FARM to TV is the first comedy special from up and coming comedian Preston Taylor as he shares stories about his upbringing in a small country farm town in Texas to his wild days in Los Angeles. From Church gatherings with family, to a* whoopings, to sleeping with every white girl possible while attending Kansas State, to tackling racism as the most white sounding black man he knows, to sexual fetishes and even childhood lessons on how to make your junk bigger - nothing is off limits in this intimate stand-up special from this fresh new face.
In 1923, four months after the opening of the tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamun, Lord Carnavon, who had financed the excavation, died suddenly. Other people connected with the important discovery also died mysteriously. Were they all victims of an ancient Egyptian curse?
Identical twin sisters (Nikki Cox and Marissa Jaret Winokur) and their brother (Michael Rapaport) pitch in to buy one of the sisters (Cox) an extreme makeover so they can all move to Hollywood and capitalize on her good looks.
Xu Chia-yang, a 30-year-old woman who ran into a brick wall in her life, chose to run away from her dream of being a professional boxer. Chen Li-yue, a strict coach with rigid discipline, chose to give up her professional coaching after an accident brought a coma to a student. Can they fight their inner devils and turn their fates around?
Set around Alaska's punishing Iditarod race, a husky breeder and former musher is forced out of racing retirement to compete again and outrun an unknown killer.
Howard Taylor, brother of actress Elizabeth, bails out a rag-tag band of young Mainlanders jailed for vagrancy and invites them to live on his oceanfront land. Soon, waves of hippies, surfers, and troubled Vietnam vets find their way to this clothing-optional, pot-friendly, tree house village at the end of the road on Kauai's North Shore-the ultimate hippie fantasy.
A colorful portrait of Uganda's gamba Island Chimpanzee Sanctuary, a place where orphaned and rescued chimpanzees - victims of the illegal exotic pet and bushmeat trades - are given a second chance at life in a community of chimps.
A Life among Monkeys’ tells the story of Smithsonian primatologist, Dr Wolfgang Dittus, through the unfolding narrative of the lives of the toque macaques monkeys, living among the spectacular ruins of an ancient temple in the heart of the Sri Lankan jungle.
The fossil of a completely intact armoured dinosaur, Borealopelta markmitchelli, is discovered in Canada. Dinosaur Cold Case follows the evidence, as paleontologists piece together the prehistoric clues of Borealopelta’s life and death. Why was it found upside down, in what was once an inland sea? How did it die and why was it so perfectly fossilized?
In the heart of Southern England lies a royal forest; a wild and magical place of ancient beauty that’s hardly changed since King William the Conqueror proclaimed it as his hunting grounds some 900 years ago. Stretching down from the famous Salisbury Plains to the rocky shores of the English Channel, the New Forest National Park is the largest and richest lowland wilderness in Britain, home to more ancient woods, mossy mires and rich heathlands than any other landscape in Europe.
Sparks fly when an executive and a strategist are paired together to work on a sales pitch. As they battle it out, their personal lives collide with their professional ambitions, and neither expects that the key to success might just be each other.
Ascension Island, a remote Mid-Atlantic outpost famous for its big game fishing, is under siege. Tiger sharks, hammerheads, even great whites, lured here every year by the bountiful reefs, are displaying aggressive behavior, culminating in the island's first shark attacks in its history. Join us as we dive into the mystery behind the altered behavior of these hungry predators, and explore whether efforts to bring this delicate ecosystem back into balance is a case of too little, too late.
A rock 'n roll extravaganza with hosts Frankie Avalon and Connie Stevens, as they preside over music, contests, parties, and fireworks from the beach in Fort Lauderdale and other Florida locations.
One was a Black human rights leader who had achieved global notoriety. The other was a young Marxist Oxford student from Pakistan looking to bring radical change to the British establishment. When they met in December 1964, Malcolm X's life of activism was about to come to a tragic end, but Tariq Ali's journey was just beginning. This is the story of a brief but impactful friendship that, 50 years later, still ripples through England today, told by Ali, civil rights historians, and rarely seen footage of Malcolm X's overseas visit.