questions many significant biblical Cross is a fascinating detective story about this assumptions, and looks into new archaeological small walnut headboard which it seems may well issues that are thrown into relief, challenging the have been attached to the true cross immediately whole story of biblical Israel. before Jesus’ crucifixion.

The Real Jesus Apostles

Format: 2 x 52 Format: 10 x 26 Broadcaster: Channel 4 Broadcaster: LWT

Theologian Robert Beckford examines the Apostles examines the lives, legends and heritage astonishing similarities in the stories surrounding of the first twelve men chosen by Jesus, relating Jesus and the lives of other religious figures the known facts about them and exploring the including Mithras, Krishna and the Buddha. many legends surrounding their deeds. The series Travelling the world and interviewing top scholars, is an important encounter with the founders of he seeks to unravel a mystery: Why are there so the Church which traces their progress and their many versions of the Christ story? continuing significance today.

John Meets Paul The Pope and the Third Secret of Fatima Format: 6 x 24 Broadcaster: ITV Format: 1 x 50 Broadcaster: RTÉ John McCarthy follows in the footsteps of St Paul the Apostle, on a journey that takes him back 2000 The third secret of Fatima was purportedly known years in history, to the beginning of Christianity. by only two people: Pope John Paul II and the It is thanks to Paul that Christianity as we know visionary Sister Lucia. Within weeks of each other, it today has survived. Following his dramatic both key players passed away. This film examines conversion on the road to Damascus, Paul the original Fatima visions and the Pope’s intriguing became Christianity’s most powerful PR man. belief that he was the fulfilment of the third secret.

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Return of the Exorcists The Trouble With Atheism

Format: 1 x 52 Format: 1 x 49 Broadcaster: Channel 4 After centuries of obscurity, the rite of exorcism is raising its profile. ‘Masses of deliverance’ from Reflecting on our contemporary society, history the devil now attract large congregations. With and human nature itself, award-winning journalist access to Italy’s most prominent exorcists and Rod Liddle speaks to the world’s most renowned Father Francis Tiso, an American exorcist and scientists, theologians and philosophers as part Harvard-educated theology professor, this film of a comprehensive investigation into whether explores exorcism through controversial footage, atheism can rightly be considered the rational showing sufferers in states of trance. alternative to religion.

Empire of Juramidam The First World

Format: 1 x 52 Format: 1 x 52 Broadcaster: ZDF A winner of several international festival awards, With religion increasingly losing its grip across this fascinating programme examines the enduring the Western world, along comes a Church which legacy of Pythagoras and Plato, and their impact guarantees an encounter with the Divine. This is on the modern world: our thoughts, buildings and the Santo Daime Church, and this film focuses on hierarchies. Filmed across North America and the spread of the Church in Europe, looking for its Europe, the documentary is shot on location in the origins in the Amazon where the hallucinogenic original home towns of these two great historical Daime tea has been held secret for millennia. and philosophical figures.

Johan Degenaar: A Fairytale Philosopher

Format: 1 x 29

Influential South African philosopher Johan Degenaar presents a cosmological and psychological interpretation of well-known stories and fairy tales which are shown to be an important way to understand philosophy. The programme takes examples from the Bible, Shakespeare’s Hamlet and The Plague by Albert Camus.

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Basquiat: Rage to Riches

Format: 1 x 52 (HD) Broadcaster: BBC, PBS, ZDF/Arte

Thirty years after the tragic death of one of the great artistic legends of the 20th century, this brand new film features world-first exclusive interviews with Basquiat’s sisters and his most intimate friends, lovers, and fellow artists. Rage to Riches draws a portrait of a charismatic yet fragile personality who used painting as a weapon to fight prejudice and racism.

Hokusai: Old Man Crazy to Paint You See Monsters

Format: 1 x 59 (HD, 4K) Format: 1 x 60 (HD) Broadcaster: BBC, NHK Broadcaster: ABC

Featuring Andy Serkis and David Hockney, this blue- Across the world, the demonization of Muslims has chip film explores Katsushika Hokusai’s work and taken on monstrous proportions, with Islam often life in the bustling metropolis of Edo, now modern seen as a threat. But a new generation of Australian Tokyo. Using extraordinary close-ups and pioneering Muslim artists are using creativity to fight racism. UHD video technology, this film reveals new Featuring radical artists such as Abdul Abdullah, this interpretations of famous works and conveys the full inspirational story shows the power of art to question extent of Hokusai’s extraordinary achievements. prejudice, articulate identity and challenge attitudes.

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Brilliant Ideas Portraits of Marie Antoinette

Format: 75 x 24 (HD) Format: 2 x 52 (HD) Broadcaster: Bloomberg Television Broadcaster: ARTE

In this unique series we get inside the minds of the Discover the extraordinary story of the life and world’s most influential and provocative artists. art of Elizabeth Vigée Lebrun, official portraitist of Meet the trailblazers who are reinventing art as we Marie Antoinette. While her dangerous friendship know it, from performance artist Marina Abramovic, with the Queen ultimately forced her to flee and Turner Prize winner Grayson Perry, to Chinese revolutionary France across Europe into Russia, her contemporary artist Ai Wei Wei and KAWS, one of striking neoclassical portraits defined a genre and the most celebrated artists of his generation. shaped European fashion for generations to come.

Painting the Nation Meet the Makers

Format: 1 x 50 + 4 x 25 per series (HD) Format: 1 x 48 (4K) / 5 x 8 (HD) Broadcaster: RTÉ In an era of consumerism, mass production and This charming competition show sets out to instant gratification, there remain a few gifted uncover the most talented artists in Ireland. Each artisans dedicated to preserving age-old crafts, week will see the painters competing against the from whisky blending to silk weaving. This inspiring clock to showcase their talents and impress the series profiles these master craftspeople, their judges in order to avoid being sent home. But only trades and way of life, from a sword smith reviving one painter can win the grand prize and see their traditional iron making in South Korea, to an Italian painting displayed as part of the national collection! engraver making paper from his garden plants. Painting the Nation

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All in the Best Possible Taste Grayson Perry and the Tomb of with Grayson Perry the Unknown Craftsman

Format: 3 x 45 (HD) Format: 1 x 60 (HD) Broadcaster: Channel 4 Broadcaster: BBC

In this Bafta Award-winning series, Grayson Perry With unique access over 2 years, this film paints investigates why people have particular tastes, and a revealing portrait of award-winning artist what they are trying to say about themselves via their Grayson Perry as he stages his most ambitious taste choices. He embeds himself in the working, show yet at the British Museum. We trace Perry’s middle and upper classes and produces a series of creative process, from his motorbike pilgrimage to incredible tapestries showcasing 21st century taste. Germany to his ideas, motivations and artworks.

How To Look at a Painting War Art with Eddie Redmayne

Format: 12 x 23 (HD) Format: 1 x 52 (HD) Broadcaster: TVNZ Broadcaster: ITV

This dazzling art series reveals a fresh perspective War has long stimulated our imaginations, creating on how to truly appreciate and understand the world many of our most powerful art works. Oscar of painting. Senior curator Justin Paton takes us on Winning actor and art historian Eddie Redmayne a highly visual journey across 5,000 years, featuring takes an intensely emotional journey, meeting everything from Tintoretto and Picasso to Lucian soldiers, visiting artists’ studios and travelling Freud and other contemporary artists, appealing to to battlefields to shine a light into the abyss of novice viewers, sceptics and experts alike. warfare, and onto the unique legacy of War Artists.

In Search of Frida Kahlo René Magritte: The Man in the Hat

Format: 1 x 49 (HD) Format: 1 x 49 (HD) Broadcaster: ITV Broadcaster: ITV

Frida Khalo is one of the most iconic female Will Young harbours an obsession with the wittiest artists of all time. Unflinching, vibrant and visceral, misfit of the Surrealist bunch – René Magritte. Kahlo’s self-portraits are timelessly seismic in their Join the Pop Idol as he traces the Belgian artist’s power. Follow acclaimed musician Emeli Sandé on remarkable life, from a tragic childhood to her pilgrimage to Mexico City, where she pieces becoming one of the most influential figures of 20th together Kahlo’s extraordinary life. With rare Century art. Meet the man blessed with the power archive footage, this is a seminal film on the icon. to transform the ordinary into something magical.

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The Erotic Adventures of Anaïs Nin The Genius of Roald Dahl

Format: 1 x 65 (HD) Format: 1 x 48 (HD) Broadcaster: Sky Arts Broadcaster: ITV

A frank docu-drama about the sexual exploits of Roald Dahl is the one of the most successful 20th-century diarist Anaïs Nin. Married and living children’s authors of all time. His words weave in 1930s Paris, Nin meets American writer Henry magical worlds of incomparable sparkle; Miller and his wife June, awakening her hunger for his characters continue to charm and terrify pleasure and renown. With sensual reconstructions generations. Superstar comedian and best-selling and expert interviews, uncover this feminist author David Walliams delves into Dahl’s world, pioneer’s candid portrayal of female sexuality. meeting along the way those who knew him best.

The Brilliant Brontë Sisters Jane Austen: The Unseen Portrait?

Format: 1 x 48 (HD) Format: 1 x 59 (HD) Broadcaster: ITV Broadcaster: BBC

The Brontës’ works emerged out of the brutal Specialist Austen biographer Dr. Paula Byrne’s Yorkshire moors to change English Literature recent discovery of a unique portrait of the author forever. Today, their groundbreaking masterpieces made global newspaper headlines. Featuring remain a compulsive feature of school curriculums prominent Austen experts, this intriguing historical the world over. Actress Sheila Hancock, CBE detective story investigates whether the portrait paints vivid portraits of these exceptional women is an original and how it might change our writers and examines the impact of their legacy. perception of one of the world’s greatest writers.

Narnia’s Lost Poet: The Secret Today’s Russia: A Literary Lives and Loves of C.S. Lewis Landscape with Stephen Fry

Format: 1 x 59 (HD) Format: 1 x 54 (HD) Broadcaster: BBC Broadcaster: PBS

C.S. Lewis’s biographer goes in search of the man Six contemporary Russian authors take us on a behind Narnia – the bestselling author who died journey through the country’s literature today, its on the same day as the assassination of John F. influences and its relationship with power. With Kennedy, and whose private life was very secretive. readings by Stephen Fry and contributions from Even his best friend J.R.R. Tolkien didn’t know of leading literary critics and authors, this film defines his marriage to an American divorcée late in life. a new epoch of Russian writing.

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Art of the Night Winston Churchill: Blood, Sweat and Oils Format: 1 x 60 (HD) Broadcaster: BBC Format: 1 x 59 (HD) Broadcaster: BBC Painting at night is difficult and problematic, so why have so many great artists taken on the challenge? This is the fascinating untold story of Winston Waldemar Januszczak celebrates the nocturnal art Churchill’s lifelong love for painting, investigated of Rembrandt, Van Gogh, Velazquez, Hopper and by renowned presenter Andrew Marr. He meets Magritte as he explores art’s edgy relationship with Churchill’s descendants and explores the the night and tries to discover why the dark adds connections between his private passion for painting so much drama and mystery to art. and his public career as politician and statesman.

Looking for Lowry Sickert vs Sargent

Format: 1 x 50 Format: 1 x 60 Broadcaster: ITV Broadcaster: BBC

Internationally acclaimed Hollywood star Ian Sickert vs Sargent brings to life two of the biggest McKellen proves that L.S. Lowry is in fact one characters in British art. Focusing on their beautiful of our greatest 20th century painters in this and alarming paintings – pictures of aristocrats and entertaining documentary about the artist’s life and prostitutes, coronations and killings, opera houses work. The film illuminates Lowry’s extraordinary and music halls – the programme evokes Edwardian vision and features interviews with everyone from London and shows how these artists were waging a Jeffrey Archer to Oasis rock star Noel Gallagher. war whose legacy still haunts us today. The Erotic Adventures of Anaïs Nin The Erotic Adventures

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Islamic Art: The Glories of Islamic Art Mirror of the Invisible World Format: 3 x 45 Broadcaster: Channel 5 Format: 1 x 57 / 1 x 84 (HD) Broadcaster: PBS This series showcases the glorious heritage left Come on an epic journey across nine countries by Islamic artists and architects, explaining the and over 1,400 years of history to uncover an close connection between their splendour and extraordinary variety of Islamic art and architecture. the religious message of Islam. The programme We explore the shared artistic heritage of the East is presented by Professor Akbar Ahmed who is at and West, the art of everyday Islamic life, and the the forefront of attempts to find trust and shared secret world inside the palaces of the elite. values between Islam, Judaism and Christianity.

Andalusia: The Legacy of the Moors Land Artists

Format: 1 x 49 / 2 x 23 Format: 1 x 53 (HD) Broadcaster: Channel 5 Broadcaster: ABC

Andalusia: The Legacy of the Moors looks at the Denton Corker Marshall is one of the world’s most rich artistic heritage left by the Moors who ruled influential architecture firms. With unique access southern Spain for eight centuries. Their rule to the firm’s partners, we reveal the secrets behind was punctuated by murderous politics, constant their innovative urban and landscape design, and warfare and family strife, and yet it produced an follow the creation of their latest project – the outstanding architectural legacy – much of which Australian pavilion at the Venice Biennale – which still stands and is showcased in this stunning show. will push them to the limit!

Gaudi’s Message Gaudi’s Barcelona

Format: 1 x 49 (HD, 4K) Format: 2 x 24 / 1 x 45 Broadcaster: NHK Broadcaster: Channel 5

After his death, the blueprints for Antoni Gaudi’s Think of Barcelona and you think of Gaudi – magnificent unfinished cathedral, the Sagrada Família, the spooky gothic shapes of the Casa Battló, were lost in the chaos of the Spanish Civil War. Filmed the seaweed balconies of La Pedrera, and the in stunning 4K UHD, discover how an international unfinished masterpiece that is La Sagrada Família. team of architects decoded the mysterious message Gaudi’s Barcelona tells the stories of the buildings hidden in Gaudi’s work to finish the cornerstone of the as well as the story of the man, delving into his life cathedral: the symbolic Nativity façade. and celebrating his thrilling legacy.

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Monumental Vision Mega Art

Format: 10 x 26 (HD) Format: 3 x 52 (HD)

Coloured by local history and culture, this is a Presented by internationally renowned visually arresting international arts series which contemporary sculptor Andrew Rogers, Mega Art follows Andrew Rogers, the distinguished is a thought-provoking, colourful and logistically contemporary sculptor, as he collaborates with challenging series that creates art on the indigenous people to create vast and breath- landscape of the earth. Viewers go on a grand taking Earth Artworks. Seven of the ten epic adventure, from the hilltops of Cappadocia, to the episodes are in HD: Iceland, China, India, Turkey, vast plains of the Savannah with its remarkable Nepal, Slovakia and USA. Maasai warriors, and to breathtaking Antarctica.

Every Picture Tells a Story Whistler: For Art’s Sake

Format: 8 x 26 Format: 1 x 57 (HD) Broadcaster: Channel 5 Broadcaster: PBS

Well-known art critic Waldemar Januszczak The founder of Tonalism, James McNeill Whistler explores the origins and myths behind some of revolutionised the art world. Famous both for his art the most famous paintings in the world. Who is and his eccentric style, in patent leather shoes and a the mysterious Mona Lisa? What is the disturbing monocle, he attracted the curiosity of the buyers and moral of Rembrandt’s The Anatomy Lesson of Dr critics of his day. Dramatic re-enactments, graphics, Tulp? And how does Botticelli’s Venus reflect the and interviews profile this fascinating character. bloody drama of High Renaissance Florence? Narrated by Anjelica Huston and Kevin Kline.

Brian Sewell’s Grand Tour The Naked Pilgrim

Format: 10 x 35 Format: 6 x 23 Broadcaster: Channel 5 Broadcaster: Channel 5

In this epic series, Britain’s best-known art critic, In one of the most highly acclaimed television Brian Sewell, retraces the journey of the Grand series of recent times, the inimitable Brian Sewell, Tourists through his own exploration of ancient Britain’s most famous and best-loved art critic Rome and Renaissance Italy. Setting off in search and historian, goes on a pilgrimage of artistic and of a lost civilisation in the footsteps of Byron, religious exploration through France and north Turner, Boswell and others, Brian travels to some west Spain via Paris, Chartres, Orleans, Bordeaux, of the most romantic places on earth. Lourdes, Bilbao, Burgos and León.

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What is Beauty? Ugly Beauty

Format: 1 x 59 (HD) Format: 1 x 60 (HD) Broadcaster: BBC Broadcaster: BBC

A ravishing exploration of the subject of beauty in Has beauty disappeared from modern art? Many art. Is beauty only in the eye of the beholder, or is observers think so, but Waldemar Januszczak there something more universal we can say about disagrees. On his quest to find beauty in modern it? Matthew Collings takes us on a sumptuous art, he travels the world and discovers that beauty tour of his ten favourite beauty experiences from today can be electronic and scientific, subtle and the history of art, including works by Piero della elusive. Featuring interviews with Damien Hirst, Francesca, Michelangelo, Magritte and Gauguin. Jeff Koons, Yoko Ono and Tatsuo Miyajima.

Kazakhstan Swings Beijing Swings

Format: 1 x 48 Format: 1 x 49 Broadcaster: Channel 4 Broadcaster: Channel 4

With its risky video installations, outrageous From a column made of human fat to a performance performance pieces, stunning nudity and weird where an artist eats a stillborn baby and grafts his shamanism, the modern art of Kazakhstan is skin to a piece of pork, Beijing Swings explores guaranteed to take your breath away. Through some of the darkest, most disturbing art in the this mad journey into the country’s experimental world today. The remarkably frank account of new art, we meet a range of Kazakh artists blurring the Chinese art reveals a fractured society fighting lines and pushing the boundaries. fiercely for the right to public self-expression.

Drawing out the Demons Revolutionary Rhythms

Format: 1 x 78 / 1 x 48 Format: 5 x 26 Broadcasters: Bravo, TVO Broadcaster: National Geographic Channel

Attila Richard Lukacs has established ‘bad boy’ Revolutionary Rhythms takes us on a fascinating celebrity status in the international art world. After journey through the development of Latin 10 years of success in Berlin, he tried to enter America’s most popular forms of culture – its the New York art scene. Unearthing Attila’s past distinctive music and dance. From Cuba and and the events leading to his last days in the Big the Salsa to Columbia and the Cumbia, this is a Apple, this film journeys to the dark side where art colourful and highly energetic series that will liven is a matter of life and death. up any schedule.

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Next: A Primer on Urban Painting Graffiti Limbo

Format: 1 x 95 Format: 1 x 45 Broadcaster: Discovery Channel Next: A Primer on Urban Painting is a documentary exploration of graffiti-based visual Set against the backdrop of one of the largest art as a world of new culture. The programme international graffiti festivals, this exciting profiles the art form in the USA, Canada, France, documentary looks at the street origins of graffiti, Holland, Germany, England, Spain, Japan and where illegal tagging, bombing and throw ups are Brazil and includes a combination of verite all a part of its subversive essence. Art historians moments and interviews with important painters, speak about the emergence of graffiti as an art writers and designers. form and its far-reaching influences.

Drilling for Art Art in Reverse

Format: 1 x 52 Format: 7 x 23 Broadcaster: ARTE Broadcaster: Ovation Network, ABC

If your country has no cultural history, can you buy A unique contemporary art series taking the one? The ruling family of Dubai certainly thinks audience on a journey from opening night to so – and has ordered everything under the sun to inspiration, stepping back through time to unravel make the desert bloom. Drilling For Art looks at the creative process behind the works. Featuring Dubai’s brand-new opera houses, museums and artists across a broad range of disciplines from art galleries, and talks to the consultants behind installation art, sculpture, canvas painting and this fascinating flourishing of culture. performing arts to fashion and textile design.

Sonia Rykiel: Rebel and Visionary A Savage Life in Fashion

Format: 1 x 44 Format: 1 x 57 Broadcaster: ARTE, NDR Percy Savage started fashion PR, introduced Saint- Sonia Rykiel is a timeless fashion icon. Up until her Laurent to Dior, created the Mary Quant explosion, time of passing in late 2016, she remained among the invented fashion video and established London most creative and successful designers in the world, Fashion Week. Narrated by iconic model and designing clothes for international high-street store actress Joanna Lumley, and featuring the first-ever H&M alongside her own incredible collections. This is interview with Percy Savage, this documentary tells an intimate portrait of Rykiel and the unique universe the story of his glittering career and extraordinary at her headquarters on the eve of her winter show. influence on fashion, beauty and design.

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Kubota’s Kimonos: Pearl Power A History on Silk Format: 1 x 52 / 1 x 57 / 1 x 60 / 1 x 75 (HD) Broadcasters: ARTE, SBS, ZDF, YLE, SVT, Avro, NHK Format: 1 x 52 (HD)

A visually stunning biopic of Itchiku Kubota, one Pearl Power is a stunningly lavish film which dives of Japan’s most important contemporary kimono into the sensuous world of pearls, uncovering artists. While imprisoned in the USSR during WWII, their past and exploring their present – from their a vision of the Siberian sunset from his cell inspired production, symbolism and pleasures, to the hard his lifelong project, ‘The Symphony of Light.’ knocks of the marketplace. Featuring interviews Featuring beautiful re-enactments and interviews with leading celebrities and experts from the with art experts and Kubota’s contemporaries. jewellery world.

Beautiful Thing: The Genius of Josiah Wedgwood A Passion for Porcelain Format: 1 x 59 (HD) Broadcaster: BBC Format: 1 x 60 (HD) Broadcaster: BBC Historian A.N. Wilson explores the life of his great Sneak behind the museum glass to discover hero, Josiah Wedgwood. As one of the founding the story of some incredible yet misunderstood fathers of the Industrial Revolution, Wedgwood objects; the opulent, intricate, gold crested Sèvres was a self-made, self-educated creative giant, porcelain of the 18th Century. The film explores the whose other achievements might be better known stories of their most outrageous patrons: Louis XV, if he wasn’t so celebrated for his pottery. This is a Marie Antoinette and even the British Royal family. tribute to one of history’s most remarkable men.

In Search of the Messiah Vivaldi: Mystery of The Four Seasons Format: 1 x 50 (HD) Format: 1 x 49 (HD) Profiling the legendary Stradivari violins – no longer Broadcaster: ITV accessible even to the world’s top musicians – this unique film follows award-winning violinist Antonio Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons is the most Ruth Palmer as she travels the globe in search popular classical music work of all time. But why did of an instrument to play, uncovering an intriguing this pioneering Venetian composer and his music world of politics, deception, crime and passion. mysteriously disappear for over 200 years? British Narrated by Rosamund Pike and featuring famous rock star Rick Wakeman sets out to investigate the international musicians and dealers. extraordinary life and music of Vivaldi.

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The Man Who Shot Eye Candy: The Crazy World Beautiful Women of David LaChapelle

Format: 1 x 59 (HD) Format: 1 x 52 Broadcaster: BBC Broadcaster: ARTE

This is the gripping story of Erwin Blumenfeld, who This documentary takes you behind the scenes of survived two world wars to become one of the the hottest fashion photographer of the moment, world’s most highly paid fashion photographers and an artist who both embodies and satirises the a key influence on the development of photography brutal commercialisation of the industry with one as an art form. With exclusive access to his archive click of his shutter. Features shoots with Justin of stunning photographs and fashion films. Timberlake, Elton John and Pamela Anderson.

Martin Chambi and New York and Paris: the Heirs of the Incas The World of Abbott and Atget

Format: 1 x 52 Format: 1 x 53 (HD) Broadcaster: BBC Broadcaster: AVRO

Extraordinary photographer Martin Chambi was New York and Paris were extensively photographed a leading figure in the revolutionary artistic and during their golden ages, giving rise to some of the social movements which swept South America in most iconic images in the history of photography. the 1930s. This documentary explores Andean life This film explores the story of Berenice Abbott and through Chambi’s majestic photographs and looks Eugène Atget, two urban photographers whose at the contemporary relevance of his work. lives were linked in a very special way. Beautiful Thing: A Passion for Porcelain

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Talking Pictures Chris Doyle: Orientations – Stirred not Shaken Format: 1 x 30 Format: 1 x 52 Talking Pictures consists of a half-hour portrait Broadcaster: SBS of one of the world’s leading film and television directors – Palme D’Or winning Ken Loach. From A film on the life and work of cinematographer his earlier works to powerful recent masterpieces, Chris Doyle which showcases his work using this programme is searching and compelling, footage from his films, including the remake of giving great insight into what inspires and Psycho. With shots of the Hong Kong street life he motivates this legendary and often politically calls home, it is an intimate look at Doyle and his controversial English director. art with contributions from director Wong Kar Wai.

London’s Hollywood James Castle: Portrait of an Artist

Format: 6 x 23 Format: 1 x 53 (HD) Broadcaster: ITV James Castle: Portrait of an Artist is a journey into London’s Hollywood delves into the everyday the art and life of James Castle, who was born workings of the Shepperton and Pinewood deaf in 1899. He refused to learn to read, write or Studios at the heart of the European film industry. sign, communicating instead through art. Since his Shedding light on the lives of the film community, death, Castle has gained world recognition as an it is an exciting behind-the-scenes look at the important self-taught artist. His inspirational story birthplace of James Bond, Harry Potter and The is told by family members, art historians, artists Da Vinci Code, among many others. and members of the deaf community. Vivaldi: of the Four Seasons Mystery

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Innovation Nation, Seasons 1-8

Format: 104 x 22 (HD) Broadcaster: CBS

A true celebration of the inventor’s spirit – from the ingenious scientific pioneers of the past to the cutting-edge visionaries of today. Each episode of this Emmy Award-winning series tells the dramatic stories behind the world’s greatest inventions – and the perseverance, passion and price required to bring these visions to life.

Smart Cities Futureproof

Format: 8 x 23 (HD) Format: 9 x 24 (HD) Broadcaster: Channel NewsAsia Broadcaster: BTVI

Over half the world’s population live in cities, and this This brand new series investigates how advances is a growing trend. How can cities become smarter in science and technology are changing our lives to manage urban density and environmental issues? and the way we do business. From cryptocurrencies Eco-architect Jason Pomeroy travels to eight of the to automated delivery bots, artificial intelligence in world’s smartest cities to find out – from control healthcare to gene editing technology, each episode centres in Korea and Amsterdam’s carbon neutral unveils the cutting edge inventions that are going to football stadium, to Singapore’s big data solutions. change our world forever.

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The Big Idea Mechanical Monsters

Format: 8 x 22 (HD) & 1 x 46 (HD) Format: 1 x 60 (HD, 4K) Broadcaster: Channel NewsAsia Broadcaster: BBC

What are the latest advances in science and Historian Simon Schaffer investigates the origins of technology that could impact all our lives? From our love-hate relationship with technology through companion robots in Japan and enhancing human some of the most extraordinary engineering running speed in the USA, to UK scientists making wonders of the 19th century. These fantastical, people smarter, and a special episode on car formidable inventions posed questions at the time safety technology in Sweden and Germany, Justin that still resonate today - will the machines we Bratton investigates the world’s Big Ideas. build save us, replace us, or even destroy us?

Faster than Light: Voyage of Curiosity Dream of Interstellar Flight Format: 1 x 52 / 1 x 90 (HD) Format: 1 x 52 (HD, 4K) Marking the 5th anniversary of the Curiosity Our galaxy is filled with billions of stars, some orbited by Rover’s historic Mars landing, relive every step of earth-like planets. But in the race to find other habitable its voyage from launch to nail-biting descent, and worlds, one question remains: how will we get there? the unbelievable discoveries it made on the Red From nuclear fusion to the power of black holes, anti- Planet’s surface. With unprecedented access to matter to warp-drive, discover the technology that will NASA labs, discover how scientists are getting fuel the next space race, and the mind-bending physics closer than ever to Mars’ surface. But will they be building the light-speed rockets of the future. the first living beings to get there?

Journey to the Pale Red Dot Kingdom of Saturn

Format: 1 x 45 (HD) Format: 1 x 52 / 1 x 90 (HD)

The search for planets beyond our solar system For the 20th anniversary of the launch of NASA’s has brought an historic discovery: a planet slightly Cassini spacecraft, and featuring footage beamed larger than Earth orbiting a star called Proxima back to earth by infrared cameras, uncover the Centauri. At just over 40 trillion kilometres from secrets of Saturn’s moons, and Cassini’s role in the Sun, Proxima Centauri is our closest stellar our search for extraterrestrial life. After a 4 billion neighbour. Does its planet have a climate, or even kilometer voyage, this is the definitive account life? What will it take to launch our first interstellar of Cassini’s legacy, and of her death-dive to the journey to the Pale Red Dot? surface of Saturn.

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Cosmic Journeys Hubble’s Enduring Legacy

Format: 18 x Multiple Shorts (HD, 4K) Format: 1 x 50 (HD)

What is it like to live aboard the International For over 26 years, the Hubble Telescope Space Centre? Is there life on Mars? What has has returned images of a dynamic and violent space exploration taught us about the future universe. Hubble’s Enduring Legacy brings these of our own fragile planet? Find out the answer iconic images to life - colliding galaxies, the to these questions and more in this stunning birth and death of stars and distant planets. By collection of 4K UHD short-form journeys across decoding these stunning pictures, we are learning our galaxy and beyond. Perfect for broadcast how galaxies are formed, what dark matter is and interstitials, online viewing, and in the classroom. about our own place in the cosmos

The Age of Hubble Moon Shots

Format: 1 x 25 (4K), 1 x 50 (HD) Format: 1 x 57 (HD, 4K)

This stunning programme showcases an army Moon Shots is the real story of NASA’s Moon of high-tech telescopes capturing photons from Missions, from Apollo 1 to Apollo 17, told for distant corners of the universe. State-of-the- the first time using 4K and HD original footage art animation and supercomputer simulations taken by astronauts from the most iconic space bring the most cutting-edge findings of modern voyages in history: images of space-craft interiors, astronomy to life – from a super-massive black of the surface of the moon and the first images hole 350 million lightyears away to the stunning of the earth itself. This film pays tribute to the beauty of the Orion Nebula. extraordinary history of space travel.

Secrets of the Universe Seeing the Beginning of Time

Format: 2 x 24 (4K), 8 x 24 (HD) Format: 1 x 50 (HD, 4K)

Epic black holes, nuclear furnaces in giant stars, A cutting-edge film based on the work of scientists volcanic pressure cookers inside planets – this opening a powerful new window into deep space. groundbreaking series follows a trail of energy into Using high-tech telescopes we can now capture light the power centres of the Universe. Through state across wide swathes of the universe and channel a of the art animations based on scientific data and vast flow of cosmic data into supercomputer models supercomputer simulations, dive into the heart of to probe the forces and events that shaped it. What a black hole, fly across alien planets, and travel can we learn about the origin of galaxies like the the surface of a star about to explode! Milky Way, and of worlds like our own?

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Solar Superstorms Ultimate Aurora

Format: 1 x 25 (4K), 1 x 49 (HD) Format: 1 x 50 (HD)

Solar Superstorms is a major new production that Ultimate Aurora follows an intrepid team of takes viewers into the tangle of magnetic fields scientists on their quest to develop a new type of and superhot plasma that vent the Sun’s rage in rocket engine. Their aim is to revolutionise space dramatic flares, violent solar tornadoes, and the travel and exploration, by harnessing the energy largest eruptions in the solar system: Coronal Mass contained in the dynamic fourth state of matter: Ejections. What’s driving these strange phenomena? plasma. From dramatic balloon launches on How will they affect planet Earth? Find the answers mountain glaciers, to spectacular imagery inside the as we venture into the seething interior of the sun. Sun, this is a film about striking out to new frontiers.

Eclipse Chasers The Mystery of Matter

Format: 1 x 50 (HD) Format: 3 x 55 (HD) Broadcaster: National Geographic Channel Broadcaster: PBS

Filmed during an eclipse on the remote Easter This fascinating series charts one of the great Island in the South Pacific, Eclipse Chasers adventures in the history of science: the quest to explores the remarkable phenomenon of a total understand what the world is made of. Dramatic re- solar eclipse. Featuring leading international enactments introduce us to extraordinary scientists scientists, it shows how data collected during and their work, from Priestley and Lavoisier’s a total eclipse plays a key role in the race to discovery of oxygen and Marie Curie’s radioactivity understand the sun and its impact on earth. research to Mendeleev’s Periodic Table. Solar Superstorms

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The Amazing World of Gravity The Secrets of Quantum Physics

Format: 1 x 90 / 2 x 45 (HD, 4K) Format: 2 x 59 (HD) Broadcaster: BBC Broadcaster: BBC

A unique television event on the physics of gravity, Charismatic Professor Jim Al-Khalili tells the story featuring unexpected historical insights, cutting- of how quantum physics, which started as a simple edge science and exciting new experiments. We observation about light bulbs, ended up helping us visit the LIGO lab in the USA where gravity waves understand how all the galaxies, stars, planets and were discovered, and describe the latest theories even us humans came to exist. Jim also explores about our cosmos from studying the most intense how the new science of quantum biology can help sources of gravity imaginable – black holes. to explain how and why life evolves.

Order and Disorder Everything and Nothing

Format: 2 x 59 (HD) Format: 2 x 59 (HD) Broadcaster: BBC Broadcaster: BBC

The unstoppable Jim Al-Khalili reveals how humanity A helter-skelter ride through some of the most mastered the two most important concepts of the exhilarating scientific and philosophical ideas of the modern age – energy and information. He uncovers human race. We discover what happened before the principles underpinning the inner workings of the the Big Bang, peer into the impossible centre of cosmos, from a living cell to a supernova, and shows a black hole, find out how big the universe really how information went from scratchings on clay is, and reveal why the vacuum cleaner is the most tablets to crossing the globe at the speed of light. significant discovery in human history.

The Secret Life of Chaos The Science of Bubbles

Format: 1 x 60 (HD) Format: 1 x 59 (HD) Broadcaster: BBC Broadcaster: BBC

Chaos theory conjures up images of unpredictable Fun physicist Dr Helen Czerski takes us on an weather, economic crashes, and science gone amazing journey into the science of bubbles. From wrong. But in this breathtaking exploration, the way animals behave to the way drinks taste, Professor Jim Al-Khalili discovers how it actually Dr Czerski shows how bubbles affect our world holds the answer to many mysteries, including the in all sorts of unexpected ways. Whether it’s the age-old question – how did we get here? You won’t future of ship design or innovative new forms of be able to look at the world in the same way again! medical treatment, bubbles play a vital role.

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Oak Tree: Snow Wars Nature’s Greatest Survivor Format: 1 x 44 (HD, 4K) Broadcaster: ARTE, NDR Format: 2 x 49 / 1 x 90 (HD) Broadcaster: BBC Year after year, there’s a war going on in the Canadian Rockies. On land and in the air, the In this landmark, award-winning documentary, mobile avalanche-control team do battle against the entomologist George McGavin takes us on a journey massive amounts of snow. For the first time ever, through a year in the life of a 400-year-old oak tree. Snow Wars exclusively features the brave men and The innovative film uncovers the highly varied and women who risk their lives to protect others in one of dramatic transformations that the tree goes through the snowiest places in the world: British Columbia. to meet the challenges of four very different seasons.

Unlocking Evolution Darwin’s Beagle: On the Future of Species Format: 1 x 40 Format: 8 x 53 (HD) Scientific pioneer Allan Wilson revolutionised Broadcaster: VPRO evolutionary theories and ignited fresh controversy by suggesting a much closer relationship between In 1831, Darwin set sail on the most important ape and man than was previously thought. This journey ever made. Now his great-great- engaging film retraces his approach to one of the granddaughter Sarah Darwin and other eminent biggest questions in science: where do modern scientists repeat his epic journey. From Brazil to humans come from? Wilson found that the Galapagos to Australia, we explore how this voyage answers lie in the DNA of extinct creatures. changed our understanding of science forever. Oak Tree: Nature’s Survivor Greatest

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Deepwater Horizon: Extreme Realities Dispatches from the Gulf Format: 1 x 54 (HD) Broadcaster: PBS Format: 2 x 57 (HD) Broadcaster: PBS Narrated by Matt Damon, Extreme Realities shows Narrated by Matt Damon, this two-part special us how unprecedented extreme weather events investigates the remarkable stories of the global team of spark and aggravate political unrest and are posing scientists studying the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill new threats to global security. With exclusive — the largest in U.S. history. Their mission to research access to international scientific experts and its environmental impacts and prevent the devastation of politicians, this film presents a vital new perspective future oil spills has led to surprising discoveries. on the untold effects of climate change.

Plan B: Journey to Planet Earth, Series 1 & 2 Mobilising to Save Civilisation Format: S1 3 x 55, S2 4 x 55 Broadcaster: PBS Format: 1 x 87 (HD) Broadcaster: PBS Series 1 of this award-winning environmental Narrated by Matt Damon and inspired by the book franchise explores threats facing those dependent by Lester Brown, this film provides insight into an on the health of major river systems and the dilemma emerging economy based on renewable sources. of sustaining both urban populations and the Showcasing realistic strategies to avoid the environment. Series 2 transcends political boundaries growing threat of global warming, it features some to reveal threats to vital grassland and expose links of the world’s most original and influential thinkers. between environmental change and human health.

Earth in 1000 Years Supertornado: Anatomy of a Megadisaster Format: 1 x 46 (HD) Format: 1 x 44 (HD) This eye-opening documentary explores the latest scientific and technological developments in the May 22, 2011, the costliest tornado in U.S history study of earth’s melting ice stores to discover the struck Missouri carving a mile-wide swathe of fate of our planet in 1000 years time. As scientists destruction. Scientists descended on the city to drill into seabeds across Greenland and Antarctica find out what made this tornado so destructive. and conduct radar flights and satellite expeditions, Discover what they learned about a rising threat to the we discover the stark reality of what climate American heartland and follow the victims as they pick change could mean for life as we know it. up the pieces and struggle to make sense of it all.

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The State of the Planet The State of the Planet’s Oceans

Format: 1 x 55 Format: 1 x 57 Broadcaster: PBS Broadcaster: PBS

The State of the Planet is the first of a series of The most recent installment of the award-winning environmental specials which investigate some Journey to Planet Earth series. From the glacier of the most critical questions of the century, melt in Greenland to the loss of sea ice in the such as: Are populations soaring out of control? Arctic and the success of marine preserves in Will there be enough water and food for future Florida Keys, it investigates a wide range of issues generations? And is global warming a false alarm, concerning the health and sustainability of the or a gathering storm? world’s oceans.

The State of the Planet’s The State of the Planet’s Wildlife Ocean Animals Format: 1 x 57 Broadcaster: PBS Format: 1 x 55 Broadcaster: PBS Hosted and narrated by Academy Award winner Join Hollywood actor Matt Damon as he finds out Matt Damon, The State of the Planet’s Wildlife why nearly half the world’s marine animals may looks into why half of the world’s wildlife species face extinction over the next twenty-five years. are facing extinction within the next few decades. Damon’s dramatic journey takes us to the Pacific The documentary includes spectacular wildlife Northwest, New England, Florida, Japan, China, photography, celebrating the beauty and diversity the Antarctic and Africa. of the natural world.

Planet RE:think One Degree Matters

Format: 1 x 56 / 1 x 85 (HD) Format: 1 x 57 (HD)

An environmental documentary with a difference, Presenting the latest science on climate Planet RE:think presents a compelling, inherent link change, this informative and inspirational new between environmental destruction and the global film showcases realistic solutions and amazing financial crisis and asserts that the only way into examples of individuals and communities tackling ongoing economic stability, is actually through the global warming. The film follows a group of practices of environmental sustainability. It’s time to influential international business and government increase our resource efficiency and the re-use and leaders as they travel to the Arctic to witness recycling of critical materials, before it’s too late. climate change at first hand.

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Earth’s Survival: The Tipping Points Decoding the Science Format: 6 x 52 / 6 x 30 / 1 x 90 (HD) Broadcaster: The Weather Channel, WDR, ARTE Format: 1 x 52 / 2 x 29 (HD) Broadcaster: WDR, SRF The emerging crises of climate change Made in consultation with the IPCC and world are drawing major concern from scientific leading climate scientists, this groundbreaking communities worldwide. A group of pre-eminent documentary explains the big headlines scientists ventures off the grid, from the Amazon addressed by the Fifth Assessment Report, and Rainforest to the Greenland Ice Sheet, to explore how we may be in the middle of the most crucial the perilous tipping points making our weather moment of Earth’s history. systems more extreme and unpredictable.

The Polar Explorer Don’t Panic - The Truth About Population Format: 1 x 52 (HD) Broadcaster: CBC Format: 1 x 59 (HD) Broadcaster: BBC This documentary explores the most remote and mysterious parts of our planet: the Polar Regions. Using state-of-the-art 3D graphics, world-famous Featuring the world’s foremost polar scientists and statistician Professor Hans Rosling presents a discovering previously inaccessible areas and new spectacular portrait of our rapidly changing world. life on the ocean seabed, this award-winning film Rosling’s message is surprisingly upbeat. Almost showcases the latest climate change discoveries unnoticed, we have begun to conquer the problems from the Arctic and Antarctic. of rapid population growth and extreme poverty. Don’t Panic - The Truth About Population

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e² intervention architecture e2 transport

Format: 1 x 56 (HD) Format: 6 x 26 (HD) Broadcaster: PBS Broadcaster: PBS

Narrated by Brad Pitt, this e² special explores The biggest culprit in terms of sustainability architecture that creates positive change economically, in transport is the car. With people and goods environmentally and culturally. It traverses the globe travelling further and more frequently than ever tracing the diverse projects put forward for The Aga before, a globally-minded citizenry is needed to Khan Architectural Award, from a wetlands restoration address the environmental consequences. e2 project in Saudi Arabia to a Bridge School reconnecting transport investigates this in the context of human the community in Xiashi, China. behaviour and urbanisation. Narrated by Brad Pitt.

e2 energy e2 design, Series 1-3

Format: 6 x 26 (HD) Format: 18 x 26 (HD) Broadcaster: PBS Broadcaster: PBS

e2 energy investigates innovations in alternative Narrated by Golden Globe and Academy Award energy technologies, such as solar, sea, wind and winner Brad Pitt, e2 design explores the complex hydro power. Narrated by Academy Award winning social, political, cultural, environmental and actor Morgan Freeman, the series demonstrates economic issues of sustainable architecture. how despite predictions to the contrary, the global Traversing the globe, the series chronicles the economy can not only survive but in fact prosper in most important and exciting stories of green a new environmentally aware age. architecture made reality. e² energy

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Oceanic Electric Power The New Power

Format: 1 x 52 Format: 1 x 52 Broadcasters: ZDF, ARTE Broadcasters: ZDF, ARTE

A groundbreaking documentary which explains Internationally recognised scientist Martin Kilpper with scientific precision the vision of supplying our and Alternative Nobel Prize winner Hermann ever-growing electricity needs with the energy of Scheer take viewers on a unique trip through the seas. New technologies are shot in locations Europe, drawing an accurate picture of the around the world and viewers are introduced to surprising and encouraging potential of renewable the personal dramas of the pioneers making these energy sources such as biomass, wind, new ideas into a sustainable reality. geothermal, water and sun.

Before the Flood Antarctica: The Game on Ice

Format: 1 x 60 Format: 1 x 42 Broadcaster: BBC Made at the time of the renegotiation of the Tuvalu is a tiny island in the middle of the South Antarctic Treaty, this investigative documentary Pacific. Once the world’s poorest country, it sold examines what is really going on in the frozen its internet domain name – .tv – for millions of continent. Unlike previous programmes, most of dollars at the height of the dot com boom. But which have been concerned with the Antarctic Tuvalu is only 3 metres above sea level and global environment, this film focuses on the scientific warming is causing the seas to rise. This film looks research being carried out by specific nations on at the impact of the impending disaster. the ground in Antarctica.

Antarctica: Ice World Pioneers Arctic Meltdown

Format: 1 x 56 Format: 1 x 32 Broadcaster: SABC According to the world’s scientists, sea level rise The epic tale of perseverance and achievement is arguably one of the world’s most important shown by the team that conceived and built the potential impacts of global climate change. In most advanced science research facility on the this revealing documentary, the issue of climate Antarctic continent. It is a compelling mixture of change is investigated from the perspective of hardship and happiness, failure and victory, and two of the most remote and environmentally the tragedy of those who paid the ultimate price threatened regions of the world – the Marshall while working in this merciless wasteland. Islands and the Arctic.

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Man Versus Earth Greatest Inventors

Format: 1 x 46 (HD) Format: 2 x 30 Broadcaster: Current TV Planes, trains and penicillin; plastics, lasers, As extreme winter weather brings Europe and the computers and the internet – collectively, they United States to a standstill, can mankind fight stand as the greatest set of innovations to grace back through science and technology? Eco- the last hundred years, fundamentally improving explorer Sam Branson meets the people on the how we communicate, travel, heal and explore front line of the battle between man and snow. our world. Greatest Inventors profiles the A dramatic mix of science and adventure that is amazing geniuses who produced these and other guaranteed to have you on the edge of your seat. remarkable inventions.

Great Minds of Design How Did They Build That?

Format: 6 x 23 (HD) Format: 13 x 25 Broadcaster: CBC Broadcaster: Discovery Channel

Shot in the USA, Canada, Germany and Haiti, this An investigation into the greatest man-made stunning new series introduces the visionary people structures of all time, showing how new materials behind both everyday objects and new ambitious and construction techniques have allowed ideas, following a wide variety of designers through engineers, builders and architects to work to their unique processes of creation. Great Minds the limits of their ability. The series focuses on of Design features everyone from street artists to the buildings that re-wrote the rulebook and the green conscious industrial designers. people who made the impossible possible.

The Sinking of Scylla How Ships Grow

Format: 1 x 55 Format: 1 x 60 Broadcaster: BBC Nowadays, ship extensions are a popular On 27th March 2004, the seabed off south-east procedure. But it’s not a simple process! This Cornwall in the UK changed forever: After many dramatic programme follows shipbuilders and years of planning, the National Marine Aquarium engineers as they separate ships in two to make realised their dream to turn an ex-Royal Navy even bigger vessels. All odds are against them as warship into northern Europe’s first diving reef. thousands of electric cables and pipes are severed, The Sinking of Scylla documents their exciting with the job demanding precision engineering and and unique endeavor and their triumph. attention to even the tiniest details.

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The Fantastical World of Hormones Parkinson’s: The Great Drug Experiment Format: 1 x 58 (HD) Broadcaster: BBC Format: 1 x 45 Broadcaster: TV3 Leading endocrinologist Professor John Wass tells the fascinating story of hormones – the well- Parkinson’s disease affects around 13 million known but little-understood chemicals that govern people worldwide. This documentary follows a our bodies and shape who we are. From our group of patients as they test a promising new weight and appetite to how we grow, reproduce drug meant to slow the progression of the disease. and behave hormones are a crucial part of what Featuring leading neurologists and professors, it makes us human. explains the science behind the trial.

MS Wars: Hope, Science Disgustingly Healthy and the Internet Format: 2 x 43 (HD) Broadcaster: ARTE, ZDF Format: 1 x 50 (HD) Broadcaster: CBC Disgustingly Healthy tells the story of the riveting Delving into the science, controversy and human rise, dramatic fall, and surprising renaissance of drama surrounding a radical treatment for Multiple the leech and the maggot in Western medicine. Sclerosis, this intriguing new film unveils how the More and more doctors worldwide are now Internet has spurred a social network movement that advising their patients to set their repulsion aside is changing the doctor/patient relationship and the in order to see these creatures for what they really repercussions for physicians, institutions and us all. are – a wonder of nature, and the perfect healers.

Autopsy: Life and Death Gunther’s ER

Format: 4 x 48 Format: 3 x 48 Broadcaster: Channel 4 Broadcaster: Channel 4

Why do some people live long, healthy lives, while In the acclaimed follow-up series to Autopsy: Life others die younger after painful illnesses? This and Death, Dr Gunther von Hagens recreates series explores the reality of disease and death, serious injuries on human bodies to reveal what answering the crucial questions through a series happens to the body when faced with assaults or of dissections by anatomist Dr Gunther von accidents and to show what doctors, nurses and Hagens. The experts also demonstrate what can first-aiders can do, working against the clock, to be done to detect disease and improve health. try to preserve life.

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Breaking the Code Patent on Life

Format: 1 x 45 Format: 1 x 38 Broadcaster: TLC Broadcaster: Channel 4

This programme tells the dramatic story of the The process of genetic engineering is becoming challenge to map and decode every gene in the more and more sophisticated, and the inventors of human body and what this means for the future new plants, new drugs and new life-forms are now of modern day medicine. With new cures being attempting to patent their creations. Patent on Life discovered every day, sufferers from deadly explores how these patents, if successful, could diseases race against the clock and fight to stay lead to large multinational corporations owning the alive until the right cures are found. world’s crops.

Cold Fusion: The Truth? Sacred Weeds

Format: 1 x 52 / 1 x 83 (HD) Format: 4 x 51 Broadcaster: Channel 4 March 1989: two respected chemists claim they have solved the globe’s energy crisis using Human experiences never before seen on seawater, batteries and a mysterious glass television are shown in mind-opening footage of contraption: ‘Cold Fusion’ is born. But just three four carefully monitored experiments in which months later, careers in tatters, they flee the US volunteers take powerful narcotic substances. as Cold Fusion becomes synonymous with ‘bad The substances are all legal and come from plants science.’ Today a group of researchers propose with a rich cultural history that have been used in that Cold Fusion could still save the world… rituals around the world.

The Gardeners of Eden Spirit of Trees and Eden’s Growing Pains Format: 8 x 25 Broadcaster: Channel 4 Format: 2 x 60 Broadcaster: BBC This intriguing series looks at the close, complex The Eden Project is the great success of Britain’s relationship between man and trees that has millennium building programme, visited by tourists endured throughout the centuries. It examines from around the world. This series introduces not only the ecological impact of trees, but also the team of botanists, gardeners and architects explores the strong spiritual influence that they behind the project and reviews its impact as a have. The series was filmed in Britain, California centre for ecological and scientific research. and on the island of Socotra.

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Ingenious Africa The Earth’s Riches

Format: 13 x 24 Format: 3 x 43 Broadcaster: SABC Broadcaster: ARTE

A must-see series offering fresh insight into From spaceships to mobile phones, metals are the ingenuity of human achievement in Africa. an integral part of the objects that make up the Triumphs covered include the technological world around us. This original series examines transformation of the ancient skills of animal the three most used metals in the modern world, tracking into tools for wildlife conservation, documenting iron and steel production in China, and the re-examination of healing properties in and travelling to the jeopardous copper mines in indigenous plants to create cures for diseases. Chile and the open nickel mines in New Caledonia.

The Forest Guards A Future for Forests

Format: 1 x 52 (HD) Format: 1 x 25

The Forest Guards follows the whirlwind year of six An award winning, revealing documentary which takes home-schooled children and their ingenious invention the viewer to the heart of the world’s forests. Shot for the detection of forest fires. What starts as a local extensively in ten different countries and looking at environmental solution develops into an invention both tropical and temperate forests, the programme that could have a major global impact as they win the examines the extensive damage that is being once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to present their idea at done to this precious resource and the devastating the Copenhagen Climate Conference. consequences such as floods, drought and disease. The Earth’s Riches

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The Perfect Poison Vietnam After the Fire

Format: 1 x 40 Format: 1 x 60 Broadcaster: Channel 4 Broadcaster: Channel 4

In a major investigation, this documentary exposes Vietnam After the Fire is an award-winning feature the chlorine industry’s negligence in tackling a documentary on the vast environmental and social potential time bomb – the poison dioxin. There is devastation of the Vietnam War. The documentary no safe level of exposure to dioxin and this fatal shows how the Vietnamese people continue substance has been linked to a series of medical to suffer from the effects of Agent Orange, conditions such as heart attacks, liver disease and unexploded bombs and a land that was shattered neurological problems. by 26 million craters from B-52 bombers.

Windscale 1957: The Nuclear Winter Inside Sellafield

Format: 1 x 51 Format: 1 x 60 Broadcaster: ITV Broadcaster: ITV

In October 1957, one of the Windscale nuclear Controversy continuously surrounds the British reactors caught fire. It was the world’s first nuclear nuclear site at Sellafield, which was built in the accident, and the worst in Great Britain’s history, 50’s and is punctuated by crisis after crisis, which was partially attributed to the rush to build including a series of disastrous leaks, operational atomic weapons. Windscale 1957: The Nuclear inadequacies and management cover-ups. In this Winter highlights the mistakes leading to a nuclear film, the true story is told for the first time by a disaster second only to Chernobyl. former company director.

Socotra: Island of Dragon’s Blood

Format: 1 x 16

Socotra is a remote island in the Republic of Yemen, 300 miles south-east of the Arabian coast in the Indian Ocean. It is unique in its range of flora, including 750 native plants that are found nowhere else in the world. Socotra: Island of Dragon’s Blood journeys through the strange landscape of the island, revealing some of the most unusual and beautiful plants on earth.

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David Attenborough’s Jumbo

Format: 1 x 60 (HD) Broadcaster: BBC, CBC

Sir David Attenborough investigates the life story of the most famous elephant in history, who inspired countless books and films including Hollywood’s classic Disney film Dumbo. Sir David reveals how our care and understanding of elephants has changed dramatically over the last two centuries. With unique access to Jumbo’s skeleton we uncover how this animal superstar lived and the circumstances of his mysterious and tragic death.

Wild City: Singapore Frontier Borneo

Format: 3 x 46 (HD) Format: 10 x 23 (HD) Broadcaster: Channel NewsAsia Broadcaster: UKTV, Discovery Networks

Singapore, once a tropical jungle is now 700 km² Borneo: towering mountains, dense jungle and a of hustle, bustle, concrete and air-con. But nestled staggering array of wildlife, all under serious threat among the urban sprawl there is a wild side – places from human development and climate change. Join where pangolins, crocodiles, monkeys, otters, snakes the team of rangers on the frontlines of biodiversity and hornbills sit right among the skyscrapers and protection, striving to manage man’s relationship boardwalks. Narrated by Sir David Attenborough, this with the wild and combat illegal poaching. Narrated series investigates how nature has evolved with the city. by Hollywood actor Luke Evans.

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Rise of the Great White Shark Diving with Sharks: The Ultimate Guide Format: 1 x 50 (HD, 4K) Format: 1 x 50 (HD, 4K) How did the great white shark become the ocean’s most formidable predator? With cinematography In this blue-chip documentary special from award- by acclaimed cameraman Andy Casagrande, and winning cinematographer Andy Casagrande, featuring the latest oceanographic research, discover dive with sharks across the world from Mexico how the great white feeds, migrates and mates. to the Bahamas. From great white sharks to Explore how over 16 million years this giant of the hammerheads, in both shallow and deep waters, ocean has adapted to develop its speed, strength, we witness human and shark encounters closer ferocity and place in the marine ecosystem. than ever before, all filmed in stunning 4K.

Strange Creatures Ultimate Freedive: The Great Barrier Reef Format: 1 x 52 (HD, 4K) Format: 1 x 45 (HD, 4K) In the most biodiverse marine areas on the planet exists a community of spectacular animals more World champion freediver Marina Kazankova is on a peculiar than we can imagine. These alien-like mission; to freedive the Great Barrier Reef, taking on a creatures have adapted extraordinary habits, series of challenges, from swimming with whale sharks hunting techniques and survival methods. Some and tackling raging horizontal waterfalls to discovering change colour and shape whilst others are hidden caves and exploring ship wrecks. Filmed in 4K, impossibly tiny and possess powerful poisons. Ultimate Freedive will leave you breathless!

The Whale Whisperer Galapagos: Realm of Giant Sharks

Format: 1 x 52 (HD, 4K) Format: 1 x 53 (HD, 4K)

This film follows the inspiring relationship In an exciting blend of science and natural history between whale whisperer Vicki Neville and the filmmaking, Galapagos: Realm of Giant Sharks humpback whales of Australia. Never-before-seen accompanies a group of researchers who have behaviours have been documented by a team of travelled out to Darwin Island, Galapagos, to track five cinematographers over the three month whale migrating whale sharks. The film uses action- season in Hervey Bay, all captured in glorious 4K. packed, high-resolution photography to draw These stunning close encounters capture whales viewers into the fascinating world of one of the like you have never seen them before! ocean’s largest and least understood creatures.

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Top Dive Sites, Series 1 & 2 The Wild Bunch

Format: S1 13 x 27, S2 13 x 27 (All HD) Format: 13 x 25 (HD) Broadcaster: TVE A crack team of vets and scientists in Africa is The Red Sea, the Indian Ocean, Indonesia’s coral changing the rules of species preservation using reefs, the Maldivian archipelago, or the islands of cutting-edge techniques and technology. Join them Azores – these are all home to some of the rarest as they take action to save elephants, cheetahs, and most beautiful sea life on the planet. Peering lions, leopards, birds of prey, reptiles, and many other through crystal waters, this series reveals the endangered species. Every episode features exotic world’s most incredible diving spots and transports animals, spectacular scenery, and a feel good vibe as you to an exquisite underwater paradise. we root for the team to complete their assignment.

Wild World, Series 1-4 Wild Gibraltar

Format: 29 x 23 (HD) Format: 1 x 52 (HD, 4K) Broadcaster: PBS Wild Gibraltar is a brand new blue-chip wildlife Explore America’s vast backyard, from tracking feast, shot in 4K, and featuring the varied and bird colonies in their natural habitat to uncovering colourful creatures that inhabit the border between stunning waterfalls tucked deep in the woods. Africa and Europe. Narratively compelling and This Emmy award-winning series ventures through visually stunning, this natural history documentary swamps, islands, bat caves and canyons to meet set on the Straits of Gibraltar showcases the creatures inhabiting this wide and incredibly everything from red tuna, orca, eagles and varied landscape. tortoises, to chameleons, genets and mongooses. Ultimate Freedive: The Great Barrier Reef The Great Ultimate Freedive:

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Rescue Vet Give Me Shelter

Format: 13 x 23 (HD) Format: 13 x 23 (HD) Broadcaster: Animal Planet Broadcaster: Animal Planet

Cats, dogs, horses, goats and even emus! There’s This new series follows the incredible stories of no poorly pet that the Rescue Vets won’t come to The Pet Helpers animal shelter and its workers as the aid of in this touching series. The stakes are they find lost and troubled animals somewhere to high as owners place their beloved animals’ lives live, and someone to love. This is the frontline of into the hands of the country’s leading vets. From animal rescue and there is no method too crazy accidents and injuries to rare medical conditions – to help find an animal a home, from organising a can the vets come to the rescue? ‘Kittenpalooza’ to throwing a doggy fashion show!

Wildlife Sanctuary Wildlife SOS, Series 1-3

Format: 6 x 26 Format: 52 x 24 Broadcaster: Discovery Channel Broadcaster: Channel 5

In this series seven different animal havens are Filmed with urgency and energy, the three series discovered, all of which employ workers who of Wildlife SOS collectively document the work have a passion for rescuing animals and nursing of a very special rescue centre – the Wildlife them back to health. Packed full of characters Centre. This captivating and heartwarming and a wide range of animals, the series introduces programme follows the helpers who are dedicated everything from abandoned seal pups to to the rescue, treatment and shelter of injured or neglected horses and hedgehogs. orphaned wild animals, and their rehabilitation.

Animal Airport Vets on the Wild Side

Format: 8 x 23 Format: 13 x 24 Broadcaster: Channel 5 Broadcaster: Discovery Channel

Heathrow Airport’s Animal Quarantine Station is With dramatic footage and stunning photography, the largest in the world. With the capacity to hold this series celebrates the big league of wildlife vets hundreds of animals at any one time, it is this – the resilient men and women whose work takes channel through which over a thousand different them to far corners of Africa to deal with some of species pass each year. The series records the the world’s wildest creatures. Regular customers everyday workings of AQS, covering issues such include rhinos, water buffalos, savage big cats and as animal smuggling and endangered species. fifteen feet long crocodiles.

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Vets in Hong Kong Molly’s Zoo

Format: 13 x 23 Format: 4 x 29 / 1 x 26 Broadcaster: UKTV Broadcaster: BBC

Profiles the SPCA Hong Kong, which is one of the Several decades ago, pet shop owner Molly largest and busiest veterinary practices in the world. Badham spotted a monkey in a rival shop’s This arresting fly-on-the-wall series features the window, sparking a life-long passion and crusade. hassled vets and demanding pet owners, allowing Her shop evolved into one of the largest zoos viewers to get to know the pleasures and pains of in the UK, the renowned Twycross Zoo, with an the human characters, and discover that the Hong international reputation for breeding success in Kong veterinary experience is unlike any other. endangered primates.

Among the Great Apes Facing the Storm: with Michelle Yeoh Story of the American Bison

Format: 1 x 47 (HD) Format: 1 x 54 (HD) Broadcaster: National Geographic Channel Broadcaster: PBS

Join internationally renowned actress Michelle An epic account of man’s tempestuous Yeoh for an intimate look at the highly endangered relationship with the symbol of wild America, orangutan. In this award-winning film, Michelle the bison. Beautiful cinematography and rare visits Malaysian wildlife sanctuaries, and meets archive footage trace the bison’s gripping story, eminent conservationists who reveal the efforts from its sacred relationship with the Native being made to safeguard these amazing animals. Americans to its escape from extinction. Among the Great Apes with Michelle YeohAmong the Great

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Johnny Kingdom’s Wild Johnny Kingdom and Countryside the Bears of Alaska

Format: 4 x 23 / 2 x 60 (HD) Format: 1 x 59 (HD) Broadcaster: ITV Broadcaster: BBC

Loveable Johnny Kingdom takes us through We follow Johnny Kingdom as he goes on the the enormously varied landscape and wildlife of trip of a lifetime to Alaska in search of majestic Exmoor, one of the UK’s most glorious national brown bears. Across snowy hills and foggy rivers, parks. Across the seasons he tracks and films red he overcomes many obstacles to fulfill his dream. deer – the iconic symbol of the moor, wild boar, This is Johnny Kingdom at his best – infectiously foxes, badgers and a huge variety of birds. enthusiastic, madly exuberant and hugely enjoyable.

Bringing Home the Bears Gone Wild

Format: 2 x 52 Format: 1 x 46 (HD) Broadcaster: National Geographic Channel Broadcaster: Animal Planet

Bringing Home the Bears is a fascinating series Gone Wild discovers once-domesticated which follows the separate journeys of two captive animals now gone feral who have found homes polar bears as they travel from their northern in surprising places, often with unimaginable hemisphere homes to Australia’s Gold Coast, consequences. Host Erin Skillen travels the globe where Sea World constructs an ambitious ‘arctic learning the history of these animal populations, summer’ enclosure at Polar Bear Shores, which including camels in Australia, stray dogs on mirrors the bears’ natural environment. Rarotonga island, and abandoned cats in Rome. Gone Wild

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Common Ground: Big Boy: An Elephant’s Story A Human Elephant Story Format: 1 x 46 Format: 1 x 52 (HD) A touching tale of triumph over adversity, this film In Sri Lanka, the relationship between humans tells the story of Big Boy whose intelligence and and elephants is defined by a paradox – Asian gentleness captured the hearts of those around elephants are regarded as both an object of him. His tragic death at the hands of poachers worship and as an enemy. This film reveals how inspired a pioneering conservation project which the peaceful coexistence between man and animal has helped to eradicate the ivory poaching in the is being threatened due to increasing human region and helped the humans and animals in the populations and a loss of elephant habitats. Lower Zambezi Valley to live together in harmony.

Addo’s Elephants Saving the Slumdog Donkeys

Format: 1 x 52 Format: 1 x 52

From the depths of the African bush comes a For the slum dwellers in Delhi, so-called heart-warming tale of survival and a scientific Slumdogs, the donkey is a work machine. This is journey – the story of a huge herd of elephants the story of an eccentric British couple who give condemned to death by a government decree. up the comforts of retirement in England and travel Filmed over 4 years, Addo’s Elephants tracks to India to change these ancient attitudes towards the evolution and growth of this inbred elephant the welfare of donkeys. But, though desperate to society which provides scientists with a unique make a difference, their mission turns out to be genetic research laboratory. much harder than they ever dreamed…

Wild Africa Goes Hi-tech The Call of the Beast

Format: 6 x 30 Format: 1 x 52 Broadcaster: National Geographic Channel Africa is home to some of the world’s best known animals, and is where humanity began its Citizens of remote areas of the West Country in extraordinary ascendancy, bringing us into conflict England have reported sightings of very large, with the animal kingdom. This unique series offers non-native wild animals. These have variously insight into the initiatives now under way in Africa been described as pumas, leopards or panthers. to develop and use technology for building new The Call of the Beast is an edgy documentary that bridges with the animal world – bridges that can tracks the gripping search over one late summer be crossed in both directions. for the mysterious beast lurking in these moors.

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The Natural Kingdom Collection Return to Penguin City

Format: 26 x 46 Format: 1 x 48 (HD) Broadcaster: Discovery Channel Broadcaster: Animal Planet

This incredible collection includes a diverse and Return to Penguin City introduces us to Antarctica’s unique range of programmes that showcase Adélie penguin breeding colonies (or penguin the best of the natural world. From dangerous cities) where leading researchers Grant Ballard arctic wolves to the ocean’s rarest whales; and Viola Toniolo from California share their latest from unpredictable forces of nature to rare investigations into how the birds are responding to white bears…a wealth of animals and stunning global warming. As we will see, the fate of penguin landscapes is open for exploration. cities may reveal our own frightening future.

Freediving with Killer Whales Myths of the Great White

Format: 1 x 45 / 1 x 26 Format: 1 x 52

Graceful to watch and fun-loving in their For the past five years, marine biologist Ryan behaviour, killer whales are amongst the most Johnson has been studying the Great White intelligent creatures on earth. This film follows Sharks of South Africa using some of science’s Stig Aavall Severinsen, world champion freediver, most sophisticated tools. His surprising results as he lives out his dream to interact with killer question the man-eater label so frequently pinned whales and explore their mesmerising underwater upon this species by the media and also rewrite world, diving with only a mask and snorkel. An our understanding of this mysterious creature, the unforgettable journey north of the Polar Circle. ocean’s ultimate predator.

Nguva: The Forgotten Mermaid Reefs: Rainforests of the Ocean and Nomads of the Ocean Format: 1 x 52 Format: 2 x 45 The dugong is a creature whose past is steeped in mythology and legend. Believed to have spawned Two visually provocative episodes exploring the famous legend of the mermaid, the animal is marine life and phenomena in both accidental and now the most endangered mammal in east Africa. intentional artificial reefs. Rainforests of the Ocean We travel to the beautiful Lamu archipelago, the examines the creation of the natural and artificial tip of Kenya’s most northern coast, on a funny reefs in Barbados, Bermuda and Qatar. Nomads yet moving adventure to find one of the last few of the Ocean looks at the efforts being taken to remaining ‘mermaids’. protect the nomadic lifestyles of marine turtles.

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Grand Central Stations

Format: 4 x 52 (HD) Broadcaster: Voyage

From Mumbai to New York, Cairo to Vladivostok, this series grants unique access to the inner-workings of the world’s busiest transit hubs. Discover how each station deals with the daily chaos of over a million passengers, and learn from the bustling, magnificent stations themselves about the history, people and culture of these great world cities.

Brilliant Corners Isles of the Queen

Format: 5 x 52 (HD) Format: 5 x 43 (4K, HD) Broadcaster: ARTE Travelling with his surfboard in tow, presenter and former European longboard champion, Sam Bleakley, Explore Britain’s famous isles through stunning explores the lesser known coastlines and cultures aerial views of their turquoise beaches, storm- of Sierra Leone, Oman, Ghana, the Philippines and tossed marshlands and craggy mountains. Meet the Mauritania. Surfing is the fastest growing action sport fascinating individuals maintaining their traditional in the world and is helping engage local communities British ways of life at the edges of the United with their coastlines, inspiring a wave of new art, Kingdom and see how these remote communities music and food at every corner. are surviving amongst the wild landscapes.

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Flying the Great Wall Aerial Asia

Format: 1 x 52 (4K, HD) Format: 4 x 60 (HD, 4K) Broadcaster: Discovery Networks Broadcaster: Channel NewsAsia

An epic aerial journey which travels the iconic Great This breathtaking 4K aerial series takes you to Wall from the Yellow Sea in the East to the Gobi some of Asia’s most diverse landscapes. From Desert in the far West - the first time ever that the the beautiful, colour-soaked subcontinent of India, full 2,500km wall has been captured from the air. to the coral gardens and menacing volcanoes of Featuring breathtaking views and expert historical Indonesia, from Malaysia’s rolling rainforests to and cultural narration from William Lindesay, the Singapore’s spectacular skyline, this is Asia like world’s leading foreign expert on the Wall. you’ve never seen it before!

Korea from Above Japan from Above

Format: 2 x 52 (HD, 4K) Format: 2 x 52 (HD, 4K) Broadcaster: Mountain TV This stunning 4K aerial journey takes us across Soar above South Korea’s ultra-modern cities and Japan’s four main islands, unravelling both its majestic, mountainous landscapes all in glorious ancient and modern history and unique culture. 4K. As well as being one of the world’s most From bustling metropolises more densely populated technologically advanced countries and host to than any other on earth, to hidden shrines at the the 2018 Winter Olympics, South Korea is also an edge of the map; from sacred gardens and lost ancient land, boasting a number of World Heritage temples to towns devastated by disaster, join us on sites and a rich and diverse culture. an epic voyage across the land of the rising sun.

Aerial Shorts Climbing Everest

Format: 1,000+ 1-5 minutes (HD) Format: 1 x 15 (VR)

From the award-winning creators of “The World For the first time in VR, climb up Everest’s from Above.” Pick a destination, and choose perilous North Face from Base Camp to the your own adventure with over 1,000 unique mini summit in an unparalleled experience of one of episodes. With the option to host content on the world’s toughest challenges. Braving snow an easy-to-use interactive map which can be storms, frostbite and altitude sickness, seven-time customised, enhanced and translated, this is the summiteer Noel and his experienced team set perfect digital resource to create destination guides, out on a stunning but heart-stopping climb in this travel inspirations, and engaging teaching materials. unforgettable Virtual Reality ascent. tvfinternational.com 114 TRAVEL & ADVENTURE

City Time Traveller, Series 1 & 2 Secret China, Series 1 & 2

Format: S1 12 x 24 (HD), S2 6 x 24 (HD) Format: S1 3 x 50 (HD), S2 3 x 50 (HD) Broadcaster: Channel NewsAsia China: the world’s fastest-growing economy – and Let eco-architect Jason Pomeroy be your guide to land of the megacity. But beyond the familiar the great cities of Asia. From colonial architecture images of sky scrapers and bustling crowds is a in Singapore and Mumbai to indigenous different China. This is a land of extremes and great architecture in Bhutan and ultra-modern Shanghai, natural beauty, where ancient traditions and beliefs Jason travels the continent to find structures that still survive. With unique access, this beautifully have stood the test of time, and discovers that to shot series tells the untold stories of families who design for the future, we must learn from the past. live in remote and uncharted parts of China.

Magnificent Megacities Little Big World, Series 1-5

Format: 5 x 53 (HD) Format: 8 x 25 / 70+ short-form episodes (HD, 4K) Broadcaster: ARTE The world is smaller than you think in this award- Kuala Lumpur, Casablanca, Jakarta, Dubai, and winning time-lapse series. Little Big World turns Muscat: This series features five of the most the most beautiful locations on earth into adorable fascinating megacities in our globalized world, each miniature models. Travel the globe in this bite-size a symbiosis of old and new. In each city, the tradition show, including 20 brand new episodes available of the souq and the mosque converges with the in 4K, from Chicago to the Niagara Falls, from the contemporary world of skyscrapers and the varied lives Bahamas to the Austrian Alps. Available as short- of the people inhabiting these modern metropolises. form episodes and as a long-form series. City Time Traveller

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Travel USA Travel Oz, Series 1-4

Format: 3 x 30 (HD) Format: 103 x 29 (HD) Broadcaster: Seven Network Broadcaster: ABC, Seven Network

Join award-winning host Greg Grainger on a In this new season of Travel Oz, veer off the beaten journey of a lifetime as he discovers the best of US track and adventure to Australia’s most awe- destinations, events and characters. From the native inspiring locations. Discover extraordinary wildlife dancers of Lake Tahoe to the gun-toting Beattie from humpback whales to tree kangaroos, dive into cowboys of Goldfield, Nevada, Greg will go racing vibrant coral reefs, take a ride on historic railways, on the Texas speedway, visit an indoor rodeo, and and enjoy the very best food and wine known to experience bobsledding first hand in Utah! man. This is the definitive guide to Australia.

Across the World with Te Radar Across the Pacific with Te Radar

Format: 16 x 23 (HD) Format: 13 x 23 (HD) Broadcaster: TVNZ Broadcaster: TVNZ

Eco-adventurer Te Radar goes on a global search Charismatic explorer Te Radar takes us on an to find out more about the innovative ways in which entertaining journey to discover the wonders of people are helping the environment. Radar explores the beautiful Pacific Islands. From Easter Island’s everything from British cars fuelled with waste famous statues and stunning Hollywood film chocolate diesel and hyper-efficient light bulbs locations in Hawaii to exploring Fiji’s cannibal in China to America’s algae and alligator fat oil history, Radar goes off the beaten track to meet the alternatives and Cuba’s natural farming solutions. locals and learn about their rich and unique cultures.

Fill My Tank Bridge the Gap

Format: 6 x 23 (HD) Format: 4 x 60 (HD) Broadcaster: Channel NewsAsia Broadcaster: PBS

Intrepid environmentalist Sean Lee-Davies discovers Be inspired by this action packed series from how we can fuel our future without fossil fuels. Chris Bashinelli, featuring a brand new Mongolian Converting used cooking oil to bio-fuel, he drives adventure! From motorcycle rides across the from Singapore to an orphanage in Cambodia, mountains of East Africa, to rap battles in a Haitian where they desperately need his bio-fuel generator. slum and escaping venomous bees in Uganda, Using everything from wind and sun to pig manure Chris plays, parties, and works side by side with along the way this is the green road trip of a lifetime! locals in order to better understand their way of life.

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Fabulocity My Dubai

Format: 6 x 24 (HD) Format: 4 x 26 (HD) Broadcaster: OUTtv One of the fastest growing cities in the world, Fabulocity sends vibrant hosts to cities all over Dubai is a hot spot for tourism and luxury. Across the world to uncover the one thing you can’t find four episodes come camel riding and falcon flying in any guidebook: how fabulous a place really is! in the desert before cooling off with some indoor Accompanied by travel experts, the hosts travel skiing. Discover the world’s richest horse race and the globe and report back with each city’s four- largest shopping mall, sing along to a Katy Perry part Fabulocity findings: Flair, Energy, Flavour and concert, and hear from Bedouin elders giving Shine. How does your city stack up? insight into their rich cultural heritage.

The Unknown Paradise Grand Earth

Format: 1 x 45 (HD, 4K) Format: 6 x 44 (HD) Broadcaster: NDR, WDR Broadcaster: Mediacorp

Shot in stunning 4K, this film is an expedition to How have human beings adapted to living in the the real Isles of Scilly in the UK. With a mixture of world’s most extraordinary environments? From underwater and aerial footage, as well as interviews Mayan forest tribes to Nepali Sherpas, Chinese Hani with local experts, we explore the forgotten history people to Yemeni desert islanders, Moroccan Berbers of the islands. Outstandingly beautiful, uncrowded to Italian cave dwellers, Grand Earth explores the and unspoilt – discover a world of pirates, lost fascinating communities that live in harmony with the galleons and glistening white beaches. natural marvels found in their own backyards. Fabulocity

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The World from Above, Series Brazil From Above 1-10 Format: 6 x 30 / 1 x 52 (HD) Format: 134 x 26 (HD) From the award-winning production company This highly popular, breathtaking series of aerial behind bestselling international franchise The programmes offers an entirely different view of the World From Above come these beautiful special world. From 10,000ft high to just a few feet above editions. The stunning, tailor-made programmes the ground, we discover new perspectives through explore Brazil through incredible aerial footage, thrilling journeys: from mountains and the world’s featuring the impressive cities of Rio and Sao most picturesque cities, to fantastic castles and Paolo, highlights along the east coast and the great natural wonders of the globe. venturing inland to Brasilia.

South Africa: An Aerial Journey Aerial Britain

Format: 1 x 52 (HD) Format: 3 x 52 (HD)

South Africa has long been famous for the beaches A three-part series: Building Britain is an aerial of Cape Town, but what does the rest of South history of architectural style in a country which Africa look like? Fly around the country to discover boasts a huge variety of domestic architecture. just how much beauty South Africa has to offer. Britain at Work explores the British landscape for From mountain ranges, deep canyons, incredible evidence of its past industries, from sheep farming wildlife and glorious beaches, to thriving modern in Tudor times to steel production in the 19th cities, this is a dramatic aerial journey showing that century. Spiritual Britain shows how sacred and South Africa really is the Rainbow Nation. secular places have shaped the fabric of Britain.

Fortress Britain Sky View

Format: 1 x 47 (HD) Format: 4 x 27 (HD) Broadcaster: Smithsonian Channel Broadcaster: Smithsonian Channel

From Iron Age hill forts and Roman castles, The Sky View series takes us on four stunning through Norman and medieval castles to Tudor aerial trips around some of the most beautiful fortifications and Victorian coastal forts, Fortress scenery in Europe – the coast of Ireland, a Britain is an eye-catching and awe-inspiring aerial spectacular bird’s eye view of the French Riviera, journey around the fascinating landmarks that an historic voyage from Florence to Rome and an were born out of what was once described as ‘the inspiring journey through the abundant treasures monstrous art of castle building’. of the beautiful British Isles.

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Britain’s Great Outdoors, Series 1 & 2 Wainwright Walks, Series 1 & 2

Format: S1 8 x 30 (HD), S2 6 x 30 (HD) Format: S1 4 x 30, S2 6 x 30 (HD) Broadcaster: ITV Broadcaster: BBC

Outdoor fanatic Julia Bradbury takes us on a Expert walker Julia Bradbury attempts the hikes visually stunning exploration of Britain’s best-loved of remarkable Lake District fell-walker and author landscape trails and hidden gems. Armed with expert Alfred Wainwright. Julia sets out on England’s knowledge and aerial cameras, Julia’s countryside most impressive fell-walks, with aerial cameras mission sees her scale the world’s tallest water tracking her over mountains and water. Featuring wheel, visit Scotland’s largest loch and climb one of Wainwright’s friends, prepare for stormy ridges, the UK’s highest mountains along the way. disappeared villages, and thrilling peaks.

Wainwright Walks: Coast to Coast Coast and Country: South Africa, Germany & Iceland Format: 6 x 27 (HD) Broadcaster: ITV Format: 4 x 29, 4 x 27, 1 x 59 (All HD) Broadcaster: BBC Julia Bradbury is off to Northern England, following the final trek of legendary guidebook writer Alfred Julia Bradbury goes global! She explores South Wainwright, which takes her from the Irish to Africa’s stunning spots, and its claim to be ‘a world the North Sea. Aerial cameras follow Bradbury in one country’. In Germany she grapples with through rain and sun, from the Pennines’, known sublime landscapes and the country’s renowned as ‘England’s Spine’, over the rugged North York Romanticism movement, while in Iceland she hikes Moors, and across to the magical Robin Hood’s Bay. an infamous route ending at a volcano.

Coast and Country: Railways, Scenic Journeys on British Canals & Cloudspotting and Irish Waterways

Format: 6 x 29, 4 x 29, 1 x 90 / 2 x 47 (All HD) Format: 3 x 58 (HD) Broadcaster: BBC This stunning mini-series takes us along some Julia Bradbury is getting back in touch with her of the British Isles’ most enchanting waterways; homeland, so she’s travelling by train and boat to from the historical Thames, through the beautiful discover Britain’s most scenic walks. Meanwhile Lake District to Scotland’s mysterious Loch Gavin Pretor-Pinney, inspired by his international Ness. Historians and experts reveal how these bestseller ‘The Cloudspotter’s Guide’ surveys the waterways have continued to shape and develop land from above and uncovers an all new cloud type. society and landscape throughout the ages.

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Footloose in London Footloose in Europe

Format: 4 x 26 Format: 22 x 26

This is a glorious summer walking trail through the Join Debra and David Rixon on a tour of the heart of the UK capital, hosted by Debra Rixon most breathtaking sights in Europe, including the and filmed by her husband David. They show a Highlands of Scotland, the Cinque Terre of Italy, low-cost way to see the famous sights by taking and the delightful cities of Prague, Dubrovnik, a 20km trail along London’s historic streets – Budapest and Amsterdam. The energetic couple through the Royal Parks, Westminster, the City discover beautiful trails, seeking out local people, and the South Bank, meeting lots of interesting curiosities, history and cuisine, offering viewers a characters on the way. host of handy travel tips.

The River Series: The Nile, Disappearing London the Thames and the Seine Format: 6 x 23 Broadcasters: ITV, Sky Format: 1 x 26, 1 x 52, 1 x 27

The River Series is a stunning mix of adventure, Graham ‘Suggs’ McPherson, lead singer of history and culture. The visual diary of the River Madness, sets off on a fun journey back in time Nile captures a land suspended in time, the second through London to celebrate the endangered episode follows the River Thames though the heart buildings and open spaces which give this capital its of England’s past and present, and the final portrait special charm and unique character. Along the way of the River Seine showcases the architecture, Disappearing London meets the ordinary Londoners gardens and people of Paris. for whom these places hold special memories. The Last Tribes of Europe

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The Last Tribes of Europe The World’s Festivals: Series 1 & 2

Format: 4 x 52 (HD) Format: S1 10 x 27 (HD), S2 12 x 29 (HD) Broadcaster: ARTE, MDR, SR Broadcaster: Voyage

The Last Tribes of Europe reveals the fascinating Multicoloured costumes, music, dancing, laughter, surviving traditions, customs and languages of the emotion, suspense – these are the ingredients of Aromanians of Macedonia, the Carpathian Hutsuls, The World’s Festivals. Across five continents, the the Kashubians in Northern Poland and the Siberian series follows local families as they celebrate a Chukchi – a voyage of discovery into unfamiliar and traditional festival, uncovering the significance of colourful cultures not far from our own doorsteps, rituals which are unique to a country, city or region, yet wholly removed from the rest of modern Europe. passed down from generation to generation.

Mysteries, Myths and Legends Sherpa: The Proving Grounds

Format: 1 x 47 (HD) Format: 1 x 52 / 1 x 71 Broadcaster: Smithsonian Channel From the perilous origins of Himalayan Mysteries, Myths and Legends takes a dramatic mountaineering and the first expeditions to tour of Britain’s mysterious past, highlighting utilise the unique strengths of the Sherpa tribe, a wealth of mystical, sacred and legendary this adventurous film traces the arduous training places. These places challenge modern thinking programme of the Himalayan Mountaineering about technology and raise questions about the Institute’s 28-day women’s course and the engineering, religion, astronomy and history of extraordinary, brave young women who take part. Britain’s varied ancestors. Features Mount Everest legend Nawang Gombu.

Infinity Himalaya The World’s Highest Race

Format: 1 x 48 (HD) Format: 1 x 52 (HD)

An incredible quest following the daring attempt La Ultra is one of the cruelest ultra marathons on of three-times world champions Horacio Llorens the planet – competitors have to run the gruelling and Veso Ovcharov to beat the world record in 222km in under 60 hours. With altitudes of over acroparagliding in the Himalayas. Can Horacio 4500 metres, this is the world’s highest race. We complete 281 ‘Infinity Tumbles’ and survive the follow runner Lisa Tamati and her team as they battle 5300m plunge from the Machapure summit? With storms, altitude sickness and sheer exhaustion. Will astounding feats of courage and skill and stunning Lisa and her international competitors have what it scenery this is an adventure not to be missed! takes to finish the race of their lives?

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All 4 Adventure: Across the Top Untamed with Davey Hughes

Format: 12 x 43 (HD) Format: 9 x 23 (HD) Broadcaster: Seven Network Broadcaster: Prime TV

Join madcap explorers Jase and Simon on an epic Expert hunter and fearless adventurer Davey Hughes journey to some of the wildest and most remote embarks on nine very different and challenging corners of Australia! From the Great Barrier Reef voyages in some of the most spectacular, far-flung to the Northern Territory this series is a unique corners of the globe. From Africa to Alaska, Australia combination of fishing, wildlife, 4x4 mayhem, and to Norway, Davey ventures into the great outdoors survival tips that is unlike any other adventure offering viewers a unique insight into the world’s programme on television. most amazing cultures.

Earthrace River to Reef, Series 1-6

Format: 2 x 52 Format: 70 x 26 (HD)

Shot over a four-year period in over 20 countries, Join the River to Reef team as they explore Earthrace follows Captain Pete Bethune’s Australia’s unique and stunning coastline. With attempt to break the world record in global trailer boat in tow they pursue some of the most circumnavigation, sailing on renewable fuel alone in spectacular holiday destinations with serious a specially designed vessel to promote Biodiesel. fishing, wildlife and adventure for all the family at But as disaster besets the project, Pete’s passion the best beaches and local attractions - ranging begins to balance on the edge of obsession… from Queensland to Tasmania.

Uncovering Botswana with Indian Journeys Alexander McCall Smith Format: 3 x 50 Broadcaster: BBC Format: 1 x 52 Broadcaster: SVT A landmark of the 20th century, Indian Journeys Best-selling author Alexander McCall Smith travels to delves into some of the great spiritual journeys of Botswana, inspiration for The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective India’s past and shows how they have influenced Agency. This film introduces viewers to Botswana’s the country. These ambitious journeys are familiar unique character and beauty, and accompanies territory for presenter William Dalrymple whose McCall Smith as he visits the SOS Children’s Village best-selling books on India have made him a known so well by fans of his books. leading writer of his generation.

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Coloured Skies Dance of the Severed Head

Format: 1 x 58 Format: 1 x 51 (HD) Broadcaster: BBC The spectacular Gajon Folk Festival has taken place Featured in Khaled Hosseini’s best-selling book for hundreds of years in the village of Kurmun, West The Kite Runner, the celebration of Makar Bengal. In honour of Lord Shiva, Gajon Sanyasis, Sankranti in Ahmedabad, India, is more than just or monks, dance around with a decayed human a festival – it is a social phenomenon that reaches head. For the first time ever, Karma Wangchuk, a deep into the heart of a city and reveals something filmmaker from Bhutan, has been granted access profound about their culture. Coloured Skies behind the scenes to find out the history and captures this beautifully. mystery behind this controversial ritual.

An Oriental Affair Beyond Beijing

Format: 1 x 46 Format: 4 x 58 Broadcasters: CTV, PBS The Mandarin Oriental Hotel has stood proudly on the waterfront in the heart of Hong Kong for Using the six Olympic cities as a prism through several decades. It is one of the best hotels in which to explore China’s culture, history and the world, but it is more than just a hotel – it people, as well as the lives of foreigners who have epitomises the city. Best-selling author Simon made China their home, Beyond Beijing is a series Winchester looks at the part that this legendary that discovers the vibrancy and contradictions hotel has played in Hong Kong life throughout the of modern China, from hi-tech Hong Kong to ages, and why it is dear to the hearts of so many. tradition-steeped Laoshan Mountain.

True Hawaii Ticket to Ride

Format: 1 x 55 (HD) Format: 13 x 24 Broadcaster: UKTV It’s one of the most remote island chains in the world and lures more than six million travellers Six twenty-somethings take Betty the London each year, but few visitors experience True Hawaii. bus from the UK capital via Canada to Tierra del This new film immerses viewers in the island’s Fuego, the southernmost point of South America. explosive history and jaw-dropping beauty while As the crew experience the highs and lows of uncovering its unique culture and traditions that living together for 8 months, they travel through are still alive today. Including exclusive footage of some of the world’s most spectacular countries Hawaii’s magnificent golden age. and breathtaking landscapes.

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Along the Mississippi Route 66

Format: 3 x 43 (HD) Format: 3 x 43 (HD) Broadcaster: ZDF, ARTE Broadcaster: ZDF, ARTE

Along the Mississippi transports viewers along Route 66 is America’s legendary ‘Mother Road.’ the banks and rich culture of the Mississippi, Since its opening over 80 years ago, it has the largest water system in North America. This connected Chicago with Los Angeles – 3940 fascinating series takes us on a journey to the soul kilometres through eight states and four time of this great country, capturing its spirit through its zones. Today, the remains of ‘66’ offer a nostalgic people and myth, from Mark Twain to Elvis Presley and engaging tour through a dramatic and and the original home of Jazz. adventurous chapter of American history.

Voyage to the American The Hadza Stonehenge Format: 1 x 52 Broadcasters: M-Net Format: 1 x 48

Tiwanaku in the Bolivian highlands is an ancient This is a young New Yorker’s journey into the city scattered with huge temples, pyramids and culture and traditions of one of the original monoliths. Yet the nearest quarry that could have peoples of Africa, a unique and ancient tribe produced these rocks lies some 20 kilometres on under siege. The programme follows five Hadza the other side of Lake Titicaca. This film chronicles companions who convey the dilemma, providing one researcher’s expedition to prove how the an adventurous yet unromanticised look at the American Stonehenge was created. effects of the first world on Africa.

African Diaries African Odyssey

Format: 13 x 26 Format: 13 x 26

African Diaries takes the viewer on a tour of some This series showcases a photographer’s journey of the most luxurious resorts in the world, places across Africa. Rich and ancient cultures, unique where the rich and famous stand face to face with flora and fauna, scenic wonders and immense ‘The Big Five’. Narrated by South African actress silent landscapes combine to create a tapestry of Sandra Prinsloo, African Diaries takes you to the great bounty inhabited only by wild animals and a wildest corners of Africa, the locations visited in few privileged visitors. From the central Kalahari this extraordinary series convey the diversity of the desert to the lush Sabi Sand Reserves of South African continent. Africa, this series is a feast for the eyes.

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Going Bush Backpacking Australia

Format: 4 x 28 Format: 13 x 33 Broadcaster: SBS Broadcaster: UKTV

Lonely Planet’s up-beat guide to indigenous Part travelogue, part extreme sports series, Australia, hosted by Gold Olympic champion Backpacking Australia is a fast-moving account of Cathy Freeman and real-life friend and actress the adventures of a group of young travellers from Deborah Mailman. Together the girls hit the road all over the world. From bungee jumping and sky to take a fresh look at Aboriginal Australia, now a diving to swimming with dolphins, each episode major hot-spot for the country’s 5 million tourists. unravels the backpackers’ adrenalin-fuelled With stunning scenery and great local characters. experiences of a lifetime.

Packed! If It Doesn’t Kill You

Format: 6 x 23 Format: 5 x 26 Broadcaster: Travel and Escape If It Doesn’t Kill You is a fly on the wall When 39 twenty-somethings climb on board a bus documentary which shows what happens when bound for the hottest destinations along the coast six troubled teenagers board an old fishing of Australia, anything can happen! This series boat and set sail for Australia’s wildest coasts, follows a group of young explorers from all corners including Australia’s Bass Strait, for the adventure of the globe. Packed with adventure and drama, of a lifetime. The rules are: no drugs, no alcohol, including skydiving, beach parties and romance, it no violence. But these people have never been will have you hooked from the very start… good at following rules… Route 66

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John Torode’s Asia

Format: 10 x 23 (HD) Broadcaster: UKTV

Join Masterchef presenter and celebrity chef John Torode on his culinary adventure of a lifetime. From Amritsar to Bangkok, Macau to the Maldives, John discovers new recipes that inspire us to bring the flavours and colours of Asia into our own cooking. A gorgeous and passionate exploration of the continent’s top culinary destinations.

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Simply Delicious 101 Easy Indian Recipes

Format: 41 x 1-7 (HD) Format: 101 x 3-5 minute shorts (HD,4K)

Our latest bite-sized series of recipes will satisfy Master the art of Indian cooking with our collection even the biggest of appetites! Watch and learn how of simple recipes. Selected from across India, we to whip up meals like pizza, lamb, grilled tuna, and bring you the country’s finest authentic dishes. basic sauces like marinades and salad dressings, Learn how to brew masala chai to serve with or expand your cooking repertoire with episodes crunchy fritters, cook up a delectable potato curry on sizzling lemongrass sauce, grilled nectarines and bake a whole range of delicious breads. With and cream, and many more. Non-verbal and artfully easy-to-follow videos in 4K, it’s time to cook some filmed, these recipe shorts will appeal to all tastes. irresistible Indian food!

Video Cookbook Seasons at Terroir

Format: 1-5 minute shorts (HD) Format: 6 x 50 (HD) Broadcaster: Brand New Media Broadcaster: National Geographic Channel

With 100 new episodes just added to the collection, Join acclaimed chef Michael Broughton for a year discover the perfect dish for any occasion and be of seasonally inspired cooking at his world famous inspired with this decadent home cooking buffet restaurant Terroir. Michael pushes his young chefs of easy-to-follow video recipes from the very best and trainees to greater heights as they cook for international chefs. Indulge in hundreds of diverse some of South Africa’s top food critics. Can they recipes - from quick meals and home cooking rise to the pressure in this increasingly competitive staples to exotic delicacies and holiday favourites! arena where nothing less than perfection will do?

The Ultimate Braai Master, Series 1-5 Spirits of Asia

Format: 65 x 48 (HD) Format: 8 x 23 (HD) Broadcaster: SABC, e.tv Broadcaster: Channel NewsAsia

Welcome to the world’s toughest outdoor cooking Discover the exotic world of Asia’s drinking culture, competition! 13 teams will travel the length and from Indian whiskey to Cambodian brandy. What breadth of South Africa, visiting epic locations does it take to produce a truly world class spirit? along the way whilst competing in various fire- Can Asia be the next bastion of superior libations? based cooking challenges. Only one team will And what is motivating this radically changing walk away with the cash, the car and the highly mindset? Armed with a good hangover cure, we coveted title of the Ultimate Braai Master! get to the heart of the new Asian spirits.

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Get Fresh with Al Brown Galleons of Spice

Format: 10 x 24 (HD) Format: 7 x 26 (HD) Broadcaster: TVNZ Renowned chef and charismatic food presenter Acclaimed chef Al Brown heads to the far corners Cyrus Todiwala (OBE) goes on a gastronomic tour of stunning New Zealand, tracking down the best of the 500-year-old Spice Route between Goa and markets, finest produce and freshest ingredients Portugal. In a journey that mixes high-end cookery of each region. With his mobile kitchen in tow, Al with stunning travel, Cyrus uncovers the cultural experiments with choice food and wine along the connections between these exotic lands and way, working out sensational menus which he creates new delicious spicy dishes to serve to his serves to discerning guests at dinner each evening. fellow chef friends in London.

Cooking with Nick Stellino, Series 1 & 2 Go Greek with Patricia Vasos

Format: S1 13 x 26 (HD), S2 13 x 26 (HD) Format: 8 x 23 (HD) Broadcaster: PBS Join Greek-American chef Patricia Vasos for a Acclaimed chef Nick Stellino shares the secrets fresh look at Greek cuisine. Patricia cooks up of delicious Italian home cooking in these juicy recipes in spectacular outdoor settings, entertaining series. Selecting ingredients from the from traditional meals to hip and exciting new best, local food producers, Nick prepares both creations, and takes us on a journey through classic Italian dishes and modern favourites with Greek culture, from Crete to glamorous a twist. This show is packed with tips, easy to Cephalonia. Perfect for food and travel slots, the follow recipes and mouth watering dishes. series makes for scrumptious television.

Delicious Iceland A Taste of Greenland

Format: 6 x 26 (HD) Format: 5 x 52 / 10 x 26 (HD)

Want to be more adventurous in the kitchen? Endlessly energetic chef Chris Coubrough finds a Then take some tips from Chef Volli, a hot new wealth of new culinary inspiration on an exciting talent on the culinary scene, as he travels around gastronomic journey around the beautiful uncharted Iceland. Combining his passion for food and love territory of Greenland. With his self-sustaining of the outdoors, he uses the freshest ingredients, background, Chris seeks out the most natural conjuring up simple yet mouthwatering dishes Greenlandic produce, cooking up a storm with the guaranteed to spice up anyone’s home cooking! delicious and surprisingly diverse local fare!

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Beer Country Beer: An Insider’s Guide

Format: 6 x 26 (HD) Format: 6 x 24 Broadcaster: Discovery Channel Join the masters of fire-side cooking, Greg and Karl, on an epic journey into the world of craft beer. Beer is by far the most popular alcoholic beverage South Africa’s craft beer revolution is truly hopping, on the planet, with 120 billion litres being drunk so come along for the ride as Greg and Karl travel each year across the world. But how much do we across stunning landscapes in their trusty Land really know about it? Beer: An Insider’s Guide is Rover meeting the brewers, learning about the beers a fascinating series which finally gives the ancient and cooking up some hearty outdoor feasts using brew the recognition it deserves, offering viewers beer as a key ingredient! the chance to become true beer connoisseurs.

The Winemaker Smokestack Lightning

Format: 6 x 25 Format: 1 x 56 Broadcaster: PBS An exploration of the American South through Twelve hopefuls from all walks of life compete the tradition of barbecue, Smokestack Lightning for a dream come true – the chance to create unveils the history and heritage of this food from and launch their very own wine label. Set in its rural beginnings to its present day incarnation central California, The Winemakers follows these in large scale commercial organisations. From candidates as they learn the ins and outs of North Carolina to Texas and Kansas City, the wine making and are tested in front of a panel of film looks at the African, Mexican and European judges, world class sommeliers and wine critics. contributions to the American barbecue.

Original Fare A Shore Thing

Format: 10 x 26 (HD) Format: 10 x 23 Broadcaster: PBS Broadcaster: Discovery Channel

Travelling foodie and adventurer Kelly Cox hunts, A Shore Thing is an entertaining hybrid of fishing, forages and farms her way across the globe, cooking and travel programming. With unique searching out the best ingredients our planet has access to the world’s most remote fishing to offer! From truffle hunting in Italy and Scotch communities, this mouth-watering series takes brewing in Scotland to salmon fishing in Alaska and the viewer on a whirlwind gastronomic tour of artisanal cheese making in France, Kelly uncovers the globe, including Mexico and Fiji, with unique the secrets behind the ultimate craft food and drink. access to remote fishing communities worldwide.

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Peta Unplugged in Marrakech Peta Unplugged in Tahiti

Format: 6 x 25 Format: 1 x 44

Join Peta as she guides her gastro-nomads on a Experience the mesmerising islands of French culinary and cultural tour of Marrakech. Featuring Polynesia with charismatic world traveller and food cooking classes both in the field and at home, expert Peta Mathias. In this sensual feast, Peta with Peta’s highly entertaining and informative experiences heavenly island produce with both personal insights, Peta Unplugged in Marrakech is traditional and modern cooking lessons. an intoxicating blend of food, fun, lifestyle, fashion Her refreshing insights into Tahitian life will have and music – a direct line to the warm heart of a you longing for an island escape, so pack your culture rich in tradition and hospitality. bags for an hour of fabulous freedom.

Peta Mathias: Culinary Adventures Peta Unplugged: 10 Fabulous in the South of France Recipes for Summer Entertaining

Format: 6 x 25 (HD) Format: 10 x 10

Peta Mathias hits the rustic South of France to In this practical kitchen companion, Peta Mathias sample its exquisite cuisine. Follow Peta’s culinary demonstrates 10 dishes, from the tantalizing students, as they experience the Languedoc arrangement of ingredients at the start to the Roussillon, a region rich with mouth-watering food visual symphony at recipe’s end. Dishes include: and wonderful wines. The series is peppered with Cheese and Apple Gougères, Baked Camembert, easy-to-follow recipes, as students cook up a Thin Tomato Tart, Crayfish with Lemon Wasabi feast in the rustic country kitchen. Soldiers and Summer Pudding.

Antony Worrall Thompson: Martin Yan – True Passion Adventures In Brunei Format: 8 x 24 (HD) Broadcaster: Asian Food Channel Format: 1 x 52 Broadcaster: Discovery Channel Ever since his debut in the PBS Yan Can Cook Top chef Antony Worrall Thompson travels around series, Martin Yan, the first ever Asian chef on Brunei on his most ambitious culinary adventure international television, has wowed worldwide to date. In this tiny kingdom in Southeast Asia, audiences with his legendary culinary skills and immensely rich in culture and traditional cuisine, humour. In this unique series, Martin explores Thompson delves into aromatic markets and learns the pairing of Western wines with his favourite how to make homegrown dishes and delicacies. contemporary Chinese dishes.

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Floyd on Spain Floyd on Italy

Format: 7 x 30 Format: 7 x 30 Broadcaster: BBC Broadcaster: BBC

Internationally renowned television chef Keith Floyd’s mission is to discover the varied tastes Floyd goes in search of the true flavour of Spain. and rich regional diversity of Italian cuisine. From Galacia and Catalonia to Andalucia, this Travelling from Venice and Puglia to Sicily, Floyd series celebrates the food and drink of regional abandons all accepted conventions as he forays Spain in restaurants, bars and mountain tops into the best restaurants and the most luscious across the length and breadth of this rich and vineyards. He prepares exquisite dishes amidst diverse country. the classic scenery.

Floyd Around the Med Floyd Uncorked

Format: 9 x 24 Format: 8 x 24 Broadcaster: Channel 5 Broadcaster: Channel 5

In this stylish and flamboyant series, lubricated Floyd takes a rest from his kitchen and dedicates with olive oil and washed down with wine, Floyd some time to his favourite hobby as he sets off for makes a magical journey through the rich and the summer to explore the stunning wine regions varied cultures of the Mediterranean. Along the of France. The adventurous chef is interested way, he explores the lifestyles of the local people in seeing the local beauty spots, meeting all the and discovers their history, architecture and world people, eating the delicious local produce and, renowned gastronomy. above all, tasting the wine!

Floyd on Africa Far Flung Floyd

Format: 7 x 30 Format: 7 x 30 Broadcaster: BBC Broadcaster: BBC

Boisterous and bubbly Floyd travels to Africa, This series takes Floyd to South-East Asia where visiting a number of regions and cooking he explores the distinct languages, cultures and traditional dishes from each area using a variety geography – from Hong Kong and Malaysia to of heat sources, in breathtaking and sometimes Vietnam and Thailand. The chef’s locations include surprising surroundings. The incredibly diverse fishing boats and stunning beaches, and he also locations featured include Zambia, Madagascar, weaves his way into the homes and kitchens of Zimbabwe and South Africa. local families and celebrities alike.

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Capital Floyd Floyd’s India

Format: 7 x 24 Format: 8 x 24 Broadcaster: Channel 5 Keith Floyd is back for a new, eight-part outing Eccentric chef Keith Floyd returns for a seven- exploring the mouth-watering cuisine of India. part series, exploring five European cities chosen The famous TV chef returns with his familiar style, for their diverse and contrasting cuisines and combining lively al fresco feasts with outstanding cultures. Join Keith for an epic journey across natural scenery and landscapes. On his food- Europe, along with two Christmas Specials shot in finding mission across the Indian sub-continent, Keith’s very own kitchen and the beautiful snow- Floyd takes us to West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, clad Norwegian mountains. Kerala, Goa, Punjab, Rajasthan and Maharashtra.

Floyd’s Fjord Fiesta Culinary China

Format: 7 x 30 Format: 2 x 46 Broadcaster: BBC Broadcaster: Discovery Channel

Keith Floyd goes on a culinary adventure, An epicurean journey of China and Hong Kong traversing the frozen arctic wastelands of Lapland, that unravels the wonders of one of the most crossing Sweden and Denmark, heading to ancient and loved cuisines in the world: Chinese Norway’s majestic fjords, and finishing up in cuisine. The first episode gives an insight into the Greenland. From herring fillets with dill to smoked inventions of chopsticks, hotpot, beancurd and loin of pork in cherry sauce, Scandinavian cuisine noodles. The second episode introduces the four is brought vividly to life. most expensive and sought after foods on earth.

A Chinese Feast Chef in Black

Format: 1 x 52 Format: 10 x 26

Amidst the fast changes of China’s advance, one Join celebrity culinary explorer Emmanuel thing remains constant – the Chinese passion for, Stroobant as he rides through Singapore’s assorted or obsession with food. A Chinese Feast probes cuisine roadmap, from the chilli crab district of the Chinese psyche, going back thousands of Geylang to the delectable roti parkas found in the years to track down ancient dietary habits and hawker centres. Chef in Black unmasks the vast returning to modern day China to witness the array of unique cuisines, all in his signature style, ever-growing Chinese appetite. A visually enticing discovering the local flavours and warm culture of documentary that’s sure to whet your appetite! the smallest country in Southeast Asia.

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The Healthy Food Guide

Format: 10 x 23 (HD) Broadcaster: Choice TV

This entertaining food series busts the myths, navigates the jargon and breaks down the science to deliver the tools and recipes we need to improve our health. Using the food we eat and how we eat it as the main focus, the series takes a holistic approach to our overall wellbeing and address topics related to stress, sleep, exercise and lifestyle.

The Food Files vs. Diabetes The Food Files, Series 1–3

Format: 5 x 23 (HD) Format: 40 x 30 (HD) Broadcaster: Mediacorp Broadcaster: Mediacorp

Popular food detective Nikki Muller returns to Foodie and health guru Nikki Muller investigates investigate diabetes – the world’s sixth highest the real health benefits and risks of our favourite cause of death. What’s the difference between foods, exploring each food’s origins and dispelling type 1 & 2? What kind of foods should be avoided, nutritional myths. Leading scientists, doctors and and how can we treat it? Through a series of fun nutritionists demystify the science and unravel to experiments, and with the help of medical experts, processes of food production, for everything from Nikki debunks the myths around this deadly disease. curry to chicken, and juices to plane food.

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Man Up ADHD: Not Just For Kids

Format: 3 x 60 (HD) Format: 1 x 45 (HD) Broadcaster: ABC Broadcaster: CBC

The stereotypical man is strong, silent, and tough Can you have ADHD and not know it? Once associated as nails. But according to research, men are solely with kids, this film dispels the myths about the lonelier, more disconnected, and more vulnerable neurobiological syndrome that children and adults to suicide than ever. Radio host Gus Worland sets often live with unrecognized for years. Top researchers out on a personal journey, from construction sites explain the latest science and explore cutting-edge to boardrooms, to find out why we are losing our therapies, while those who suffer from ADHD share men, and redefining what it means to ‘Man Up’. their shocking stories of self-medication and struggle.

The Truth About Fussy Eaters All in the Mind

Format: 1 x 48 (HD) Format: 1 x 45 (HD) Broadcaster: TVNZ Broadcaster: Prime TV

We all have some foods we can’t bear to eat, but How much is male and female behaviour driven imagine being afraid of all foods! In a television world by differences in our brains? Follow charismatic first, we investigate the newly discovered ARFID neuroscientist Nathan Wallis on a journey to meet – Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder – that leading experts, conduct social experiments can cause blindness, or even death. We follow the and uncover some surprising research. From lives of four extremely fussy eaters at home as they evolutionary theory and sexual disorders to gender receive treatment at a top Eating Disorders clinic. identity, Nathan reveals the truth about our minds.

The Science of Sleep The Addiction Machine

Format: 1 x 44 (HD) Format: 1 x 55 (HD) Broadcaster: CBC Broadcaster: ABC

Sleep has long been regarded as nothing more Slot machines – they’re rigged, they’re addictive, than a way to charge our batteries. But what if it and they’re everywhere. For the first time, the can control our weight, allow us to make memories, masterminds behind the machines reveal how and help us to fight off diseases like Alzheimer’s? they’re programmed for addiction. In addition to We travel the world to investigate how revolutionary neuroscientists, anthropologists and game theorists, new technology has revealed the sleeping brain as we hear from those victims who have fallen prey to an energetic and purposeful machine. what they describe as an ‘unlawful hypnotism’.

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The Truth About Risk Detox!

Format: 1 x 52 (HD) Format: 2 x 47 (HD) Broadcaster: TVO, Knowledge Network Broadcaster: TLC

Crossing the road, eating a burger, climbing a What exactly does China know about a healthy mountain – these all have risks involved, but what mind, body and spirit that the rest of the world is their true risk factor? Filmmaker Robert Lang seems to be missing out on? Celebrity chef is on a mission to find out. He travels across the and restaurateur Bobby Chin is on a mission to world meeting the world’s top risk experts, from a recharge his batteries, centre his chi, and give his Cambridge statistician to an extreme ice climber, to body some long overdue detox. But these ancient discover the truth about the risks in all of our lives. treatments will push his body to the limit!

What’s Really In Our Food? Series 1-4 What’s Really In Our…?

Format: 40 x 23 + 1 x 52 Format: 10 x 23 Broadcaster: TV3 Broadcaster: TV3

This fascinating series investigates a diverse The inquisitive Petra Bagust opens up our range of foods, debunking common myths and bathroom cabinets to get the lowdown on some misunderstandings surrounding nutrition. What’s of the most ubiquitous cosmetic products we use Really In Our Food reveals the true extent of the every day. From sunscreens to moisturisers to hair health benefits and hidden risks in our diets. dyes, Petra and the experts investigate how our Featuring our favourite foods from burgers and favourite products work, if they work, and whether milk to bottled water and diet foods. they include dangerous toxins.

The Cholesterol Question The Truth About Vitamins

Format: 1 x 45 (HD) Format: 1 x 52 (HD) Broadcaster: CBC Broadcaster: CBC

This is a hard-hitting investigation into the link We all think we know about vitamins – and we’re between cholesterol and one of today’s biggest told they’re essential – but why do we need them killers – heart disease. Told with state-of-the-art and why can’t we produce them ourselves? animation, The Cholesterol Question features the These are a few questions on the mind of intrepid world’s leading scientific authorities who reveal filmmaker and health-freak Bryce Sage who the latest insights and dispel age-old myths. This travels from Washington DC to San Francisco to is essential science at its most gripping. get to the bottom of the vitamin mystery.

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Superfoods Fresh Fruit Fakers

Format: 1-5 minute shorts (HD) Format: 1 x 53 (HD) Broadcaster: Brand New Media Broadcaster: France 5

So, what is all the rage about chia seeds, kale & Government campaigns across the world are quinoa really about? This collection of fun and encouraging people to eat more fruit. But fruits are informative short form episodes will both educate increasingly consumed through fruit-based products: and entertain. We reveal the chocolate that’s good juices, yoghurts, purées or frozen goods. How much for you, the surprising truth behind garlic, and the fruit do these products actually contain, and are super-fruit that can help you lose weight, look they as healthy as fresh fruit? How have brands younger and prolong your life! manipulated fruit campaigns to their advantage?

Tuna: What’s in the Can Pastries, Bread and Mass Deception

Format: 1 x 53 (HD) Format: 1 x 52 (HD) Broadcaster: France 5 Broadcaster: France 5

Cheap and full of protein, cans of tuna are often French artisanal pastries are world renowned, a popular food option. But what’s really in the with millions selling every day. So how have some can? Did you know that many ‘tuna’ cans actually patrons been selling industrially-produced pastries contain another fish nicknamed the ‘sea chicken’? at artisanal prices without telling the consumer? We visit a factory to see how tuna is processed and Pastries, Bread and Mass Deception is an examine how the fishing market of 5 million tons of investigative film featuring leading food experts, tuna per year is threatening species extinction. and concluding with the ultimate pastry taste test!

Chasing Happiness Chasing Sleep

Format: 6 x 23 (HD) Format: 6 x 23 (HD) Broadcaster: Channel NewsAsia Broadcaster: Channel NewsAsia

Happiness comes in many forms – from the warm On average, we spend one third of our lives hug of a loved one to a delicious plate of food. But asleep. Sleep is one of the hottest topics in what exactly is happiness? Is it linked to our genetic science today, but why do we need to sleep? Why makeup, and how can we measure it? Through a is sleep so hard to get for some, and how does series of experiments set up by leading psychologists that affect everything from our performance to our and consultants, this series reveals the latest income? This groundbreaking medical series will research unraveling the mysteries of happiness. make a sleep guru out of you!

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Chasing Longevity The End of Ageing

Format: 6 x 23 (HD) Format: 1 x 52 (HD) Broadcaster: Channel NewsAsia Broadcaster: RTÉ

The acclaimed health franchise returns for its third This pioneering documentary takes an in-depth series, this time investigating the intriguing factors look at the latest science of age prevention. impacting longevity, the process of aging and how Professor Rose Anne Kenny takes us through how to remain in good health in your golden years. we can lengthen our own life spans, explores the Gain practical tips on boosting well-being and consequences of living longer, and explains how life expectancy whilst learning about the science some scientists now believe they are closer than underlying the wisdom. ever before to finding the Elixir of Life.

The Truth About Cheating The Truth About Shoplifting

Format: 1 x 52 (HD) Format: 1 x 52 (HD) Broadcaster: CBC, CNBC Broadcaster: CBC, CNBC

There is a cheating epidemic going on around the The Truth About Shoplifting is a shocking world. It is estimated that at least 75 per cent of examination on the rise in retail crime and how it is students cheat – and research shows that those often our quest for the lowest discount price that who cheat in school go on to cheat in life. This film fuels the market for stolen merchandise. Featuring travels the globe to uncover the techniques and rarely seen before security camera footage, the psychology behind cheating and shocking, real- latest crime-fighting technology and exclusive life examples of dishonesty. interviews with both sides of the law.

The Truth About Liars The Truth About Information Overload Format: 1 x 52 (HD) Broadcaster: CBC, Discovery Channel Format: 1 x 52 (HD) Broadcaster: CBC, CNBC Scientists say that by the age of four we have all learned to lie. We lie to protect ourselves and others, This provocative, fast paced, funny and shocking and to get what we want and need. Featuring the documentary explores how devices such as cell latest science, psychology, and technology, this phones and computers are affecting our personal myth-busting and entertaining documentary reveals lives both for the good and the bad, and leaves us that the only “truth” we know about lying is that with an important question: Can we manage the everyone does it, and we can’t easily detect it. technology around us, or will we let it manage us?

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Taking Back the Years Slaves To Habit

Format: 6 x 30 (HD) Format: 1 x 52 (HD) Broadcaster: VisionTV Broadcaster: CBC

Taking Back the Years is a provocative journey Smoking, overeating, compulsive shopping, nail- through the world’s most interesting and potent biting… We all have bad habits that we would approaches to fighting aging and the famed like to get rid of. This documentary follows three scientists, doctors, researchers, and practitioners individuals as they struggle to break their bad behind them. Features Deepak Chopra and habits and takes an in-depth look at the startling Dr. Aubrey de Grey, the Cambridge University new science on the interaction between brain professor and author of Ending Aging. chemistry, habit, and self-control.

The Biological Mind Brain Damage: The Truth About Trauma Format: 3 x 45 Broadcaster: TVNZ Format: 1 x 52 (HD) Broadcaster: ichannel In this series three serious and increasingly common mental conditions – anxiety, depression According to recent surveys, 80% of prisoners and stress – are examined. Each episode of The have suffered brain injuries. After brain injury 90% Biological Mind looks at one of these illnesses of marriages end in divorce and suicide rates from a biological and physiological point of view, increase fourfold. This documentary explores new always within the context of the conditions’ approaches to helping survivors, through science impacts on daily life. and changes in societal attitudes and legal reform. Brain Damage: The Truth About Trauma

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Music of the Brain Opera Therapy

Format: 1 x 55 Format: 1 x 52 Broadcaster: SBS Music affects our development from the womb to the grave. Featuring international Four people, each of whom has battled with neuropsychologists and music psychologists, cancer, experience the transformative power of this programme examines the role of music in self-expression, as they work to create an opera developing the brains of infants and children, and based on their personal stories. This therapeutic the role of music therapy for hospital patients and process is documented as it unfolds, under the the elderly, showing us how and why music really guidance of a respected opera company and a is good for our health. talented music therapist.

Yogawoman The Laugh Factor

Format: 1 x 55 / 1 x 88 (HD) Format: 1 x 52 Broadcaster: Discovery Channel Narrated by Annette Bening, this is the incredible story behind the global phenomenon that is yoga. A highly entertaining look at the science of Originally brought to the west from India by a laughter. We join a panel of psychologists, lineage of male teachers, there’s now a generation neuroscientists, doctors and other special guests of strong, inspiring women leading the way. From to find out if humour can be used in different the busy streets of Manhattan to the dusty streets aspects of life to make us healthier. The Laugh of Kenya, Yogawoman uncovers how yoga is Factor puts the funny bone firmly under the radically changing people’s lives across the world. microscope with hilarious results.

The New Medicine The Winner Loser

Format: 2 x 56 Format: 1 x 59 (HD) Broadcaster: PBS Broadcaster: BBC

As scientific findings reveal that the mind plays Daniel Macnee can’t even remember what the a critical role in the body’s capacity to heal, the weather was like yesterday. Since a devastating medical community has begun to integrate the condition called hydrocephalus destroyed his best of high-tech medicine with a new attitude memory function 22 years ago, he has created which recognises that it is essential to the healing an extraordinary way of coping and navigating process to treat the patient as a whole person and through life – piecing together his own history and not simply as a single cog in an assembly line. fighting to hold onto his independence.

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Quintuplets Raising Children

Format: 1 x 50 Format: 10 x 23 (HD) Broadcaster: Discovery Channel Broadcaster: TVNZ

Quintuplets is a heartfelt and informative The first few years of a child’s life are crucial to programme which chronicles the Derks family’s his or her development. This series takes you on first year of living with quintuplets, who are born a journey through parenting dilemmas and those prematurely at 24 weeks 3 days. The quintuplets’ magical breakthrough moments. New mothers medical progress is closely monitored, as are the and their toddlers will lead you through a range of many day-to-day challenges of bringing up five topics, from coping with postnatal depression to infants simultaneously. breastfeeding and dealing with ear infections.

Pregnancy and Birth: Home Grown Babies The Truth, S1 & 2 Format: 15 x 23 Broadcaster: Living TV Format: S1 15 x 23, S2 15 x 23 Broadcaster: Living TV In addition to increasing numbers of women A revealing two-part series which is an informed opting for elective caesareans, there is now a and comprehensive guide to every stage of growing movement towards giving birth at home. pregnancy and birth. Aimed at dispelling the This is an informative series in which midwives myths and fears surrounding childbirth, the series take mothers-to-be and their partners through offers frank and practical information from the the motions of achieving their desire to have their perspectives of doctors, midwives and parents. babies in the comfort of their own homes.

Baby’s Birth Day Nought to Five, Series 1 & 2

Format: 20 x 24 Format: S1 10 x 23, S2 10 x 23 Broadcaster: Living TV Broadcaster: TVNZ

A fascinating, life-affirming series capturing the The definitive insiders’ guide to parenting the excitement, drama and magic of becoming a under-fives. These two eye-opening series are parent, with a special focus on the birth process aimed at anyone involved in a preschooler’s and the first few days with baby at home. Each life – be it a first time parent or an old hand, a episode follows one mum-to-be on her big day, grandparent, or a childcare educator. Everyone beginning with the onset of labour and climaxing can learn something new from watching with the birth of the baby. this highly informative series.

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Sperm Donor Anonymous The Dose With Doctor Billy

Format: 1 x 58 (HD) Format: 8 x 30 (HD) Broadcaster: ABC Broadcaster: HLN

This moving film follows donor-conceived adults Get ready for health tips with a quirky twist! Join searching for their biological fathers. Watch as they Physician Dr. Billy Goldberg as he takes an irreverent meet the doctors responsible for their conception, look at everyday real-life health complaints. From follow the trail of missing files and undergo DNA sleep deprivation to sugar cravings, memory to tests, all in the hope of uncovering their genetic exercise, caffeine intake, the common cold and heritage and finding out about their sperm donor more, Dr. Billy demystifies health topics and provides fathers and donor-conceived siblings. real solutions anyone can understand.

Sex, the Pill and Emancipation The Pill: Atom Bomb of Contraception Format: 1 x 47 (HD) Broadcaster: ARTE, ZDF, ORF Format: 1 x 43 (HD) Broadcaster: ARTE, ZDF, ORF This film explores the human story behind the birth control pill. One of the most revolutionary A fascinating and comprehensive review of the inventions of the 20th century, the pill significantly risks and advantages of contraceptives today. altered the sexual landscape of the modern world, This film traces the journey of the birth control but conversely to its portrayal as the symbol pill, from its commercialisation in 1960s America of freedom in the 1960s, is it now a symbol of through five decades of medical development, and oppression and bondage? the continuing fight for reproductive choice. Sperm Donor Anonymous Sperm

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Get Fit! Autism: Challenging Behaviour

Format: 1-5 minute shorts (HD) Format: 1 x 60 (HD) Broadcaster: Brand New Media Broadcaster: BBC

Through Get Fit! discover new pathways to a An exploration of the controversy surrounding healthier lifestyle and find the motivation to get Applied Behaviour Analysis (ABA), an intensive fit – even with a busy schedule. This collection intervention used to treat autism. Some parents is perfect for those looking for easy to follow, believe ABA is the best way to help their children bitesize health and fitness tutorials, which include function in society, but it also has many critics. Travel Workouts, Yoga For Men, The Ritual Burn, Through interweaving international stories, we Bootcamp Basics and Fitness 101. confront questions about how to respond to autism.

Stranger in the Family Kids on Pills

Format: 1 x 52 Format: 1 x 44 (HD) Broadcaster: SBS Broadcaster: ARTE, ZDF

Autism is a condition that can leave one child In North America, children diagnosed with bipolar mildly impaired and another child much more lost. disorder show the same characteristics as children Stranger in the Family looks at the efforts made in Europe who are diagnosed with ADHD. What at a special school in Sydney called Giant Steps, are the differences between the treatments? And examining the methods of the school and the how will these children’s brains fare in 20 years? hopes of the students and parents who have a This documentary offers deep insight into the daily battle with this condition. current debate regarding children’s mental health.

ADHD: Out of Control Kids Decoding Dyslexia

Format: 1 x 43 Format: 1 x 45 Broadcaster: TVNZ Broadcaster: TVNZ

This programme features both adult and child Decoding Dyslexia is a documentary that takes sufferers of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity a fresh look at the problems faced by children Disorder, undiagnosed for much of their lives. It is with dyslexia and discusses how these difficulties a revealing and moving documentary that explores can be overcome. Freed from the blinkers of the their lives and their different methods of dealing traditional, largely verbal ways of thinking, are with ADHD, such as drugs, life management, people with dyslexia able to approach the world in natural remedies and counselling. a more creative and productive way?

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A and E Under the Knife

Format: 12 x 24 Format: 3 x 52 / 6 x 26 Broadcaster: Channel 5 Broadcaster: TLC

An exhilarating fly on the wall look at a real This landmark series explores the frontiers of life Accident and Emergency ward. This is an surgery – past, present and future. The human intriguing mix of human emotions and medical body is the most complex machine known to man mayhem. Accident and Emergency doctors, and maintaining it is our most ambitious project. nurses and professionals share their triumphs and Under the Knife contains contributions from the sorrows as they battle to save lives and overcome world’s leading surgeons, doctors and scientists – life-threatening situations. and the patients who depend on them.

Body Wars Body Shocks

Format: 5 x 24 Format: 1 x 50 Broadcaster: Discovery Channel Broadcaster: TVNZ

This series investigates some of the 21st-century Body Shocks records the extraordinary medical plagues that directly or indirectly affect us all at survival stories of people who have cheated death. some point during our lives. Presented by Dr. The documentary features dramatic re-enactments Phil Hammond, Body Wars investigates some of as well as specialist interviews and sophisticated the world’s most common but costly illnesses, animated graphics. Each story reveals how including prostate cancer, manic depression, simultaneously vulnerable and resistant the asthma, GORD and heart disease. human body can be. Get Fit!

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Flu Time Bomb Uncovering Skin

Format: 1 x 54 Format: 1 x 48 Broadcaster: Discovery Channel Broadcaster: Discovery Channel

With a virulent new strain of influenza spreading Uncovering Skin is a fascinating journey inside the on the wings of migratory birds, scientists look human body’s largest and heaviest organ – skin. to the past in order to prevent a future global From a five year old girl who can have no contact pandemic. This insightful programme follows the with the sun to a runner who cannot sweat, the scientific breakthrough that has created a picture documentary shows us how crucial skin is to our of the deadly virus – a picture that proves to be survival as human beings and just how much we the most vital weapon on the flu frontier. take it for granted.

Classroom Secrets Bullies

Format: 1 x 60 (HD) Format: 3 x 45 (HD) Broadcaster: BBC Broadcaster: Prime TV

A groundbreaking BBC Panorama special. For the This compelling series investigates three key areas first time on television, the usually private life of of modern life where bullying is costing billions of a school class is filmed by fixed cameras so that dollars and hurting us the most: in our schools, parents are able to see how their child really behaves at work and online. Using real case studies of behind the classroom door. Will they be delighted both bullies and victims, psychologists provide an or dismayed? A bold and eye-opening experiment insight into how a bully’s brain develops and what where even the teachers have something to learn... lasting damage they can inflict on others.

Thin Club Coming Out to Class

Format: 1 x 49 Format: 1 x 48 Broadcaster: Channel 4 Broadcaster: Channel 4

Recent years have seen a chilling rise in the Coming Out to Class follows Q-boy, the UK’s only popularity of Pro-Ana (anorexia) and Pro-Mia openly gay rapper, as he goes on a journey to find (bulimia) websites which encourage their largely out what it is like to be a gay teen in high school teenage readership to celebrate eating disorders. today. He asks experts in the field why young This provocative film looks at the heart of the gay people are coming out increasingly early phenomenon where the freedom to have an eating and explores the challenges that they may often disorder is considered a basic human right. face in doing so.

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Tony: I’ve Lost My Family Breasts: Uncovered

Format: 1 x 56 Format: 1 x 52 (HD) Broadcaster: BBC3 Broadcaster: ARTE, ZDF

Most teenagers row with their parents, but what Uncover the science behind the most astounding happens if you leave home while still at school? This masterpiece of evolution: the female breast. Discover is the story of Tony who left home at 16. Beginning the role breast milk plays in protecting against cancer to sort out his life, Tony makes discoveries that lead and HIV and in catalysing cerebral capacity. This him in an entirely new direction. Maybe the family cutting-edge film uses the latest research to piece he’s been looking for can be found elsewhere – and together the ingenious adaptations of the breast and maybe there’s a different way to go home? the threats posed to it by modern living.

Skin Deep Plastic Fantastic

Format: 1 x 52 Format: 13 x 26 Broadcaster: Channel 5 Doctor Hennie Roos is a highly controversial plastic surgeon in South Africa. Working at the A lifestyle guide that delves into the world of forefront of medical innovation, he has chosen cosmetic surgery, with exclusive access to to cut a high profile figure for himself. Never operating theatres and a close view of intricate before has a medical practitioner allowed such an surgical procedures at first hand. This absorbing intimate look into his life and practice. Skin Deep series follows fifteen people who have plastic is the stuff of which movies are made – only here surgery on almost every part of the body and talks the characters are real. to many more who share their experiences. Bullies

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Against The Odds An Ordinary Life

Format: 28 x 29 (HD) Format: 8 x 50 (HD)

This heart-warming and inspirational series This is a revealing series of documentaries that takes follows extraordinary people refusing to be an intimate look into the lives of individuals who are defeated by their disabilities. Meet record affected by a disability. Some are born with their breaking Paralympians achieving the impossible, disability, while others acquire it through accidents or discover cutting edge medical procedures that illness. All anyone wants in these remarkable stories are changing lives, and marvel at the power of is ‘an ordinary life’, yet their circumstances are such the human spirit to overcome some of the world’s that they lead anything but a regular existence. rarest conditions against the odds.

Pushing the Limits The Ride

Format: 1 x 47 Format: 1 x 55 (HD)

No other sport in the world requires that you Strap yourself in as four Aussie blokes swap tape your racquet to your hand, except for wheelchairs for quad bikes and embark on the ride of wheelchair tennis. Para Olympic medallist Mark their lives! 5,000km of adventure unfolds across the Eccleston is an athlete who has overcome outback as they visit the crash sites where their lives tremendous adversity. His determination has led changed forever. Three men are paraplegics and him to become one of Britain’s leading paraplegic one a quadriplegic, making this no ordinary road trip. athletes. This open, fearless and often funny With bold humour and disarming honesty, this film is film tells of his triumph of the human spirit. a wild ride across the terrain of the human spirit.

Racing Against the Clock Swimming with Skyscrapers

Format: 1 x 78 / 1 x 52 Format: 1 x 26 Broadcaster: PBS Broadcaster: Discovery Channel

The incredible story of five extraordinary women James Pittar is a blind long-distance swimmer between the ages of 50 and 82 who compete who has swum across the English Channel and against each other and ultimately themselves to taken on sharks and oil tankers. This incredible reach the World Masters Athletics Championships. film tells James’ uplifting story at a time when he is Vibrant and inspiring, these women include a about to embark upon a 48 kilometre swim around sharecropper’s daughter, a three-time cancer the Big Apple in the Manhattan Island Marathon survivor, a political refugee and a former cowgirl. Swim, the first blind person to ever compete.

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Heavy Load Lin and Ralph: A Love Story

Format: 1 x 91 / 1 x 59 Format: 1 x 49 / 1 x 61 Broadcaster: BBC, IFC Broadcaster: ITV

This film introduces the unique band Heavy Lin is blind and has cerebral palsy. Her husband, Load - a punk outfit made up of musicians with Ralph, is her full time carer and has Parkinson’s and without learning disabilities. Its survival is a disease. They are living proof that two people who precarious negotiation between two very different really care for each other can move mountains. worlds: the institutional timetable of day centres Filmed over 17 years, Lin and Ralph: A Love and social workers on one hand and the chaotic Story is an intimate portrait of a marriage that has life of studios and gigs on the other. overcome incredible odds.

Family Secrets Love and Money: Family Misfortune

Format: 13 x 25 Format: 2 x 60 Broadcaster: W Network Broadcaster: Channel 4

At the core of each episode of Family Secrets is Traditionally, marriage is ‘for richer, for poorer’, an honest, expressive and vulnerable individual but can a relationship survive the relentless who explores the complexity of his or her family pressure of mounting debt, unpaid mortgages and ties. This honest series is an exploration of a range credit card bills? These revealing programmes of modern family dynamics, showing viewers follow two families facing the prospect of financial how family units and individuals are dramatically meltdown, exposing the dark and complex power affected by life-changing events. struggles that money creates within relationships.

Aimee’s Crossing

Format: 1 x 52 (HD) Broadcaster: PBS

A provocative exploration of juvenile offender Aimee Myers which, through Tod Lending’s unprecedented access, follows her for two years, as she struggles to stay out of incarceration and overcome her addictions. The issues that her story reveals provide deep insight into why some young women’s lives lead them to prison.

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Our Transgender Love Story

Format: 1 x 45 (HD) Broadcaster: TLC

Joey Mead King, Next Top Model host, is no stranger to the media. Nor was her husband, Ian King, owner of Car Porn Racing. But they had a secret – Ian identifies as a woman, who longed to express herself freely. In true millennial fashion, Ian was outed by Instagram to thousands of followers, and Angelina was born. This is their extraordinary story.

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Sugar Sisters Love & Sex in an Age of Pornography Format: 1 x 44 (HD) Broadcaster: CBC Format: 1 x 52 (HD) Broadcaster: SBS Follow three sisters as they explore the global phenomenon of sugar-dating, where people in their How does the explosion of porn onto the screens twenties date older, wealthier men in exchange for of young people shift their sexual tastes and money and gifts. Can they uphold their morals and behaviours? This is an intimate, behind the feminist ideals whilst living the lucrative life of a sugar scenes, look at the effects of pornography on a baby? And how will they maintain their personal group of curious youngsters as they seek love and relationships whilst satisfying their Sugar Daddies? negotiate sex in early relationships.

Webcam Girls Call Girls

Format: 1 x 51 (HD) Format: 1 x 48 (HD) Broadcaster: Channel 5 Broadcaster: Channel 4

Discover the bizarre world of women who work in This documentary uncovers the continuously the alternative adult industry, with exclusive access evolving industry of phone sex. Gone are the to their online playgrounds. Focusing on the clichés of bored old housewives earning pin increasingly popular world of webcam erotica, we money in late night call centres. You won’t believe follow some of the savvy businesswomen finding who is getting in on the act – young, old, single, creative ways of cashing in. The world’s appetite married, educated, erudite. Call Girls meets the for saucy screenplay seems to be insatiable. extraordinary women who are paid to talk dirty!

Confessions of a Sex Addict Mr Right is Stuck in Traffic

Format: 1 x 57 (HD) Format: 1 x 46 (HD) Broadcaster: BBC Broadcaster: W Network

At just 27, Jeff Leach has slept with nearly Told from the perspective of a recovering chick 300 women and has even kept a list of every culture addict, this documentary investigates single one of them. This hilarious but heartfelt the impact that ‘chick flicks’ and ‘chick lit’ have documentary sees Jeff taking a long-overdue on modern romance. Using social experiments, look at his sexual exploits. Asking for help from film clips, animation and interviews with experts, his many exes, will he finally uncover the route to it explores women’s romantic expectations and emotional fulfilment and, for once, go home alone? seeks to find a cure for this pop culture pandemic.

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What Women Really Want Lifeproof

Format: 15 x 23 Format: 9 x 30 Broadcaster: UKTV Broadcaster: Channel 4

If you have ever wanted to understand women, A sex education series and a multi-layered now is your chance. Narrated by Ulrika Johnnson, portrait of teen relationships that reveals what this series divulges all the celebrity secrets you really makes them work. Central to each episode could ever want to know about women. From diet is an issue which one of the teenagers needs to secrets and beauty routines, from relationship tips resolve. Whether it’s asking someone out, using to the intimacies of their sex lives, the celebs tell contraception, or getting over a break-up, their us exactly what is what. friends offer different perspectives.

Sex, Lice and Videotape #STI

Format: 1 x 56 Format: 6 x 25 (HD) Broadcaster: BBC3 Broadcaster: OUTtv

Sexually Transmitted Infections are on the up, and Open discussions of Sexually Transmitted Infections it is those aged 16 to 24 who are catching them are trending. Hashtag or not, STIs can affect everyone, most. This programme follows a group of young regardless of age, gender or sexual orientation. This people from the excitement of the club to the cold is an innovative and engaging new series that brings reality of the STI clinic, spreading the message us the facts on the contraction, transmission and of safe sex, and providing information about the prevention of STIs and that pulls no punches in its symptoms, treatment and prevention of STIs. efforts to get helpful, accurate information across. #STI

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Extreme Pleasures Dominatrix Diaries

Format: 6 x 23 Format: 1 x 52 Broadcaster: UKTV Meet the ladies who dominate some of the The average person is satisfied with an occasional most powerful men in Los Angeles! Dominatrix glass of wine, a relaxing massage and a normal Diaries is an eye-opening portrait of six strong sex life to find happiness. For some, in order to and fascinating women who all love to beat men, relax and feel sexually content, life is a whole other uncovering their alternative lifestyles which turn ball game. This is an exceptional series delving conventional ideas of pain, pleasure and sexuality into the lives of those who need to take extreme upside down. As Mistress Lisa says, ‘Most women pleasures in order to fulfill their dreams. make men suffer. I’m just more honest about it.’

Future Sex This is Rock Bitch

Format: 5 x 25 Format: 1 x 52 / 1 x 72 Broadcaster: Channel 4 Rock Bitch is a band made up of female A forward-looking and above all user-friendly musicians who have a free love outlook on guide to the outer edges of modern sex, Future physical interaction and who live together in a Sex finds out who is doing what, how they do it sex commune formed in a converted French and why they do it. The intriguing people mapping monastery. The girls see themselves as striking a out our sexual destinies feature in episodes blow for women everywhere, aiming not to shock entitled Technology, Fetish, Gender, The Internet but to educate, and they are doing it through the and Body Image. medium of rock music – performed in the nude.

The Gayest Show Ever UK Raw, Series 1 & 2

Format: 6 x 24 (HD) Format: S1 10 x 24, S2 7 x 24 Broadcaster: OUTtv Broadcaster: Channel 5

A smart, sexy and hilarious bite out of global An outrageous and often hilarious series about gay culture. Made for straights and gays alike, real people and their fetishes. In each episode, the the series is led by a lively host and features audience is shown four rather bizarre and in some field interviews with guest reporters – blending a instances sexy films. Subjects include a naked documentary tone with a cheeky sense of humour, magician and a bondage nightclub. UK Raw is political controversies, one-of-a-kind personalities, extremely entertaining programming, though it is and bizarre community rituals. certainly not for the faint hearted!

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The Lovers’ GuideTM The Lovers’ GuideTM – Making Sex Even Better Format: 1 x 63 Format: 1 x 60 The international phenomenon that is The Lovers’ Guide begins with this intimate illustration of Making Sex Even better explores an in-depth range how people can get the most from love and sex, of sexual techniques and sensual methods which enhancing their relationships and changing their work to enrich the lives of couples everywhere. lives forever in the process. Couples speak openly Creatively and effectively, this programme of The about their relationships, sharing their innermost Lovers’ Guide shows how to both give and receive thoughts and feelings. lasting and fulfilling pleasure.

The Lovers’ GuideTM – The Essential Lovers’ GuideTM Better Orgasms for Him and Her Format: 1 x 77 Format: 2 x 52 All the major principals of The Lovers’ Guide are The definitive guide to obtaining and intensifying brought together to form The Essential Lovers’ orgasms, featuring sex toys and tantric sex. For Guide which includes sections on keeping Her: What is an orgasm? Learning to have an relationships alive and sexy, making foreplay orgasm; improving orgasms; getting your partner’s last for hours, being more adventurous and help; better and multiple orgasms. For Him: the dealing with a new relationship. It is a compelling sex urge; orgasms and puberty; greater control; compilation to help people across the world increased intensity; getting your partner’s help. achieve the love life they want. The Lovers’ Guide™

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The Lovers’ GuideTM – Sex Play The Lovers’ GuideTM – What Women Really Want Format: 1 x 60 Format: 1 x 51 For many people, having sex means penetrative intercourse. But there is far more to it than The ultimate guide to female attitudes regarding that. Sex for most people is not just about relationships and sex, this programme offers reproduction, so focusing on sex play is an essential advice on sexual techniques that important part of good - even great - sex. Sex Play enhance a woman’s pleasure. The programme shows couples how to truly pleasure their partner, covers a range of topics including what women covering all aspects of sex play, and will turn want from life, their bodies, sex, their lover and anyone into a true sexual sophisticate. from their relationship.

The Lovers’ GuideTM – The Story of The Lovers’ GuideTM Satisfaction Guaranteed Format: 1 x 52 Format: 1 x 60 This documentary examines the making of The A special look at the seven secrets that empower Lovers’ guide series and the vast impact it and its everyone to unlock their passion and get what predecessors have had on the sex lives of millions they really need for a fulfilling intimate life. The of people around the world. This programme programme offers honest and down-to-earth expert also goes behind the scenes on how the video advice as well as authoritative and educational was made, profiling the couples involved and information on how to achieve, maintain and enjoy interviewing the leading experts in the field of a healthy and passionate relationship. human sexual behaviour.

The Lovers’ GuideTM – The Lovers’ GuideTM – Sexual Positions Secrets of Sensational Sex

Format: 1 x 60 Format: 1 x 67

This guide to sexual positions provides an endless Secrets of Sensational Sex reveals a wealth of supply of ideas for added excitement in your sexual techniques and sensual skills to drive lovemaking. Many people make love in a couple you and your partner to new heights of passion of positions – this guide offers over 60 delightful and intimacy. The programme illustrates how ways for you and your partner to keep things expanding your sexual repertoire ensures an fresh. Expand your repertoire, revitalise your sex endlessly varied and adventurous love life. life and have lots of fun trying them out! The ultimate guide to sexual satisfaction.

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Sex and Shopping, Series 1 & 2 Favourite Body Parts

Format: S1 1 x 49 / 12 x 24, S2 10 x 24 Format: 1 x 43 Broadcaster: Channel 5 Broadcaster: TVNZ

A highly entertaining series investigating all Favourite Body Parts is a celebration of what we aspects of the pornography industry and find attractive about each other. It uncovers the contemporary attitudes to commercial sex truth about our erogenous zones and explores and censorship. Features contributions from the reasons behind our fascination with certain academics, libertarians and MPs, as well as favourite body parts. Plastic surgeons, painters, leading producers and performers of hardcore fashion designers and sex toy sellers all reveal pornography from around the globe. what part of the body does it for them and why.

The Pleasure Zone The Madam

Format: 6 x 50 Format: 1 x 45 / 1 x 52 Broadcaster: Travel and Escape Broadcaster: SBS

Follow 6 amorous couples as they embark on an Mary-Anne Kenworthy is western Australia’s adventure of the senses to improve their sex lives. number one madam in every sense of the word – In an original mixture of history, travel, culture and mother, entrepreneur and brothel owner, she is a sex, this fun series explores the sexual traditions woman of many talents and many personalities. of each exclusive location. Together the couples This exposé of the sex industry follows Mary-Anne embark into a new sexual world as they re-discover on her quest to launch an online brothel and her each other and many foreign cultures. crusade to decriminalise prostitution.

Why Men Pay for It

Format: 1 x 52 Broadcaster: SBS

Often when the question of prostitution is looked at, the clients who generate the business remain invisible. Why Men Pay For It breaks through this barrier, asking: Who are these men, and why do they do it? A layered film which enters into an intimate conversation with a group of men whose candour is, at times, breathtaking.

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Celebrity Car Wars Commissioned for two successful Format: 60’ stripped Broadcaster: A+E Networks series by History Channel

Strap on your seatbelts for this adrenaline-fuelled action reality series that’s a mix of competition, fun, and adventure! Six celebrities are trained by motor racing experts to compete in extreme driving challenges. From racing rally cars to tackling obstacle courses in 4x4s, only the best will win a place in the Celebrity Car Wars Hall of Fame.

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Painting the Nation

Format: 30’ stripped daily / 60’ closed ended

Seven painters, five weeks, one passion. Each week culminates in the Exhibition This amateur painting competition sets Challenge in which two professional out to uncover the most talented artist in judges decide who will be named “Painter the land, traveling around the country as of the Week”, and which painter will be contestants take inspiration from diverse eliminated. But only one painter can win regional heritage and extraordinary the Grand Prize – a coveted place in a local people. national art collection.

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70% up on Primetime slot average for DIVA Singapore

175% increase in viewership for DIVA Malaysia

SupermodelMe

Format: 60’ stripped Broadcasters: Mediacorp, Starhub, DIVA

SupermodelMe is an intensive action-based bootcamp competition featuring 12 aspiring fashion models. In the first section of the show, the aspiring models have to complete sport and action-related challenges. They must then complete a photo challenge, and at the end of every episode, the panel of three expert judges will eliminate one contestant.

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Official Movember partner with support for the format worldwide

Man Up

Format: 60’ stripped Broadcaster: ABC

The stereotypical man is strong, silent, and tough as nails. But according to research, men are lonelier, more disconnected, and more vulnerable to depression and suicide than ever. The host sets out on a journey, from construction sites to boardrooms to find out why we are losing our men. This ABC commissioned format challenges stereotypes and smashes the stigma around mental health. With an integrated campaign fully supported by Official Partner Movember, this worldwide television event redefines what it means to ‘Man Up’.

Over 56 million hits for online campaign

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Commissioned by Channel 4 for five successful series

Peaked at 1.7 million viewers, 50% up on Primetime slot average

Super Shoppers

Format: 30’ closed ended Broadcaster: Channel 4

Supershoppers is a light hearted consumer focused series, packed with take-home information. Two hosts uncover the tricks of the retail trade, unpicking advertising language and competing against each other to get the best value for money. Big name brands are pitted against each other with their marketing claims tested through scientific experiments and the advice of industry experts.

Completed tape sold to Australia, Asia & Eastern Europe

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Peaked at a 24% audience share against a slot average of 20%!

My Money & Me

Format: 30’ closed ended Broadcaster: RTE

An expert-lead financial makeover series featuring case-studies and money saving tips. The experts take on secret spenders, exposing their bad habits by tracking their spending across the course of a week, before proposing major changes to turn this behaviour around. Includes fact-driven tip segments which show us how to become a conscious consumer and stop wasting our hard earned cash.

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The Ultimate Braai Master

Format: 60’ stripped Broadcaster: SABC, e.tv

Welcome to the world’s toughest outdoor cooking competition! 13 teams travel to a different part of the country and are shown new and innovative BBQ cooking techniques from the expert panel of judges. Each team is then challenged to test their new skills against the other teams, with performance-based eliminations at the end of each episode. Advertiser-funding opportunities.

Completed tape sold to Latin America, Eastern Europe & Middle East

Commissioned by e.tv. Season six now in production.

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101 Easy... Recipes

Completed tape sold across Asia, Africa and Europe

101 Easy... Recipes

Format: 101 x 3-5 closed ended

Master the art of cooking the classic dishes from your favourite national cuisine with this short form recipe series. With easy-to-follow, presenter-less videos, 101 Easy Recipes provides the ultimate, step-by-step guide to preparing the finest starters, mains, sides and desserts from each country’s culinary offerings.

Local versions produced in Japan and India

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Local version produced for Mediacorp now in its 4th hit series

Completed tape sold to over 120 territories worldwide

What’s Really In Our Food? / The Food Files

Format: 30’ closed ended Broadcaster: TV3

This popular lifestyle format investigates the real health benefits and risks of different foods. The presenter-led show takes a fun and upbeat approach, breaking down the labels and debunking myths surrounding food. With the help of doctors and health experts, the format includes scientific experiments and taste tests on the streets of the local town. Over 70 episodes produced worldwide.

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the WINEMAKER The Winemaker

Format: 30’ / 60’ stripped Broadcaster: PBS Optioned in Australia, South Africa, Twelve men and women compete to achieve Malaysia & Singapore their ultimate dream: the chance to launch their very own wine label. The contestants, assessed by a panel of expert judges, must get through Commissioned by PBS a variety of challenges - the Harvest Challenge, Palate Challenge and Brand Challenge - to keep themselves from elimination and win a cash prize and the chance to launch their own wine label nationwide! Who will be crowned The Winemaker?

Multiplatform format including TV, Web, App, and Social Media interactivity

The Bunker

Format: 30’ closed ended Broadcaster: Seven Network

Hit the golf course with celebrity sports stars as they compete in an entertaining and tongue-in- cheek golfing competition like no other! Faced with fun challenges, the contestant’s scores are placed on a leader board in the studio each Commissioned by episode, and an overall winner is crowned at the Seven Network Australia end of the series. Packed with tips and crazy trick shots from the pro-golfer hosts.

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Peaked at a 24% audience share against a slot average of 20%!

Reality Trip

Format: 60’ stripped Broadcaster: TV3

A group of young adults leave their comfortable lifestyles behind to go on the Reality Trip of a lifetime! Traveling across three different countries Commissioned by TV3 New Zealand to the sweatshops, factories and plantations that make their favourite products, they must work and live off the low wages that a regular worker earns and even less if they’ve done a bad job. A life-changing experience, where reality hits hard!

Completed tape sold to Australia, India, Europe & Asia

Outperformed ABC1’s slot average by 10%

Holy Switch

Format: 30’ / 60’ closed ended Broadcaster: ABC

Six young adults, six different faiths – what will happen when they switch lives for two weeks? Using a combination of vlog and fixed rig footage, this format follows the participants’ highs and lows as they deal with unfamiliar cultures and customs outside their comfort zone. The show offers a fresh look at the notion of multicultural society and asks: can we live together despite our differences?

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…Versus the World …The Gloves Are Off

Format: 30’ / 60’ closed ended Format: 60’ closed ended Broadcaster: ITV4 Broadcaster: Sky1

Who would you put your money on? The A transformation like no other! We follow a famous footballer? The basketball player? Two famous sportsman become a professional boxer in just sports stars compete against each other in three three months - the routine of hard training, brutal extreme challenges – each more adrenaline filled sparring and an even more brutal diet takes its than the last. From G-force drag racing to wing toll. Their training culminates in a first professional walking on an aeroplane, they must face their fears fight in front of an audience of thousands! Can if they want to win – and winning is all that matters. they cut it in this world of hard knocks?

Street Hospital Bargain Brides

Format: 30’ stripped Format: 30’ stripped daily / 60’ closed ended Broadcaster: TVNZ Three ‘Brides-to-Be’ use their own talents and In this unique format, we set up a team of volunteer unique skills to bargain, haggle and negotiate paramedics in a mobile clinic outside well-known party every element of their dream wedding - all in an hotspots. The medical team treat injured party-goers effort to get it for free! To win, they must achieve on the street, removing the need for these patients to their dream day at the lowest possible price. fill up A&E departments. Using a combination of fixed- However, they will also be judged on whose is the rig and moving cameras, Street Hospital captures most stylish! The talented bride who is crowned medical heroics as well as drunken hysterics! winner is gifted an all expenses paid honeymoon!

Revenge of the Ex Nightmare Situation

Format: 60’ closed ended Format: 30’ / 60’ closed ended

A girl, her boyfriend and her ex-boyfriend compete This is the hidden camera gameshow that puts for a cash prize in this action packed studio your loved one in the middle of a total nightmare! gameshow. The boyfriend and ex-boyfriend face A contestant in the studio must guess the reaction each other in a series of three intense Battles – of of their loved one who is being secretly filmed Brawn, Brains and Balls. But the winner faces a facing a series of horrible, ridiculous and hilarious difficult choice – Revenge or Risk? Tensions run nightmare situations! If they guess their reaction high in this ultimate showdown of love, money and correctly, they will win a cash prize for both of revenge! Let battle commence! them! Will the nightmare become a dream?

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Chasing Sleep 136 Dominatrix Diaries 151 Chat the Planet 34 Domino’s Pizza: A Slice of Life 53 Checklist Effect, The 27 Don’t Look Down 51 Chef in Black 132 Don’t Panic - The Truth About Population 97 Chelsea’s Greatest Gardens 43 Dose With Doctor Billy, The 141 Children of the Sex Trade 30 Double Happiness: China Love 51 China on Film 11 Double Jeopardy 68 China’s 3 Dreams 18 Drawing out the Demons 84 China’s Forgotten Emperor 18 Drilling of Art 85 Chinese Feast, A 132 Driving Crashes 44 Cholesterol Question, The 135 Dunk King, The 39 Christ Doyle: Orientations - Stirred not Shaken 88 E-motion 71 Christchurch: A Shocking Reminder 32 e² design, Series 1-3 98 Chubby Chaser 54 e² energy 98 Churchill’s Secret Son 14 e² intervention architecture 98 City Time Taveller, Series 1 & 2 115 e² transport 98 Classic Car Rescue, Series 1 & 2 48 Earth in 1000 Years 95 Classroom Secrets 144 Earth’s Riches, The 103 Climbing Everest 114 Earth’s Survival: Decoding the Science 97 Coast and Country: Railways, Canals & Cloudspotting 119 Earthrace 122 Coast and Country: South Africa, Germany & Iceland 119 Eclipse Chasers 92 Codebraker 13 Edward VIII: The King Who Threw Away His Crown 5 Cold Fusion: The Truth? 102 Empire of Juramidam 76 Coloured Skies 123 End of Ageing, The 137 Coming Out to Class 144 Enemy of the Reich 13 Commandos 63 Erotic Adventures of Anaïs Nin, The 80 Common Ground: A Human Elephant Story 111 Escort Agency, The 57 Comrade Philby 24 Essential Lovers’ Guide™, The 152 Comrades 60 Eubank VR 41 Confessions of a Sex Addict 149 Every Picture Tells a Story 83 Conflict 25 Everything and Nothing 93 Constantine: A King’s Story 6 Exploring Quirky 55 Cooking with Nick Stellino, Series 1 & 2 128 Extreme Pleasures 151 Cosmic Journeys 91 Extreme Realities 95 Country Deams: Series 1-3 43 Eye Candy: The Crazy World of David LaChapelle 87 Cowboy 101 47 F-Word: Who Whants to Be a Feminist?, The 35 Crime Down Under, Series 1-4 65 Fabulocity 117 Crime Shock: Asia Exposed 64 Facing Life After Facing Death 68 Critical Thinkers 71 Facing the Storm: Story of the American Bison 109 Culinary China 132 Family Confidential 6 Cult Killer 64 Family Secrets 147 Curse of the Axe 23 FANomenon 54 Dan Snow’s Norman Walks 21 Fantastical World of Hormones, The 101 Dance of the Severed Head 123 Far Flung Floyd 131 Dancing Boys of Afghanistan, The 29 Farmers: A Year on the Land 43 Dancing with the Devil 61 Faster than Light: Dream of Interstellar Flight 90 Danger Zone 26 Favourite Body Parts 154 Darwin’s Beagle: On the Future of Species 94 FBI Critical Incident 66 David Attenborough’s Jumbo 105 Federation of Black Cowboys 58 Dead in the Water 17 Fight Club: A History of Violence 19 Deadliest Crash: Disaster at Le Mans 22 Fill My Tank 116 Deadliest Earthquakes: Christchuch 32 First Movie, The 59 Dear Mandela 33 First World, The 76 Decoding Dyslexia 142 Fishermen: A Journey into the Mind of a Killer, The 64 Deepwater Horizon: Dispatches from the Gulf 95 Flash 47 Delicious Iceland 128 Floyd Around the Med 131 Desert Generals 16 Floyd on Africa 131 Detox! 135 Floyd on Italy 131 Dhuway 60 Floyd on Spain 131 Diana: 20 Years On 3 Floyd Uncorked 131 Diana: The Inquest 3 Floyd’s Fjord Fiesta 132 Diana: The Night She Died 3 Floyd’s India 132 Disappearing London 120 Flu Time Bomb 144 Disgustingly Healthy 101 Flying Scotsman: A Rail Romance, The 22 Diving with Sharks: The Ultimate Guide 106 Flying the Great Wall 114 Divorce Sharia Style 72 Food Files vs. Diabetes, The 133 Dog’s Best Friend 44 Food Files, Series 1-3, The 133, 164

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Footloose in Europe 120 Home Grown Babies 140 Footloose in London 120 Honeymoon in Kabul 57 Forbidden Marriages in the Holy Land 35 Hotel for Refugees, The 52 Forced March to Freedom 16 Hotline 53 Forced Marriage Unit, The 30 House of Windsor: A Royal Dynasty, The 5 Forest Guards, The 103 How Did They Build That? 100 Fortress Britain 118 How Ships Grow 100 Freddie Flintoff Versus the World 46, 167 How To Look at a Painting 79 Freddie Flintoff: The Gloves are Off 46, 167 How To Start a Revolution 28 Freediving with Killer Whales 112 How to Start a Sex Cult 61 Fresh Fruit Fakers 136 Hubble’s Enduring Legacy 91 Frontier Borneo 105 I Am a Girl 27 Full Frontage 45 Ice Girls 45 Future for Forests, A 103 Ice, Sweat and Tears 45 Future Sex 151 If It Doesn’t Kill You 125 Futureproof 89 IMPACT: Stories of Asia 31 Galapagos: Realm of Giant Sharks 106 In Search of Frida Kahlo 79 Galleons of Spice 128 In Search of the Messiah 86 Gardeners of Eden and Eden’s Growing Pains, The 102 In the Name of the Father 68 Gaudi’s Barcelona 82 In the Shadow of Feeling 64 Gaudi’s Message 82 Indian Miracle?, The 31 Gayest Show Ever, The 151 Indian Journeys 122 Geldof in Africa 33 Infinity Himalaya 121 Genius of Josiah Wedgwood, The 86 Ingenious Africa 103 Genius of Roald Dahl, The 80 Inheritance 68 George II: The Genius of the Mad King 12 Innovation Nation, Seasons 1-8 89 Get Fit! 142 Inside Broadmoor 67 Get Fresh with Al Brown 128 Inside Buckingham Palace 3 GIFTS: Great Ideas For Transforming Societies 60 Inside Sellafield 104 Gill Hicks Surviving 7/7 29 Inside the Criminal Mind 67 Girl, a Horse, a Dream, A 58 Inside the Firestorm 32 Give Me Shelter 108 Inside Windsor Castle 3 Glories of Islamic Art, The 82 Institute of Art and Ideas, The 71 Go Greek with Patricia Vasos 128 Interconnected World, The 31 God Bless Ibiza 74 Internationale, The 24 God Bless You Barack Obama? 37 Iraq: War, Love, God & Madness 29 God’s Business 37 ISIS: Road to Radicalisation 26 Going Bush 125 Islamic Art: Mirror of the Invisible World 82 Going Home 16 Isles of the Queen 113 Golden Age of Steam Railways, The 22 It Ain’t Necessarily So 75 Gone Fishing, Series 1-7 41 Jackpot 55 Gone Wild 110 Jaffa La Mienne 61 Good, the Bad and the Ugg Boot, The 58 James Castle: Portrait of an Artist 88 Graffiti Limbo 85 Jane Austen: The Unseen Portrait? 80 Grand Central Stations 113 Japan from Above 114 Grand Earth 117 Jihad: The Men and Ideas Behind Al Qaeda 29 Grand Plan, The 45 Jimmy’s Kitchen 60 Grayson Perry and the Tomb of the Unknown Craftsman 79 Johan Degenaar: A Fairytale Philosopher 76 Great Minds of Design 100 John Meets Paul 75 Greatest Inventors 100 John Torode’s Asia 127 Greenpeace: Making a Stand 36 Johnny Kingdom and the Bears of Alaska 110 Gumball 3000: 10th Anniversary Tour 49 Johnny Kingdom’s Wild Countryside 110 Gumball 3000: 2004 and 2005 49 Journey to Planet Earth, Series 1& 2 95 Gumball 3000: Around the World in 8 Days 49 Journey to the Pale Red Dot 90 Gunther’s ER 101 Kangoroo Gang: Thieves by Appointment, The 65 Hacked: The Bangladesh Bank Heist 63 Kate! The Making of an Icon 6 Happy Dictator, The 61 Kazakhstan Swings 84 Hawk Speed 48 Keeping It in The Royal Family 3 Hazda, The 124 Kids on Pills 142 Healthy Food Guide, The 133 Kingdom of Saturn 90 Heavy Load 147 Kissinger 17 Hidden Histories: WWI’s Forgotten Photographs 14 Korea from Above 114 Hidden Villages, Series 1-4 42 Kubota’s Kimonos: A History on Silk 86 High Stakes Backgammon 47 Kung Fu Motion 46 Hitler’s Favourite Royal 14 Lady in Number 6, The 16 Hokusai: Old Man Crazy to Paint 77 Land Artists 82 Holy Switch 71, 166 Landspeed Shootout 48

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Last Passage, The 15 Mulberry Child 18 Last Tribes of Europe, The 121 Mum I’m a Muslim 72 Laugh Factor, The 139 Murder in Paradise 63 League of Exotique Dancers 52 Music of the Brain 139 Left by the Ship 30 My Brother the Serial Killer 63 Legend of Pastor Bill, The 73 My Brother’s Kosova Wedding 57 Lethal Legacy 36 My Dubai 117 Liberia: A Fragile Peace 34 My Enemy, My Brother 52 Lifeproof 150 My Mate Manchester United 55 Lin and Ralph: A Love Story 147 My Millennial Life 26 Little Big World, Series 1-5 115 My Money & Me 40, 161 Little Bit Mongolian, A 58 My Sister the Geisha 57 Living Dolls 54 Mysteries, Myths and Legends 121 Living the Game 53 Mystery of Matter, The 92 Living the Life, Series 1 10 Mystery of the Shroud 74 Living the Life, Series 2 10 Myths of the Great White 112 Living the Life, Series 3 10 Naked Pilgrim, The 83 London’s Hollywood 88 Nancy Wake: Gestapo’s Most Wanted 13 Looking for Lowry 81 Narnia’s Lost Poet: The Secret Lives and Loves of C.S. Lewis 80 Looking for Mike 63 National Treasures 21 Love & Sex in an Age of Pornography 149 Natural Kingdom Collection, The 112 Love and Marriage: A 20th Century Romance 20 Navajo Springtime 58 Love and Money: Family Misfortune 147 Negotiator, The 66 Love for Sale: Tales from Two Brothels 57 New Art Doctor, The 50 Lovers’ Guide™ - Better Orgasms for Him and Her, The 152 New Medicine, The 139 Lovers’ Guide™ - Making Sex Even Better, The 152 New Power, the 99 Lovers’ Guide™ - Satisfaction Guaranteed, The 153 New Silk Road, The 26 Lovers’ Guide™ - Secrets of Sensational Sex, The 153 New York and Paris: The World of Abbott and Atget 87 Lovers’ Guide™ - Sex Play, The 153 Next: A Primer on Urban Painting 85 Lovers’ Guide™ - Sexual Positions, The 153 Nguva: The Forgotten Mermaid 112 Lovers’ Guide™ - What Women Really Want, The 153 Night Guard, Series 1 & 2 65 Lovers’ Guide™, The 152 Nightmare Situation 167 Luxe Asia, Series 1-4 40 No.57: The History of a House 23 Machine That Made Us, The 19 Nought to Five, Series 1 & 2 140 Madam, The 154 Oak Tree: Nature’s Greatest Survivor 94 Madness of Prince Charles, The 5 Oceanic Electric Power 99 Magnificent Megacities 115 Of Civil Rights and Wrongs: The Fred Korematsu Story 17 Making of a Queen, The 4 Of Dolls and Murder 66 Man Up 134, 159 One Degree Matters 96 Man Versus Earth 100 Opera Therapy 139 Man Who Murdered Sherlock Holmes, The 19 Operation Fine Girl 35 Man Who Shot Beautiful Women, The 87 Operation Jaywick: Sinking Japan 13 Man Who Shot Tutankhamun, The 12 Operation Valkyrie: The Plot to Kill Hitler 13 Mandela’s World Cup 33 Opium Brides 30 Maritime Silk Road, The 26 Order and Disorder 93 Martin Chambi and the Heirs of the Incas 87 Original Fare, Series 1-3 129 Martin Yan - True Passion 130 Our Transgender Love Story 148 Marx Reloaded 36 Packed! 125 Massacre in Luxor 37 Pendle Witch Child, The 20 Mechanical Marvels: Clockwork Dreams 19 Painting the Nation 78, 157 Mechanical Monsters 90 Pakistan’s Hidden Shame 29 Meet the Makers 78 Paranormal 5, The 50 Mega Art 83 Paranormal Files 50 Michael X 24 Parkinson’s: The Great Drug Experiment 101 Military Tech Show, The 63 Pastries, Bread and Mass Deception 136 Millionaire Motors 48 Patent on Life 102 Mindful Revolution, The 71 Path of Wisdom, The 73 Mission, The 73 Peacekeepers 35 Molly’s Zoo 109 Pearl Diver 23 Monk Who United Europe, The 71 Pearl Power 86 Monumental Vision 83 Peep Culture 55 Moon Shots 91 Peer to Peer 2 Mosnter Carp, Series 1 & 2 41 Perfect Poison, The 104 Mosque Next Door, The 70 Peta Mathias: Culinary Adventures in the South of France 130 Mothers and Daughters 7 Peta Unplugged in Marraketch 130 Mr Right is Stuck in Traffic 149 Peta Unplugged in Tahiti 130 MS Wars: Hope, Science and the Internet 101 Peta Unplugged: 10 fabulous Recipes fro Summer Entertaining 130

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Phantoms and Shadows: 100 Years of Rolls Royce 22 Scenic Journeys on British and Irish Waterways 119 Phil’s Fantasy 47 Science of Bubbles, The 93 Pictures of Status Quo 6 Science of Sleep, The 134 Pill: Atom Bomb of Contraception, The 141 Seasons at Terroir 127 Plan B: Mobilising to Save Civilisation 95 Second Life 55 Planet RE:think 96 Secret China, Series 1 & 2 115 Plastic Fantastic 145 Secret Life of Chaos, The 93 Pleasure Zone, The 154 Secret Life of Your Clothes, The 33 Polar Exlplorer, The 97 Secrets of Quantum Physics, The 93 Pop Up Start Up 40 Secrets of the Paranormal World 44 Pope and the Third Secret of Fatima, The 75 Secrets of the Universe 91 Portraits of Marie Antoinette 78 Seeing the Beginning of Time 91 Power and Piety 25 Sex and Shopping, Series 1 & 2 154 Pregnancy and Birth: The Truth, S1 & 2 140 Sex, Death and the Gods 30 Pretty Boys 56 Sex, Lice and Videotape 150 Princess Margaret: Her Real Life Story 6 Sex, the Pill and Emancipation 141 Prision Families 64 Sherpa: The Proving Grounds 121 Professor Green: Dangerous Dogs 27 Ships That Changed the World 23 Professor Green: Hidden & Homeless 27 Shooting the War 15 Professor Green: Suicide and Me 27 Shore Thing, A 129 Promises and Betrayals: Britain and the struggle for the Holy Land 17 Sibling Rivalry: Near, Dear and Dangerous 7 Promoters, The 34 Sickert vs Sargent 81 Property Hunter, The 45 Simply Delicious 127 Pushing the Limits 146 Sinking of Scylla, The 100 Quest for the True Cross 75 Skin Deep 145 Queen Mother: A Woman of Her Century, The 5 Sky View 118 Queen Victoria’s Letters: A Monarch Unveiled 20 Slaves To Habit 138 Queen: A Monarch for All Seasons, The 4 Smat Cities 89 Queen’s Mother in Law, The 5 Smokestack Lighting 129 Quintuplets 140 Snow Wars 94 Racing Against the Clock 146 Socotra: Island of Dragon’s Blood 104 Raising Children 140 Soham Murders: Tears On, The 66 Real Inglorious Bastards, The 13 Solar Superstorms 92 Real Jesus, The 75 Song for Africa, A 60 Real Outlaws 65 Sonia Rykel: Rebel and Visionary 85 Real Sherlock Holmes, The 19 South Africa: An Aerial Journey 118 Real Tom Thumb: History’s Smallest Superstart, The 20 Spare Time 45 Reality Trip 41, 166 Special Forces 62 Reefs: Rainforests of the Ocean and Nomads of the Ocean 112 Spell Your Name 16 René Magritte: The Man in the Hat 79 Sperm Donor Anonymous 141 Rescue Vet 108 Spirit of Trees 102 Return of the Exorcists 76 Spirits of Asia 127 Return to Penguin City 112 Spotter 49 Revenge of the Ex 167 State of the Planet, The 96 Revolutionary Rhythms 84 State of the Planet’s Ocean Animals, The 96 Ride, The 146 State of the Planet’s Oceans, The 96 Rio Rescue 39 State of the Planet’s Wildlife, The 96 Rise of the Great White Shark 106 Storm, The 47 Rivals, The 46 Story of Agriculture - Mud, Sweat and Tractors, The 23 River series: The Nile, the Thames and the Seine, The 120 Story of British Pathé, The 15 River to Reef, Series 1-6 122 Story of The Lovers’ Guide™, The 153 Road Madness 48 Strange Creatures 106 Road to Revolution 28 Stranger in the Family 142 Robert Blecker Wants Me Dead 68 Street Hospital, Series 1 & 2 44, 167 Rocking Cambodia: Rise of a Pop Diva 53 Sugar Sisters 149 Rough Aunties 35 Superfoods 136 Route 66 124 SupermodelMe, Series 3-5 44, 158 Royal Britain: An Aerial History of the Monarchy 21 Supershoppers 40, 160 Royal Paintbox 4 Superstar DJs 47 Royal Wedding Bali Style 57 Supertornado: Anatomy of a Megadisaster 95 Russians Are Coming, The 55 Surgery Ship, The 52 Sabrina: Daddy’s Girl 66 Swim 52 Sacco and Vanzetti 17 Swimming with Skyscrapers 146 Sacred Weeds 102 Taking Back the Years 138 Savage Life in Fashion, A 85 Taking Pictures 88 Savage Sports 46 Taste of Greenland, A 128 Saving the Slumdog Donkeys 111 Team for Peace, A 37

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Term: Opposing Putin, The 28 What Women Really Want 150 Thin Club 144 What’s Really In Our Foods, Series 1-4 135 This is Rock Bitch 151 What’s Really in Our…? 135, 164 Three Days to change the World 59 When Sally Met Selma 59 Ticket to Ride 123 Whispers of Angels 23 Tim Ferris Experiment, The 46 Whispers of the Horse 58 Timeless Journeys: India 73 Whistler: For Art’s Sake 83 Tipping Points, The 97 Why Men Pay for It 154 To Kill a Whale 36 Why Men Wear Frocks 56 Today’s Russia: A Literary Landscape with Stephen Fry 80 Wild Africa Goes Hi-tech 111 Tony: I’ve Lost My Family 145 Wild Bunch, The 107 Top Dive Sites, Series 1 & 2 107 Wild City: Singapore 105 Traders of the Lost Scrolls 74 Wild Gardens 43 Transgender Kids 56 Wild Gibraltar 107 Transgenders: Pakistan’s Open Secret 30 Wild World, Series 1-4 107 Travel Oz, Series 1-4 116 Wildlife Sanctuary 108 Travel USA 116 Wildlife SOS, Series 1-3 108 Trial and Error 68 Will to Fly, The 51 Trick of the Light 50 William & Kate: A Royal Love Story 4 Trouble With Atheism, The 76 Windscale 1957: The Nuclear Winter 104 True Footballers’ Wives 6 Winemaker, The 129, 165 True Hawaii 123 Winner Loser, The 139 Truth About Cheating, The 137 Winston Churchill: Blood, Sweat and Oils 81 Truth About Fussy Eaters, The 134 World from Above, Series 1-10, The 118 Truth About Information Overload, The 137 World’s Best Airport: Changi, The 39 Truth About Liars, The 137 World’s Festivals: Series 1 & 2, The 121 Truth About Risk, The 135 World’s Highest Race, The 121 Truth About Shoplifting, The 137 Worst Offenders: Can They Change?, The 67 Truth About Vitamins, The 135 WWII: Forgotten Ally 12 Tsunami: The Third Wave 32 Year in an English Garden, A 42 Tudor Age, The 20 Yogawoman 139 Tuna: What’s in the Can 136 You Can Do Better 39 Ugly Beauty 84 You See Monsters 77 UK Raw, Series 1& 2 151 Ultimate Aurora 92 Ultimate Braai Master, Series 1-5, The 127, 162 Ultimate Freedive: The Great Barrier Reef 106 Ultimate Gumballers and Rules of the Road 49 Uncle Hitler 14 Uncovering Botswana with Alexander McCall Smith 122 Uncovering Skin 144 Under the Knife 143 Unknown Paradise, The 117 Unlocking Evolution 94 Untamed with Davey Hughes 122 Upscale with Prentice Penny 39 Us Now 36 Vanessa George: Wife, Mother, Paedophile 67 Veiled Voices 72 Vets in Hong Kong 109 Vets on the Wild Side 108 Video Cookbook 127 Vietnam After the Fire 104 Vietnam Nurses 17 Vivaldi: Mystery of The Four Seasons 86 Voyage of Curiosity 90 Voyage to American Stonehenge 124 Wainwright Walks, Series 1 & 2 119 Wainwright Walks: Coast to Coast 119 War Art with Eddie Redmayne 79 War Horse: The Real Story 14 Water Cops 66 Webcam Girls 149 Welsh Great Escape, The 15 What is Beauty? 84 What Makes Jeffrey Tick? 7 Whale Whisperer, The 106

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