If you’ve ever sneezed while driving your car, did you immediately think, “Cars Cause the Common Cold!”? No, of course not. A headline like that wouldn’t make any sense. And yet, some of the sources we rely on for health and medical news are not much better. Many media outlets are perfectly happy to grab us with a wacky headline or an article that reflects none of the nuance of the study on which it’s based—as long as we buy the magazine or click through to the article. And we do. We take the bait. With 50,000 scientific studies published each week in English, many media outlets don’t put in the time and effort to adequately decipher and report on even a tiny fraction of those studies. But they publish news about them, anyway.
In the Battlebots arena, armor is shredded, sparks fly, and the robots are torn to pieces. When the smoke clears, the teams are left with the carnage that remains. Each episode, we follow their race to repair these mechanical gladiators in time for the next fight.
This Houston-based series profiles several black, female attorneys who tackle some of the toughest legal cases in Texas. The women, some of whom have known one another for decades, form a tight bond to help themselves succeed in a male-dominated profession.
America’s hottest entrepreneurial trend is buying properties to rent through online services like HomeAway. Budding real estate entrepreneurs watch their favorite real estate shows and dream about getting into the market, but can’t risk their entire savings on a flip. Designer and real estate expert Holly Baker will show viewers how to profit from real estate using the new sharing economy, sharing her secrets of balancing location, renovation design and operating costs to start earning income on day one.
Follow the story of the Langens of British Columbia, who run one of the busiest bear rehabilitation centers in the world. They rescue and raise orphaned bear cubs (including grizzly cubs) until they can survive on their own and be released back into the wild.
In the extreme landscape of Mashatu in Botswana, all animal families' paths cross; each one's plot is affected by the next. Elephants, cheetahs, leopards, jackals, and baboons live together as their home experiences drought, flood, and abundance.
Decked Out is a Canadian home renovation television series, which airs on HGTV Canada. Hosted by Paul Lafrance, a contractor who owns Cutting Edge Construction and Design in Pickering, Ontario, each episode depicts Lafrance and his team designing and building a unique and dramatic deck for a client.
Prior to launching his own series, Lafrance appeared on several episodes of Breakfast Television and Holmes Inspection.
Lafrance subsequently also launched Deck Wars, a spinoff program in which he moderates a competition between two homeowners each building their own decks.
Amazing Wedding Cakes is an American reality television series on WE tv that debuted on September 7, 2008. The series follows several bakers from around the country as they create high-end wedding cakes.
As pieces of our past disappear, groups all over the world are beginning to seek out unique items, many the last of their kind, and restore them. This series follows a different group of these individuals each week as they complete these restorations of these one of a kind objects, sometimes taking years and millions of dollars to do so.
Exposing the world's most conniving, creative, and criminally adept con men, Serial Swindlers goes inside their minds. While their crimes and exploits are a ready-made Hollywood script, their escapades have left a trail of heartache, poverty and destruction. Ordinary criminal minds they are not.
Gripping clips of kidnappings, break-ins, wild car chases and other crimes rack up millions of views, but the stories behind these crimes are often never told -- until now. This series takes viewers inside the most shocking crimes that went viral.
In every episode of "Love, Lust or Run," women with major fashion issues turn to style guru Stacy London for help in turning their over-the-top looks from disaster to "Damn, girl!" Stacy shows them the impact their fashion choices are making on their day-to-day life and perception by asking random strangers to rate their style as "Love," "Lust," or "Run." Each woman will have to strip off her hair extensions, wild clothes and outrageous makeup to start from scratch. Once they are a blank slate, Stacy will guide these women through a transformative makeunder, changing each woman’s look and, just maybe, her life! Based on the BBC show "Snog, Marry, Avoid".
Secret Lives of Women is a reality television series airing Tuesday nights at 10pm/9 central on WE: Women's Entertainment. The show probes little-known subcultures of women in the United States. A typical format is a series of interviews conducted with several women.
Front and Center is the critically-acclaimed concert series that was launched in the Spring of 2012. The original one hour, commercial-free, all-music program airs nationwide on public television. Through the years, it has presented an eclectic mix of Grammy winning, multi-platinum selling industry vets and chart toppers, including the likes of Jack Johnson, Train, The Avett Brothers, Cyndi Lauper, the Goo Goo Dolls and more.
London is a huge city with a massive story to tell. Trade centre, cultural capital, a place that embraces modernity and also its remarkable history. In this six part series we explore the stories of some of the greatest institutions of London life. Six special programmes include: 'The London Underground', 'Royal London', 'Parks', 'The River Thames', 'Castles' & 'Palaces'!