Recommendations TVs

My Big Fat Wedding (en)
An observational documentary following a very special bridal shop in the north of England which caters for plus size brides who, like their skinnier counterparts, want to feel like a princess on their big day. But owners of this specialist bridal boutique, lifelong friends Paula and Lucy, appreciate that brides-to-be come in all shapes and sizes. With off the peg dresses ranging from size 20 to 38 and bespoke dresses getting as large as size 54, no bride is turned away for being too buxom. The shop’s clientele have often suffered humiliating experiences in the past and some have delayed or even called off their big day because of their dress jitters.
Bottle Boys (en)
Bottle Boys is a British sitcom which ran for two series on ITV in 1984 and 1985. Starring Robin Askwith as football-mad milkman Dave Deacon, the series mined comedy of the broadest sort from randy Dave's amorous adventures, in a style familiar to viewers from the Confessions films. However, as well as the sexual innuendo of his earlier big-screen adventures, Askwith was equally likely to find himself embroiled in more off-the-wall exploits, and found himself at various points in the series dressing up as a cow, inadvertently engaged to Sharon the secretary, and meeting then-Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. The part of Dave Deacon was originally written for Jim Davidson, who was by this time already expanding into sitcom territory with Up the Elephant and Round the Castle, also on ITV. It was future BBC controller John Birt, during his tenure at London Weekend Television, who suggested that Askwith take the part.

My Name Is Gabriel (ko)
A program where you live 'the real life of that person' for 72 hours under the name of one of the world's 8 billion people in a place where no one knows you.

Battle Spirits: The Core Bearers (ja)
The series follows the adventure of Bearers of Light's Core that will shape the destiny of the world.

Slug Street Scrappers (en)
Slug Street Scrappers is a funny martial arts TV show inspired by the fighting video game genre of the early nineties (e.g. Streets of Rage, Mortal Kombat, Street Fighter, Double Dragon), as well as Japanese Anime. The series employs an over-arching storyline and showcases unique martial arts styles from around the world, including Kickboxing, Karate, Muay Thai, Taekwondo, Boxing, Kung Fu and more.

Raffles (en)
Raffles was a 1977 television adaptation of the A. J. Raffles stories by Ernest William Hornung. The series was produced by Yorkshire Television and written by Philip Mackie. The episodes were largely faithful adaptations of the stories in the books, though occasionally two stories would be merged to create one episode such as "The Gold Cup" which featured elements from both "A Jubilee Present" and "The Criminologist's Club".

Folktales from Japan (ja)
Hometown Rebuilding: Folktales from Japan is a Japanese anime television series that adapts various traditional stories from Japan. The narration and all character voices are provided by veteran Japanese film actors Akira Emoto and Yoneko Matsukane. An English-subtitled version began "simulcast" availability on the streaming service Crunchyroll March 12, 2012.

Blazing Dragons (en)
In the kingdom of Camelhot, where the dragons are the good guys, King Allfire and his lazy knights are often rescued from their predicaments by resourceful squire Flicker, who helps them battle the greedy humans.

Jue Ze (zh)
After Japan’s invasion of China, a Chinese professor in Boston returns to Beijing to translate a document exposing Japanese war crimes for the UN, but becomes a target of the Japanese army, who will stop at nothing, including kidnapping his brother, to silence him.

Great Performances (en)
The best in the performing arts from across America and around the world including a diverse programming portfolio of classical music, opera, popular song, musical theater, dance, drama, and performance documentaries.

Shadow of Love (th)
This is a story of two twins, Kwanma, who is biologically a female, and Kwanoei, who is biologically a male but was forced by their mother to hide his true gender and live his life as a woman instead. However, both twins fall in love with the same man named Neua Mek.

New Street Law (en)
The exploits and cases of two rival barristers' chambers with very different attitudes to justice.

The Source of River (zh)
Years after a personal and professional setback, tax investigator Zheng Hao is assigned to expose a major tax evasion network in Xindong. As his former fiancée, Liang Jinqiu, returns from abroad and their old friend, Professor Zhao Mingda, faces a family crisis, they become entangled in a dangerous fight against corruption and deception hidden beneath the city’s facade.