
Football icon Paul Gascoigne is at the end of his playing career, heading to the Gansu the poorest province in China's remote north-west to play for the local team Gansu Tianma football club. Paul wants to show he can still offer a lot to football and battle his inner demons and addictions along with feeling isolated in his new home in China.

Join self confessed petrol-head Guy Martin as he learns about the alternative to the internal combustion engine, Electric. In this TV special, Guy learns about the advantages of electric transport and the different varieties that exist from bicycles, cars and vans up to buses. Guy also learns some of the disadvantages from range anxiety and with the help of the Leicestershire Fire Brigade, how to deal with a fire. The ultimate aim is to produce a record breaking electrified retro road car that is suitable for the Drag strip, with Guy behind the steering wheel.

Guy Martin honours the Lancaster bomber crews of World War II, as he tries out several onboard roles including pilot, gunner and bomb aimer. Has he got what it takes to join Bomber Command?

Guy joins an ambitious engineering project to recover a crashed WW2 Lancaster Bomber – and the remains of its missing crew members – from the depths of the Dutch lake where it’s lain for 80 years.

Guy Martin helps restore XH558, the last airworthy Avro Vulcan bomber, to prepare it for its last ever flight, a 1000-mile farewell tour of Great Britain, before it is grounded.

When newlyweds Peter and Julie purchase an old house with plans to renovate it, they begin to discover the strangest things. First, they find one of the living room walls covered with iron plates that reveal an expanding sepia stain. Afterwards, they realize that the stain is beginning to take the shape of a man climbing from the darkness under the house. Whenever they paint over the stain, it reappears. The evil events that took place in the house 100 years prior, are becoming the cause of strange occurrences. Soon, the couple is directly threatened by the evil history of their home.

A documentary about comedian Spike Milligan.


Featuring interviews by famous fans and followers, this rare documentary encapsulates the essence of the controversial, enigmatic, and deliciously melancholic bard.

Jeremy Clarkson tells the story of what’s been called ‘the original Mission Impossible’ – the audacious Commando raid on the German occupied dry dock at St. Nazaire in France on March 28th 1942. Operation Chariot, as the raid was codenamed, had a simple aim – to destroy the dry dock and thus deny the German battleship Tirpitz a safe haven on the Atlantic coast of France. There were many who thought the mission too risky, but the Chief of Combined Operations, Louis Mountbatten, pushed forward. This programme explores the story around March 26th 1942, when Commandos in Cornwall boarded their floating bomb and set off to see if the element of surprise really could overcome all the odds.

The Isle of Man TT 2013 delivered all that was expected of it and more! This sports documentary captures the atmosphere, excitement and sheer speed of the greatest road race on Earth. Michael Dunlop proved he’d come of age as a great road racer with four wins in one week. John McGuinness, Bruce Anstey, Guy Martin and other stars battled Dunlop every inch of the way in some of the closest racing ever seen at the TT. James Hillier and Dean Harrison led the charge for a new generation of road racers while Australian star Josh Brookes set an incredible newcomers lap record in excess of 127mph! It’s all here including brilliant on-board and helicopter footage as well as awesome super-slow-motion shots that will take your breath away.
Captain Sir Tom Moore recounts for the first time his life story and the key events in his 100 years - from his humble beginnings in Keighley, Yorkshire to his service on the Burma front during the Second World War, to raising more than £30 million for the NHS.

Guy Martin wants to build a working replica of a World War One tank, pass his tank driving test and drive the machine at Lincoln's Remembrance Day parade.

Charting his unique journey from humble beginnings in Ireland to superstardom as Britain's best-loved chat show host, this documentary hears from people who knew Graham Norton, worked with him and helped shape his career, as well as his devoted fans, friends and media champions.

This intensely personal story follows theatre performer Richard Stamp, who had his entire penis surgically removed after discovering he had aggressive penile cancer.

Guy Martin undertakes a challenge to restore a plane from the Second World War, and recreate a parachute jump into Normandy, as thousands of Allied soldiers did during D-Day.

This documentary explores the legacy of one of the most notorious British sitcoms of all time. Launching alternative comedy onto our screens, the show made household names of its performers and writers and proved to be a huge influence, despite the BBC reportedly being baffled by what they'd commissioned back in 1982. Never before had a flagship comedy show contained so much violence, depravity and anarchy - it was a shot across the bow to mainstream comedians that things would never be the same again.

Guy Martin visits the Baltics to learn the truth about his Latvian grandfather. He uncovers a story involving prisoner of war camps, daring escapes and the constant threat of death and deportation.

Want to know more about how Ronnie pulled off The Great Train Robbery and his later 30-year sentence in prison? This documentary shows the whole life of Ronald Biggs an English criminal who helped plan and carry out the Great Train Robbery of 1963. He subsequently became notorious for his escape from prison in 1965, living as a fugitive for 36 years, and for his various publicity stunts while in exile.
British comic Will Smith talks to feminists, linguists, pop icons, cockneys, and TV execs on a journey to discover what Britain makes of this somewhat blunt Anglo-Saxon oath.

The Gadget Show is a British television series which focuses on consumer technology. The show, which is broadcast on Channel 5 is currently presented by Jason Bradbury and Rachel Riley with Jon Bentley and Pollyanna Woodward. Originally a thirty-minute show, it was extended to forty-five minutes, then later to sixty minutes. Repeats have also aired on the digital channel 5*, syndicated broadcasts on Discovery Science and Dave, and Channel 5's Internet on-demand service Demand 5. In Australia, it is aired on The Lifestyle Channel.

Keanu Reeves tells one of the greatest sagas in Formula 1 history. Through the insights of Ross Brawn and revered racing icons like Jenson Button and Rubens Barrichello, all is revealed in this gripping four-part series. From the formation of Brawn GP see their remarkable journey through strategic manoeuvres and financial trials during an exceptionally competitive era in the annals of the sport.

Gadget Man shows the world's collection of handy gadgets throughout the ages, from today's smart devices to decades old electronics to even older mechanical devices.

Paul Hollywood who is an actor and a baker from Liverpool tries to find out how the most popular cars of the three big European countries express their nation's identities and the connections with their cultures.

The definitive overview of the adventures of the legendary Boys from the Dwarf. This three-part series charts the origins, production and legacy of everything associated with the sci-fi comedy.

Guy Martin transforms iconic road vehicles into thoroughbred racing machines and pits them against the best of the best.

The paranormal sleuth returns to his UK home to hunt ghosts from his past.

A guided tour of all things Channel 4 in a celebration of four decades of iconic TV shows, from live autopsies and award-winning documentaries to anarchic live shows and ground-breaking comedy

On the 50th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War, Guy Martin gets on his bike to explore Vietnam’s past, present and future.

As an energy crisis and cost of living crisis collide, the Lincolnshire lorry mechanic and motorcycle racer investigates the past, present and future of British power stations to work out how the country makes its most valuable commodity of all - electricity.

TV star and horror-fan Jonathan Ross revisits the scenes of his youth in London’s East End for a chilling trip down memory lane, exploring its historical dark-side and seeking evidence of paranormal activity in his own childhood haunts.
Each week, respected team captains Ron Manager and Tommy Stein are joined by host Simon Day and four very special footballing and celebrity guests in a show packed with humour, football and Ron's inimitable wisdom.

Ross Noble embarks on a travelogue of Britain, basing all destinations and narrative on the suggestions of his Twitter followers.

Meet your new history teachers, snooker legend Ronnie O'Sullivan and sports broadcaster Matt Smith, as they cross the pond to explore America’s 300 year history with the game of pool. The real-life mates travel the US to hunt down America’s most notorious pool hustlers while meeting a few characters along the way

The Royle Family’s dad and son Ricky Tomlinson and Ralf Little reunite years after they last got together, for a heart-warming and hilarious staycation, travelling the length and breadth of northern England, in a quest to unlock each of its region’s own unique secrets.

It’s no secret that Joe Lycett adores Brum, but his hometown is having a tough time of it. In his self-appointed role as the second city’s ambassador and with the blessing of the actual Lord Mayor of Birmingham, everyone’s favourite comedy activist is on a mission to put Birmingham firmly back on the map – in fact, all over the map.

2017 World's Strongest Man winner, Eddie Hall, tours the land of pig-out feasts – on a quest to conquer the biggest and best eye-watering food and physical challenges in the USA.

Behind the scenes with the West Midlands Police Drone Unit who hunt criminals from the sky. Drone tech is a specialist ultra-modern tool that has the capacity to help officers as they conduct investigatations and attempt to track criminals. The Unit pursues suspected wrongdoers as they try to hide up in the trees, discard drugs, or run away from the scene of a crime. The Sky Coppers make it a point to watch from above because, as they know from experience, criminals always forget to look up.

The series will see Guy attempt a variety of different roles that involve a lot of hard graft, no shortage of skill and that perhaps don’t get the recognition they deserve.

This true-crime anthology explores murder stories that began with bodies discovered in unusual public or private spaces – leading to gripping investigations, with first-hand accounts from detectives and chilling archive and evidence.