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When a boat loaded with cocaine sinks off his home island, Eduardo sees a risky but exciting opportunity to make money and fulfill impossible dreams.

The show offers an insight into the work of debt collection from the perspectives of debtors, creditors and those who actually collect the money owed.

A poor Afro-American family make the best of things in the Chicago housing projects.

The drama series follows the story of a mother and her young daughter, Serra, as they try to get used to their new life in an ordinary neighborhood after falling from grace.

With unemployment high and work prospects low, seven men from England head for Düsseldorf in search of work. Three from Newcastle and one each from London, Liverpool, Bristol and Wolverhampton. Seven very different men who meet in the unglamorous surroundings of a German building site, find that they are not so different after all.

Eight out-of-work Alabama construction workers are locked in the fight of their lives, risking everything they've got on a long-shot chance to find gold in the Amazon jungle.

According to some politicians and the media, benefits are an easy route to a life of luxury. As austerity continues to happen, jobs remain hard to come by and benefits are squeezed, the series reveals the reality of what life is like on benefits, as the residents of one of country's most benefit-dependent streets allows the cameras into their community.

This is a consumer oriented reality- and lifestyle program. We meet regular people who have ended up in financial dire straits due to over-consumption and uncontrolled lending. Through counseling the programs financial experts help people out of their financial troubles.

The show lifts the lid on the reality of those in Britain living off of the state. Since welfare state launched, more Brit's then ever now claim benefits, with some people never working a day in their life.

Buried deep in the forests surrounding the small town of Falls City, Oregon is a fortune that only a few men know how to find. During the weeks leading up to the holiday rush, they are on the hunt for one of the most expensive delicacies in the world: black truffles. For the foragers of Oregon, truffles are actually more valuable than gold. This season, an historic drought hits Oregon and then winter comes early, bringing the truffle supply to an all-time low with prices predicted to hit an all-time high. With increased competition between the foragers and even more diggers seeking riches, the truffle men of Oregon will be pushed to their limits to survive.

Behind the scenes at a busy public employment service, revealing what life is like for those living on welfare and how the dedicated team of job coaches help customers.

Mustafa is a man in his early thirties trying to survive in the slum neighborhood of Istanbul with his wife Canan and daughter Cemre. His wife Canan is in the grip of a relentless disease. She urgently needs surgery for her recovery. Mustafa does not know how to find the money. The factory where he works has been closed for a long time due to a lockout. But Mustafa has to find the money for the surgery somehow. Until that day, Mustafa had never bowed down in front of anyone and lived for his honor and dignity. But now he has no choice but to ask for help. He sets out to find Mr. Yakup, the factory owner, and ask for his salaries that have not been paid for months. He will take the money and have his wife operated on. But what happens that day will change Mustafa's and his daughter Cemre's whole life.

A drama series revolving around the Christies, a family who run a debt collecting business.

Determined to make it in Hollywood, Sarah bides her time between auditions by taking humiliating, soul-crushing temp jobs in order to scrape together enough money for rent and the occasional two-dollar bottles of wine.