DRAMA
Civilisations
This genre-defining series explores the global history of art as the driving force for civilisation. Specialist filming techniques capture the majestic scale of the Angkor Wat temple in Cambodia, and pick out the exquisite detail of Michelangelo's Basilica of St Peter. Until now, these illuminating creations have been remote. Now you can immerse yourself in their awe-inspiring craftsmanship, as great masterpieces are brought closer and made clearer than ever before. An epic blockbuster, Civilisations shows how art defines the human experience. It's a story of passion and struggle, introducing a new generation to classic works created across the continents.
DRAMA
Silent Witness - S26
Award-winning crime drama Silent Witness returns for an exciting 26th series, with five more thrilling cases for the team at the Lyell Centre to solve. Dr Nikki Alexander (Emilia Fox) and the team of forensic pathologists and scientists investigate intriguing new cases: a body falling from the top of a skyscraper, a people trafficking operation, a suspicious death at a festival, a train crash, and corrupt police officers. The cases that end up at the Lyell Centre are rarely straightforward. Initial suspicions are challenged as the evidence mounts and Nikki and the team must work harder than ever to uncover the truth.
DRAMA
Can Science Make Me Perfect?
Anatomist Alice Roberts embarks on an audacious scientific stunt - to rebuild her own body, editing out errors left behind by evolution. With the help of one of the world's best virtual sculptors, Scott Eaton, and top SFX model maker Sangeet Prabhaker, Alice creates a life-size model of the perfect human body. She meets leading experts to find out what the body's biggest problems are, and how adaptations in the rest of the animal world could inspire her new, improved design. Ambitious, audacious and packed with cutting-edge science, Can Science Make Me Perfect? challenges everything you thought you knew about the perfect body.
DRAMA
Fight the Power: How Hip Hop Changed The World
The untold story of Black America – struggle, triumph and resistance – told through the lens of a unique art form: rap. Narrated by Chuck D and a galaxy of rap superstars, cultural experts and historians, each episode – starting from the smouldering ruins of the Bronx in the 1970s to the present day – reveals how rap has protested injustices, revolutionised society and spoken truth to power. Via interviews, archive, specially shot footage and slick graphics, this ambitious series weaves two seemingly separate narratives (the rise of rap and American history) into one seamless, emotive thread.
DRAMA
Top Gear - S26
The world's biggest motoring show returns in 2018 with not one but two series, the first kicking off in February, the second later in the year. Yes, Matt LeBlanc, Chris Harris, Rory Reid and The Stig are back, with guest appearances from German driving legend Sabine Schmitz. In 2018, the team will be tackling the big issues: building the world's fastest tractor, tackling America's Wild West in shiny new V8 sports cars, testing the world's fastest estate cars by racing to the top of a fjord, attempting to land a Nasa research plane in America's ultimate muscle car, and much more besides. Filmed in locations including Japan, Utah, Italy and just-outside-of-Guildford in the UK, Top Gear features a trademark array of stunning photography, state-of-the-art supercars, celebrity guests and a healthy disrespect for presenter safety.
DRAMA
New Blood - S1
Rash and Stefan are two guys in their mid-twenties, stuck at the bottom of the career ladder. One is a trainee police detective, the other a very junior investigator at the Serious Fraud Office.
MOTORING
Top Gear: Best of the Specials - S1
A compilation of the wildest, funniest, and most exciting bits from classic Top Gear Specials. For over a decade, Top Gear's road trips - and off-road trips - travelled the globe and tackled the biggest questions in motoring.