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    Top Gear series 18

    Sundays at 10pm (SIN/HK/MAL); 9pm (JKT); 11pm (KOR)

    The wait is nearly over – the brand new series of Top Gear is making its way to you straight after the UK.

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    Human Planet

    Saturday & Sunday at 9.05pm (SIN/HK/MAL); 8.05pm (JKT); 10.05pm (KOR)

    Humans are the ultimate animals – the most successful species on the planet. From the frozen Arctic to steamy rainforests, from tiny islands in vast oceans to parched deserts, people have found remarkable ways to adapt and survive in the harshest environments imaginable.

    This eight-part series reveals how humans have employed immense courage and ingenuity to achieve this global proliferation, utilising and co-habiting with the other creatures that live in these remarkable places.

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    The secret of our success

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    Ross Kemp: Extreme World

    Sundays at 11.05pm (SIN/HK/MAL); 10.05pm (JKT); 12.05am (KOR)

    Ross Kemp travels to some of the most dangerous, lawless and violent regions on Earth to show how international organised crime, terrorists and local criminal networks have created alliances that are destroying the lives of millions of people.

    With stories that are deemed too dangerous to tell and first-hand accounts from the victims of crime, join the police who are battling the criminals and come face to face with the criminals themselves. In each episode,

    Ross Kemp will hunt down, meet and challenge criminals who spread death and mayhem around our world through drug dealing, human trafficking, terrorism, murder and rape.

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  • Silent Witness S14

    Silent Witness S14

    Tuesdays at 21:00 (SIN/HK), 22:00 (KOR). Premieres 21st February

    Nikki becomes increasingly disturbed after carrying out the post mortem of a young girl – the victim of a killer called Jason Bodle. Following several suspicious hospital deaths, Bodle‟s guilt-ridden doctor, Nigel Silverlake, is shot dead by police during an apparent suicide bid, and the team is drawn into a complex investigation

    Elsewhere, Nikki and Harry are called out to an ongoing siege at the Dutch Embassy. Many of the ambassador‟s family have been shot dead and his grandson, Jack, has been kidnapped. But when counter-terrorism chief DS Mansfield shows up and dismisses the UK pathologists, it‟s clear he‟s trying to hide something from the investigating team.

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    Every body tells a story

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    The Graham Norton Show

    Saturdays at 9:30pm (SIN/HK), 10:30pm (KOR)

    Our favourite Irish chat show host is back!

    And what a line-up of A-listers to grace Graham's celebrity couch this year: from the world of films, we have Jude Law, Jessica Biel, Jamie Bell and Kate Winslet. From the small screen, we have Ricky Gervais, Jennifer Saunders and Doctor Who companion Karen Gillan.

    And he may have waited a long time, but Graham finally gets to chat with the Queen of Pop...Madonna!

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    Ashes to Ashes Series 3

    Wednesdays at 9pm (SIN/HK), 10pm (KOR).

    What started with Life on Mars finishes here as Alex Drake embarks on her final mission: to uncover the truth about Gene Hunt and unlock the dark secrets of this World.

    She is back, only this time it's 1983 and something feels different. The arrival of DCI Jim Keats, a discipline and complaints officer sent by Scotland Yard to monitor the station's performance, throws some unexpected light on past events.

    Haunted by the ghost of a policeman, Alex decides that her only hope in getting home lies in finding out what really happened to Sam Tyler.

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  • Extreme Makeover Home Edition Specials Series 7

    Extreme Makeover Home Edition Specials Series 7

    Sundays at 6.30pm. Premieres 26th February.

    Ty Pennington and his Extreme Makeover design team are back - making deserving families’ dreams come true by building them luxury homes where every sumptuous detail is just right.

    It's a race against time on projects that would usually take months as the team has just seven days to perform these extreme makeovers.

    A family from Minnesota who have turned their home into a day-care centre which now needs some serious updating and a Maryland family who offer an open house that offers kids hot meals are among the heartwarming stories as Ty and his team go to work.

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    Turning dreams into reality

  • Don't Tell The Bride: Greatest Moments

    Don't Tell The Bride: Greatest Moments

    Premiering on 12th February, Sunday at 7.35pm

    Confetti at the ready!

    It's a compilation of archive footage of the best, funniest and favourite scenes from series one to three of Don't Tell The Bride.

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    Simply the Best

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    Out of the Frying Pan

    Thursdays at 7:25pm (JKT), 8:25pm (SIN/HK/MAL)

    Having worked at Raymond Blanc's Michelin-starred restaurant since 2009, James Knight Pacheco and Alasdair Hooper step out of the professional kitchen to test their skills in the real world as event caterers.

    Can they serve up a dinner party for eight in the South of France with no language skills or local knowledge? Can they cater for the prestigious Commissioning Dinner at Sandhurst for nearly 300 officers and cadets? And will they create a bespoke menu to impress a tableful of food producers, restaurateurs and chefs led by none other than their mentor Raymond Blanc?

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    Cooking on a grand scale

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  • Little Human Planet

    Little Human Planet

    Weekends at 8.05am, 12.05pm and 4.05pm

    Visit children from different countries to get a bird's eye view of their homes, hopes and ways of life.

    Explore a different theme each episode through the eyes of young children around the world from languages and food to houses and celebrations.

    Amongst the locations, we'll visit Mali to collect mud, the banks of Rio Negro in Brazil to go to school, and Yap in the Pacific Ocean to help collect yams.

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    Waybuloo

    Every day at 10.30am, 2.30pm and 6.30pm

    More adventures in Nara with the Piplings.

    Lau Lau is excited to find a caterpillar in her home, Yojojo enjoys a day playing with his Narabug, Nok Tok goes searching for a songbird, and De Li gets a surprise party thrown by the gang.

    Take your children on a journey through stories of co-operation, friendship and enjoyment.

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    Welcome to the happy land of Nara

  • Charlie and Lola

    Charlie and Lola

    Mondays to Fridays at 9:20am, 1:20pm & 5:20pm (SIN/HK)

    Charlie is seven. He’s very bright. His little sister Lola is four going on five. She is small, mischievous and very funny. Join them as they learn about the world around them

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    Sibling stories with Charlie and Lola

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  • Newsday

    Newsday

    Weekdays at 9:00am, 10:00am, 11:00am, 12:00pm

    Babita Sharma in London and Rico Hizon in Singapore deliver an overview of the day's big news stories, as well as the latest business and sports updates, each weekday. The programme looks at stories from both an Asian and global perspective and offer a thorough round-up for audiences both in the region and around the world.

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    Delivers an overview of the day's big news stories, live from Singapore and London

  • An African Journey with Jonathan Dimbleby

    An African Journey with Jonathan Dimbleby

    Premieres 18th Feb, 17:10 (HK/SIN)

    On the final leg of his 7,000 mile odyssey, Jonathan Dimbleby travels from Congo to Durban in search of the stories revealing contemporary Africa. In the edgy sprawl of Kinshasa he rides pillion with unlikely rock and roll icons Staff Benda Bilili and discovers a unique Mozart performing symphony orchestra.

    At a party celebrating the Year of the Tiger, he learns how China's billion dollar deals have rebooted African economies, once dependent on Western aid and investment. And amid South Africa's new landscape of biker gangs and black surfers, Dimbleby meets Hugh Masekela, who shares with him his view of Africa's emerging revival.

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    Jonathan's Journey

  • India on Four Wheels

    India on Four Wheels

    Premieres 11th Feb, 11:10 (HK/SIN)

    Journalists Justin Rowlatt and Anita Rani set off on an epic, chaotic and gruelling road trip around India to discover how the country‟s booming economy is having a huge effect on the people and their cars.

    With an ever-increasing number of affordable cars on the market, the new must-have accessory for a wealthy Indian is a new car. Perceived as both a status symbol and a sign of social development, people‟s lives are becoming intertwined with car ownership. So why is owning a car so important to this nation of cyclists?

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    Is India ready for millions of cars?

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  • Six dead in Afghan Koran protests

    At least six people are killed and dozens injured in Afghanistan as protests spread over the burning of the Koran at a US…

  • Australia FM Kevin Rudd resigns

    Australia's Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd resigns amid widespread reports of a leadership tussle between him and Prime Minister…

  • Pakistan 'memogate' man testifies

    Mansoor Ijaz, the man at the centre of Pakistan's "memogate" scandal, begins giving video link testimony to a judicial…

  • China upset over Japan comments

    China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs lodges an official complaint with Japan after a politician claimed the Nanjing Massacre…

  • New Zealand remembers quake dead

    People across New Zealand hold memorial services to remember the 185 who died in the earthquake that devastated central…

  • Sri Lanka monk condemned to death

    A Buddhist monk in Sri Lanka is sentenced to death - the first in 50 years to receive such a sentence in the country.

  • Radiation fears stop snow events

    Authorities in Japan's Okinawa prefecture are forced to cancel two annual snow events amid residents' fears that the snow…

  • Bollywood star accused of assault

    Police in the Indian city of Mumbai register a case against top Bollywood star Saif Ali Khan for allegedly assaulting a…

  • S Korea urges China on refugees

    South Korean President Lee Myung-bak asks China to deal with North Korean refugees "in accordance with international rules"…

  • Indian call centres 'in US fraud'

    Indian call centres were used to swindle millions of dollars out of Americans in a debt collection fraud, say US federal…

  • Megaupload founder granted bail

    The founder of shut down file-sharing website Megaupload, Kim Dotcom, is granted bail by a New Zealand court.

  • Amphibian family first for India

    A new family of caecilians, the most enigmatic branch of the amphibians, has been discovered in northeastern India.

  • VIDEO: Koran 'disposal' was unintentional

    Brigadier General Carsten Jacobson of the Nato-led International Security Assistance Force (Isaf) describes the reported…

  • VIDEO: Australia FM Kevin Rudd resigns

    Australia's governing Labour party is in turmoil after the resignation of Kevin Rudd as Foreign Minister.

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