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How Do They Do It?
Started Thursday 5 March, 11:00 PM on Quest
Season 8 Episode 15: Japanese Drum/Car Factories/Italian Pasta
How a 700-year-old tree is used to produce a two-ton Japanese drum, the methods used by car factories to be environmentally friendly, and Italian pasta-making techniques
Judge Judy
Starts Thursday 5 March, 11:15 PM on True Crime Xtra
Season 10 Episode 79
Punchy reality show about a female judge that has made a real impact on the American justice system. Judge Judy is real, honest and keen to get to the bottom of emotional cases.
The UnXplained with William Shatner
Started Thursday 5 March, 11:00 PM on Sky History
Season 3 Episode 31: Tales of the Dearly Departed
Graves, tombs, cremations are all considered respectful ways to provide the deceased with a final resting place. Can any of these practices preserve the soul for eternity?
How Do They Do It?
Starts Thursday 5 March, 11:30 PM on Quest
Season 8 Episode 16: Frankfurters/Rifles/Card Cheats
The production of Frankfurter sausages in Germany, how the world's most accurate rifles are manufactured, and the methods casinos use to stop card cheats
Bloodline Detectives
Started Thursday 5 March, 11:00 PM on True Crime
Season 5 Episode 7: The Runaway Murder
In 1978, the body of 16-year-old Krisann Baxter is found in Washington. Investigators try to find Krisann's killer, but don't find any answers.
Will & Ralf Should Know Better
Started Thursday 5 March, 11:00 PM on U&Dave
Season 2 Episode 5: Personal Challenges
The friends push each other out of their comfort zones as Ralf takes Will back to school while Will challenges Ralf to an uphill tandem ride
Alien Corridors
Started Thursday 5 March, 11:00 PM on Blaze
Episode 8: California
Recent records show California has the most UFO sightings of any US state. A team of experts - both believers and critics - investigates what Alien Corridors are and what they mean
Judge Judy
Starts Thursday 5 March, 11:40 PM on True Crime Xtra
Season 10 Episode 80
Punchy reality show about a female judge that has made a real impact on the American justice system. Judge Judy is real, honest and keen to get to the bottom of emotional cases.
Judge Judy
Starts Friday 6 March, 12:05 AM on True Crime Xtra
Season 10 Episode 81
Punchy reality show about a female judge that has made a real impact on the American justice system. Judge Judy is real, honest and keen to get to the bottom of emotional cases.
Close Encounters
Starts Friday 6 March, 12:00 AM on Sky History
Episode 3: Second Coming and Space Rock
An event from 1980 when on a country Texas road, a diamond-shaped UFO melted a vehicle below. In 1967, a man in Manitoba encounterd a flying disc and reported hearing voices inside
How Do They Do It?
Starts Friday 6 March, 12:00 AM on Quest
Season 8 Episode 17: Parcels/Tokyo Fish Market/Cricket Bats
Postal services that deliver millions of parcels daily, the secrets of Tokyo's fish market, and cricket bats made to withstand the impact of a ball travelling at more than 90mph
Close Encounters
Starts Friday 6 March, 12:30 AM on Sky History
Episode 4: Sky High and Crash Course
A Japanese aircraft that experienced bright lights flying in their airspace while travelling across Alaska
How Do They Do It?
Starts Friday 6 March, 12:30 AM on Quest
Season 8 Episode 18: Go Fast Boats/Swiss Watches/Wallpaper
The creation of wallpaper suitable for parliament buildings and palaces, and the construction of powerboats capable of faster speeds than a sports car
Judge Judy
Starts Friday 6 March, 12:30 AM on True Crime Xtra
Season 10 Episode 82
Punchy reality show about a female judge that has made a real impact on the American justice system. Judge Judy is real, honest and keen to get to the bottom of emotional cases.
Extreme Tow Truckers
Starts Friday 6 March, 12:00 AM on 5Action
Season 2 Episode 10
The heaviest rainfall in 70 years sparks a flood emergency in New South Wales, and Wagga Truck Towing rescue 360,000 dollars' worth of farm equipment
Bloodline Detectives
Starts Friday 6 March, 12:00 AM on True Crime
Season 5 Episode 8: Justice for Krista
In 1989, Krista Martin's life is tragically cut short because of an intruder. A friend finds her and calls 911, starting an investigation that will span four decades.
Judge Judy
Starts Friday 6 March, 1:00 AM on True Crime Xtra
Season 23 Episode 47: Series 23
After the death of her son, a woman claims his friend charged thousands on her credit card without her permission.
Close Encounters
Starts Friday 6 March, 12:55 AM on Sky History
Episode 5: School's Out and Christmas Lights
Back in 1966, at the Westall School in Melbourne, Australia, students claimed they saw a saucer-shaped object in a field
Close Encounters
Starts Friday 6 March, 1:25 AM on Sky History
Episode 6: Blind Date and Flying House
Teenager 16-year-old Ron Johnson, who claimed to have witnessed a mushroom-shaped object emitting a near-blinding light while feeding the family sheep in a field
Judge Judy
Starts Friday 6 March, 1:25 AM on True Crime Xtra
Season 23 Episode 48: Series 23
A young woman is accused of breaking out windows of an ex-friend's home after she sees a video of her boyfriend with another girl.
Millionaire Murders
Starts Friday 6 March, 1:00 AM on True Crime
Episode 4: Abraham Shakespeare
Abraham Shakespeare becomes a local celebrity in Lakeland, Florida, after winning the lottery. However, receiving hundreds of calls a day with requests for money gets too much.
Evidence of the Unexplained
Starts Friday 6 March, 1:00 AM on Blaze
Episode 4
Sightings of unexplained 'aerial phenomena' and reports of so-called 'first contact' moments, which are supported by credible eyewitness accounts or clear video footage
Unwind with ITV
Starts Friday 6 March, 1:50 AM on ITV Quiz
Daily escape designed to calm the mind and encourage relaxation and reflection
Judge Judy
Starts Friday 6 March, 1:50 AM on True Crime Xtra
Season 23 Episode 49: Series 23
When a romantic relationship ends badly, ex-lovers fight over an allegedly broken contract.
Close Encounters
Starts Friday 6 March, 1:50 AM on Sky History
Episode 7: Triangles in the Forest
Strange lights reported in 1980 by security officers near the East Gate of RAF Woodbridge - a US Air Force base in Suffolk
Judge Judy
Starts Friday 6 March, 2:15 AM on True Crime Xtra
Season 23 Episode 50: Series 23
An online meeting, romantic relations and a series of alleged loans lead a man to make the most serious of allegations against his ex-lover.
GPs: Behind Closed Doors
Starts Friday 6 March, 2:00 AM on 5STAR
Season 6 Episode 35
Dr Amir Khan removes the biggest lipoma he has ever seen from a patient's chest, and Dr Chris Harris offers a more positive prognosis to a woman told she had only two years to live
Close Encounters
Starts Friday 6 March, 2:20 AM on Sky History
Episode 8: Nuclear Reaction and Ghost Rocket
A silent, orange football-shaped object is spotted across two nights near the nuclear weapons storage site at Loring Air Force Base in Maine
Ancient Aliens
Starts Friday 6 March, 2:00 AM on Blaze
Season 14 Episode 20: Return of the Egyptian Gods
A 20th-century British woman who stunned Egyptologists by accurately locating structures and artefacts
Storm of Suspicion
Starts Friday 6 March, 2:00 AM on True Crime
Season 3 Episode 8: Bitter Betrayal
During a winter storm in New York, a wife and mother is found brutally murdered in her bedroom. Detectives desperately search outside the home for clues.
War Factories
Starts Friday 6 March, 2:00 AM on U&Yesterday
Season 2 Episode 3: The People's Car
While America had Ford, Chrysler and Buick, Hitler also wanted a car that would transform his nation - the 'people's car', or Volkswagen
Judge Judy
Starts Friday 6 March, 2:40 AM on True Crime Xtra
Season 23 Episode 51: Series 23
A contractor is accused of taking thousands from a woman and leaving her with nowhere to live; she denies hiring his own men out from under him.
Judge Judy
Starts Friday 6 March, 3:05 AM on True Crime Xtra
Season 23 Episode 52: Series 23
The Judge explains liability to a teen party planner after a woman walks into a rowdy party and is violently hit in the head with a chair.
History's Deadliest with Ving Rhames
Starts Friday 6 March, 2:50 AM on Sky History
Episode 2: Explosions
From the Hindenburg disaster to Krakatoa's violent volcanic eruption in 1883, these explosions are among history's deadliest
Swamp People
Starts Friday 6 March, 3:00 AM on Blaze
Season 11 Episode 8: One Man Army
At the midway point of alligator season, Troy makes an urgent plea. Jacob and Don fish the deep waters of West Grand Lake where the biggest bull gators lurk
Judge Judy
Starts Friday 6 March, 3:30 AM on True Crime Xtra
Season 23 Episode 53: Series 23
The Judge dresses down a man who sues for damages while he lived rent-free; the landlord said the property was empty, abandoned and vandalised.
Britain's Almost Perfect Murders
Starts Friday 6 March, 3:00 AM on True Crime
Episode 1: The Parachute Plot
Emile Cilliers tries twice to murder his wife, first with a gas leak, then by sabotaging her parachutes, until her survival exposes the plot.
Viking Dead
Starts Friday 6 March, 3:40 AM on Sky History
Episode 1: The First Raid of the Vikings
The English did not warmly welcome their Viking visitors and conflict appears to have been common. There is dramatic evidence for this at a site called Ridgeway in Dorset
How It's Made
Starts Friday 6 March, 4:00 AM on Quest
Season 13 Episode 4: Bowling Balls/Barber Poles/Radar Guns
The manufacture of bowling balls, barber poles, felt and radar guns
Close Calls: On Camera
Starts Friday 6 March, 4:00 AM on True Crime
Season 6 Episode 15
The story of a paraglider hanging by a thread in a forest after his canopy collapses, and a bullock on the pitch nearly hits a village cricket team for six
Judge Judy
Starts Friday 6 March, 4:00 AM on True Crime Xtra
Season 10 Episode 76
Punchy reality show about a female judge that has made a real impact on the American justice system. Judge Judy is real, honest and keen to get to the bottom of emotional cases.
Swamp People: Serpent Invasion
Starts Friday 6 March, 3:45 AM on Blaze
Season 2 Episode 8: All Hands on Deck
All five hunters band together on the northern edge of the Everglades to stop the invasion of serpents into a critical bird sanctuary
Close Calls: On Camera
Starts Friday 6 March, 4:30 AM on True Crime
Season 6 Episode 16
A lorry driver trapped for hours in his vehicle after swerving to avoid a deer, and a family searching for their lost dog on the beach call for help when dad gets stuck in the mud
Judge Judy
Starts Friday 6 March, 4:30 AM on True Crime Xtra
Season 10 Episode 77
Punchy reality show about a female judge that has made a real impact on the American justice system. Judge Judy is real, honest and keen to get to the bottom of emotional cases.
How It's Made
Starts Friday 6 March, 4:30 AM on Quest
Season 26 Episode 9: Cotton, Rodeo Roping Chutes
A look at how everyday items including Asian noodles and rotary engines are made, revealing the unique production processes used in making them
Unwind with ITV
Starts Friday 6 March, 3:50 AM on ITV1 London
Daily escape designed to calm the mind and encourage relaxation and reflection
Close Calls: On Camera
Starts Friday 6 March, 4:55 AM on True Crime
Season 6 Episode 17
Nick Knowles tells the story of two young students mowed down in a hit and run and a lone climber on Snowdon takes a tumble in a spot where the rescue helicopter cannot reach him
Medical Detectives
Starts Friday 6 March, 5:00 AM on True Crime Xtra
Season 7 Episode 21: Ghost in the Machine
A look at the death of a US Presbyterian minister's wife, asking whether she was the victim of murder or committed suicide
Medical Detectives
Starts Friday 6 March, 5:30 AM on True Crime Xtra
Season 7 Episode 22: Frozen in Time
The disappearance of a teenage girl who vanished while returning from a concert. Police found her abandoned truck with one tyre blown, but had to wait three years to find her body
Close Calls: On Camera
Starts Friday 6 March, 5:20 AM on True Crime
Season 6 Episode 18
Nick Knowles tells the story of a young boy who vanished over the edge of a cliff. Plus, a lone sailor drifting in the Atlantic who was rescued by a famous cruise ship
Don't Tell the Bride: Revisited
Starts Friday 6 March, 4:45 AM on E4
Episode 4: Steph and Billy
Steph and Billy, their best man George and bridesmaid Becca relive the unforgettable piggy wedding that shocked many back in 2016
























































