Quark Science is a collection of episodes that answer some of humankind's most complicated questions: Where did we come from? What is the smallest particle? What actually drives the universe? Team up with the world's leading scientists to uncover the answers to these complex yet fascinating questions.
10 British teen boys who had several run ins with law enforcement. They spend time in an old prison to see what prison life would be like in a real prison.
Jonathan Bird's Blue World is an educational television program about the underwater world. The show is hosted by underwater cinematographer Jonathan Bird. This series airs on PBS stations in the US. The program is designed for family viewing, and each segment finds Bird trying to unravel a mystery, witness an animal behavior or explore an underwater environment. The first season consisted of 5 half-hour programs filmed in standard definition, and the second season contained 7 half-hour programs shot in high-definition. The third season won four New England Emmy Awards. The second season also won four New England Emmy Awards. The pilot episode from season 1 won a CINE Golden Eagle Award. The program is magazine format with each television episode consisting of 2-3 segments. These segments appear individually on the Blue World website as webisodes. Season four is currently in production.
Sports Action Team is a half-hour comedy television series that ran for two seasons in 2006-2007. It was aired by some affiliates of the NBC network and the high definition channel HDNet. It was a semi-improvisational mockumentary depicting the production of a fictional sports news show of the same name. Originally intended as a sport-related program to fill air time after Sunday football games on the west coast, the first season eventually expanded to most major NBC markets around the country. The show's second season is shot in high definition, and is distributed by MGM. It is produced by Chicago-based Towers Productions, Inc.
The regular cast is Al Samuels, Kevin Fleming, Steven Fleming, Antoine McKay, Katie Nahnsen, and Niki Lindgren, who have a background in Chicago area improvisational theater and play characters with the same first names. It also regularly features appearances by professional athletes. Athletes that have made appearances on the show include Dwyane Wade of the Miami Heat, Rudi Johnson of the
Five pair of offroad enthusiasts try to conquer the rugged back country of Alaska's less traveled terrain for there chance at a $100,000 purse. Alliances will be made and broken as they push their vehicles and each other to the limits.
Follow along as American fighters embedded with the Kurdish YPG militia in Syria, and medics supporting a coalition of local forces in Iraq, begin the difficult push to retake ISIS’ capital cities.
Out of control felines are turned into perfect pets. The world's number one cat behaviorist shows owners how to do the previously unthinkable - train their cats.
Sam, Julian, and Jenn experience a variety of exciting modes of transportation as they journey across the country. They use things such as trucks, cars and motorcycles, and they also experiment with ATVs, boats, jet skis, and air travel.
Three long-term unemployed families on benefits will each be given a cash lump sum of £26,000 upfront (the current maximum amount of benefits given in a year to most families) in return for signing off. Will the families have what it takes to escape the benefit trap and start a business or get a job? Or will they just blow the lot?
Investigative reporter Louise Shorter hosts this true crime series looking at both sides of some of the biggest miscarriages of justice in British legal history. Louise and experts look at what went wrong and how it was put right.
Documentary providing access to the community of Rockland Ranch in the middle of the Utah desert, where 14 Mormon families have made a home for themselves. Half the men here are polygamists, including father-of-16 Enoch Foster. He is one of the most influential men in the community and has two wives, who adore him and each other. But their family is set to expand again, with baby number 17 on the way - and Enoch is also courting a third wife, 25-year-old nanny Lydia.
Beach Cops follows the police men and women who operate along Sydney's Northern Beaches. From driving offences to missing persons to drugs, see how the officers respond to the dangerous, tragic and often funny situations that are part of their everyday lives through Summer, when the stretch of coastline, from Manly to Palm Beach, swells by seven million visitors.
Docuseries following the workers at some of the world's largest operations. Each episode follows a new team at a new location and documents how the workers keep such large projects running smoothly.
Damian Barr interviews the biggest names in fiction, non-fiction and poetry from across Scotland, the UK and the world, before a live audience of literature lovers.
Scarlett Moffatt and her family are relocated to a fully-fitted-out replica of their terraced home, in the middle of a Namibian tribal village which is home to 100 semi-nomadic Himba cattle herders who choose to live very traditional lives.
Contestants competing match wits in a series of multiple choice questions, with one contestant being eliminated every round. But unlike any other game show in the world, the eliminated contestant will then be ejected from the show in spectacular fashion—i.e., being flown away strapped to the wing of a biplane, pushed off the top of a moving semi truck, dragged underwater by a one-ton anchor or yanked off a dock by a speed boat.