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Raising Cain with Michael Thompson

OPB/PBS

Protecting the emotional lives of boys.

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Engineering Supermax Prisons

TLC

How do you build a prison to hold the most dangerous guys in the world?

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Megastructures: World's Largest Plane

National Geographic

The Airbus A-380. Very big plane.

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How Stuff Works

Pilot for Discovery

How does our sense of smell affect our mating behavior?

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Mysteries of the Freemasons

History

An unprecedented glimpse into the world's most secret society.

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Whacked

Indie Pilot

Is there an afterife for John, a B-list actor whose career died after he got whacked off the Sopranos?

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South Africa: A Personal Journey

PBS/WGBH

Playright Tug Yourgrau travels through the land of his birth at the sunset of Apartheid.

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Evolution: The Great Transformation

PBS/NOVA

How do we get from single celled blobs to modern-day couch potatoes? This show covers a billion years of evolution at a breakneck pace.

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Inside the U.S. Mint

Discovery

The incredibly fine art and precise science of coin manufacturing.

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World in the Balance: China Revs Up

PBS, NOVA

The world's biggest nation lurches into the industrial age, resetting the global power balance.

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Megastructures: North Sea Crude

National Geographic

Rough conditions on a North Atlantic oil platform.

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Dynamite Family

Discovery

When your family's business is blowing up buildings, life gets a bit, eh, explosive.

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Bite Club

Pilot for Animal Planet

Flesh eating gangs terrorize the aquatic neighborhood Shark Week meets Grindhouse in this genre-bending pilot.

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Mummies: The Real Story

Discovery

Narrated by Brendan Fraser. It's a wrap!

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The Birdman

WGBH

Wake up to the living world above your head. And watch out!

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Inside The Federal Reserve Bank

Discovery

Where lots of money is still made. All of it, in fact.

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Inside Supermax

TLC

Life among the worst of the worst convicts – and the female guards who keep them in line.

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Man-Made: Super Sewer

National Geographic

Los Angeles has one of the largest, most sophisticated sewer systems in the world, but its pipes are old and the system is in constant danger of breaking down.

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Plumb and Plumber

Indie Pilot

A goofy pair of plumbers plunge into hijinx.

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The Killer's Trail

PBS/NOVA

The real-life whodunnit that inspired "The Fugitive"

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American Plumber

Discovery

A life of clogged toilets, leaky faucets, and nasty customers.

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The Great Pink Scare

ITVS/PBS

Persecution ruins the careers and lives of closeted college professors in a sleepy college town in 1960.

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Man-Made: LA Sewers

National Geographic

Treated LA sewage fertilizes farms in California. Who says Hollywood produces nothing of value?

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Megastructures: Canadian Oil Sands

National Geographic

There's more oil trapped in Canadian mud than in the entire middle east. Can we get it out?

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Engineering The Impossible

Discovery

Imagining the world's biggest structures.

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Tunnel of Love Demo

Indie Pilot

The first ever dating show to take place on a moving subway train during rush hour.

Comprehensive Series Listing

Plumb and Plumber

Indie Pilot

A goofy pair of plumbers plunge into hijinx


Whacked

Indie Pilot

Is there an afterlife for John, a B-list actor whose career died after he got whacked off the Sopranos?


Tunnel of Love

Indie Pilot

The first ever dating show to take place on a moving subway train during rush hour.


Raising Cain with Michael Thompson

OPB, PBS

Protecting the emotional lives of boys


Mysteries of the Freemasons

History

An unprecedented glimpse into the world's most secret society.


American Plumber

Discovery

A life of clogged toilets, leaky faucets, and nasty customers.


Megastrutures: Canadian Oil Sands

National Geographic

There's more oil trapped in Canadian mud than in the entire middle east. Can we get it out?


The Killer's Trail

PBS, NOVA

The real-life whodunnit that inspired "The Fugitive".


Dynamite Family

Discovery

When your family's business is blowing up buildings, life gets a bit, eh, explosive.


Secrets, Lies, and Atomic Spies

PBS, NOVA

Who really gave the Russians the secret plans to the A-bomb?


Mummies: The Real Story

Discovery

Narrated by Brendan Fraser. It's a wrap!


Megastructures: World's Largest Plane

National Geographic

The Airbus A-380. Very big plane.


World in the Balance: China Revs Up

PBS, NOVA

The world's biggest nation lurches into the industrial age, resetting the global power balance.


Inside The Federal Reserve Bank

Discovery

Where lots of money is still made. All of it, in fact.


Megastructures: Interstate Highways

National Geographic

Originally built to evacuate cities in a nuclear attack, the US highway system led to strip malls and fast food culture. Hmmm. Should we have bothered?


Inside The US Mint

Discovery

The incredibly fine art and precise science of coin manufacture.


The Great Pink Scare

ITVS, PBS

Persecution ruins the careers and lives of closeted college professors in a sleepy college town in 1960.


Megastructures: The Sewers of L.A.

National Geographic

Treated LA sewage fertilizes farms in California. Who says Hollywood produces nothing of value?


Engineering The Impossible

Discovery

Imagining the world's biggest structures.


South Africa: A Personal Journey

PBS, WGBH

Playright Tug Yourgrau travels through the land of his birth at the sunset of Apartheid.


The History of Sex

History Channel

Victorian chastity devices lovingly reimagined. Do you have Prince Albert in a can?


Inside Supermax

TLC

Life among the worst of the worst convicts – and the female guards who keep them in line.


Engineering Supermax Prisons

TLC

How do you build a prison to hold the most dangerous guys in the world?


Discover Magazine: Weird Worlds

Discovery

Corpse-eating beetle.s


Discover Magazine: Forensic Detectives

Discovery

The paper balloon bombs of WW2.


Discover Magazine: Crime Labs

Discovery

The man who forged history.


Megastructures: Berlin's Big Dig

National Geographic

The world's most spectacular rail station reconnects Europe.


Discover Magazine: Bones

Discovery Channel

A tiny mark on a femur solves a thirty year old disappearance.


Megastructures: North Sea Crude

National Geographic

Rough conditions on a North Atlantic oil platform


The Birdman

WGBH

Wake up to the living world above your head. And watch out!


Bite Club

Pilot for Animal Planet

Flesh eating gangs terrorize the aquatic neighborhood. Shark Week meets Grindhouse in this genre-bending pilot


Sliced

Pilot for History Channel

There's nothing that we can't slice in half – with the right saw!


How Stuff Works

Pilot for Discovery

How does our sense of smell affect our mating behavior?


Evolution: The Great Transformations

PBS, NOVA

How do we get from single celled blobs to modern-day couch potatoes? This show covers a billion years of evolution at a breakneck pace.


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