Harry Hill's World of TV - Season 1
Season 1
Episodes
Soaps
Soaps are at the helm of British TV, capturing the hearts of audiences across the UK and getting the nation talking. Harry will be showing us the scandalous devices and storylines used to keep people hooked, watching the daily lives of local communities.
From 1954's The Grove Family through to Crossroads, and Albion Market, to Coronation Street and EastEnders, Harry will be delving into what connects the lands of the TV Soap.
Medical Dramas
From Dr Finlay's Casebook through to Emergency Ward 10 and 1975's Angels to Holby City and Casualty.
Historical Documentaries
Harry looks historical documentaries, from Kenneth Clarke's Civilisation through to AJP Taylor, James Burk and Mary Beard all the way to Who Do You Think You Are? and Danny Dyer's Right Royal Family.
Police Dramas
Harry looks at police dramas, from Dixon Of Dock Green through to Z Cars, Softly Softly to The Sweeney, The Bill and Line Of Duty.
Cookery
Harry looks at food on the telly, from Fanny Craddock, through to Delia Smith, Mary Berry, Jamie Oliver's Naked Chef to Ainsley Harriott, MasterChef and Bake Off.
Home Improvement
Harry looks at DIY programmes, from 1963's Barry Bucknall's DIY through to Toolbox, 60 Minute Make Over and Changing Rooms to Grand Designs.
Recently Updated Shows
Shark Tank
An exciting new reality show that, in these trying economic times, gives budding entrepreneurs a chance to make their dreams come true and become successful - and possibly wealthy - business people. But the entrepreneurs must first try to convince five tough, multi-millionaire tycoons to part with their own hard-earned cash and give them the funding they need to jumpstart their business ideas.
Enter the Sharks of Shark Tank, who lifted themselves up by their bootstraps to make their own entrepreneurial dreams come true and turned their ideas into empires. The five Sharks of this ruthless panel are real estate mogul Barbara Corcoran, "infomercial" industry pioneer Kevin Harrington, technology innovator Robert Herjavec, fashion icon Daymond John and financial expert Kevin O'Leary.
Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Since the premiere of his groundbreaking series African American Lives through the first season of Finding Your Roots, noted Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr. has been helping people discover long-lost relatives hidden for generations within the branches of their family trees. Professor Gates utilizes a team of genealogists to reconstruct the paper trail left behind by our ancestors and the world's leading geneticists to decode our DNA and help us travel thousands of years into the past to discover the origins of our earliest forebears.
Special Forces: World's Toughest Test
Household names endure some of the harshest, most grueling challenges from the playbook of the actual Special Forces selection process. There are no votes, and no eliminations – just survival. These celebrities, who are so used to being in the spotlight, quickly learn the meaning of "no guts, no glory" – and no glam.
Night Court
Night Court centers on the unapologetic optimist judge Abby Stone, daughter of the late Harry Stone, who follows in her father's footsteps as she presides over the night shift of a Manhattan arraignment court and tries to bring order to its crew of oddballs and cynics, most notably former night court prosecutor Dan Fielding.
Happy's Place
Happy's Place follows Bobbie who inherits her father's restaurant and is less than thrilled to discover that she has a new business partner in the half-sister she never knew she had.