The Mortified Sessions is an American documentary talk show on the Sundance cable television channel, hosted by David Nadelberg. The series, which premiered in December 2011, features interviews with one or more celebrities each episode, showing photos and artifacts from their childhood.
The show serves as a companion piece to Mortified, a live stage show Nadelberg created nine years earlier in which people share excerpts of their childhood writing and art before an audience of total strangers in order to reveal a story about their life. The stage show launched a series of books and web content, has been featured numerous times on public radio's This American Life, and there are plans for a Mortified documentary.
Animal Science is an up-coming television show that will be premiered on 30 August 2012. The series will show viewers how and why animals behave using a scientific approach, with 3D animations, graphics and analysis. It is produced by Steve Rotfeld Productions.
Staten Island Cakes is an American food reality-television series airing on WE tv. The series stars Vincent "Vinny" Buzzetta, an Italian-American cake artist who lives and works on Staten Island, a borough of New York City, New York.
Funniest Pets & People is a fast-paced American television series that showcases funny home videos of pets and people of all ages and is produced by Brad Lachman's Genco Entertainment, Inc., and it's broadcast on various local TV stations in the United States for daily syndication. Similar in the style of America's Funniest Home Videos, this show is narrated by Rob Paulsen and it includes laughing audience members in the background, although some footage in the show has real laughter. This show, along with AFV, sometimes uses sound effects for fun.
It was originally syndicated by Sony Pictures Television's Program Partners from 2006 to 2008, then The Program Exchange took over syndication from 2008 when production ended.
Wild About Animals travels the globe to deliver young viewers fascinating stories about animals around the world. The syndicated educational and informational series, which is hosted by Emmy Award-winning actress Mariette Hartley, is produced and distributed by Steve Rotfeld Productions.
With a collapsed contracting business and two homes in foreclosure, the Bruce family, a modern day "Brady Bunch", is flat broke and doing everything possible to keep their family of nine above the poverty line. From dumpster diving to food stamps, tune in to Downsized, an original WE tv series, to watch this family navigate the very real stresses of life in modern America.
Quints by Surprise is a reality television show produced in the United States by Megalomedia about the Jones family, consisting of parents Ethan and Casey and their six children, including quintuplets. The show follows the family through their daily lives, focusing on the challenges of raising multiple children. The show premiered on TLC on August 30, 2010. The family originally appeared in two one-hour specials titled Too Many Babies? and Too Many Babies: How They Do It on Discovery Health, which were later re-aired on TLC under the names Quintuplet Surprise and Quintuplet Surprise: The First 16 Months. The third season will premiere on November 8, 2011.
Ripples is a CGI Italian animated television series created and produced by Animabit and Rai Fiction. The first serie of Ondino was broadcast on Italian RAI television on July 8, 2007. The series currently airs on RAI television, TV2, ABC Australia and Al Jazeera.
Little Miss Perfect is an American reality television series that follows girls 5–10 years old in the same beauty pageant each week. The pageant is hosted by Michael Galanes with judges Deedy Melanson, Nyahsha Zimucha, David Gilbert, and sometimes Janet McCullogh.
The show, like Toddlers & Tiaras, is aired without narration to avoid judgment. Unlike Toddlers & Tiaras, Little Miss Perfect has only two girls instead of three families and there is only one girl awarded a crown, sash, and money at the pageant.
Season 1 premiered on February 18, 2009, and season 2 debuted on January 12, 2010.
One Big Happy Family is an American reality television series featuring the Coles family, an African-American family of four who reside in Indian Trail, North Carolina. The series premiered on TLC on December 29, 2009. The show deals with their family life and with their efforts to lose weight,.
Season two of the series was cut short, only four episodes aired and the rest were left unaired. It is unclear if TLC will ever air those episodes.
Motor City Motors is a garage based competition reality television show on the Discovery Channel hosted by the Detroit Brothers. During development, the show was referred to as MG: Motor City, a successor to the similar Discovery show Monster Garage.
The first episode aired on Monday, December 28, 2009 at 9:00pm. The first season has thirteen episodes.
Raising Sextuplets is a reality television show produced in the United States by Eric Schiff Productions about the Masche family, consisting of parents Bryan and Jenny Masche and their sextuplets. The show airs on WE tv. The family originally appeared in a one-hour special titled OMG! Sextuplets! in 2008. The second season of Raising Sextuplets premiered on WE tv on June 24, 2010. In the UK, the show is known as "Ouch! Sextuplets."
Junk Raiders is a 2009 Canadian reality television series that airs on The Discovery Channel and ION Life. The series follows the titular Junk Raiders, a team of seven professionals as they attempt to renovate an old steel factory in downtown Toronto and turn it into a high-end loft in one month with only a C$5500 budget. Because of the extremely limited budget, many of the materials needed must be found by freecycling: finding something unwanted for free and reusing it.
For the production of the series, the team had commissioned a "junk hot-line", urging Torontonians to donate any garbage that they could use. In addition, as looking through other peoples' trash is illegal in Toronto, the show also has a special exemption that allows the team to do just that.