Birth Stories

Discovery Home & Health

Starts Monday 9 January, 18.00

Birth Stories is back on Home and Health to follow more women along their journey to motherhood. As most mothers will know the trip is rarely smooth sailing. This season viewers will meet a variety of characters including, radio host Marianne and her husband Kelly who are closing the deal on their house just two weeks before her due date, Jocelyne, who is pregnant by her gay friend Tim, and Lorriane who although full of confidence about raising her child on her own, becomes overcome with emotion, when nine days overdue, it becomes time for a Caesarean. There will be emotional highs and lows, as with the joy of new life comes unparalleled pressures on careers and relationships. This heartfelt documentary takes a gripping real look at families and their Birth Stories.

Beethoven 9: The Complete Symphonies

Sky Arts 2/HD

Starts Tuesday 24 January, 20.00

Acclaimed German conductor Christian Thielemann joins forces with the prestigious Wiener Philharmoniker in a monumental project

Monty Python: Almost the Truth

Sky Arts 1/HD

TX tbc

Interviews and archive clips reveal how being a Python shaped the lives of John Cleese, Eric Idle, Michael Palin, Terry Jones, Terry Gilliam and the late Graham Chapman. Acclaimed films The Holy Grail and The Life of Brian also feature in January.

The Talk

Diva TV

Throughout January

Hit US chat show, The Talk, hosted by an all-female panel including the UK's own Sharon Osbourne, continues in the New Year. Already a hit for CBS in the States, The Talk is a mixture of topical chat and celebrity guests, with Mrs O bringing her own inimitable British perspective to the proceedings alongside Julie Chen, Sara Gilbert, Leah Remini and Holly Robinson Peete. Diva TV will broadcast double bills of The Talk daily, as well as capitalising on the on-screen chemistry of the five hosts, The Talk features daily guests from among the biggest celebrity names.