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Throughout the ages, civilisations have risen up and then disappeared. Ancient Apocalypse seeks to explain how human achievements were destroyed by the forces of nature.

A collection of summer comedy shorts, written by and starring some of the UK and Ireland's brightest comedy stars, including Joe Wilkinson, David Earl and Morgana Robinson.

HeadJam is a BBC television game show hosted by Vernon Kay. It originally aired during the summer of 2004 on BBC Three, with a repeat soon afterwards on BBC Two. It featured two teams, each consisting of a member of the public and a celebrity. Celebrities included Claudia Winkleman, DJ Spoony, Joe Cornish, Lauren Laverne, Natalie Casey, Paddy O'Connell, Edith Bowman, Mark Durden-Smith, Julie Fernandez and Ed Byrne. All the contestants and celebrity contestants played a variety of rounds, answering questions about popular culture. Rounds included Spoonerisms, guessing TV themes and film taglines, and general knowledge questions about specific years. The contestant with the most points at the end played a final round, named "HeadJam", in which the member of the public had to memorise and then deliver the answers to eight questions in order.

The Sex Education Show is a British sex education television show that aired on Channel 4. The series, hosted by Anna Richardson, aims to improve the nation's knowledge by offering candid advice on a wide range of sexual issues and problems.

Betray your country, save the world. Spies and traitors play a dangerous game in the 1980s as the Cold War brings two superpowers to the brink of nuclear war.

The Manageress is a television series about a woman who becomes manager of a professional football team. It ran from 1989 to 1990 and had two seasons. The series starred Cherie Lunghi as Gabrielle Benson and Warren Clarke as the chairman of the second division club. It was independently produced for Channel 4 by Glenn Wilhide and Sophie Belhetchet at their production company, ZED Ltd. The series aired for two series of six episodes on Channel 4 in 1989 and 1990.

Bunnytown is a children's television program that airs on Playhouse Disney in the United States and Great Britain, as well as more than seventy other countries. The program, created by David Rudman, his brother Adam and Todd Hannert, under their Spiffy Pictures banner, began airing in Canada on November 3, 2007, and in the USA a week later. It is produced by future Jim Henson Company employee Bill Barretta. UK viewers got a premiere of the program on January 13, 2008 on the Playhouse Disney channel sublet of pay-broadcaster Family Channel. In France, the series began on January 27, 2008, and kept its original title Bunnytown. The show is produced at Ontario, Canada with many of the "Peopletown" segment exterior scenes done at Clarence Park and Verulamium Park in nearby St Albans. It is rated TV-Y in the USA and C in Canada as per their respective countries.

One hundred Italian athletes face brutal physical challenges, each battling to outlast the rest and claim the glory of becoming the one true champion.

Ten years after surviving a car accident in which her mother and brother were murdered, Olivia, returns to the French Riviera with a new identity and a single purpose: Retribution.

Trapped (1967) is a 12-episode British drama anthology series produced by Associated Television (ATV) and broadcast in the UK during the summer and autumn of 1967. The series focused on the emotional struggles and complex moral situations of characters trapped in difficult or inescapable circumstances.

Join Pinocchio and his friends, the pirate rag doll Freeda and the put-upon Talking Cricket, on their thrilling adventures in and around Papa Geppetto's Shop of Wonders. The trio are always ready for action.

The Shiny Show is a pre-school children's quiz show, broadcast by CBeebies. Each show featured a quiz with six questions, based around different subjects, and featured three star characters: Tigs the Tiger, Mukka the Monkey and Dogsby the Dog.

Sunburn is a British television series that followed the lives of a group of British holiday reps. It was broadcast on BBC One between 16 January 1999 and 1 May 2000, running for two series of six and eight episodes respectively. The first was set and filmed in Cyprus and the second in Algarve. The cast included Michelle Collins, Rebecca Callard, Sharon Small, George Layton and Sean Maguire, with Paul Nicholas joining later. The series was created by Mike Bullen, who was interested in the behind-the-scenes lives of holiday reps after watching the docusoap Holiday Reps. Bullen wrote most of the first series but scaled back his involvement in the second; most of that series' episodes were written by Lizzie Mickery and Sally Wainwright.

When Lucy Honeychurch and chaperon Charlotte Bartlett find themselves in Florence with rooms without views, fellow guests Mr Emerson and son George step in to remedy the situation. Meeting the Emersons could change Lucy's life forever but, once back in England, how will her experiences in Tuscany affect her marriage plans?

Perfect Scoundrels first broadcast in 1990 on British television. A comedy-drama following two con-men doing their best to separate various people from their money

This stranger-than-fiction crime caper follows the attempted robbery of a precious gem, told by the gangsters who did it and the police on their tail.

Follow the professional and personal lives of Ted Gibson and Kim Vo, two of LA's best-known celebrity hairdressers. Their businesses thrive on styling the stars, where they can charge up to $2,500 per cut.

The Pyramid Game was a United Kingdom game show based on the American format of the same name that was originally shown on ITV from 1981 to 1984 then 1989 to 1990 hosted by Steve Jones, then revived by Challenge in 2007 hosted by Donny Osmond.

An unlikely crime fighting duo made up of two very different sisters. Shirley, a farmer from New Zealand and in search of her father, travels to Athens and meets her half-sister & detective, Helen. Shirley soon starts to help Helen solve crimes with her ‘bush’ wisdom and wit while they try to find their missing father.

A tough lawyer and a childish pool-noodle salesman become mismatched traveling companions as they try to get home to Berlin in time for Christmas.

Singer-songwriter Mat’s relatively normal life implodes when his depression takes the form of Monika, a woman that only he can see and hear – and whose sole purpose is to make his reality worse.

Coach driver and single dad Peter Green leads a life of ordinary routine until the discovery of a dead body on the docile Bognor shoreline and an unsettling meeting with a new arrival in town throws his life into chaos.

Actor Bradley Walsh and his 20-year-old son Barney are hitting the road together, travelling over 2000 miles from Los Angeles to New Orleans.

In 1901, a middle-class schoolboy whose parents are working abroad spends his summer in Bedfordshire with his great-uncle Silas. Though sixty years old, Silas relishes life—he’s a womaniser, drinker, and a poacher. At the prompting of his long-suffering housekeeper, Mrs Betts, he takes on the occasional odd job.

A “Tinder-inspired” version of successful noughties game show Your Face Or Mine?, the cult-classic, couples-based comedy format in which your face can win you cash. Over a series of revelation-filled rounds, couples are forced to compare their looks with other people's - and ultimately with each other's - in this relationship-testing game.

Italian crime drama from Walter Presents. Teresa Battaglia is a resolute police detective with a secret. She and her team investigate brutal murders that have their roots in the past.

London-based dermatologists offer an inside look at their dermatology clinic, where they help patients with their skin problems.

When Jed Pickersgill finds himself too ill to run his Chelsea pub, The Brown Cow, he calls upon his middle-aged daughter Nellie for help. Nellie moves from Bolton to London to help, despite being a teetotal.

A special insight into medicine presented on film: sterile operations, hospitals used to be built by the wind, anaesthesia, surgical gloves, similar to the films Sauerbruch or Kneip.

Der Kurier der Kaiserin is a German Television series.

George, a diabetic father moves next door to daughter Zoe Dalton. Zoe seems to have it all, including successful husband Chris, but when she hires an au pair, Sandrine, the beguiling young French woman triggers an unsettling shift in the household as instincts and suspicions arise, hinting at hidden agendas.

Louis Theroux interviews some of the biggest names in UK entertainment and is granted exclusive access into their lives, both at work and at home.