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Fishing with John

December 2025 •English

Musician John Lurie knows nothing about fishing, but that doesn't stop him from embarking on fishing in exotic locations with friends.

Earth's Tropical Islands

December 2025 •English

Exploring some of the world's most isolated and iconic tropical islands.

Kevin McCloud's Escape to the Wild

December 2025 •English

With cities becoming more crowded, and our lives very stressful, Kevin McCloud attempts to discover whether a simpler life out in the wild could make us happier. He travels to different remote destination to see how others have built their lives and dwellings against the odds.

Jungle

December 2025 •English

Charlotte Uhlenbroek is your guide for a three-part series journeying deep into the tropical rainforest.

Prehistoric Predators

December 2025 •English

Long before humans evolved, our planet was home to some of the most vicious predators ever to have lived. Step back in time to one of the most amazing eras in the history of planet earth and meet terrifying ancient predators.

Man vs. Wild

December 2025 •English

Bear strands himself in popular wilderness destinations where tourists often find themselves lost or in danger.

Amazon with Bruce Parry

December 2025 •English

Tracing the giant river from its origins, high in the Andes, to its end, where it meets the sea on Brazil's Atlantic coast, Parry stays with the many and varied tribes who are desperately trying to maintain their way of life in a rapidly disappearing landscape.

Secrets of Our Living Planet

December 2025 •English

In this series, naturalist Chris Packham reveals the natural world in a way that you’ve never seen it before. For him, what is really beautiful about nature is not the amazing animals and plants that we share the planet with but the hidden relationships between them. These relationships may sound bizarre but without them, no life would be possible. Discover previously unknown relationships, like why a tiger needs a crab; or why a gecko needs a giraffe. Each week Chris visits one of our planet's most vital and spectacular habitats and dissects it, to reveal the secrets of how our living planet works.

Planet Earth II

December 2025 •English

David Attenborough presents a documentary series exploring how animals meet the challenges of surviving in the most iconic habitats on earth.

Man, Woman, Wild

December 2025 •English

Mykel Hawke is a former Special Forces survival expert. His wife Ruth is a television journalist. Together, they take on some of the most forbidding and remote locations around the world. Dropped into each spot, they must survive as a team for four days and nights, with only a knife and the clothes on their backs. As they test their will and their marriage, the two find common ground standing up to nature as husband and wife in the wildest places on Earth.

The Hunt

December 2025 •English

This major landmark series looks in detail at the fascinating relationship between predators and their prey. Rather than concentrating on ‘the blood and guts’ of predation, the series looks in unprecedented detail at the strategies predators use to catch their food and prey use to escape death. Sir David Attenborough narrates.

H2O: The Molecule that Made Us

December 2025 •English

A landmark, three-part series that tells the human story through our relationship to water. We find out how our success is intimately connected to our control of the molecule, but that the growth of our civilizations has also created a dangerous dependence on a precious resource. One that may be about to run out.

Beast of Bangalore: Indian Predator

December 2025 •Kannada

A teetering police force goes on a wild pursuit of a vicious and brutal killer of women who is gripping a state.

Primal Survivor

December 2025 •English

Hazen Audel embarks on an epic trek that will mirror a traditional Berber nomad journey across the Saharan desert cauldron to an oasis.

Sur le front

December 2025 •French

Med Monsen på villspor

December 2025 •Norwegian

Lars Monsen is challenged in what he does best, surviving in the wilderness. Blindfolded, he is left alone somewhere in Scandinavia. The only thing he knows is the mission: survive, and find his way to the target location within five days.

Genius Sea Hunters

December 2025 •French

7 vs. Wild

December 2025 •German

Abandoned in the swedish wilderness seven candidates struggle to survive for seven days. Everybody has to get along with seven previously selected items and the clothes they are wearing. Who remains after seven days and collected the most points in the challenges of the day wins. No camera crew, no contact to the outer world, complete isolation.

Jungletown

December 2025 •English

In the depths of the Panamanian jungle an American entrepreneur and hundreds of young people are building the “world's most sustainable modern town.”

Expedition from Hell: The Lost Tapes

December 2025 •English

Mickey Grosman, a former special forces demolitions expert took a group of amateur adventurers on a nearly impossible journey across South America. Positioned as a charity trek for cancer awareness, participants were to be part of a 5,000-mile expedition across the continent through the deepest parts of the Amazon jungle. Only one claims to have made it to the end… Mickey Grosman.