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A Culinary Coup: The Launch of Ku De Ta

August 18, 2011 – 3:21 pm

Executive Chef Dan Segall races the clock to staff and launch his new restaurant, Ku De Ta, atop Singapore’s new Marina Bay Sands resort.

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America in Primetime

July 27, 2011 – 1:58 pm

A look at the iconic American art form of television, which has both reflected and shaped our national character. The series presents some of the most compelling shows past and present by focusing on key character archetypes that have remained a staple of primetime throughout generations, capturing both the continuity of the character and the evolution.

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American Masters: “Pearl Jam Twenty”

September 9, 2011 – 9:31 am

Cameron Crowe, the director and music journalist whose 1992 film Singles featured a soundtrack that helped open the door to the popularity of the Seattle grunge sound, crafts this documentary in honor of the 20th anniversary of one of the seminal bands of that genre — Pearl Jam.

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American Underworld

September 16, 2011 – 11:27 am

In this new series, journalist Mark Allen Johnson enters some of the most extreme, violent and hard-to-access subcultures in the country, from drug manufacturers to the sex trade, to tell the stories of an underground world that could be right next door.

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Big Hair Alaska

August 5, 2011 – 11:09 am

This special goes inside a busy hair salon in Wasilla, which is the six largest city in the state, located in the south central area, where the personalities are as big as the hairstyles they create. Sounds like another Jerseylicious, without the spray tans.

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Bomb Patrol: Afghanistan

September 27, 2011 – 11:45 am

G4 teams with the United States Navy for this new documentary series that embeds viewers inside an eight-man team that patrols war-torn battlegrounds of Afghanistan to search for and disarm all types of explosives and other weapons.

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Border Wars

July 19, 2011 – 11:03 am

Season 5 follows officers and agents of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) in the roughest and most challenging terrain yet, and delves even deeper into the fight against the drug-smuggling crisis plaguing this country.

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Brain Games

July 19, 2011 – 11:38 am

In this entertaining and informative three-hour special, David Copperfield and a team of experts entertain our brains as they help reveal the science of illusion. The program uses fun, interactive experiments to hack into the human brain. Each episode focuses on a different topic — attention, sensory perception and memory.

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Call of the Wildman

September 9, 2011 – 11:02 am

This series goes deep into the backwoods wild of Kentucky with legendary woodsman Ernie Brown Jr. (a.k.a. “Turtleman”) as he takes on some of the most outlandish and outrageous nuisance calls.

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The Contenders: They Lost the Election But Changed Political History

August 25, 2011 – 10:25 am

As the presidential campaign gets in full swing this fall, C-SPAN’s new history series, consisting of 14 live weekly programs, helps put America’s present electoral politics in historical perspective.

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Cooking School Confidential

August 18, 2011 – 3:13 pm

Follow the adventures of four aspiring chefs as they pursue their culinary dreams at Johnson & Wales University in Charlotte.

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Crude

August 11, 2011 – 11:03 am

Filmmaker Joe Berlinger presents this film examining the “Amazon Chernobyl” lawsuit levied at Texaco (later Chevron) for oil pollution.

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Dinosaur Revolution

July 27, 2011 – 1:49 pm

Combining the talents of the world’s best dinosaur illustrators and animators with the latest palentological research and the best of Hollywood storytelling, this four-hour series is presented with sparse narration and the latest cutting-edge animation and computer-generated storytelling techniques to feature never-before-seen intimate behaviors to illustrate the extraordinary lives of dinosaurs.

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Fact or Faked: Paranormal Files

August 24, 2011 – 3:59 pm

Season 2 continues with new episodes as the team does more searching for the most intriguing images, videos and unnatural phenomenon around the world and then tests to see if it is real.

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Finding Bigfoot: The Squatchiest Place on Earth

August 29, 2011 – 4:46 pm

In this two-hour “Finding Bigfoot” special, Bigfoot Field Research Organization (BFRO) investigators hone in on the most infamous and disputed piece of Bigfoot evidence ever – the Patterson-Gimlin footage – and visit the spot where it was filmed.

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Gaga by Gaultier

August 4, 2011 – 3:52 pm

Fashion design legend Jean Paul Gaultier sits down with pop star and fashion icon Lady Gaga for a frank discussion of the Lady Gaga phenomenon.

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George W. Bush: The 9/11 Interview

August 12, 2011 – 1:57 pm

In his own words, in an exclusive sit-down interview, former President George W. Bush recounts what he was thinking and experiencing in the hours during and following the devastating terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

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Hairy Bikers

September 16, 2011 – 10:13 am

In this U.S. version of the hit international format, classically trained French chef Paul Patranella, who loves motorcycles, and Bill Allen, a renowned motorcycle mechanic who is passionate about food, embark on an amusing and informative road trip along back roads to discover American history and traditions.

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Homicide Hunter: Lt. Joe Kenda

August 31, 2011 – 3:49 pm

This is a new investigative series of murder cases told through the personal experience of retired detective Lieutenant Joe Kenda.

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I Faked My Own Death

August 16, 2011 – 4:45 pm

Go inside the minds of six convicts to find out what pushed them to the brink and then finally made them take that fatal, extreme step over the edge in this three-part special.

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Killer Instinct

September 16, 2011 – 10:34 am

This is the first original true-crime series for cloo, the network formerly known as Sleuth. It goes behind the scenes of some of America’s most notorious crimes, through the eyes of one of the FBI’s most experienced criminal profilers, Mark Safarik.

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Kim’s Fairytale Wedding: A Kardashian Event

August 29, 2011 – 12:31 pm

This is a two-part special that goes inside the glitz, glamour and romance of Kim Kardashian and Kris Humphries’ wedding extravaganza.

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Living for 32

September 2, 2011 – 3:25 pm

What’s It All About? This film focuses on the gun control issue brought to the nation’s attention after the Virginia [...]

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Living in the Material World: George Harrison

July 27, 2011 – 1:38 pm

This is the North American television premiere of Martin Scorsese’s documentary that focuses on the musical and spiritual voyage that was George Harrison’s life, much of it told through his own words as well as those of the legendary musician’s closest friends.

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Love Translated

July 25, 2011 – 9:55 am

This group Bachelor-like journey finds viewers riding along with a group of eager Western men as they travel to Odessa, Ukraine, for an arranged dating tour in the hopes of finding a wife. The men try to meet as many women as possible in a short amount of time, which we’re being told, becomes one hilarious ride.

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The Love We Make: Paul McCartney and the Concert for New York City

September 2, 2011 – 3:13 pm

What’s It All About? Directed by iconic documentary filmmaker Albert Maysles (Grey Gardens) and his award-winning partner Bradley Kaplan (Mohammad [...]

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Making the 9/11 Memorial

August 12, 2011 – 1:40 pm

On the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terror attacks, the 9/11 Memorial (called “Reflecting Absence”) will at last be unveiled to the public. In this one-hour documentary filmed over the course of the past year, History presents a behind-the-scenes view from conception to on-site installation at Ground Zero.

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Method to the Madness of Jerry Lewis

August 15, 2011 – 3:15 pm

What’s It All About? This documentary offers a contemporary look at Jerry Lewis — the man, the career and the [...]

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Miracle Babies

July 19, 2011 – 12:20 pm

This miniseries travels the world to follow dedicated people working to save baby animals that are often the last hopes for their critically vulnerable species.

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Most Valuable Players

August 9, 2011 – 8:06 am

What’s It All About? Demonstrating that arts education encourages the same teamwork, camaraderie and confidence as sports, Most Valuable Players [...]

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My Ghost Story

October 3, 2011 – 12:00 pm

New episodes of the show that features true and astonishing first-person stories of the paranormal, told by the people who lived through them and actually caught them on tape.

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A Night at the Movies: The Horrors of Stephen King

August 12, 2011 – 2:21 pm

Horror master Stephen King discusses how he discovered terror at the movies. The best-selling author and filmmaker takes viewers on a journey through many aspects of the horror genre, including vampires, zombies, demons and ghosts.

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9/11: Heroes on the 88th Floor

August 9, 2011 – 1:47 pm

What’s It All About? This powerful two-hour documentary pays tribute to two heroes, construction manager Frank De Martini and construction [...]

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9/11: The Days After

August 12, 2011 – 1:12 pm

Presented commercial-free, this documentary from the makers of “102 Minutes That Changed America” examines what happened following the tragic day that terrorists attacked America.

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Paranormal Witness

August 12, 2011 – 1:52 pm

This drama-documentary series brings to life the stories of people who have lived through paranormal experiences.

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Penn & Teller Tell a Lie

September 9, 2011 – 3:41 pm

In this series, master magicians Penn & Teller present a collection of science-based, “Ripley’s Believe It or Not!”-type stories, one of which will be untrue. Can you guess which one it is?

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Prohibition

July 5, 2011 – 4:20 pm

Ken Burn’s latest documentary film, airing in three parts and over three nights, goes beyond the oft-told tales of gangsters, rum runners, flappers and speakeasies to chronicle the rise, rule and fall of the 18th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

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Puppies vs. Babies

August 29, 2011 – 4:42 pm

This series of three one-hour episodes takes the most popular viral clips about cute newborns and “zooborns” to see if the humans or the animals make the cutest cyberstars.

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Rebirth

September 2, 2011 – 3:20 pm

What’s It All About? The film follows five people whose lives were forever altered on September 11, 2001 and simultaneously [...]

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Rock Center With Brian Williams

October 4, 2011 – 2:41 pm

NBC News’ first new primetime broadcast in nearly 20 years, this newsmagazine is led by anchor and managing editor Brian Williams, and will feature Harry Smith, Kate Snow, and other NBC anchors and correspondents, including Meredith Vieira, Dr. Nancy Snyderman, Richard Engel, Matt Lauer and Ann Curry.

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Saved

August 23, 2011 – 3:12 pm

This series recollects compelling, true stories where animals have intervened to save people’s lives, but often not in the traditional sense. All the animals featured in “Saved” play a pivotal role in pulling humans through their darkest periods and give them a second chance at life.

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Sleep Sex

July 25, 2011 – 9:56 am

This one-hour documentary follows four different people’s lives touched by the condition diagnosed as “sexsomnia” -sexual behavior during sleep — a disorder over which they have no control.

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Storm Riders

September 16, 2011 – 10:54 am

In Season 3, maverick meteorologists Simon Brewer and Juston Drake continue their quest across the country to witness the most powerful storms.

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Stuffed: Food Hoarders

August 18, 2011 – 3:28 pm

Step into the lives of people who obsessively hoard food to debilitating degrees.

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Swamp Men

September 20, 2011 – 9:06 am

The third season follows a new park director, Brian Zepeda, and his tough new team as they tirelessly work to patrol the Big Cypress Swamp of the Everglades.

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Swamp Wars

August 23, 2011 – 3:17 pm

Six new episodes follow the Venom One team as they capture various species of lethal animals that have made their way from the Florida Everglades into suburbia — hopefully before they do serious damage.

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Thespians

September 2, 2011 – 3:27 pm

What’s It All About? Cameras follow four Florida high-school acting troupes as they embark on an unforgettable journey to the [...]

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Trek Nation

September 9, 2011 – 3:48 pm

SCIENCE teams with Eugene “Rod” Roddenberry, son of the late Gene Roddenberry, legendary creator of “Star Trek,” for this feature-length documentary exploration of the popularity and appeal of the classic sci-fi series.

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Unleashed by Garo

August 3, 2011 – 10:55 am

Visit the East Village atelier of Garo Sparo, one of fashion’s most colorful characters, as he works to outfit a diverse and exotic range of clientele.

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Women, War & Peace

September 16, 2011 – 12:02 pm

Matt Damon, Geena Davis, Tilda Swinton and Alfre Woodard are among the narrators of this important five-part series that looks at the untold and underreported stories of women’s strategic role in global conflict.

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Zombies: A Living History

September 16, 2011 – 10:23 am

This two-hour documentary looks at the long history of zombie legends, from the dawn of civilization to today.

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