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- Paul returns to Battersea Dog's Home for this Christmas Special in which he meets a very withdrawn West Highland Terrier and a Bichon Frise who helps him spread festive joy.
- A look back at how comedy has shaped and defined a changing Britain. This episode looks at 1979, with stars of comedy past and present looking back on the year that gave us our first female Prime Minister in Margaret Thatcher and a return to political satire with shows like Not The Nine O'Clock News. The episode also looks at the northern club scene which dominated TV screens at the time with the likes of The Cannon and Ball Show and the stand-up series The Comedians.
- In 1984, as the miners' strike took over the news, political figures were on the receiving end of the most irreverent comedy series ever seen on TV at the time - Spitting Image. Plus, cult hits like The Young Ones and Alias Smith and Jones battled it out in the TV schedules with mainstream shows like Russ Abbott's Madhouse. We also lost two comedy greats with the passing of Eric Morecambe and Tommy Cooper.
- In 1998, it was the era of New Labour and Blair's Britain. It was also a year that saw the emergence of some ground-breaking comedy series, including The Royle Family and Goodness Gracious Me, the first all-Asian sketch show, while two much-loved sitcoms of the 90s came to an end - Drop the Dead Donkey and Father Ted.
- Comedy in 2003 saw Tim, Lee and Dawn's love triangle reach a memorable conclusion in The Office, while hidden camera shows such as Trigger Happy TV and Three Non Blondes saw unwitting members of the public become comedy stooges. The year also saw the original run of award-winning comedy drama Cold Feet bow out with a tragic storyline.
- A new version of the "Up Series" by Michael Apted, following the lives of a group of individuals who were seven years old at the turn of the millennium.
- Director Michael Apted revisits the same group of British-born adults after a seven-year wait. The subjects are interviewed as to the changes that have occurred in their lives during the last seven years.
- Celebrities comment on the ground breaking series 7 UP and the impact the show made in their lives. With clips from the original series and interviews.
- Chef Gino D'Acampo goes to Florence, where he tackles the famous bistecca alla Fiorentina - the finest, thickest, juiciest steak in Tuscany.
- 2013– 23m8.6 (8)TV EpisodeGino starts his visit to Emilia-Romagna region in Parma, a city famous for best cured meats in Italy. A local chef shows him his famous meat-curing basement where celebrities and even royalty have their own labeled piece of 'culatello' ham, the pig's best hindquarter cut. Gino also learns about the exquisite Parmesan cheese in one of the city's delis. He then prepares fried aubergine and tomato with mozzarella, all covered in a basil olive oil dressing. In Modena, Gino visits traditional balsamic vinegar producers, whose famous customers include actor Michael Douglas and the British monarch. He then uses it to cook delicious chicken and pancetta.
- Chef Gino D'Acampo goes to breathtaking Venice, where he discovers a kind of Venetian tapas called 'cicchetti' in company of a Countess, and visits the island of Burano, where he witnesses a highly unusual method of cooking risotto.
- Former comedy actor Ade Edmondson travels with a caravan all over Britain, where each episode he stops in a different county to find out about its unique foods and traditions.
- A tribute, shown without commercial breaks, to the pioneering travel presenter who died recently.
- Animal behaviourist Lucy Cooke witnesses first-hand the incredible bond between animals and their new-borns.
- This is about a little-known Roman site in Scotland, a 100 miles north of Hadrian's Wall, between Edinburgh and Glasgow. Named after the emperor Antonines Pius. There was a large wall but now there are ditches where the wall was. Bethany explains the history behind the site which was only used for 2 decades. This was the most northerly of Roman outposts. It was dismantled in 162 AD and the Romans retreated to Hadrian's Wall.
- 2014– 46m8.4 (13)TV Episode1918 sees meat rationing being introduced so that Hallie and her husband Eustace, employed by the Ministry of Food, have considerable success with their vegetarian fare. Helen Bentrich, sacked from the arsenal for her socialist viewpoint, throws herself into the organization of the Women's Land Army. She will later become a social worker in the Middle East and the Labour leader of London County Council, surviving to age eighty. Alfred Duff Cooper's post at the Foreign Office has protected him from conscription but in 1918 he joins the Grenadier Guards as a lieutenant and is awarded the DSO for bravery. He laments the deaths of his university contemporaries to his glamorous sweetheart Diana Manners, to whom he will be married until his death in 1954. Arthur Roberts, a black shipyard worker from Glasgow, has witnessed horrific carnage which he records in his diaries. Although falsely accused of damaging a pair of boots and almost facing court martial he is not subject to racism and can even joke about looking like a white man after being caked in mortar dust. He will die in Liverpool in 1985, his diaries being posthumously discovered. Eighteen year old Ted Poole is not so lucky. With all his elder brothers killed he writes cheerful letters to his father but will die in action a month before the war's end. Come the Armistice Winston Churchill notes the jubilation of the masses taking to the streets to celebrate the end of a costly and wasteful conflict.
- Dating show. A singleton looks around the houses of three potential matches, and must decide which one to meet just by how they judge the abodes. Then the chosen one gets to look round their house back and decide whether to accept.
- Bill is pulled into a bitter feud between two rival farmers when a body is found between their properties. Kelsey makes a friend.
- After 25 years of playing Hercule Poirot, British actor David Suchet explores the enduring appeal of his most legendary character.
- The JEDT are competing in Liverpool this week so there's a lot to prove on home turf - plus Debbie Barrass and Team DB are competing too. Charlotte and Sam are back and it's commercial week - Sam's favourite style - but it's not all plain sailing as Jen brings in choreographer Craig Wharmby who adds his daughter to the group number. It's the Jennifer Ellison Dance Team vs Team DB at the competition. Who will come out on top?
- Jen decides to mix things up by bringing in two boys, Jack and Adam but their mums are not welcomed with open arms. It's solo challenge week and everyone will be dancing the same routine, but only one can dance at the competition - and it's up to the mums to decide who!
- This two and a half-hour special for ITV pulls on its hiking boots for a countdown of Britain's favourite walks, featuring locations from the West Highland Way to the Ridgeway and almost everywhere in between. Presented by Julia Bradbury and Ore Oduba, Britain's Favourite Walks: Top 100 showcases the finest rambles, scrambles and ambles across the countryside and through cities to bring viewers the ultimate guide to the beautiful British outdoors.
- Inside Britain's Highest Security Psychiatric Hospital. Patients that come here have often perpetrated horrendous crimes, but they are also victims and it's very easy to see somebody as either the perpetrator or the victim.
- Peter Wilkinson has had unprecedented Royal access for nearly 20 years, capturing state events and personal moments alike while at The Queen's side.
- The story of the carry on films.
- To celebrate 30 years of Channel 4, a celebration of their 30 most influential comedies.
- Three-part documentary series detailing life of the new aristocracy over Chatsworth's season during 2011. For the first time ever, the palace of the peaks, Chatsworth House in Derbyshire, has opened its doors to the cameras for a whole year. It is a special opportunity to take an behind the scenes glimpse of life upstairs and downstairs in the 21st century.
- Heart-warming stories of homeless pets are even more poignant at Christmas and at Battersea Cats and Dogs home, there are plenty of touching tables in this Christmas Special.