Wednesday 13 January at 9.15pm
This documentary provides unprecedented access to David Bowie’s personal archive, including previously unseen footage. This is the definitive portrait of one of rock’s most influential stars.
Extras: David Bowie
Thursday 14 January at 9pm
David Bowie guest stars in the hit Ricky Gervais comedy, Extras. Andy (Ricky Gervais) has realised that fame is not all it is cracked up to be, when his sitcom receives terrible reviews. The public, however, give him encouragement. He’s recognised by a homeless man and his “biggest fan” in a pub. But when Andy and his friends head to a classy bar, he discovers that even David Bowie wants to mock him, in the form of a song - “the little fat man who sold his soul”.
Sunday 24 January
7:30pm Build a New Life in the Country: Lancashire
8:15pm Dream Build: Flipped House
8:25pm Gruen Pitch Rewind: Government Surveillance
8:30pm Movie: The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2
7.30 pm Mon-Fri River Monsters
Monday 25 January
8:20pm Back Seat Drivers: Bucket List: Jordan Raskopoulos, Merrick Watts & Anne Edmonds
8:30pm Louis Theroux’s Weird Weekends: Thailand
9:20pm Ross Kemp On Gangs: Moscow
Tuesday 26 January
8:30pm Special Forces: Ultimate Hell Week
9:30pm Banged Up Abroad: Venezuela Hustle
Wednesday 27 January
8:20pm Back Seat Drivers
8:30pm Fit in or Fail: Secrets of China
9:25pm Bodyshockers
Thursday 28 January
8:25pm Back Seat Drivers
8:30pm The Office
9:00pm Extras: Radcliffe
9:30pm Never Mind the Buzzcocks: Bob Mortimer
10:00pm Inside Amy Schumer: Gang Bang
Friday 29 January
8:20pm Back Seat Drivers
8:30pm This Old Thing with Dawn O’Porter
9:15pm Tourettes on the Job
Saturday 30 January
7:30pm Penn And Teller
8:15pm Would I Lie To You?
8:50pm Michael McIntyre’s Comedy Roadshow
9:35pm Live at the Apollo
10:20pm Inside Amy Schumer: Gang Bang
Sunday 31 January
7:30pm Build a New Life in the Country: Kent
8:15pm Dream Build: Cocoon House
8:25pm Gruen Pitch Rewind: AFL In The Olympics
8:30pm Fiona O’Loughlin’s Greatest Hits
9:55pm Never Mind the Buzzcocks
10:25pm Bodyshockers
Monday 1 February
7:30pm River Monsters
8:20pm Gruen Pitch Rewind: Democrats
8:30pm Louis Theroux’s Weird Weekends
9:20pm Ross Kemp: Extreme World: Rio De Janeiro
10:05pm Return The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Tuesday 2 February
7:30pm New Series River Monsters
8:20pm Gruen Pitch Rewind: Whale Meat
8:30pm Special Forces: Ultimate Hell Week
9:30pm Banged Up Abroad: Busted in Bangkok
10:15pm The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Wednesday 3 February
7:30pm River Monsters: Amazon Titanic
8:20pm Gruen Pitch Rewind: Bagdad Green Zone Tourist Resort
8:30pm Desperate For Love: Secrets of China
9:30pm Bodyshockers
10:15pm The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Thursday 4 February
7:30pm River Monsters: Bone Crusher
8:20pm Gruen Pitch Rewind: Invade New Zealand
8:30pm The Weekly With Charlie Pickering
9:00pm The Office
9:30pm Extras: Chris Martin
10:00pm Never Mind the Buzzcocks
10:30pm Inside Amy Schumer
10:55pm The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Friday 5 February
7:30pm River Monsters: Jungle Terminator
8:20pm Gruen Pitch Rewind: No To Buying
8:30pm This Old Thing with Dawn O’Porter: Elissa
9:15pm All Creatures Great And Stuffed
10:05pm The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Saturday 6 February
7:30pm Penn And Teller: Fool Us
8:15pm Would I Lie To You?
8:45pm Premiere Dara O’Briain: Craic Dealer
9:40pm Live at the Apollo: Katherine Ryan
10:25pm Inside Amy Schumer
Billie JD Porter explores how China’s recent boom is changing people’s lives fast. In bustling Guangzhou, she meets struggling migrant workers from the countryside and some super-rich supercar owners.
Very little is known about them as they are clandestine and elusive. With approximately 16,000 UK members, they are Britain’s most secretive cult. Now some of them are starting to leave – and have given the Secrets from the Secret Sect filmmakers, exclusive access to their stories.
Exclusive Brethren lead extremely sheltered lives. They aren’t allowed to watch TV, go to the cinema, listen to the radio (or any produced music), go to cafes or restaurants, dance or read literature. The girls are forbidden to cut their hair, wear makeup or trousers and they must wear a traditional headscarf to meetings or when they could be seen publicly.
Cut off from the world and all the evil in it, they only know what their Elders tell them and are taught not to question anything. The documentary follows Emma as she escapes the church and seeks refuge and support from other Ex-Exclusive Brethren. The Amish and the Brethren are alike in many ways with a simple unworldly existence. The Amish enjoy ‘Rumspringa’ where they have a period of time in the modern world before they decide if they want to return. The Exclusive Brethren are not offered such freedom, they have been educated in Brethren only schools not permitted to go to university and are encouraged to be married by 22. Emma watches a film for the first time and listens to her first pop song. However, the price ex- Exclusive Brethren pay for such simple pleasures: never to see their family again…
Sunday 7 February
7:30pm Build a New Life in the Country: Norfolk
8:15pm Dream Build: Jilliby House
8:25pm Gruen Pitch Rewind: Soccer
9:25pm Dara O’Briain
10:25pm Never Mind the Buzzcocks: Russell Howard
Monday 8 February
7:30pm River Monsters
8:20pm Gruen Pitch Rewind
8:30pm Louis Theroux’s LA Stories: City Of Dogs
9:30pm Ross Kemp: Extreme World: India
Tuesday 9 February
7:30pm River Monsters
8:20pm Gruen Pitch Rewind
8:30pm Special Forces: Ultimate Hell Week Final
9:30pm Banged Up Abroad: Escape From the Gulag
Wednesday 10 February
7:30pm Doctor Who: Rose
8:15pm Doctor Who Confidential
8:30pm How To Get Rich: Secrets of China
9:25pm Bodyshockers: Nips, Tucks and Tattoos
Thursday 11 February
7:30pm Doctor Who: The End Of The World
8:15pm TBA
8:30pm The Weekly With Charlie Pickering
9:00pm The Office
9:30pm Extras: Sir Ian McKellen
10:00pm Never Mind the Buzzcocks: Peter Andre
Friday 12 February
7:30pm Doctor Who: The Unquiet Dead
8:15pm Doctor Who Confidential
8:30pm This Old Thing With Dawn O’Porter
9:20pm Miracle of the Hudson Plane Crash
Saturday 13 February
7:30pm Penn And Teller: Fool Us
8:15pm Would I Lie To You?
8:45pm Adam Hills: Happyism
9:30pm Live at the Apollo: Russell Kane
10:20pm Inside Amy Schumer
Last time we saw Mark (David Mitchell) and Jeremy (Robert Webb) they had just been abandoned and mildly electrocuted in a field, spurned by Dobby’s rejection of their declarations of love in favour of a new life in New York… it looked like the end of the El Dude Brothers.
But now time has passed, and while Jez has some rather constrictive new living quarters, Mark has a new flat mate and has landed a swanky bank job. But it seems that the wounds have not yet healed. Jeremy is reluctant to apologise, at least until the right time is right. Mark on the other hand - content thanks to Napoleon’s correspondence - is determined not to show any emotional scars. The pair have to put their differences aside however in order to celebrate with a newly clean and healthy Super Hans (Matt King). But despite his best efforts a good detox can only last so long, and when Jeremy goes cap in hand to ask for a loan it appears Mark might have his chance for some Machiavellian revenge.
Director Becky Martin, Producer Hannah Mackay, PEEP SHOW is an Objective Productions, an all3 media company for Channel 4.
It’s been over 125 years since the death of Joseph Merrick, ‘The Elephant Man’ now, using Merrick’s skeleton, a team of experts have brought Joseph Merrick back to life.
Joseph Merrick was, for much of his lifetime was regarded as a freak, a sideshow exhibit, a figure of derision.
However, because of the unique friendship of one man his legend endures the legend of the Elephant Man lives on.
With exclusive access to his skeleton - for possibly the last time due to its fragility - they have been able to recreate it in the virtual world and use this as a basis for modelling work - using photographs, measurements, casts and firsthand accounts - that puts flesh onto Merrick’s bones. How did he move? How did he speak? And, most intriguingly, how did he die?
Also, accompanying the team will be Brian Richards, a modern-day sufferer of Proteus Syndrome: the disease that turned Joseph Merrick into the Elephant Man. It’s a hugely personal journey for Brian who is just a year younger than Merrick was when he died - and feels that this is his chance to find the answers he has been seeking about his own future
Narrator Richard Lintern, producer and additional camera Phil Stein, written and directed by Mark > Radice, produced by Windfall Films for Discovery Networks and Channel 4.
Sunday 14 February
7:30pm Build a New Life in the Country: Harris
8:15pm Dream Build: Angophora House
8:25pm Gruen Pitch Rewind: Back To Books
8:30pm Funny As: Kitty Flanaghan Charming and Alarming
9:35pm Bodyshockers: Nips, Tucks and Tattoos
10:25pm Never Mind the Buzzcocks: Peter Andre
Monday 15 February
7:30pm Doctor Who: Aliens Of London
8:15pm Doctor Who Confidential: I Get A Side-Kick Out Of You
8:30pm Louis Theroux’s LA Stories: Among The Sex Offenders
9:30pm Ross Kemp: Extreme World: Papua New Guinea
Tuesday 16 February
7:30pm Doctor Who: World War Three
8:15pm Doctor Who Confidential: Why On Earth?
8:30pm Good Game Series Return
9:30pm Banged Up Abroad: Nigel Brennan: Nightmare in Somalia
Wednesday 17 February
7:30pm Doctor Who: Dalek
8:15pm Doctor Who Confidential: Dalek
8:30pm Escape From The Secret Sect Premiere Special
9:20pm Bodyshockers: Nips, Tucks and Tattoos
Thursday 18 February
7:30pm Doctor Who: The Long Game
8:15pm Doctor Who Confidential: The Dark Side
8:30pm The Weekly With Charlie Pickering
9:00pm The Office
9:30pm Extras: Ross
10:00pm Never Mind the Buzzcocks: Sara Cox
Friday 19 February
7:30pm Doctor Who: Father’s Day
8:15pm Doctor Who Confidential: Time Trouble
8:30pm Meet The Young Americans: Girls Behind Bars
9:25pm Her Majesty’s Prison: Aylesbury
Saturday 20 February
7:30pm Penn And Teller: Fool Us
8:15pm Would I Lie To You?
8:45pm Wil Anderson: Wiluminati
9:45pm Live At The Apollo: Alan Carr, Andi Osho & Patrick Kielty
10:30pm Inside Amy Schumer: Clown Panties
Award-winning journalist Louis Theroux explores how society treats those who have committed crimes – at times horrifically violent – while in the grip of severe mental illness.
Over the course of these two episodes, Louis Theroux explores the nature of mental illness and spends time with some sufferers in the USA who have found themselves on the wrong side of the law. Visiting Ohio’s State Psychiatric Hospitals, he meets patients who have been found not guilty by reason of insanity and ordered by the courts to receive treatment in secure psychiatric facilities in the hope of their eventual reintegration back into society.
He also meets patients with a diagnosis of ‘personality disorder’, such as anti-social, borderline and narcissistic, and attempts to understand where mental illness ends and the person begins.
In the first episode, Louis talks to patients attempting to come to terms with their crimes as well as the clinicians entrusted with helping to make them safe. And he investigates the difficult question – when is a patient with a serious crime in their past ready to be returned to the outside world?
Part two sees Louis spend time with patients whose personalities are so intertwined with their illness it makes them more difficult to treat. In doing so he examines the grey area between criminal actions and medical symptoms, and investigates how we define insanity.
Adam Pearson is on a mission to explore disability hate crime; to find out why it goes under reported, under recorded and under peoples’ radar. In this new documentary, Adam challenges people into questioning their attitudes towards disability and disfigurement, to uncover the roots of the issue.
Adam has neurofibromatosis type 1, a condition that causes benign tumours to grow on nerve endings, in his case, on his face. He is disfigured and disabled and has experienced disability hate crime first hand, like a number of his friends, some of whom he meets with in the film. Their stories may differ, but their disability as the motivating factor is constant. Just days into his investigation, Adam becomes the target of some grossly offensive online hate speech. While this isn’t unusual for him, for the first time, Adam decides to take action, reporting it to the police – with some unexpected outcomes.
Undeterred, he looks to understand the laws specific to disability hate crime, and finds that a mixture of ignorance and inequalities mean that these crimes often don’t make it to our courts, or are sentenced less severely than other hate crimes when they do. Adam looks to uncover what attitudes and influences may be causing people to commit disability hate crime in the first place, questioning whether the portrayal of disfigurement and disability in the media, for example, could be leading us to associate them with being ‘the bad guys’. With help from Miles Hewstone, professor of social psychology, University of Oxford, Adam conducts an experiment measuring peoples’ innate prejudice towards disfigurement that gives some shocking results, and leads him to question if he alone can hope to affect a change – and if so, how?
Sunday 21 February
7:30pm Build a New Life in the Country: Rutland
8:15pm Dream Build: Wheatsheaf House
8:25pm Gruen Pitch Rewind: No To Buying
8:30pm Warehouse Comedy Festival: Joel Creasey: The Acid Tongue Prince
9:00pm Steve Coogan As Alan Partridge & Other Less Successful Characters
10:30pm Never Mind the Buzzcocks: Peter Andre
Monday 22 February
7:30pm Doctor Who: The Empty Child
8:15pm Doctor Who Confidential: Special Effects
8:30pm Louis Theroux’s LA Stories: Edge Of Life
9:30pm Ross Kemp: Extreme World: Northern Ireland
Tuesday 23 February
7:30pm Doctor Who: The Doctor Dances
8:15pm Doctor Who Confidential: Weird Science
8:30pm Good Game
9:00pm Peep Show New Series
9:30pm Banged Up Abroad: Mexican Prison Escape
Wednesday 24 February
7:30pm Doctor Who: Boom Town
8:15pm Doctor Who Confidential: Unsung Heroes And Violent Death
8:30pm Meet the Elephant Man Premiere Special
9:20pm Bodyshockers: Nips, Tucks and Tattoos
Thursday 25 February
7:30pm Doctor Who: Bad Wolf
8:15pm Doctor Who Confidential: The World Of Who
8:30pm The Weekly With Charlie Pickering
9:00pm Extras: Special
10:25pm Never Mind the Buzzcocks: Kristen Schaal
Friday 26 February
7:30pm Doctor Who: The Parting Of The Ways
8:15pm Doctor Who Confidential: The Last Battle
8:30pm The Boarding School Bomber
9:25pm Her Majesty’s Prison: Aylesbury
Saturday 27 February
7:30pm Penn And Teller: Fool Us
8:15pm Would I Lie To You?
8:45pm Mock The Week Looks Back At: Health
9:15pm Comedy Up Late: Harley Breen, Nazeem Hussain, Michael Che, Loretta Maine
9:50pm Live at the Apollo: Josh Widdicombe, Trevor Noah & Eddie Izzard
10:35pm Inside Amy Schumer: Terrible People
Sunday 28 February
7:30pm Build a New Life in the Country: Nottinghamshire
8:20pm Dream Build: Stringybark House
8:30pm Warehouse Comedy Festival: Randy: Randy Is Sober
9:00pm Russell Howard: Right Here Right Now
10:35pm Never Mind the Buzzcocks: Kristen Schaal
Monday 29 February
7:30pm Doctor Who: The Christmas Invasion
8:30pm Louis Theroux: By Reason of Insanity Series Premiere
9:30pm Ross Kemp: Extreme World: Las Vegas
Tuesday 1 March
7:30pm Doctor Who: New Earth
8:15pm Doctor Who Confidential: Fear Factor
8:30pm Good Game
9:00pm Peep Show
9:30pm Banged Up Abroad: Raving Arizona
Wednesday 2 March
7:30pm Doctor Who: Tooth And Claw
8:15pm Doctor Who Confidential: Friends Reunited
8:30pm The Ugly Face of Disability Hate Crime Premiere
9:20pm Bodyshockers: Nips, Tucks and Tattoos
Thursday 3 March
7:30pm Doctor Who: School Reunion
8:15pm Doctor Who Confidential: Script To Screen
8:30pm The Weekly With Charlie Pickering
9:00pm The Office Specials
9:45pm Never Mind the Buzzcocks: Eamonn Holme
Friday 4 March
7:30pm Doctor Who: The Girl In The Fireplace
8:15pm Doctor Who Confidential: Cybermen
8:30pm The Anti-Social Network
9:30pm Captive For 18 Years: The Jaycee Lee Story
Saturday 5 March
7:30pm Penn And Teller: Fool Us
8:15pm Would I Lie To You?
8:45pm Mock The Week Looks Back At: Animals
9:15pm Comedy Up Late: Ronny Chieng, Kate McLennan, Josh Thomas, Sam Simmons
9:50pm Live at the Apollo: Jack Dee, Seann Walsh & Milton Jones
10:35pm Inside Amy Schumer: Sex Tips
One young Australian woman’s horrific gang rape has led to a seven-year battle for justice with the Kenyan legal system culminating in a highly publicized court case. Rape and gang rape victims rarely report rapes and do not testify against their attackers in Kenya because they fear for their lives. Supported in her quest by a courageous ighranking police officer and some senior legal officials, much is at stake as Charlotte Campbell Stephen seeks justice against all odds.
Throughout the case Charlotte’s testimony has detained her attackers in prison. Her life has been in constant danger. Her indomitable strength and her sense of outrage at the lack of rights for Kenyan women has been her inspiration and brought many silenced women out of the dark to stand at her side. Charlotte’s case is a test case for the women of Kenya and the reformers in the Kenyan legal system.
Asif Quraishi: “I am a Muslim, I’m British Pakistani and I’m also a drag queen. I have to fight every day just to be me. I receive constant death threats. I’ve heard people say my parents should burn in hell for bringing me into the world. Is somebody gonna kill me? There’s a whole community that’s living in Britain that is hidden. Now is the time to come out. You’ve got to be big, bold and have balls of steel.”
Narrated by Ian McKellen, this powerful documentary introduces the members of Britain’s underground Muslim drag queen community. How do gay Muslims publicly reconcile their secularity with their cultural identity?
Highlighting the soaring rates of eating disorders and self harm among young people, this film explores the internet… where they go to share their secrets
triple j’s Hack host Tom Tilley moderates a live television event and social media experience to find out whether Australians are too obsessed with their bodies.
Following the breakout success of 2HIGH and 2SEXY, ABC2 in collaboration with triple j, will spend a week undressing our national obsession with how we look. Naked As, a week of special programming looking at bodies, in all their shapes and sizes, screens from Sunday 13 March – Saturday 19 March.
With factual programming from Australia and around the world, covering topics from body building, to steroid use, labiaplasty, to eating disorders and body dysmorphia, ABC2 examines why our shape is so seemingly tied to our happiness, and what social media and the explosion of the selfie is doing to our self confidence. Meanwhile, on triple j, discussions will get under the skin of what’s driving our fixation.
At the heart of the week will be Hack Live on Body Obsession where Tom Tilley will explore, in a live TV and social media event, our fixation with body shape. Are we too obsessed or not obsessed enough? Social media and the internet have changed the game when it comes to selfies and self image, so just what affect is it having on young Australians today.
Also screening during the week are Australian premieres of My Self Harm Nightmare; Bodyshockers: Nips, Tucks, Tattoos; Plus Sized Wars and Tattoo Disasters UK. Plus screenings of the Australian documentaries The Vagina Diaries and Head First: Tailor Made Bodies as well as international documentaries Louis Theroux: Under the Knife; Dying for Clear Skin; Desperately Hungry Housewives; Gok’s Teens: The Naked Truth; Glamour Model Mum and Me; 45 Stone Virgin; Glamour Model Mum; Baby and Me; Inside the Body Beautiful; My Baggy Body and I want to Change My Body.
So what’s the truth about body image? It’s time to find out. No body’s perfect
