What happens when you choose to realize your big dream of a house? How does that affect your life and relationships? In eight programs we follow eight dreams of houses - villas, penthouses, new buildings and renovations.
The artist Pernilla Wahlgren opens up the doors to her luxurious home on Lidingö and invites us to follow her crazy, funny, messy everyday life filled with love, emotions and a bit of chaos - glitter and glamour is mixed with sweatpants and family bickering.
MTV's Tom Green Show. Presented like a talk show, this series is anything but. Tom Green, as the host and himself, is a comedian who goes around pulling pranks on ordinary folks, filming them, and then replaying the footage with narration. Green's friends Glenn Humplik and Phil Giroux serve as co-hosts on the show.
Mary, Queen Of Shops is hosted by Mary Portas. Mary attempts to help smaller fashion retail outlets survive in a tough market against the bigger retail stores.
Adam and Joe Go Tokyo was a series of eight episodes created for BBC Three. It starred Adam Buxton and Joe Cornish of The Adam and Joe Show and aired from 30 May 2003 to 25 July 2003. The aim of the show was to offer an alternative insight into the lives of Tokyo's citizens, with the obligatory look at a number of gadgets and toys along the way. The show took the format of a mature Blue Peter outlining many pastimes of the average Japanese person, everything from competitive speed eating to manga cosplay. Each episode would end with a Japanese band joining the show to perform.
This series is full of footage and interviews covering every aspect of the game, but what it does do is focus quite strongly on the true history. What this means is that it looks at the origins of the game right through to how this popular sport has affected history in general. The impact the game has had on the world's history is quite astounding, from being responsible for starting a war to being used as a political tool for many of the world's most historical figures.
Gifted with the ability to see ghosts, Treekarn must overcome the fear of the undead as he discovers the truth about a long-last love from his past.
Michael Palin revisits his first four TV travel documentaries. He draws on his personal archive of audio recordings and diary notebooks, and reflects on how he became a seasoned global traveller. Featuring contributions from fans and friends, including David Attenborough, Joanna Lumley and Simon Reeve.
The story starts in 1937 when the war against the Japanese aggression broke. It revolves around Zhang Han Shi/Zhang Song Ling who is a simple man born into a family of scholars. On the eve of his wedding, his wife and family were murdered but he luckily survived. He then embarked in his quest for revenge joining the communist party and the mounting anti-Japanese resistance. Adapted from the novel of the same name by the writer Jiu Tu.
In the 1920s Victoria and Ángel fall in love in a small town, northern Spain. They are two people both from a different social class, she is the daughter of a wealthy businessman and he comes from a poor family. They are so in love but social norms and circumstances of the era force them to break up. Several years later, they meet again, Victoria as a powerful businesswoman and Ángel as a priest.
On April 26, 1986 Reactor 4 of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant exploded, releasing clouds of radioactive fallout into the atmosphere. With access to hundreds of declassified KGB documents, Chernobyl: The New Evidence reveals the serious concerns of the KGB, the sacrifices the Soviet leadership were willing to make to keep the story quiet and the bravery that saved the world from an even more deadly disaster.
After the demise of the feudal dynasty and half a century of war and turmoil, the ancient land of China finally ushered in a long-lost peace. The founding of New China has greatly changed the fate of the most ordinary people in the imperial city. The upright and honest Wang Mantang is a craftsman who grew up in the old society. With his unique skills in restoring ancient buildings, he leads his partners to shoulder the revolutionary task of restoring ancient buildings for the new society.
Access to military and law enforcement units working on "Operation Martillo."
We follow the life of Chieko Tsukimaru, commonly known as Chiemaru, who is working in the sales department of a black company and tries to be cheerful and positive. Chiemaru's aim of becoming a "bari-carrying sales OL" is halted by harsh quotas, a rough work environment, a demonic boss and strict seniors. What is the fate of Chiemaru, a "company slave OL" who joined the black company?