UPCOMING EPISODES

101 heart-stopping close shaves, averted disasters and brushes with danger feature in this one hour special narrated by Shane Richie. Counting up from 1 to 101 we’ll see Near Misses everywhere, from on the road, in the sea, up in the air, and witness everyday people who came close to coming a cropper by just being in the wrong place at the wrong time. We’ll hurtle through near misses in the workplace, including some window cleaners who were left dangling in mid-air hundreds of feet up as their cradle wire snaps.

101 heart-stopping close shaves, averted disasters and brushes with danger feature in this one hour special narrated by Shane Richie. Counting up from 1 to 101 we’ll see Near Misses everywhere, from on the road, in the sea, up in the air, and witness everyday people who came close to coming a cropper by just being in the wrong place at the wrong time. We’ll hurtle through near misses in the workplace, including some window cleaners who were left dangling in mid-air hundreds of feet up as their cradle wire snaps.

The story of Marilyn, the tragic starlet who struggled to overcome a difficult childhood, who had a string of failed marriages and battled addiction, is well known. Marilyn, Misunderstood tells the story of the other Marilyn. A woman who didn’t just suddenly wake up and become the biggest star in the world. The other Marilyn was a bold and ambitious trailblazer, a striver who refused to toe the line, and who never stopped fighting to be taken seriously as an actress. The documentary pieces together this version of Marilyn’s life story through interviews with some of her friends and colleagues. They reveal that she may have been blonde, but she was not dumb. In their words, though she may have been victimised at times, she was not the tragic victim history has made her out to be. The Marilyn Monroe who emerges from their stories is more rounded - a brave, complex, brilliant, funny, outspoken and ambitious woman, who blazed a trail for the generations of women who followed her.

Forty-five years after it first sailed into living rooms and made Saturday night TV synonymous with romance, camp and high-seas hijinks, The Love Boat still inspires a surprisingly fierce nostalgia that just won’t quit.

Among the most enduring TV sitcoms of all time, “Bewitched” remains beloved nearly sixty years after its debut. The series lead, Elizabeth Montgomery, was a complex, strong-willed woman whose life and career became an ongoing quest for love and recognition she never received from her movie star father. Bewitched became one of television’s biggest hits during the turbulent 1960s, a time that was symbolic of the series’ behind-the-scenes turmoil. Bewitched’s magic became an escape from the era’s political assassinations, race riots, and counterculture. In the midst of it all, Elizabeth received death threats for protesting the Vietnam War, having “two Darrins” became controversial and threw the show into turmoil, and rumored on-set affairs threatened to derail ABC’s cash cow. Following Bewitched, Elizabeth unexpectedly received another wave of fame, becoming the small screen’s first “Queen of the TV-Movies” with groundbreaking films like A Case of Rape and The Legend of Lizzie Borden. She eventually marries a fourth and final time, to actor Robert Foxworth, and dies too soon at only 62, from colon cancer. But like Lucille Ball before her, Elizabeth becomes an influential Hollywood female powerhouse, a trailblazer who continues to bewitch millions of TV viewers around the world.

Lucille Ball didn’t just make millions of people laugh uproariously. She blazed a whole new path for women in the entertainment industry that still resonates today. Her bravery and willingness to try absolutely anything to elicit a chuckle changed the rules of television. Comediennes Carol Burnett, Lily Tomlin, Debra Messing and Suzanne Somers reveal to us how they were uniquely inspired by Lucy’s comic genius. But simply being funny was never enough for her. The shrewd, enterprising redhead—whose drama-filled personal life was constantly at odds with her public persona—struggled against a system created by men, all the while cementing her legacy by building an entertainment empire that would transform Hollywood as we know it.

During seven years of cheesecake, slut-shaming and massive laughs, The Golden Girls was TV’s unlikeliest smash hit. Pairing three beyond-seasoned TV pros and one small-screen newbie with impeccable writing resulted in a sitcom that was as progressive as it was hilarious. Still, the very real drama behind the camera was worthy of its very own studio audience, and only now—with the show enjoying a major pop-culture revival—are we learning just how daunting the ride really was.

Forty-five years after it first sailed into living rooms and made Saturday night TV synonymous with romance, camp and high-seas hijinks, The Love Boat still inspires a surprisingly fierce nostalgia that just won’t quit.

Nothing transformed television so completely and dramatically as the Korean War themed sitcom, M*A*S*H. This 50th Anniversary special—featuring exclusive interviews with cast members, series producers and writers—explores the incredible risks the series took, how it cleverly straddled the line between comedy and drama, broke through barriers on social issues, and culminated into the most-watched scripted show in history.

The Disney name exploded into American pop culture courtesy of a scrappy cartoon mouse and wound-up captivating the entire planet for decades. Walt Disney created the happiest place on earth, but his life was far from a fairytale. Employee strikes, financial hardships and devastating personal tragedies threatened Walt’s empire, but his passion to conquer the seemingly impossible and provide audiences, visitors and dreamers with countless escapes from everyday life was unshakeable. Former Imagineer Bob Gurr, Disney Historian Michael Bowling, Former Mouseketeer Cubby O’Brien and more provide fresh insight into the man who made dreams come true.

Nothing transformed television so completely and dramatically as the Korean War themed sitcom, M*A*S*H. This 50th Anniversary special—featuring exclusive interviews with cast members, series producers and writers—explores the incredible risks the series took, how it cleverly straddled the line between comedy and drama, broke through barriers on social issues, and culminated into the most-watched scripted show in history.