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Selena + Chef: Home for the Holidays (en)
Selena Gomez is at the top of her game as a musical artist, actor, businesswoman, and philanthropist, but she calls in the experts to help amp up her kitchen skills for the holidays. This year she has invited all-star chefs Eric Adjepong, Alex Guarnaschelli, Michael Symon, and Claudette Zepeda to bring their favorite dishes and culinary wisdom to her home kitchen so they can cook up perfect holiday meals to share with friends and family.

Science of Stupid (en)
This show combines cold hard science with some of the craziest, most spectacular and painful user generated clips ever recorded. Richard Hammond introduces all manner of mishaps featuring brave, if misguided individuals from around the world and then explains the science behind their failure and humiliation with the use of bespoke animations and super slo-mo cinematography. Every episode features between 50 and 60 clips of misadventure – ordinary folk making extraordinary mistakes. Each week watch stunts involving weightlifting, shooting guns or jumping over cars, that have gone wrong, paused, re-wound, and re-played and analysed to determine exactly what went wrong and why. Richard explains the physics, chemistry and biology at play, then presents forensic details to explain the stupidity that resulted in failure. He’ll look at everything including weight, volume, momentum, combustion and even how the brain operates. This is misadventure explained. This is the Science of Stupid.

Tales of Little Women (ja)
Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy are four loving March sisters living with their mother in the USA during the Civil War. Their father is a military doctor fighting in the Union Army. After a terrible battle in a neighbour town, the Confederates pass through their town and burn it. Over the ruins of their house the March family also learn that the factory in which their father invested all his money has been burnt too. Homeless and pennyless, the family heads towards Newcord, where the father's aunt lives, hoping for the old lady to help them. The girls try to adjust to their new life, face many hardships, meet new friends and wish to the war to be over at last.

WWE SmackDown (en)
The superstars of World Wrestling Entertainment's "SmackDown" brand collide each and every Friday on WWE Friday Night SmackDown.
Million Pound Movers (en)
With the number of millionaire homeowners rising, the high-end removals industry in the UK is booming. Moving house is said to be one of the most stressful life events, and for those blessed with the finer things in life, the stakes are even higher. Million Pound Movers goes behind closed doors to meet the wealthy clients moving priceless objects, plus the firms tasked with completing the job where one mistake could cost thousands. For these moving firms, demanding clients, unusual requests, and expensive art and furniture all make for a high-risk, yet entertaining business.

Heaven? ~My Restaurant, My Life~ (ja)
Kanako is about to open a French restaurant, for the sole purpose of making herself happy with good food and wine. She recruits Iga, a waiter who is undervalued at his current restaurant. After Kanako declares, “I’m convinced that you will become a great waiter,” he decides to work for her. However, he quickly finds out that not only is the restaurant poorly located – it’s in the middle of the cemetery, far away from downtown and residential areas – but none of the other staff, such as former hairdresser Kawai, have ever worked at a French restaurant.

Dating Death (en)
The story of Rodney Alcala, who was infamous for his TV dating show appearance during his murder spree, and who was linked to 130 deaths.

Promise in the Summer (zh)
Han Qi Lu, a young master, always keeps his distance from the opposite sex because he has a "strange disease" that makes him allergic whenever he touches them. But he does not get allergic only when he touches An Chu Xia, a motivated "Cinderella" who accidentally entered his house. So, at the request of Han's mother, an action to "save the allergy" that develops into a romantic relationship later gets started. While she is treating him, An Chu Xia gradually finds out the secret of Han Qi Lu's "strange disease"... ~~ Adapted from the web novel "Master Devil Don’t Kiss Me" (恶魔少爷别吻我) by Jin Xia Mo (锦夏末). Edit Translation

Fated Love (th)
The story is about Tongrak, a girl who struggles in life who agreed to be a surrogate mother to Praefah, her biological sister who has health issues. Praefah is in love with Natee, an ordinary musician who turns out to be the heir of the Asavakietikul family where they have enemies all around. Because of this, Praefah and Natee end up getting murdered, leaving Tongrak a lonely pregnant woman with no job. Tongrak wants to tell the Asavakietikul family about their possible heir or heiress in her tummy but Kimhan, a toy designer, stopped her from doing so because he thinks the reason Praefah and Natee were killed is because the murderer wants to kill the heir. So Tongrak ends up being under the care of Kimhan. The two becomes close and develops feelings for each other unintentionally.

The Duke of Mount Deer (cn)
Wai Siu Bo is the son of a prostitute who works in a brothel in Yangzhou. After joining the Heaven and Earth society, he heads to the Capital and gets enrolled into the service of the Grand Eunuchs. There he becomes friends with the young emperor Hong Hei (Wai mistakes the emperor as another young eunuch) and falls in love with the emperor's younger sister, Princess Kin Ning. His adventures in the Forbidden City leads him into discovering the empress dowager as an impostor; finding several volumes of the prized 42 Chapters which contains the location of a treasure cave; helps the emperor kill the baddie courtier, Lord Obai; and see his position rise from humble eunuch to a grand courtier and confidante of the emperor.

Twenty Twelve (en)
A mock-documentary following the challenges - both personal and professional - faced by the team responsible for delivering the biggest show on Earth: the 2012 Olympics. From getting a busload of non-English speaking Brazilians from A to B, who to appoint to run the Cultural Olympiad and what to do when the much-vaunted wind turbines won't turn because there's no wind, it's all in a day's work for the men and women whose job it is to stage the greatest sporting event in the world.

Elas por Elas (pt)
Seven friends who met in their youth at an English course meet again 25 years later; Lara, Taís, Helena, Adriana, Renée, Natália and Carol, each of them has a different personality and origin, but they share a deep affection.

The Biter Bitten (cn)
A treasure is hidden inside a circus. One step closer to the treasure; one step closer to danger. Ten Tigers, the gang who used to rob on the horseback, was arrested a few decades ago. A legend saying that a treasure was buried in Panyu by the Tigers pasted on ever after. An antique from the Qing Dynasty is excavated during the construction work for the expansion of the Fei Cheung Zoo in Panyu. It is later verified as part of the legendary Ten Tigers’ treasure. A foreign investor sends an archaeological professor and his grandson HO CHUNG FUNG (CHAN HO MAN, BENNY) to search for the rest of the hidden treasure in order to protect these national relics. After the news of their expedition spreads, different people get interested in the treasure...

Yae's Sakura (ja)
Yae no Sakura is a 2013 Japanese television series. It is the 52nd NHK taiga drama. The story focuses on Niijima Yae, who is portrayed by Haruka Ayase.

HUGtto! PreCure (ja)
Hana Nono is an 8th-grade student who wants to be a stylish and mature big sister-like figure. She always puts on a lovely smile and loves to search for exciting things. One day, Hana meets a baby named Hug-tan and her guardian fairy named Harry who had fallen from the sky. At that exact moment, an evil organization called Dark Tomorrow suddenly appeared! They're trying to forcefully take Hug-tan's Mirai Crystal! In order to protect Hug-tan, Hana wishes to do something to help her, and her wish is granted, as she gains a Mirai Crystal and transforms into Cure Yell. The world is overflowed with Tomorrow Power, which is the power to create a brilliant tomorrow, which is crystalized into the Mirai Crystals. If it's stolen, everyone's future will not exist. To protect Hug-tan and everyone's future, Cure Yell will do her best!