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Adam and Joe Go Tokyo
2003
star 7.5Adam and Joe Go Tokyo was a series of eight episodes created for BBC Three. It starred Adam Buxton and Joe Cornish of The Adam and Joe Show and aired from 30 May 2003 to 25 July 2003. The aim of the show was to offer an alternative insight into the lives of Tokyo's citizens, with the obligatory look at a number of gadgets and toys along the way. The show took the format of a mature Blue Peter outlining many pastimes of the average Japanese person, everything from competitive speed eating to manga cosplay. Each episode would end with a Japanese band joining the show to perform.Taiwan Bites
2023
Taiwan Bites
2023
American-Taiwanese chef Eric Sze goes around the world seeking the reasons behind Taiwanese food's global surge in popularity.Hunde verstehen!
2019
Underground Marvels
2019
Underground Marvels
2019
star 6.5Historians, engineers, and experts take a look at the underground structures, systems, and phenomena that exist beneath our feet.Operation Gold Rush with Dan Snow
2016
star 8.8Dan Snow leads a team of adventurers on an epic journey across the Canadian wilderness, following in the footsteps of the 19th-century Klondike gold rush. Their mission? To find their own gold.Pavlov
2010
Pavlov
2010
Guy Garvey: From the Vaults
2020
star 8.2Elbow frontman and broadcaster Guy Garvey lifts the lid on two decades of TV gold – with era-defining musical performances, long lost studio appearances and revealing interviews that have remained on the shelves for decades. The series is centred around shows which were made by ITV companies around the country – from Tony Wilson and Granada TV’s So It Goes to Tyne Tees’ ground-breaking Channel 4 series The Tube and LWT’s The London Weekend Show - chronicling not just changing musical tastes but evolution in the UK’s social and cultural history too. The series travels from Punk and New Wave to the birth of ‘Madchester’.GeoKids
1994
GeoKids
1994
star 10Hosted by Francisco the Flamingo, Bobby the Bushbaby, Sunny the Honey Possum, and Balzac de Chameleon, each GeoKids episode is filled with award-winning cinematography, irresistible songs, and fascinating animation. Created and directed by Emmy-winner Hank Saroyan of Jim Henson's Muppet Babies, GeoKids is certain to entertain and enrich the whole family.Breaking Bobby Bones
2021
Breaking Bobby Bones
2021
star 7Bobby Bones crisscrosses the country to meet everyday heroes who have extraordinary jobs, hobbies and abilities, welcoming him with open arms to give him a crash course in their specialized skills.My Different Ways
2020
My Different Ways
2020
star 5.8Vitus is stuck in a rut until he meets the optimistic and adventurous Emma. The two start a relationship, but Vitus leaves out the detail that his ex-girlfriend is pregnant.Model America
2022
Model America
2022
Dissecting America's complicated relationship with race through the people of Teaneck, N.J.Sister Wendy's Story of Painting
1996
star 8.5Sister Wendy Beckett takes a journey through the history of art in this ten-part series.Super Senses: The Secret Power of Animals
2014
star 6.4Biologist Patrick Aryee and physicist Helen Czerski go beyond the limits of human perception to explore the extraordinary and surprising world of animal senses.Ken and Barbie Killers: The Lost Murder Tapes
2021
star 7.9Three schoolgirl murders. Two killers hiding in plain sight. Six video tapes that horrify the world and lead to one of the most controversial murder trials in modern history: one that left a nation shamed, victims denied justice, and a serial killer roaming free in Canada today. Over the course four parts, THE KEN AND BARBIE KILLERS: THE LOST MURDER TAPES follows the extraordinary twists and turns of the case and trial of glamour couple Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka, the "demonic duo of dark kink", who quickly became the most notorious killers in Canadian history.Zhang Yimou's 2008
2009
Zhang Yimou's 2008
2009
Sword & Scale
2024
Sword & Scale
2024
True crime podcast host Mike Boudet brings his edgy show Sword and Scale to television with a new app, allowing fans to immerse themselves in cases through original audio, visuals, and an interactive social platform to discuss episodes.The View from Here
2018
The View from Here
2018
As we approach death, each of us encounters a unique set of experiences and impressions-the sum of our time spent and our choices. It has been said that death is like a wall; as we near the wall, our instinct is to turn and face the past. Through a series of interviews with terminally ill men and women, The View From Here is an exploration of how life looks after a terminal diagnosis and before a final breath- an unflinching attempt to undo the taboos that keep us afraid and alone at the end.Ancient Superstructures
2020
star 8.7"Ancient Superstructures“ reveals the secrets behind the world’s most famous monuments. Some of the ancient marvels which are among the most studied and scrutinized monuments in the world still remain shrouded in mystery. What if the answers were right in front of us… but invisible to the human eye? This ground-breaking series takes a unique approach in delving into engineering mysteries behind the world’s most famous ancient structures, by observing them from different perspectives of scale. From satellite imagery and aerial views right down to macro and microscopic levels, each perspective reveals data that helps shed new light on historical and construction enigmas that have baffled historians for years.
