Gone Fishin is a fishing and travel show which boasts great
characters, spectacular scenery and incredible outdoor
action. Over the course of the series, viewers are immersed
in some of the world’s best sport fishing, and taken on a
journey through New Zealand and beyond.
We venture into the wild, wonderful, pristine landscape of
Antarctica where...
Meet the millionaires, mechanics and motors behind some of
the world’s most remarkable multi million-dollar car
collections in the exotic Kingdom of Bahrain. Fuelled with
facts, fast driving and fun anecdotes, Millionaire Motors
introduces a host of exquisite luxury, sports and vintage
cars, all in mint condition.
The exclusive series of shorts is filmed in the...
Paranormal Investigators – The Challenge takes a very
different approach to ghost hunting. A group of Australian
spook chasers are looking for their next recruit – someone
who can withstand the most hellish conditions imaginable and
face unseen forces. Four possible candidates are put
through the most nerve wrenching trial of their lives, alone
in the...
Want to attract wildlife to your garden but don’t know
how? In Wild Gardens, passionate ecologist Mike Dilger
visits the countryside for inspiration and finds out how to
create space for nature in even the smallest garden. His
expertise helps us bring nature closer to home through our
gardens.
In each episode of the series,...
Superstars and supercars come together for the 10th
Anniversary Tour of the Gumball 3000 rally. An A-list of
rock stars, supermodels, sporting legends, eccentrics,
billionaires and Hollywood’s finest gather for a
jaw-dropping car display at the starting grid before setting
off on an incredible 3000-mile, 8-day drive to the Beijing
Olympics via West Coast USA and...
This exhilarating documentary boasts exclusive access to the
fastest vehicles in the world as they battle to break
international motorcycle and car landspeed records. It is a
thrilling look at the world of landspeed racing, including
terrifying accidents, mechanical setbacks and
larger-than-life characters.
2008 proved to be a vintage year for landspeed racing on
the fabled Bonneville...
Collector Showdown is a fun, high-drama, information-packed
series dedicated to collectors and their collections. In
each episode two contestants of a certain collector genre
face off in a friendly battle of knowledge and skill for the
ultimate prize: either an experience of a lifetime and or a
coveted take-home addition to their collection.
Who is the...
This series reveals the intriguing lives of today’s landed
gentry as they turn their mansions into money spinners. It
is an entertaining, character-driven series with an emphasis
on the quirky and eccentric among the country’s posh and
privileged. No longer cocooned in their ivory towers, the
lords and ladies of Great Britain have had to...
Motivated is a must-see for anyone wishing to understand the
innate human attraction to risk and boundary-pushing for
fame and glory. A biography series analyzing the incredible
lives of the world’s top extreme athletes, it devotes each
episode to the story of a champion, from childhood to the
present. Family, friends and colleagues are interviewed,
revealing...
This series takes you inside the adrenalin-fuelled world of
those people who keep a NASCAR racing machine on the oval, a
hydroplane on the water, a motorcycle on the track.
Jack up a car, change four tires, fill the gas tank, check
the oil, wipe the windows and get back on the road… Oh
yes,...
Rubberneckers are people who turn their heads to stare at
something. Featuring a collection of eye-popping moments
that promise to make you open your mouth involuntarily and
gasp for breath in amazement, shock, awe and bemusement,
this hilarious series explores the curious phenomenon of
rubbernecking!
Bringing together content from all over the world, the
series gently pokes...
The Paranormal 5: a team of investigators whose aim is to
prove – or disprove – the existence of paranormal
activity. Together they visit various public and residential
locations which have experienced unexplained occurrences and
seemingly paranormal disturbances.
In each episode of the series, the Paranormal 5 check for
logical explanations, running technical tests which detect
fluctuations...
Everyone has a fantasy – something out of the ordinary,
glamorous and fun that they have always yearned to try. For
one reason or another, there are lawyers who want to be
Shakespearean actors, plumbers who are frustrated pilots,
farmers who could have been basketball stars, and bankers
who should have been fashion models.
Ultimate Dream...
The most adrenaline-pumping, action-packed class of the
year! Join our crew of stunt-artist wanabees with big dreams
through an intense crash-course in tumbling, fighting, high
falls, fire burns, stunt driving, motorbikes and
speed-boats. Learn from the best with exclusive tips and
tricks from the Hollywood stunt co-ordinators that double
for the stars. Will our thrill-seekers manage...
A unique behind-the-scenes look at the birthplace of James
Bond, Harry Potter and The Da Vinci Code among many others,
London’s Hollywood delves into the everyday workings of
the Shepperton and Pinewood Studios, the powerhouse at the
heart of the European film industry.
Shepperton-Pinewood is a self-sufficient mini-metropolis,
one of the biggest studio complexes in Europe...
Hidden behind the staid atmosphere of most museums is a
vibrant and exciting world involving theft, authentication,
forensics and fables. Secrets of the Exhibit takes you
behind the scenes, delving into the intrigue and mystery
which underlie the seemingly orderly and perfectly labelled
displays in museums. Each episode opens the doors that
shield the average patron...
Featuring celebrities such as the Jackass guys, Caprice,
Adrian Brody and Darryl Hannah, and the world’s slickest
cars from Ferraris and Lamborghinis to pimped-up Smart Cars,
Gumball 3000 has become one of the year’s most glamorous
and high-octane events. Around the World in 8 days is the
most outrageous Gumball 3000 rally. A tough ride...
There's been a change in how we spend our leisure time.
Increasingly we flop in front of TV's, play computer games,
listen to our iPods on treadmills. What the older folks'
pursuits had in common - from brass bands to pigeon-fancying
to cake-baking competitions - was that they were creative,
gregarious and largely free! Our...
A teasing glimpse into the glamour, furor and fun of the
annual Gumball 3000 rally. In Ultimate Gumballers we meet
the characters who bring the glitz and drama to the rally
and in Rules of the Road Ed Leigh reveals what it takes to
be a Gumballer.
Hawk Speed is a fly-on-the-wall series which allows viewers
VIP unrestricted access to one of the most exciting
superbike teams for the whole 2005 race season. The cameras
go right into the thick of the action as they share the all
excitement and some of the disappointment the team
experience. Delve into the pit garage...
Attracting a growing number of celebrity fanatics, and some
of the world¹s greatest gamblers and sharpest minds,
backgammon is a high stakes game with a growing profile that
offers an alternative to audiences already watching poker.
High Stakes Backgammon is the first-ever televised
backgammon event from the 30th World Championships in Monte
Carlo.
Match-play is...
These women include a three-time cancer survivor, a
sharecropper's daughter, a political refugee, a former
cowgirl and the oldest athlete to ever be honoured as a
finalist for the Sullivan Award which celebrates the top
amateur athletes in America.
Pre-Title IX, these athletes grew up in an era when women
did not participate in sports....
Competitive eating is recognised in the USA and Japan as a
sport of champions; gastronomic gladiators skilled in the
ancient arts of Kung-food and Pie-kwan-do. In Britain the
sport is virtually unheard of, but finally a British
challenger is found who has the guts for glory to take on
the greatest global gurgitators, stomach to...
Princess Martha Louise of Norway, a former international
show jumper, goes in search of great human-equestrian
partnerships that demonstrate the fascinating connection and
capacity for communication, between horse and man. Among
others, she meets the famous horse whisperer Monty Roberts,
the horse doctor Kelly Marks, the Paralympic Dressage Gold
Medallist, Lee Pearson and the blind rider...
Featuring the world’s slickest cars, the 3000-mile Gumball
rally is the year’s most high-octane event. In 2004 the
rally ventures into Africa via Paris and Madrid, shooting
through Marrakesh and back through Barcelona to finish in
Cannes. In 2005 it hits Eastern Europe, Italy and Monaco for
the F1 Grand Prix.
Sul Ross State University is a small West Texas university
where rodeo rules, rather than football or basketball.
It’s a tiny school but unique, the place where college
rodeo began and where the National Intercollegiate Rodeo
Association was first formed more than 50 years ago. It has
won 8 national championships in the past 50...
A fly-on-the-wall documentary shot over a twelve-month
period which follows three engaging ‘vintage transport’
enthusiasts across the UK as they pursue their amazing and
eccentric interests, unleashing their very un-PC opinions on
the world. The storyline is structured into themed chapters,
in which the characters brilliantly express themselves on a
wide raft of issues, and deliver...
A Girl, a Horse, a Dream documents how far one will go in
order to fulfil a childhood passion. This film follows
Bernadette Cooper, the top female jockey in Australia, and
her extraordinary battle to compete with men for victory in
Australia's richest races. It is a journey that is
unpredictable, euphoric, unnerving and intoxicating,...
Ice Girls follows the trials and tribulations of three
élite young figure skaters – Canadian Keyla Ohs and UK
skaters Jennifer Holmes and Vikki Hodges – as they pursue
their dreams of one day being the girl who picks roses off
the ice and ascends the Olympic podium. Shot over three
years, Ice Girls paints...
'Paranormal Files' is a series which examines extraordinary
stories that have happened to ordinary people. Some of these
events include one of the most controversial cases recorded
in the UK - the alien abduction of a former police officer,
since the officer took a photograph of his abductor. There
is the uncanny appearance of crop...
Most sensible humans avoid extreme weather conditions if
possible, but surfers long for the cyclone season which
brings wild storms and thrilling waves. This gripping
documentary follows world famous American surf tracker Mike
Perry, whose lifelong obsession with global wave activity
has earned him a reputation for forecasting the greatest
waves around the globe for the...
Sir Stanley Clarke, a former plumber, made a vast fortune
through property development. Fighting off cancer at
sixty-eight, he bought Dunstall Hall, a country home set in
twelve and a half thousand acres of Staffordshire
countryside, where his mother worked as a maid.
The Hall has been neglected over the last few decades and,
determined to...
Flash looks at the lives of a group of very rich
cosmopolitan young people with roots right around the world.
The three documentaries lift the lid on the little known or
understood lives of some extremely wealthy young people to
reveal their day-to-day existence and their attitudes to
privilege and to making money. They tell...
With the phenomenal rise of House music – the millennium's
new rock 'n' roll – clubs have become the new Meccas of
decadence and DJs have become heroes. These slick, overpaid
creatures live life to the max, travelling to club capitals
such as the party isle of Ibiza on a regular basis.
This series follows...
UK Raw is an outrageous, often hilarious programme
concerning real people and their fetishes. In each episode,
the audience is shown four rather bizarre and in some
instances sexy films. These films are then discussed in an
open forum, with the presenters probing the audience for
their views on what they have seen, gauging their...
