Program Category: People & Places

In Find Me a Family, retired elders who live alone with either no grandchildren, or little contact with their own grandchildren, are matched with a family who want to give their youngsters a chance to have a surrogate grandparent.

Every year, thousands of people around the world are the victims of animal attacks, encounters that can lead to serious injury and sometimes death. Presented by the flamboyant zoologist Nigel Marvin, Extreme Animal Attacks pieces together the most rare and unusual attacks from animals in the wild, to those in captivity.

Extreme…Adventure Emergencies looks at the problems faced by Richard Branson and Per Lindstrand in their Atlantic balloon crossing attempt; Sir Ranulph Fiennes’ attempt to break records with a solo mission to the North Pole – which ended in his having to be rescued and suffering from frostbite; yachtsman Rob Matthews caught in a freak storm in the Tasman Sea; and sky diver Barry Dawson, who narrowly avoided being killed in a plane crash.

This programme offers a group of convicted car criminals with no sense of direction in their lives the chance of a lifetime: to train as mechanics and to form a race team under the pupilage of Formula One boss Eddie Jordan, as they attempt to go from chequered past to chequered flag.

Hindus celebrate ‘Mrityubhoj’, or the Death Feast, on the 13th day after a cremation as a remembrance for the departed soul, and also as a ritual to help the soul find heavenly abode. At this event, thirteen ‘Brahmins’ are fed a lavish meal, followed by donations to the temple in the hope to garner peace and blessings for the departed. The feast is later extended to the relatives, neighbours and the rest of the village.

Today, Mrityubhoj has become akin to a status symbol and a reflection of a family’s social standing. Even the poorest of poor are compelled under circumstances beyond their control to organize large death feasts, taking a toll on their very existence.

This film takes a fly on the wall approach, following a family in the Chambal district in India, as they get ready to organize a death feast following the demise of their father. Caught between tradition, societal pressure, and prestige on the one hand and on the other hand, activists trying to put a lid on the pernicious practice of Mrityubhoj, especially for the poor, it tries to capture their predicament of being caught between a rock and a hard place.

The men in this series are tough, brutal and ruthless. Some have spent their lives in the criminal underworld, some have spent a lifetime in pursuit of criminals. None of them are the sort of people you would cross. From unlicensed boxing champions to SAS soldiers to underworld crime bosses and elite undercover police, in Danny Dyer’s Deadliest Men we will meet them in the flesh, find out what makes them tick and experience first hand how they operate.

The Commandos are an elite unit within the Singapore Armed Forces, specializing in covert missions behind enemy lines and combating high-level security threats at home. But who are they, and are they born or made?

This uplifting, inspirational and informative series does exactly that. Each week a concerned relative or friend nominates someone they care about, who they think could be heading for an early grave. At our special ‘clinical retreat’ they then meet up with our two experts, Dr Adam Carey (GP and nutritionist to the England Rugby Squad) and Life Coach Patricia Mitchell. They run a series of medical and lifestyle tests, input those factors into the ‘Change The Day You Die’ life expectancy calculator and reveal to them the predicted day they’ll die. This is a predictive test devised by Dr Tom Perls, a top US aging expert, which can predict how long you are likely to live.