TV With TV's Jonathan Torrens

Through studio, streeters and sketch, TV WITH TV'S JONATHAN TORRENS gives the big picture on the small screen by focusing each episode on a different genre of TV. From familiar genres like medical dramas and mystery shows, to freak shows and celeb-reality TV, Torrens dissects the goings-on and goings-wrong in the vast world of television.

Supernatural Investigator

Canada’s premiere science fiction author, Robert J. Sawyer follows the search for the truth behind so-called supernatural phenomena and presents an insider’s view into other wordly adventures, from near death experiences and after life experiments, to modern miracles and guardian angels.

Dynamic Planet

The earth is heating twice as fast as it was four decades ago and the implications for our planet and everything living on it are huge. As temperatures rise, icecaps and glaciers melt, oceans warm, forests burn, weather patterns change and the world as we know it transforms. Ancient connections between plants, animals and people are undermined. Filmed over three years, this exciting new series travels to the extremes on all seven continents to meet an extraordinary group of people and animals living and working on the front line of climate change. They reveal how science, nature and tradition can prepare us for the future. Awards: Best Factual Series: SILBERSALZ Science and Media Awards 2024 Nominations: Non-Fiction - Environmental & Natural History: Realscreen Awards 2025 (TBA February 2025)

Saved by the Lioness

In the heart of the Serengeti, a newborn wildebeest calf faces a brutal race for survival. Born into the chaos of the Great Migration, she must run within minutes to escape predators lurking in the grass. Separated from her mother, her fate seems sealed — until a lioness, against all instincts, spares her life and forms an extraordinary bond. The calf must fight hunger, heat, and deadly river crossings to grow stronger with every challenge and become a true survivor as she continues the epic migration across treacherous lands. Saved By The Lioness is a powerful story of resilience, unexpected mercy, and the unbreakable will to live in one of nature’s fiercest arenas.

Swingin' Jubilee

It’s Lawrence Welk for the HBO generation. John Wesley Chisholm and his Jubilee Swing Orchestra step back in time immersed in the modern day subculture of big band swing music. New guests, old swing standards and incredible dancing are the new signature of musical variety shows.

The Hippo Supremacy

THE HIPPO SUPREMACY explores the intense and dramatic lives of the hippos along Zambia’s Luangwa River. Dominated by the formidable colossal bull - known as the “river master”, this documentary follows his fierce battles to defend his territory and exclusive breeding rights. Meanwhile, a vigilant mother risks everything to protect her newborn calf from predators and rival hippos. As the river dwindles during the scorching dry season, tensions rise and ancient rivalries ignite turning survival into a relentless struggle. THE HIPPO SUPREMACY offers a raw glimpse into the power dynamics, family bonds, and harsh realities that shape the life of one of Africa’s most formidable giants.

Whale Guardian

WHALE GUARDIAN is a powerful documentary that follows Nan Hauser, a passionate marine biologist, whose lifelong mission is to study and protect humpback whales. From her base in Rarotonga, Cook Islands, Nan conducts vital research on whale migration, genetics, and behavior, emphasizing the whales’ crucial role in marine ecosystems. Despite personal health challenges, she dedicates her life to conservation, advocating against threats like plastic pollution and climate change. The film highlights her profound, spiritual connection with whales—culminating in a remarkable encounter where a whale appears to shield her from a tiger shark—underscoring the deep, mysterious bond between humans and these ocean giants.

The Wild West With Ray Mears

Ray Mears explores how the awesome wilderness of the North American continent shaped the story of the Wild West. As Ray travels through each landscape he discovers how their awe inspiring geography, extreme weather, wild animals and ecology presented both great opportunities and great challenges for the native Indians, mountain men, fur traders, wagon-masters, homesteaders, gold miners, lumberjacks, cowboys and lawmen of the Wild West.

He Said, She Said: Blake Lively vs. Justin Baldoni

When director Justin Baldoni announced that A-List actress Blake Lively would be the star of his film adaptation of the hit book “It Ends With Us”, social media went wild with anticipation. But the controversy that has engulfed the film has threatened to eclipse its message about domestic violence. Four months after the film’s release, Lively stunned Hollywood with a legal complaint, alleging that Baldoni engaged in sexual misconduct on set, and that he’d then hired a PR firm to engage in an online smear campaign against her to keep her quiet. Baldoni denied the allegations, and soon responded with a $400 million countersuit, accusing Lively of defamation and of trying to take over creative direction of the film. HE SAID, SHE SAID: BLAKE LIVELY VS. JUSTIN BALDONI examines all of the scandalous evidence in this gripping case. Who will you believe?

Predator: Catching The Black Cab Rapist

For 8 years, Britain's most prolific serial rapist of women, John Worboys, drugged, raped and sexually assaulted over 100 victims in the back of his black cab. In this crime documentary, we hear John Worboys' police interview tape from 2007, which details the crucial moment the Metropolitan Police failed to interrogate him properly, which led to his release. We hear from one of his victims who has never spoken before, not even to her own husband or family, about her connection to the black cab rapist. With exclusive access to his diary, we reveal the mind of a serial rapist.