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Comedian Jonny Harris explores small towns on the ropes, performs stand-up shows for the locals who've stuck it out, and proves that Canadians know how to laugh at themselves.

Series showcasing the best in international documentaries on BBC Four. Storyville has developed an enviable reputation since its inception more than a decade ago. Screening over 340 films, from some 70 different countries, the strand has garnered a staggering array of awards: five Oscars, 15 Griersons, three Peabodys and two International Emmys. In true, unique, Storyville style, the new series promises to deliver the strand's usual eclectic mix of compelling stories from across the globe.

After a life-altering event, Ola embarks on a journey of self-discovery while dealing with the challenges of raising two children and making ends meet.

This six part series explores trips across Canada, Europe and New Zealand through the characters who travel, work and live near them, with Bill Nighy narrating.

This is an Israeli television drama that deals with the lives of Modern Orthodox Jewish young professional singles in the Katamon neighborhood of Jerusalem. The series highlights their struggles with relationships, their struggles with religious expectations and obligations that exerts a pull even in their modern lives. Although it is regarded as a drama, it is leavened with many poignant comic touches.

Comedian Bill Bailey explores the vast, epic, extraordinarily beautiful state of Western Australia on a once-in-a-lifetime adventure down under.

Channel 4, in common with the other main British stations broadcast on analogue, airs a highly comprehensive range of programming. It was established in 1982 with a specific intention of providing programming to groups of minority interests, not catered for by its competitors, which at the time amounted to only the BBC and ITV.

Rogue Trip is a travel guide to all the places the average tourist is least likely to venture - the roguish, often misunderstood and frequently overlooked corners of the world whose hidden corners surprise, amaze and inspire.

Bill Nighy narrates a visually stunning trip along a spectacular river.

Billy Connolly's Great American Trail is a series that sees Billy going far off the beaten track into the places you've heard of but have rarely seen, as he follows the migratory trail of the Scots through America. Starting in New York and finishing in the heart of America, Nashville, Tennessee. This is a series bursting at the seams with music, football, gangsters, whales, real life moonshiners and not one but two, mad, bad and terrible presidents who both had Scottish parents! And they're all tied up together in this incredible story of the land of the free, as seen through the eyes of our nation's favourite comedian.

Truck mechanic and motorcycle racer Guy Martin goes on an off-beat 2500-mile journey around Japan to find out how it really works.

Ben Fogle explores de-industrialisation across the globe.

Joanna Lumley returns with this brand new three-part series, to share her previously unseen travelling adventures. Joanna goes back as far east as Japan and all across the world to Cuba in the west, to share her treasure trove of unseen stories and give viewers an insight into how her travel programmes are made and why she loves to make them. Featuring behind the scenes footage and outtakes, we join Joanna at home as she recalls some of her most memorable journeys and hidden gems from her travels. The series offers viewers the chance to escape back to some incredible countries and enjoy their breath-taking scenery, with the added joy of witnessing what really happened along the way - from translation struggles, to filming with an overzealous dog and the challenges of extreme weather conditions.

An astonishing adventure through some of the most beautiful, fascinating places on earth. From giant cities to remote communities, Simon meets the people of a changing continent.

Going a step further from our previous series BEGIN Japanology, host Peter Barakan visits experts in various fields to show Japanese culture from a new perspective.

Simon Reeve embarks on an extraordinary four-part journey around the Mediterranean, uncovering the wild extremes that lie behind the tourist veneer.

Japan's landscapes range from snowy mountains to subtropical warmth. They are full of wildlife - and animals' and people's lives often cross as they adapt to these extremes. Michelle Dockery reveals a nation comprising a multitude of islands, each full of surprises and places where nature thrives. Each episode explores how life survives across these wildly diverse islands, dominated by forested mountains, volcanic forces and powerful seas, arctic winters and tropical, typhoon ravaged summers; and reveals the unusual and unexpected relationships between human characters and the wild.

Revealing the extraordinary animals, astonishing landscapes and remarkable people who live alongside the Zambezi, Danube and Yukon.

The forces that have powered China's rise are rarely explored, while the lives of Chinese people barely get a mention. Beyond the headlines what do we really know about China and its 1.4 billion citizens?

Simon Reeve travels through the glorious Lake District and the county of Cumbria, revealing new insights into this iconic part of Britain.

Adventurer and author Simon Reeve is on a journey around Turkey - a land of beauty and extremes, in a unique position at the crossroads between Europe and Asia. In this two-part series for BBC Two, Simon discovers a country undergoing dramatic and fundamental cultural and political changes.

This show follows Billy as he attempts to fulfill one of his lifelong dream of traveling the world's most famous highway, Route 66. The road goes from Chicago to Santa Monica and is the embodiment of the American dream. Along the way Billy will take a look at the skyscrapers of Chicago and St Louis to the Wild West of Oklahoma and Texas.

Blind comedian Chris McCausland explores some of the world's most iconic landmarks to discover things that the ordinary traveller might miss.

Michael Portillo explores Canada, armed with his Appleton's Guidebook.

Guy Martin sets off to explore the biggest country in the world, in his own unorthodox fashion.