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The work and unexplained death of Michael Ventris, the English architect, classicist, and philologist who deciphered the ancient Mycenaean Greek script Linear B, are portrayed.

The Zone was only on air for six programmes. It was an interactive gameshow that began on 26 February 2007, on ITV Play and Men & Motors in the 3pm – 6pm TV slot. Presenters included Anna Fowler and Dave O'Riley. The show ended on 6 March 2007. The series was produced by ITV Productions (Granada) in Manchester. The show was generally a Make Your Play clone, with a different colour theme and lower cash prizes.

Contestants test their musical memory for a chance to win up to £250,000. Hosted by Shane Richie, players sing along to popular songs before the music stops and key lyrics disappear from the screen. To progress and win bigger prizes, they must correctly recall the missing words. Based on the international format of the same name.

The Dark Side of Modern Love is a series of four documentaries that aired on Channel 4.

Tim Samuels explores the rising pervasiveness of pornography, discovers how new technology is changing porn, and questions porn films' reluctance to portray safe sex on screen.

What are teenagers' biggest sexual taboos? In this groundbreaking five-part series, we uncover the forbidden territories of sex and give the lowdown on facts usually shrouded beneath layers of bravado, misinformation and myth. Young people aged 16-18 talk frankly and openly about their experiences of masturbation, sexually transmitted infections, using condoms, choosing abstinence and wondering how they 'measure up' to their friends. All the teenagers – apart from those featured in Programme 5 who have chosen to abstain – are sexually active. Whether they are in long-term relationships, happily single or into one-night stands, or are straight, gay or bisexual, they bring a wide and sometimes surprising range of experiences to the show. Experts are on hand to provide commentary and factual information.

The Goal Rush was a live ITV television programme that aired from 2001 to 2003 produced by Granada Television. The programme was broadcast on Saturdays as a rival show to Final Score on BBC One, and provided live football scores from the Premier League and the Football League. ITV ran the programme during the two of the three seasons that it held the rights to show Premier League highlights. After the rights were lost, The Goal Rush was axed. Coverage began on ITV2 and then continued on ITV from 4pm. The programme was presented by Angus Scott.

Eight ordinary people are given a million dollars and a fortnight of intensive training to run their own hedge fund. Hedge fund manager Lex van Dam wants to see if they can beat the professionals.

In a quirky new series with science at its heart, Michael Mosley self-experiments and meets individuals and experts to answer some of science's most puzzling questions.

Demolition is a 2005 television series from Channel 4, which can be seen as being the reverse of the BBC's 2003 series Restoration. The public were encouraged to vote for buildings which they want demolished and replaced, with 12 buildings making The Dirty Dozen. The show was shown on four days, 17th to 20th December 2005, with the "Dirty Dozen" covered along with other buildings which did not make the final 12, two of which were actually demolished either during or for filming. The show on the 20th dealt almost entirely with Cumbernauld town centre. The show was presented and narrated by Kevin McCloud, with a Demolition Troubleshooter of Janet Street-Porter, and a team of architectural and heritage exports. The show is based around a proposed concept of X-listing buildings, the opposite of making a listed building. One of the dirty dozen is Grade II* listed. Many of these buildings are either famous within the UK, or the world.

The BBC News at One is the afternoon news bulletin from the BBC. Produced by BBC News, the programme is broadcast on BBC One and the BBC News channel every weekday at 1:00pm. The programme is usually presented by Sian Williams every Monday and Sophie Raworth from Tuesday to Friday. The BBC News at One achieved an average reach of 2.7 million viewers per bulletin in 2007, making it the most watched programme on UK daytime television.

A British Sub goes missing at the end of WWII, leaving only one survivor. Everyone believes it lost to the bottom of the Baltic Sea, then 40 years later it reappears without a crew. The British government sends for the one surviving crew member (David Jason), who is now a marine biologist. With a new crew, Jason proceeds to trace the last known happenings on the sub. But this submarine has a life of its own and the new crew soon start showing characteristics of the old crew.

Dan Cruickshank's Marvels of the Modern Age is a BBC documentary series in which Dan Cruickshank traces the roots of Modernism and focuses on the movement's leading lights, such as Le Corbusier and Frank Lloyd Wright, and the century's most seismic political events including the rise of Nazi Germany. The series was first broadcast on BBC Two in 2006 to coincides with the exhibition Modernism: Designing a New World at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.

Make Your Play was a live, interactive quiz show, showing in the UK on the ITV Network, from Monday to Saturday, beginning after midnight. The show was launched on Friday 29 September 2006 on ITV and ITV Play. The prizes are greater than usually available on ITV Play, but as a result of this, callers are usually taken less often. In order to win money, viewers must either call in at a cost of 75p from a BT landline, or enter through the ITV website. If they are successful they will be placed on hold, then transferred live to the studio if they are lucky, where they go on to deliver their answer. Make Your Play has given over £3 million. It went over the £3 million mark on 1 July 2007, when a contestant by the name of Mr Joseph Percy said "next day". An on screen graphic was then shown saying "£3 Million Given Away" accompanied with a siren sound effect.

Join veteran garden designers and authors Gordon Taylor and Guy Cooper as they journey to some of Britain's green (and not so green!) spaces; taking in contrasting examples of traditional, totally eccentric and thoroughly contemporary gardens.

CCTV Cities is a 2008 British television documentary program, produced and presented by journalist Donal MacIntyre. Each episode featured a British town or city. Leeds, Wigan, Edinburgh and London were all featured. The documentary was shown on Five. Instances shown include an attempted suicide on a bridge in Leeds, where a man attempts to commit suicide by jumping into the River Aire, as well as police being attacked with missiles in Halton Moor, Leeds, when criminals attempted to regain a stolen car which the police were recovering.

Anthropologist and author Richard Rudgley sets off on an epic journey back in time and around the world to discover the real roots of civilization.

The Last Millionaire is a Reality TV show with a twist - after the weekly challenge, it is the winners rather than the losers that are sent home. The 6 part series was first broadcast in the UK on BBC Three starting 13 November 2008.

I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! Exclusive was a 5pm teatime programme which ran each weekday on ITV1 as a secondary spin-off to series six of I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!. It was co-hosted by series five runner-up Sheree Murphy and Phillip Schofield in 2006. It did not return for a second series.

For decades, the VW Beetle has been a source of obsession for its fans. The mechanics come to the aid of Beetle owners to turn their Bugs into spectacular customised rides.

Xchange was a factual entertainment BBC television programme for children. It was broadcast initially on BBC Two and later the CBBC Channel. The programme was transmitted live from studio TC2 at BBC Television Centre. Towards the end of the show, it was recorded the day before broadcasting. The first era of the programme came in 1998 when it was designed as a programme shown on BBC Two in the summer holidays. This format was repeated annually until the launch of the CBBC Channel in 2002. As a result, 1,040 episodes over two years were initially ordered. At that time, it was the BBC's biggest ever single in-house commission. On the CBBC Channel, it was a continuous, daily, hour-long format broadcast from 7:30am. Although, by the time the programme ended in March 2006, it was being broadcast twice daily in thirty minute durations. The show featured a website where users can sign-up to collect points, and also could gain points for being a caller on the show. People who obtained 1000 points could enter a draw to appear on the show and be a "Gold X-IDer" in the studio. In a later series, the 1000 points could also be traded in to have a presenter host a part of the show from an X-IDer's house for a week.

The Scott Chisholm Show was a daily breakfast show broadcast on the ITV News Channel. It lasted only two weeks due to the channel's closure.

Follows people performing extremely dangerous jobs.

One Minute Wonders is a factual television series for children produced by Unique TV for CBBC. Starring David Schneider as the voice of Blink, the series consists of 13 episodes with each episode running 28 minutes. The series combines live action material filmed by Unique TV, animation produced by Karrot Animation and archive footage from the BBC Worldwide Motion Gallery. The series first aired on 5 January 2009 on BBC One.

Sketch show satirising British television output.

Charles Darwin came up with some ingenious experiments to prove his theory of evolution. Jimmy Doherty attempts to recreate some of these investigations.

Jeff Global's Global Probe is a short-lived regional comedy sketch show first seen on ITV Wales in 2004. Shown exclusively in Wales, the show was intended as a follow-up to the popular Barry Welsh is Coming, which had concluded in 2004 with the sacking of the geeky Barry Welsh as presenter. The show is replaced by a clip-based review of cable television hosted by the more competent Jeff Global. Jeff was, according to Sparkes, "smart, strong, attractive...basically, everything Barry isn't". New characters and segments were introduced including The Rectifiers, Eddie Giraffe and Jay Clough. Hugh Pugh and Mr. Ffff were brought over from the original Barry Welsh series. The series' supporting cast consisted of former Barry Welsh is Coming cast members Kim Wall, Gordon Kennedy & Felicity Montagu, actress Harriet Halfhead and singer & television presenter Emma Walford.

Cocktail Kings is a British television program on the Discovery Travel Channel hosted by Colin Asare-Appiah and Dimitri Lezinska. The program follows the two personalities in their journeys around Europe and the United States.