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Dan Snow joins military archaelogists as they investigate the former battlegrounds of the Second World War, uncovering little-known stories through excavations and dives across Europe

A three part documentary exploring the unusual ways modern America deals with birth, love and death.

Holiday Showdown was a BAFTA-nominated and Royal Television Society Award-winning reality television programme, produced by Chris Kelly for the United Kingdom independent TV production company RDF Media. It was first broadcast in 2003 on ITV in the United Kingdom. Holiday Showdown is produced by RDF Television, part of the RDF Media Group. The executive producer is Nick Shearman, series producer is Tayte Simpson, and producer/director is Katharine Round.

Two passengers meet in reception at Gatwick airport. Although unknown to each other, they find they are on the same flight and staying in the same hotel. Two characters as different as chalk and cheese have a series of misadventures on holiday in Spain.

Transgender people from around England undergo life-changing gender-confirmation surgeries performed by Christopher Inglefield. Inglefield is the founder of London Transgender Surgery, a clinic in Central London. When faced with years-long wait times and limited surgical options through the National Health Service, some trans patients turn to private practitioners for care—if they can afford it.

Trust Me - I'm A Holiday Rep is a reality television show that was broadcast by Five in the United Kingdom. The first series ran nightly with 10 programmes over 2 weeks. It chronicles attempts by 6 celebrities to work as holiday reps for tour group Olympic Holidays. The programme was presented by Toby Anstis and Nancy Sorrell. Series 2 was also broadcast nightly over 10 days from Monday 18th - Wednesday 27 September. Again the celebs were working for Olympic Holidays, this time in Malia in Crete in Greece. The series was presented by Lucy Rusedski and Andy Goldstein.

Luv is a British television sitcom made by the BBC in 1993 which ran for 18 episodes. The writer and executive producer was Carla Lane. The main character, Terese Craven, was played by Sue Johnston.

Follows renovators across the UK as they tackle crumbling period properties. The renovators face huge challenges as they attempt to transform their wrecks into the homes of their dreams.

Footage of real-life rescues captured by the rescuers themselves as they put their lives on the line saving others.

Ian Wright fullfills a life long dream to travel coast to coast across America on a Harley-Davidson motorbike. Joining him for the trip is custom bike builder Nicky Bootz, whose tumultuous rapport and rocky relationship with Wright makes for compulsive viewing. Together they take in the amazing sights and bizarre experiences the country has to offer and put on a show that you'll want to watch over and over again.

Minor incidents - huge impact. The gob-smacking stories of ordinary coppers who stumbled upon key pieces of evidence and helped take down major criminals.

Philomena Cunk and friends take a look back at the major events of our 2019th year.

Ronnie and Laura Corbett have embarked on a new future - this time in the company of the Prince of Denmark, a public house that she has inherited. Ronnie's initially rather put out by Laura's being technically in charge; something which the brewery's delivery men are swift to pick up on! Her prior experience working behind a bar soon begins to rub off, but it's a slow learning curve for the diminutive busybody as he attempts to keep his pride in tact, his eye over everything, and his hand firmly on the tiller.

A team of expert craftspeople build incredible items for community heroes.

An exploration of some of the world's most famous structures and the inspirations of the architects behind them.

Night Fever was a karaoke style show airing in the United Kingdom on Channel 5 from 5 April 1997 to 30 March 2002. It was hosted by Suggs and in the early series, he was helped by 'The Big Guy in the Sky' - a disembodied voice giving the scores, and later by 'Wolfie' - John Ireland dressed as Mozart. Later series were co-hosted by Will Mellor and Sarah Cawood replaced later by Kieron Elliott and Danielle Nicholls. The programme often had themed shows such as Valentine's Day. Also, Suggs was helped by Pop Monkey who supposedly gave Suggs the choices of songs.

An enthralling series exploring how the BBC fought not only Hitler but also the British government to become the institution it is today.

Paul Murton sets out to experience island life today. He uncovers the past and reveals its connections with the present, pointing to the quirky, the surprising and the beautiful lying just offshore.

The incredible stories of how some of Scottish football’s biggest stars made their names on the pitch... and off it.

How does the art we consume reflect the times we live in? A topical look at the latest film, TV, music, books and theatre - through the eyes of their creators and their audiences.

Historian Dr Suzannah Lipscomb unfolds the extraordinary story of the tumultuous love affair between Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn, and asks: was it really love that brought them together – and was it love that tore them apart? Suzannah's journey will take her from Anne's childhood home at Hever Castle in Kent to the French palace where, some say, she learned the art of love. She will also visit Hampton Court, where Henry built the Great Hall for his new queen, and the Tower of London, where he had her beheaded.

Comedian Arthur Askey and his buddy Stinker reside in a flat on top of Associated-Rediffusion's Television House in Aldwych, getting into all sorts of comedic situations. The series was based on the BBC radio comedy Band Waggon. Produced for the ITV network by Associated-Rediffusion, all nine episodes survive in the archives.

After four decades of reporting from the continent, Jonathan Dimbleby returns to Africa on a 7,000-mile journey to discover how it is changing.

Weight loss expert Steve Miller moves into the homes of some of the UK’s fattest families, exposing them to the risks their bulging bellies and bad habits have on their health. And he’s not going to hold back until he has turned their ‘house of fatness’ into a ‘house of fitness’.

Millions saw the stream, now get the full story. The Sidemen Charity Match 2023 was the biggest live YouTube event of all time - From the Sidelines is an exclusive behind the scenes look at how the Sidemen, and their teams, made it happen.

Daybreak is a national British breakfast programme, broadcast weekdays on ITV. It is presented live from The London Studios and contains a mixture of news, sport, weather, and entertainment items. The programme was originally presented by Christine Bleakley and Adrian Chiles until their departure on 5 December 2011. They were replaced by Kate Garraway and Dan Lobb, who presented the show on an interim basis, however since 2012, Daybreak has been presented by Lorraine Kelly and Aled Jones, with Ranvir Singh and Matt Barbet hosting the first hour of the programme. Laura Tobin acts as the weather presenter with Richard Arnold presenting the showbiz slot on the show. Helen Fospero, Louisa James and John Stapleton act as stand-in presenters of the main show.

Asking how you tell what's real and what isn't sounds like an obvious question. But in this series of six programmes, James Burke shows that the more you think about it the harder it is to answer. After all, what have you got, apart from your five senses, to prove those senses are giving you the real thing?

An inside, behind-the-scenes look at the practice of law, and the lawyers whose lives are caught up in their work with each other.

No Problem! is a Channel 4 sitcom which ran from 1983 to 1985, created by the Black Theatre Co-operative. The show was written by Farrukh Dhondy and Mustapha Matura. 27 episodes were broadcast of the programme which focused on a family of Jamaican heritage, the Powells, living in a council house in Willesden Green, London. It was voted Britain's 100th best sitcom in a poll carried out by the BBC.

The Beiderbecke Tapes is a two-part 1987 British television comedy-drama serial written by Alan Plater. The second installment in The Beiderbecke Trilogy, it stars James Bolam and Barbara Flynn as schoolteachers Trevor Chaplin and Jill Swinburne. When a tape recording of a conversation about nuclear waste inadvertently falls into Chaplin's hands, he and Swinburne find themselves being pursued by national security agents.

Cool It is a British television comedy series which first aired on BBC Two between 1985 and 1990. It was a vehicle for the rubber-faced comedian Phil Cool. Whereas in 1985 there were irritating comedians, Cool was an "irritating impressionist" and would impersonate some of the most famous figures of the day. But these wouldn't be just vocal Impressions of the intended victims, they would be full-fledged and extremely accurate facial expressions too, with Cool being able to contort his rubbery features into a caricature semblance of whoever he was impersonating. Sometimes so uncanny was this facial transformation that he didn't need any sketch material or props to back him up and could rely solely on the transformation. Impressions ranged from political/important figures such as Robin Day, Roy Hattersly, Arthur Scargill, Neil Kinnock, The Pope and Ronald Reagan. To popular celebrities, comedians and musicians such as Mick Jagger, Bryan Ferry, Mike Harding, Terry Wogan, Billy Connolly, Clive James, Rik Mayall and his signature impression Rolf Harris. Fictional characters like Quasimodo, Bugs Bunny and E.T were also impersonated; Cool even created personalities for inanimate objects such as Morris Minors and Volkswagen Beetles.

Under and Over was a 1971 BBC television situation comedy, which lasted one series of six episodes. In it The Bachelors, an Irish singing trio, played Irish labourers working on the construction of a new London Underground line Bob Keegan played Lord Brentwood, the boss of the construction company, who was also Irish. It featured culture clashes between Irish and British people, and the ambiguous position of people of Irish background in Britain.

An insight into the lives of Dr Darren McKeown and husband Tom as they navigate a big year running a cosmetic clinic, building a luxurious cosmetic hospital and having their first child.

Contestants make conversation and race the clock to uncover clues about people, places and things. Based on a Canadian series of the same title.

Making News is a television drama set in the world of journalism produced by Thames Television for the ITV network. A pilot was screened in 1989, followed by one series of six episodes in 1990. The leading cast members included Bill Nighy, Alphonsia Emmanuel, Paul Darrow, Annie Lambert and Tony Osoba.

When Ian and Em receive a surprise invitation from their old friend Ollie to spend a weekend in the Suffolk countryside, they expect an idyllic holiday. But the competitive edge to the men's relationship soon rises to the surface, with irreversible consequences.

A US property developer realises that he has a battle on his hands when he tries to renovate a London building containing a vast photographic collection and discovers that the library employees will resort to anything to thwart him.

In the mid-1960s, the British film industry was in danger and unable to compete with the rise of television. Therefore, in order to survive, distributors decided to offer viewers something that television could not: sex. The story of the intrepid filmmakers and actors who transformed British cinema.

It centers on two warring families pitted against each other amid the unsettling and indelible landscape of the Thames Estuary. Evie Wyatt returns to the Edgelands, where she lost her father to a firestorm 15 lost years ago, seeking answers and revenge.

Johnny Vegas hunts and repairs antiques in a bid to make enough profit to make the shop a permanent business - an emporium on the North West of England.

Blood and Bone China is a 12-part Gothic Victorian vampire web series. It was created and directed by award winning film-maker Chris Stone.

Law & Order is a series of four British television plays written by G. F. Newman and directed by Les Blair. It was first transmitted in 1978 on BBC2.

A kindly shop owner has overwhelming gambling debts. These allow his greedy landlord to seize his shop of dusty treasures. Evicted and with no way to pay his debts, the shop owner and his granddaughter flee.

Variety show introduced by American ventriloquist Ronn Lucas.

Hugh Dennis and a team of expert archaeologists excavate back gardens around Britain, in an attempt to uncover the lost history buried beneath our lawns and flower beds

"Tonight With Dave Allen" was a chat-cum-sketch show hosted by Irish comic Dave Allen.

A French visitor to Scotland smuggles her cat into the country, sparking a terrifying outbreak of rabies which threatens to engulf an entire community.

Join Jane McDonald as she takes an island-hopping adventure across the Canaries. She checks out the islands' tourist sights, dishing out some insider secrets and tasting the flavours of the Canaries.

Three-part dramatization of the novel by Joanna Trollope. A clergyman's wife shocks the church establishment and infuriates her husband by taking a job in a supermarket. She attracts the passionate interest of three very different men: a newly-appointed archdeacon; his younger brother, a philosopher and academic; and a wealthy businessman new to the village.

Simon in the Land of Chalk Drawings is a British children's animated series about the adventures of a young boy named Simon, who has a magic blackboard. Things that Simon draws on the chalkboard become real in the Land of Chalk Drawings, which Simon can enter by climbing over a fence near his home with a ladder. The stories often revolve around the unintended effects that Simon's drawings have on the Land of Chalk Drawings, such as when an upset Simon draws a picture of his angry self, which goes on a rampage.

The show combines a talent contest with a gaming element, as singers decide whether to stay in the competition or cash out.

Henry Farmer is a clever minded criminal practice attorney whose every day is a juggling act between surviving his messy personal life and pleading cases only he can win. Whether he's trying to keep an innocent person from going to jail or save himself from financial ruin, Henry's life is a symphony of chaos. His long list of problems includes a mountain of gambling debts, an affair with an important politician's wife, a distant son, and a sharp-tongued father who's also a judge.

Starring Nigel Havers as a recovering WWII pilot trying to adapt to life after being shot down. After suffering horrific facial burns when the bomber he is piloting is shot down, Hugh Fleming (Havers)'s once promising future lies in ruins. Abandoned by his girlfriend, and forced to sit out the war while his former colleagues fight on, Fleming's only hope lies with an offer of help from renowned plastic surgeon Angus Meikle (James Fox). Based on the 1980 Christopher Matthew book 'The Long-Haired Boy'. Loosley based on the true story of Richard Hillary with some aspects adapted from Hillary's 1943 book 'The Last Enemy'.

Paul Murton sets out to explore the lochs of Scotland, travelling from the wilds of the west coast to the Grampian Mountains, discovering the secrets of these iconic features of the Scottish landscape.

The epic nine part docuseries from the award winning team at The Cosmic Shambles Network. From The Big Bang to AI, this is the entire history of music as you’ve never seen it before. Presented by Charlotte Ritchie and featuring over 100 exclusive interviews, rare archive interviews and brand new live performances from incredible performers.