Dom Chinea works with a team of business and craft experts to help a group of budding entrepreneurs make a living from their crafting hobby.
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Xie Xiaoni, a silk merchant's daughter, rebuilds her life and works to clear her family’s name after a conspiracy ruins them. Determined to succeed, she masters embroidery and navigates challenges from rivals, finding support in Ouyang Ziyu.
There's no place like home. Brill bungalows, cosy cottages, terrific terraces - Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen leads the search for Northern Ireland’s most desirable dwelling.
Kirstie provides a flurry of jovial festive fun - with enough competitions, makes, decorations, gifts, food and drink to inspire every kind of crafter.
How were everyday items made centuries ago? In a new documentary series, the best Czech craftsmen revive period methods to create replicas of historical artifacts. Objects preserved across the gulf of time tell unknown stories about skill, materials, intelligence, taste, technology, but also about the cruelty of our ancestors.
Dom Chinea revisits amazing makers who have turned their talents into life-changing businesses and finds out how much money they are earning from their skills.
As China becomes a major commercial economy, the silk, embroidering, and weaving trade is booming - and a few influential families have risen to the top. The industry's powerhouse is the Gusu District in Suzhou, Jiangsu Province. And arguably the greatest weaving dynasty of them all is the Ren family, which carefully guards the secrets of its weaving prowess.
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.
What do you do if you love pubs and Yorkshire? Bring an old boozer back to life! Jon Richardson becomes a shareholder in Fadmoor Community Pub and helps to breathe life back into this historic local, which has been closed for 14 years.
Despite being born with low status, Luo Shiyiniang is extremely assertive and believes that a woman's vision should not be limited to the household. She hopes to rely on her embroidery skills as a ticket to freedom. However, the once-esteemed Luo family is in a state of decline. Hoping to save the clan through a marriage alliance, Shiyiniang is selected to become the wife of Yongping Duke and great general Xu Lingyi. Things were not easy for Shiyiniang due to the Xu family's biases towards her. Nonetheless, she manages to win their trust through her optimism and sincerity. Xu Lingyi also becomes attracted to Shiyiniang's various beautiful qualities such that husband and wife find love after marriage.
Series looking at the British genius for woodwork over the centuries.
Vibrant singles heads deep into the wild, far from the city, for a two-week "preference dating" experiment. When survival challenges collides with romance trials, elimination pressure and tough choices spark a bread-vs-roses showdown, will they find true love, and the one they truly prefer?
What do a 28-year-old and a 61-year-old have in common? Well, both are wondering what the hell life is really about. Follow Kristina "Keyyo" Petrushina and Johan Rheborg to Zen temples in the Japanese countryside, to Spanish nudist beaches, Botox clinics and godforsaken bars in the alleys of Tokyo.
Lee Kwang Soo, Kim Woo Bin, and Doh Kyung Soo are back with a hilarious new spin-off of the beloved “GBRB” series! GBRB: Joy Pops Laugh Pops,” which will follow the trio as they set off on a whirlwind trip to Mexico in search of fresh perspectives and experiences. The program is a spinoff of “GBRB Spinoff: Cafeteria Operation,” where the KKPP Food employees successfully completed their missions and earned the chance to go abroad for an insight trip to help the company grow. It also marks the second spinoff of “GBRB: Reap What You Sow.”
Reality series in which seven press photographers travel across the country day and night to capture every incident. Marcelino, Jordy, Olav, Ramon, Jeroen, Justin, and Kyrlian race across cities and countryside, through wind and weather, in search of that one image that will make the news. The greater the suffering, the more they earn.
Velyki perehony is a Ukrainian reality game show based on the American series, The Amazing Race. and airs on 1+1. It features ten teams of two in a race around the world. The show premiered on 13 April 2013 at 20:00 EEST. The prize for winning the show is ₴500,000. The finale aired on 29 June with Beauty Queens from Lviv Valeria Nikiforets & Bohdana Primak winning the race. A special "Life after the race" episode aired on 6 July. A second season is currently being cast.
On a daily basis, high-stakes buyers descend upon repossessed and forgotten storage units. Storage Wars: Northern Treasures follows four teams hoping to score big on a modern treasure hunt.
A group of the country's most creative and skilled tattoo artists compete for a hundred thousand dollars and the title of Ink Master. The stakes couldn't be higher with "living canvasses" donating their skin to be permanently marked in this adrenalized competition elimination.
Two people with drastically different backgrounds and survival strategies take on some of the planet's most unforgiving terrain to demonstrate how the right skills and creative thinking can keep you alive in the most dangerous situations.
Just how far is a chef willing to go to win a cooking competition? Cutthroat Kitchen hands four chefs each $25,000 and the opportunity to spend that money on helping themselves or sabotaging their competitors. Ingredients will be thieved, utensils destroyed and valuable time on the clock lost when the chefs compete to cook delicious dishes while also having to outplot the competition. With Alton Brown as the devilish provocateur, nothing is out of bounds when money changes hands and we see just how far chefs will go to ensure they have the winning dish.
Just up the river from our nation’s capital lies a hidden gem—Potomac, Maryland. Its rolling hills, gated mansions, sophisticated prep schools, and exclusive country clubs all serve to keep the area invitation-only. Sprinkled throughout this community are a handful of old-line, wealthy African-American families who have historically broken racial barriers to provide a life of privilege for their children. In a town where entry is granted only through class, pedigree, and lineage, how far will the ladies go to secure their spot at the top of this prestigious circle?
A crew of people come up with new things to do every week. One day, they may work on a business franchise. Another day, they might go and make someone ride a bull, or shoot burritos at people.
Hardcore survivalists are put by themselves in the Vancouver Island wilderness, without camera crews, teams, or producers – on a single mission to stay alive for as long as possible.
Jon Taffer is the Gordon Ramsay of the bar and nightclub business. In each episode, Taffer helps transform a struggling bar into a vibrant, profitable business, utilizing his expertise as a nightlife consultant
Deep in the Alaskan wilderness lives a newly discovered family who was born and raised wild. Billy Brown, his wife Ami and their seven grown children – 5 boys and 2 girls – are so far removed from civilization that they often go six to nine months of the year without seeing an outsider. They’ve developed their own accent and dialect, refer to themselves as a "wolf pack," and at night, all nine sleep together in a one-room cabin. Simply put, they are unlike any other family in America. Recently, according to the Browns, the cabin where they lived for years was seized and burned to the ground for being in the wrong location on public land.
Two talented chefs go head-to-head for the chance to Beat Bobby Flay. To get to Bobby the chefs must first face off against each other, creating a spectacular dish with a secret ingredient of Bobby's choice. Judges Alex Guarnaschelli and Jeff Mauro know Bobby's strengths and his weaknesses. Their goal: Pick the chef who has the skills to take down Bobby Flay in his own arena. The winning chef gets to challenge Bobby with his or her surprise signature dish. If Bobby goes down, the winner can tell the world, "I beat Bobby Flay!"
Follows the operations of Carlo's Bakery, a family-owned business in Hoboken, New Jersey owned and operated by siblings Buddy Valastro, Lisa Valastro, Maddalena Castano, Grace Faugno and Mary Sciarrone. The show focuses on how they make their cakes, and the interpersonal relationships among the various family members and other employees who work at the shop.
This spin-off of the wildly popular House Hunters goes around the globe. Home hunters and their realtors check out all sorts of architectural styles and work through the quirks of buying real estate in other countries.
Centers on the Kilcher family and their community outside Homer, Alaska. Begun by patriarch Yule Kilcher who immigrated from Europe during WWII, and currently led by his sons, Otto and Atz Kilcher (singer Jewel's father) the family have lived on their land for four generations. The show also features the homesteaders who live nearby and interact with the Kilchers.
Paranormal investigators and ghost-hunting pioneers Jason Hawes, Steve Gonsalves and Dave Tango respond to urgent calls from local paranormal investigators nationwide who have reached a dead end with their high-stakes personal cases.
Follow the passionate, volatile and hot-and-bothered-staff at Lisa Vanderpump’s West Hollywood mainstay SUR. Lisa balances her motherly instincts and shrewd business sense to keep control over this wild group of employees as they pursue their dreams and each other while working at her “Sexy, Unique Restaurant.”
A high energy, fast paced cooking competition that challenges four up-and-coming chefs to turn a selection of everyday ingredients into an extraordinary three-course meal. After each course, a contestant gets “chopped” by our panel of esteemed culinary luminaries until the last man or woman left standing claims victory.
Paul Teutul, Sr. and his son Paul Teutul, Jr. manufacture custom chopper-style motorcycles.
This game show sees contestants solve word puzzles, similar to those used in Hangman, to win cash and prizes determined by spinning a giant carnival wheel.
A group of the best survival experts in the world take on an un-survivable situation: 40 days. 40 nights. No food, water or clothes. To survive they'll need to master the environment, pushing far beyond the breaking point. Will even one be able to finish?
Bravo's cameras turn to the Southern states as the network presents this inside look at the Real Housewives of Atlanta. These women handle the personal dramas that affect their affluent lifestyles with a signature Southern brand of “style” and “grace.”
The Repair Shop is a workshop of dreams, where broken or damaged cherished family heirlooms are brought back to life. Furniture restorers, horologists, metal workers, ceramicists, upholsterers, and all manner of skilled craftsmen and women have been brought together to work in one extraordinary space, restoring much-loved possessions to their former glory.