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Comedian and host of The Last Leg Adam Hills takes viewers behind the scenes of a global campaign around the growing form of the sport – Para-Standing Tennis – and its potential as a future Grand Slam and Paralympic event. Adam visits some of the most famous tennis locations in the world, meeting and playing with former Grand Slam winners, as well as uncovering the barriers faced by aspiring tennis players with disabilities who want to beincluded by their sport at the highest level.

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Follow a gang of orphan orangutans from a unique rehab school in Borneo, as cute preschoolers, adventurous toddlers and naughty teens learn to navigate life in the wild. As the new term starts, newbie Bumi struggles to focus and star student Valentino experiences a bumpy start to college.

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In November 2015, an astonishing and macabre discovery thrusts Beddau, a sleepy former mining village in the heart of the Welsh Valleys, into the spotlight. What begins as a seemingly harmless prank involving a medical skeleton found in the secure garden of a quiet residential block takes a horrifying turn when it is revealed that the ‘skeleton’ is, in fact, a dead body. What emerges is a gripping murder mystery intertwined with a dramatic family saga.

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Andrew Tate’s meteoric rise to infamy has provoked global uproar, but the controversial figure is also a terrifying symptom of the increasingly fractured world in which we live, propelled by the social media platforms beneath our fingertips. This two-hour film highlights the dark influence of social media platforms and how their carefully crafted algorithms are shaping our world today. With exclusive insight, the documentary lifts the lid on how some of the architects of the social media algorithms push extreme, hateful and misogynistic content in pursuit of profit.

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Unlock the killer secrets and ingenious tactics of nature’s toughest fighters inthis new four-part nature documentary series. Travel to four incredible ecosystems around the world – African watering holes, the weathered Australian coast, South American jungle rivers andNorth American tidelands – where wild gladiators, from the smallest ants to the biggest bears, do battle for the ultimate prize: survival. Narrated by Sean Bean.

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Between London Pride 1984 and 1985 an unlikely alliance was forged between the gay men and lesbians of London and the striking miners of South Wales. Everyone loves a good love story: and this is one of the most unexpected and uplifting love stories ever, not between two people, but between two communities who – seemingly worlds apart – found common cause and compassion for each other in the face of immense challenges, and changed the course of history for queer people in the UK.

This feature documentary explores this remarkable tale, made famous by the film Pride ten years ago. Everyone loved the film, but the real story behind the script is much richer and more powerful than you could ever imagine. And the legacy of these events are still felt to this day, forty years on since the 1984/1985 Miners’ Strike. But this won’t be like any other documentary about the Miners’ Strike you’ll watch this year…

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William Shatner explores the earth and beyond in search of the universe’s most fascinating, strange and inexplicable mysteries. Learn the truth behind the most bizarre, strange, and mysterious events that have happened in history, with help from top scientists and experts, on-site research, and interviews with those who witnessed them.

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For the 80th anniversary of the D-Day Landings, this documentary follows the 100 days it took for the Allies to liberate Normandy, to break through the German line and to pave the way towards victory. 100 critical days, both heroic and tragic, that made history. The series will retrace day by day, from D-Day up to the Liberation of Paris, through a series of moving testimonies and spectacular colourised archives. Part of D-DAY 80th anniversary.

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For years, Alex Jones’ denial of the Sandy Hook shootings turbocharged traffic to his website, Infowars, generating millions of dollars in revenue. Filmed over four years, The Truth vs Alex Jones chronicles the riveting courtroom drama of two defamation lawsuits brought by the victims’ families and their historic outcomes.

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Ibiza Narcos, the third instalment of the Narcos strand, presents the story of how a tiny, sleepy Mediterranean Island was transformed into one the world’s most vibrant party capitals, fuelled by a dangerous and lucrative drugs trade.

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Black Widow follows the decade-long police investigation into one of Britain’s most dangerous female murderers – Dena Thompson. For over 20 years, Dena was known as ‘The Black Widow’ and carried out a sustained campaign of fraud, deception, bigamy, and murder. Using Lonely Hearts columns to lure a succession of husbands and dozens of lovers into her life, she was able to coerce them into giving up their life’s savings, their homes, their families, and their freedom based on her bizarre but convincing stories.

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The never-been-told story of the most influential rap group in the history of music, RUN DMC. Joseph “Rev Run” Simmons, Darryl “DMC” McDaniels, and Jason “Jam Master Jay” Mizell met on the streets of Hollis, Queens before these hip-hop legends would go onto legitimise a genre of music that critics labelled a fad.

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