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Cheetah’s Up Close
with Bertie Gregory

Join Bertie Gregory on his next Up-Close adventure, this time, bringing viewers up close with the planet’s fastest animal, the Cheetah. Arriving in the Serengeti, viewers will watch as the spectacular wild beest migration kicks off and uncover the unexpected challenges the species face.

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The Salt Path Scandal

With exclusive access to Observer journalist Chloe Hadjimatheou’s ongoing investigation as new whistleblowers come forward with their own versions of events, this Sky Original documentary from multi award-winning Candour Productions, digs deeper into the truth. With extensive investigative evidence and never-before-seen material, Chloe will venture further into what really happened on the Winns’ reckoning with The Salt Path. With their literary empire teetering on unstable ground, are there even more twists to this uniquely British page-turner?

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I’m Chevy Chase And You’re Not

Directed by two-time Emmy® Award winner Marina Zenovich, I’ma Chevy Chase and You’re Not is the authorised-yet-unfiltered documentary of the comedy legend, Chevy Chase. Whether it is his Saturday Night Live screen test or his starring roles in multiple Hollywood comedies, Chase has always had a huge comedic range. He is also a complex and contradictory human being, full of outsized gifts and striking flaws.Through illuminating interviews with the Chase family, friends and co-stars, Zenovich brings viewers into Chase’s inner world, revealing what is beneath the surface of his superstar bravado.

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The Tale of Silyan

From the Oscar nominated director of Honeyland. In the heart of North Macedonia, Nikola, a previously struggling farmer, takes a job as a landfill attendant. He encounters an injured white stork, a mythical animal representing new life. As he nurses the bird back to health, an unlikely bond forms between man and animal. This show is a cinematic ode to resilience and the quiet power of connection.

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History’s Deadliest with Ving Rhames

Celebrity host Ving Rhames leads us into the bloodiest, craziest, most destructive stories of deadly rulers, natural disasters, weapons, gangsters, plagues, and more…brought to life through expert interviews, compelling graphics, and jaw-dropping archival in a fast-paced, snackable, and repeatable format that kills.

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Tea with Judi Dench

The world-renowned cellist and conductor Julian Lloyd Webber returns to champion30 incredible classical musicians under 30 from 2025. Talent showcased this year include Scottish tenor Liam Bonthrone, Latvian violinist Daniil Bulayev, British trumpeter Sasha Canter, and Chinese pianist Junyan Chen.

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Gladiators: Warriors Of The Ancient World

This series chronicles the lives of Rome’s greatest gladiators. Their stories reveal the brutality of gladiatorial combat, exposing how the bloodsport shaped Roman power, culture, and identity. Through rebellion, spectacle, and survival, these warriors became legends in an empire built on violence and glory.

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Classic FM’s Rising Stars
with Julian Lloyd Webber

The world-renowned cellist and conductor Julian Lloyd Webber returns to champion30 incredible classical musicians under 30 from 2025. Talent showcased this year include Scottish tenor Liam Bonthrone, Latvian violinist Daniil Bulayev, British trumpeter Sasha Canter, and Chinese pianist Junyan Chen.

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Nick Cave’s Veiled World

Explore the creative universe, enduring influence and unique impact of acclaimed singer, songwriter and artist Nick Cave, as told by the experiences of some of his closest collaborators, in this new Sky Original documentary.

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Moon: Nature’s Secret Force

This a three-episode nature documentary series that explores the powerful, hidden influence the Moon has on Earth’s life and ecosystems. The series reveals how all life on Earth has evolved under the Moon’s influence, from creating tides to affecting animal behaviour. Narrated by Tilda Swinton, the documentary showcases new and incredible animal behaviours filmed using specialised nocturnal equipment.

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Greatest Basslines

Greatest Basslines is a new three-part premium documentary series that takes audiences on a hypnotic journey through three very different and personal takes on the power, impact and groove of the bassline, delivered by three legendary bassists – Joy Division and New Order’s Peter Hook, Foo Fighters’ Nate Mendel and Melissa Auf Der Maur of Hole and The Smashing Pumpkins.

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Ice Road Truckers S12

Ice Road Truckers is back after eight years and the ice is as unforgiving as ever. Truckers with nerves of steel take their lives in their hands driving heavily loaded vehicles across frozen lakes to deliver supplies to remote locations in Canada and Alaska. Whether they’re bringing supplies to Canadian diamond mines, supplying offshore oil rigs in Alaska or even charting new territory driving over frozen swamps and rivers to bring much-needed supplies to small towns, these extreme truckers face troubles from their machines and from Mother Nature.

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WWE’s Greatest Moments

The new series WWE’S GREATEST MOMENTS provides fans a front-row seat to relive the iconic events that have shaped WWE history. It will feature legendary play-by-play announcer Michael Cole hosting half-hour episodes with various WWE Superstars & Legends, including Stone Cold, Steve Austin, Hulk Hogan, Kevin Owens and others, to share vivid recollections and perspectives on the most remarkable moments in wrestling history.

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The Essex Murders: Who Killed Goldfinger

Ten years after the unsolved murder of John “Goldfinger” Palmer, this gripping new series re-examines the life and death of one of Britain’s most notorious criminals. From the Brink’s-Mat gold to timeshare fraud and a fortune rivaling royalty, Palmer’s story is told through exclusive testimony from those closest to him. Led by private investigators TMEye, the hunt for answers spans multiple countries and decades of criminal intrigue.

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Battle of the Irish Dancers

Charting the drama and devotion of Ireland’s most loved art form, Sky Original Battle of the Irish Dancers follows a cast of dedicated dancers and their teachers on the road to the Irish Dancing World Championships in Dublin. The three-part series celebrates Irish dancing as a life-enhancing art form requiring the strength, endurance and agility of an Olympian. Follow the dancers as they strive for excellence in the biggest competition of their careers and discover how a small island produced a pastime that became a global phenomenon, making its mark on Australia, America, Asia and Russia and finding its way to Broadway and the West End.

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Original Gangsters with Sean Bean

From Al Capone, to the real Peaky Blinders, from The Krays twins to the Queen of Harlem, each episode of Original Gangsters will see the legendary actor Sean Bean take a deep dive through a rogues’ gallery of some of the most notorious criminals in history to separate the fact from the fiction, as we find out what they mean to us today and just why they were the original gangsters. This premium series will fuse cinematic reenactment, expert talking head interviews and the latest technology to bring these infamous characters to life, like never before. We will hear from some of the world’s leading experts and the people who knew them personally to find out from them just what made each of these extraordinary characters tick.

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My Nightmare Stalker

An exclusive documentary series where actress Eva LaRue recounts her chilling firsthand experience of what its like to be stalked from relentless threats to the 2022 DNA-led capture of her stalker, “Freddie Krueger.” Through interviews, archival footage, and recreations, it traces the case’s twists, the courtroom climax, and the ongoing fear as his release looms. Ultimately, it spotlights the profound psychological toll of stalking and LaRue’s transformation from victim to survivor, aiming to empower others.

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Michael Palin in Venezuela

The former Monty Python star Michael Palin travels to South America and the often unexplored country of Venezuela. The series sees Palin visitng Venezuela, which he describes as “an often-troubled, little explored country of extremes”

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Lost In The Jungle

A deadly plane crash deep in the Colombian rainforest strands four young siblings to survive 40 unimaginable days alone. For the first time, the children tell their story, revealing their epic fight to stay alive as a dramatic rescue mission unfolds around them, uniting Indigenous trackers and the military in a race against time in this gripping true story of survival, courage and hope.

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Death of a Showjumper

Death of a Showjumper is a Sky Original documentary series exposing the circumstances surrounding the death of promising young showjumper Katie Simpson, who died in 2020 under circumstances initially reported as a suicide but later revealed to be a murder by her sister’s partner, Jonathan Creswell, a respected but violent figure in the horse world.

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Lost Treasures of Egypt

The world’s top archaeologists, working across Egypt, unearth stunning new finds as they race to unlock the secrets of this ancient civilisation.

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When Death Comes Knocking

It’s an ordinary day for the victim, until someone rings on their smart doorbell… Each episode of this new true crime series follows a homicide investigation where crucial evidence was caught on a Ring-style doorbell or home security footage. Featuring cases from the UK and USA, investigators, digital forensics experts and friends and families of the victim help piece together what happened. Cases include the wife of an anaesthetist found dead in an apparent suicide, and a Jehovah’s Witness bludgeoned to death in her hallway.

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Witches of Essex with Rylan and Prof Alice Roberts

An immersive docu-series follows Professor Alice Roberts and Essex native Rylan as they revisit the county’s infamous witch trials. Between 1450 and 1750, accusations of witchcraft devastated communities across Britain, leading to hangings – Essex alone accounted for 60% of executions among the home counties. The pair investigate why persecution took hold so strongly, uncovering the forces of fear, suspicion, and social upheaval behind the trials.

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The Fall of Diddy

Pull back the curtain on music mogul Sean Combs, and the allegations of violence and abuse kept quiet for years. This chilling chronicle redefines the music mogul and business titan everyone thinks they know.

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Murder UK

Murder UK returns with a gripping new season that delves deep into some of the country’s most chilling murder cases. Hosted by renowned criminologist and professor David Wilson, the series goes beyond the headlines to explore the psychological, social, and emotional forces that drive people to kill.

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War Paint: Women At War

BAFTA winning director Margy Kinmonth’s feature documentary shines a light on the trailblazing role of women war artists, on the front lines round the world, championing the female perspective on conflict through art and asking: when it’s life or death, what do women see that men don’t? Traditionally a male domain, war art by women has been largely unrecognised. Until now… Culture breaks the taboo, crosses borders – tells the truth to power.

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Teen Torture, INC

The latest craze sweeping Tik Tok is not a new dance or cat video. It’s harrowing first-hand accounts of child abuse and even death at the hands of America’s troubled teen industry. For six decades and counting this billion-dollar business has used tough love to justify hundreds of deaths countless suicides and thousands of instances of sexual abuse, injury and trauma. In this arced documentary series, we follow a recurring band of young survivors, lawyers, lawmakers and whistleblowers who have joined forces to take down this business once and for all. And while they have seen impressive victories, the Troubled Teen Industry is not going down without a fight.

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