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CATALOGUE CONTENTS PAGE 01 ADVENTURE & TRAVEL 3 02 CHILDREN & FAMILY 23 03 COMEDY & ENTERTAINMENT 47 04 CRIME & INVESTIGATION 55 05 DRAMA & TELEMOVIES 73 06 FACTUAL ENTERTAINMENT 81 07 HEALTH & MEDICINE 129 08 HISTORY 147 09 LIFESTYLE 159 10 PEOPLE & SOCIETY 183 11 SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY 211 12 WILDLIFE & NATURAL HISTORY 219 13 SHORT-FORM CONTENT 231 14 FEATURE FILMS 235 15 GENRE INDEX 251 16 ALPHABETICAL INDEX 263 1 ADVENTURE & TRAVEL 2 3 ADVENTURE & TRAVEL ADVENTURE & TRAVEL 3 CHEFS, 1 CITY | 13 x 30’ HD Chefs are the new rock stars and we have the hottest on the planet. 3 Chefs, 1 City explores the world’s greatest foodie destinations through the eyes of chefs, because no-one knows a culinary scene better than the personalities who define it. In each episode three chefs showcase their kitchen skills, their restaurants, the culinary scene and their own passion for food. Get set as Wolfgang Puck, Alvin Leung, Todd English, Michael Mina, Grant Achatz, Heinz Beck, David Thompson, Dylan Jones, Cristina Bowerman, Ian Kittichai and more show you around their cities. Enjoy rare access to culinary hot shots, whether already famous, up-and-coming or notorious within the business. 3 Chefs, 1 City is a world food tour taking in Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Diego, Chicago, New York, Hong Kong, Bangkok, Singapore, Rome, Istanbul, London, Panama City and Cape Town. 3 chefs, 3 exclusive views… all in one city. ANH DOES... | 10 x 60’ HD FORMAT RIGHTS AVAILABLE Anh Does is a travel and lifestyle show presented by Vietnamese-born PRODUCED BY: Re:Source Media YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2014 Australian author, actor, comedian and artist, Anh Doh. In his latest series, Anh Do travels to Italy. From the Italian Alps in the north to the southern heel, Anh meets with families, enjoys adventures and eats AcoPAN TEPUI: MOUntain delicious food. Anh begins his journey in the Italian Alps to try his hand at a local mating dance called slap dancing and attempts bubble 1 x 60’ HD OF Gods | football. Arriving in Venice, Anh learns the art of controlling a gondola A team of extreme climbing legends is determined to be the first to ascend with the help of Franco, a seventh generation gondolier. Ready to head the 700-metre sheer north wall of Acopan Tepui, a table mountain rising south, he mixes it with an opera-singing flash mob in Verona, drives majestically from the deep, primeval jungle of Venezuela. Before they even a handmade Lamborghini, enters a game of cheese bowling and races a begin the dangerous climb, Stephan Glowacz and his companions must carry chariot. Finally Anh arrives in Bari, a hidden gem of the Adriatic, where all their equipment through almost impassable jungle with deadly animal and the seafood nearly walks out of the ocean and onto the plate. At the plant life and treacherous waters to set up base camp at the foot of the plateau end, Anh realises living “La bella vita” is simple – good food shared – all in relentless rain and against the warnings of the local natives who hold the with friends in the most beautiful places. mountain sacred. Spectacular high definition aerial photography reveals this hidden world and shares an adventure that most would fear to live themselves. ANH DOES BRITAIN 2 x 60’ HD 2013 ANH DOES VIETNAM 2 x 60’ HD 2013 NOMINATED (2008): Best Film on Climbing, Banff Mountain Film Festival ANH DOES BRAZIL 2 x 60’ HD 2014 NOMINATED (2008): Award, Torello International Mountain Film Festival ANH DOES SCANDINavIA & ICELAND 2 x 60’ HD 2014 NOMINATED (2008): Adventure Award, Internationales Berg + Abenteuer Film Festival Graz ANH DOES ITALY 2 x 60’ HD 2015 PRODUCED BY: medi-cine and drehxtrem PRODUCED BY: Seven Productions COMMISSIONED BY: ARTE Germany & France COMMISSIONED BY: Seven Network Australia YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2008 YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2013 – 2015 4 5 ADVENTURE & TRAVEL ADVENTURE & TRAVEL Best JOB IN THE WORLD, THE | 6 x 30’ HD In February 2009 an extraordinary job position was advertised. The Great Barrier Reef in Australia needed a caretaker for six months. The wage was AU$150,000 and the position was open to all nationalities. 35,000 applications later, the 600 islands of the Great Barrier reef had a caretaker – Ben Southall, a 33-year-old Englishman with a passion for travel and adventure. The Best Job In The World follows Ben from his home in the tiny English village of Ropley to the centre of a worldwide campaign and media frenzy – and not a bad job! The show takes in the staggering beauty of the only living thing you can see from space – Australia’s Great Barrier Reef. NEW FORMAT RIGHTS AVAILABLE PRODUCED BY: Beyond Productions BEYOND SAHARA – RIDING COMMISSIONED BY: NGC International FRom CAIRO to caPE town | 2 x 60’ HD YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2009 In a thrilling follow-up to Beyond Siberia (2 x 60’), this documentary follows 16 motorbike riders across 20,000 gruelling kilometres through Best OF AUstRALIA, THE | 11 x 60’ Africa. For 80 days, they battle blazing heat, treacherous roads, The Best Of Australia will take you along to discover Australia’s suffocating bureaucracy and bone-crunching crashes, attempting most amazing rainforests, soaring peaks, windswept beaches and to join a very elite group of people to have conquered this journey. extraordinary wildlife. Stunning natural spectacles meet vibrant Riding the vast savannahs and witnessing the world’s greatest wildlife human culture when we journey throughout this spectacular continent. spectacle on the African plains, the riding gets tough as they battle Tropical Queensland, the Warlu Way in Western Australia, Tasmania’s through gravel, sand, dirt and spectacular lightning storms across wilderness, the Australian Alps and the jewels of the Christmas and Malawi, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Namibia and South Africa. Cocos Keeling Islands are just some of the destinations in this series. It’s an incredible journey of vast sandy deserts, high mountain passes and never-ending savannahs on roads and tracks which are amongst Episode 9, 10 & 11 HD the most dangerous in the world. PRODUCED BY: Australian Geographic PRODUCED BY: Thought Films YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2006 – 2012 YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2016 6 7 ADVENTURE & TRAVEL ADVENTURE & TRAVEL BEYOND SIBERIA – RIDING THE ROAD OF BONES | 2 x 60’ HD The 30,000 kilometre motorbike ride from London to Magadan, on the edge of Russia, has been described as one of the most challenging rides in the world. For four long months, a group of adventure bikers from around the world travels across a quarter of the Earth’s surface, pushing themselves and their bikes to the limit. Starting in Europe they ride the length of Russia, onto the historical Silk Road, deep into Mongolia, through the Siberian wilderness and experience an incredibly moving final ride through the infamous Road of Bones; a spiritual wasteland where two million people perished, with their bodies used as road fill during Stalin’s reign of terror. Through blazing deserts, inland seas, snow-covered peaks, black ice, torrential rain, raging river crossings and vast empty plains, this is an epic series of extreme highs and gut-wrenching lows. These riders know that every bend in the road could be their last and not everybody will make it to the end. Presented and narrated by Charley Boorman. PRODUCED BY: Thought Films YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2015 NEW BOY TO MAN | 12 x 60’ HD BRENT OWENS – ExTREME, Award-winning filmmaker Tim Noonan is on an epic quest to discover what 13 x 30’ HD it means to become a man. He travels the globe to immerse himself in AUTHENTIC & UNWRAPPED | unique native cultures and experience the most extreme and dangerous This brand new series follows Masterchef Australia winner Brent coming-of age rituals. Tim endures ancient ceremonies, bloody initiations Owens as he explores South Africa to discover its beautiful and diverse and gruelling tests of manhood to be accepted as a man of the tribes. cultures and terrain. Experience both the extreme and the authentic Amongst a clan of reindeer people in Siberia, Tim learns to drive a sled, as Brent unearths real food and adventure. He gets stuck into the sleeps in the snow, braves frostbite and drinks reindeer blood. On the kitchen with some of the country’s most established chefs, finding mysterious Guinea Bissau Islands Tim must pass a series of tests such as Sowetan street fare, seafood delicacies, the best city-grown farm being beaten naked, eating bush rats and monkeys and receiving a tribal produce, traditional Afrikaans comfort food, and the famous South scar. Deep in Mongolia, as an ancient rite of passage, he must capture African braai. As he travels the length of the country, he also tries out and train a golden eagle to successfully hunt a fox in the wild. This is a every bit of adventure he can get his hands on, freefalling in Soweto, solitary mission with Tim filming everything himself. There is no backing shark diving in the Western Cape, game drives in Sabi and bungee out so Tim has no choice but to toughen up to survive. jumping from Bloukrans. On his journey, Brent reveals the moving, the inspirational, and sometimes bizarre, people and places that Series 1: 3 x 60’ HD 2014 make South Africa truly unique. Series 2: 9 x 60’ HD 2015 FORMAT RIGHTS AVAILABLE PRODUCED BY: Seven Productions PRODUCED BY: Oxyg3n Media COMMISSIONED BY: Seven Network Australia COMMISSIONED BY: Discovery Channel South Africa YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2014 – 2015 YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2016 8 9 ADVENTURE & TRAVEL ADVENTURE & TRAVEL NEW CARNIVAL Eats | 39 x 30’ HD Carnival Eats gives us an inside look at the mouth-watering and outrageous foods famously found at fairs and carnivals, the wacky characters who create them and the culinary thrill seekers who devour and delight in them.