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America has one of the greatest infrastructures in history, with roadways, dams, tunnels and bridges that were built to last. But over the decades, the infrastructure that helped our country grow hasn't kept up with the times--from underground sewers built during the Gold Rush to highways designed for 1925 traffic. Timothy Galarnyk, an infrastructure safety inspector with over 35 years of experience, hosts INSPECTOR AMERICA. Galarnyk's initial sweep takes him to six American locations that have infrastructure challenges. He uses the tools of his trade to evaluate the structures, gauge dangers and offer opinions on how to deal with it. Galarnyk also highlights the good news and positive projects in the area.

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Coal They dig into one of the world’s most dangerous jobs to support their families, they are the coal miners on West Virginia. Follow a team of West Virginia miners as they work to pull riches from underground. The coal they mine keeps American running. It powers lights and strengthens cars. Coal is essential to our daily lives and COAL tells the story of the men and women who mine this valuable resource. View Website

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The Deadliest Catch On the unforgiving, storm-whipped waters of Alaska˙s Bering Sea, a small group of brave, hard-bitten men pull their livelihood from beneath the waves. Battling fierce winds, forty-foot swells, and water so cold it can kill you in minutes, the fisherman of The Deadliest Catch chase the Alaskan King Crab harvest, risking their lives for a payoff that can bring them more money in a week than most people make in a year. Each episode takes us to America˙s last frontier to follow the story of individual skippers and their crews as they take on the world˙s deadliest job, where a single misstep can cost you your life, and a good catch can make you your fortune. Website Buy Music

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Ax Men Deep in the woods of the Pacific Northwest, rugged men make their living doing one of the most dangerous jobs in history... Logging. Their mission: to retrieve timber perched on mountainsides too steep to access with machines. But this is no easy task. For more than a hundred years, larger than life characters, many part of logging families that stretch back generations, have spent their days among towering trees and powerful machines, their nights in outposts far from the comforts of civilization. AX MEN tells the remarkable story of the logging industry and the men who work in it, and shows that while technology has transformed life for today's logger, the struggle of man versus nature stays the same.

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1000 WAYS TO DIE So, you're going to die. It's alright, we all are. The good news? Death doesn't have to be a boring, predictable experience. There are thousands of surprising, unusual, and downright bizarre ways to kick the bucket. Kicking a bucket included. An enterprising, or just particularly unlucky, individual can get themselves killed by almost anything. Each episode of 1,000 Ways To Die explores the funnier of life's two inevitabilities, death, and the myriad ways one can make their final exit.

Storage Wars In today’s economy, everything is up for grabs. That includes jam-packed storage units that have been repossessed because their owners couldn’t foot the bill. These spaces are bought, sight unseen, by buyers who scour the contents in search of hidden treasure. Now, four seasoned pros roll the dice and take us deep inside this little-known fight for riches, which plays out across America. Part gamblers, part detectives, these men and women have found everything from coffins to the world’s most valuable comic book collection, paying as little at $10 for items that can fetch millions on the open market. Website

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IRT: Deadliest Roads They survived the frozen roads of the Arctic Circle, now the drivers from History Channel’s ICE ROAD TRUCKERS are tackling a new challenge; the harrowing, ancient highways of the Himalayas. In IRT: DEADLIEST ROADS the perils are never ending and one false move could lead to tragedy. Someone dies on the roads there every 4.5 minutes. Dating back to 206 B.C., the Himalayas were an integral part of the famous Silk Routes, connecting Central Asia with South Asia, and creating a bridge between culturally and religiously diverse countries such as India, China, Afghanistan, Nepal, and Bhutan. Infrastructure that was once narrow yak trails were turned into roads in the 1800s and today's truckers now follow along these same ancient routes.

Wild Justice They put their lives on the line to protect our wildlife and natural resources; they are the California Game Wardens. Follow them as they patrol a 159,000 square mile beat by foot, car, off-road vehicle, plane or boat. This small group of law enforcement officers go up against Mexican drug cartels and poachers while also making sure hunters and anglers obey the laws in their pursuit for WILD JUSTICE. More Info Website

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Ice Road Truckers 50-ton payloads. 430-hp engines. Four feet of gently shifting ice, and some of the toughest road and weather conditions imaginable. Welcome to the world of ICE TRUCKING on the winter roads, carved each year across the lakes and tundra of the rugged Northwest Territories. This is a world where a roadbed of ice is the only land route linking remote diamond and gold mines to the rest of the world. These frontier outposts depend on the winter road, and the truckers that brave it, for the transportation of construction equipment, building materials, power generators, and essential survival goods such as food and fuel. Buy Music

The Colony The Colony is the story of 10 people stranded in a post-apocalyptic world, a unique reality-hybrid modeled after actual data collected by FEMA during such catastrophic events as Hurricane Katrina and the '94 Northridge earthquake. In the first experiment of its kind, real people, from a wide variety of backgrounds and skills, will be challenged to rebuild their own civilization in a devastated world. In the old world (and their real lives) they were doctors, mechanics, lawyers, engineers and short-order cooks. Now they must apply their old skills, and develop new ones, if they are to survive and thrive in the New World. Website

Swords Lives on the line For the fisherman of New England, braving the frigid, unpredictable waters of the North Atlantic is a tradition that has been in their families for generations. It is an unforgiving environment, where forty-five foot vessels contend with fifty foot waves and gale-force winds, where one fish can earn you $50,000, and one mistake can cost you your life. Swords takes us out to sea in pursuit of massive blue-fin tuna and the elusive swordfish, with the fathers, sons, old salts and greenhorns for whom the ocean is more than just where they make a living: it˙s a way of life.

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Black Gold There˙s an oil boom in west Texas and that means big risk, big reward and big characters drilling for crude. The oilmen risk their fortunes. It costs millions to drill two miles into the Earth. But this exhausting, dangerous work demands the young roughnecks risk something more valuable, their lives. Not only do they have to contend with the elements on the rig like scorching heat and sudden lightning storms, there˙s heavy iron all around and the constant risk of a lethal blowout. But the oilman˙s putting up nearly a hundred grand a day to drill the well, so that bit has to keep turning. At the end of each episode, we˙ll see the moment of truth, did they strike it big or drill a dry hole?

Pitchmen: Pitchmen: Gadgets to Glory follows the adventures of Billy Mays and Anthony Sullivan, two of the most famous and successful pitchmen in history, as they search the world for inventions they believe they can take all the way to the big time. In each episode Billy and "Sully" become potential dream merchants for the inventors they discover; most of whom have staked everything they own, and then some, on their inventions. For these lucky inventors, Billy and Sully falling in love with their gadgets and deciding to pitch them to the masses could be the turning point that changes their lives forever. Most of these eccentric characters are all-in, risking absolutely everything in the biggest gamble of their lives. Will they fall short or, with Billy and Sully's backing, run with their gadgets all the way to glory?

Cut in Half A Boeing 747 gets cut in two. A fire truck is sliced in half. Enjoy an in depth look at how fantastically complicated machines work when we cut them in half. While exploring the mechanisms that make these machines so special you will gain a whole new insight into the worlds of air travel and firefighting. Website

NBC			AMERICA'S TOUGHEST JOBS Studies show that 67% of people, if given the chance, would change their career in a heartbeat. Have you ever wished for the chance to leave behind the safe, comfortable monotony of your job to do something more? Have you seen or heard of a dangerous, adventure filled job and said, I can do that! Well it's one thing to sit on your couch and watch America's toughest jobs being done on T.V.; it's another to roll up your sleeves and do it yourself. If you think you've got what it takes to earn your pay on the windswept deck of an Alaskan crab boat, to make a living as a roughneck on a Texas oil rig, to be an ice road trucker, or a lumberjack in the forests of the Pacific Northwest..well, it's time to prove it. America's Toughest Jobs Webisodes! Episode 1 | Episode 2 | Episode 3 | Episode 4 | Episode 5 | Episode 6 | Episode 7 | Episode 8

Deadliest Sea A 2 Hour Television Event! Deadliest Sea is the true story of the fishing vessel The St. Christopher that set sail from Kodiak Alaska into the face of an Arctic storm. A young man from the Prairies, Tommy Wallace, is on his first voyage, but the ship's captain and rag-tag crew are experienced - just ill-prepared for the hurricane force winds whipping the sea into forty foot waves. In the dark of night, with the boat sinking, the captain delivers his final 'Mayday' to the Coast Guard and the entire crew take to the sea in outdated Survival Suits. Over the next fourteen hours they perish one at a time - even the young pregnant cook. The next morning Tommy Wallace washes ashore just barely alive . When he regains consciousness he discovers that one other shipmate miraculously survived the storm. 24 hours later in a haunting twist of fate The St. Christopher came listing through the mist ...

			Lobstermen Off the rocky coast of New England, lobster fishermen risk their lives to catch what has become one of the world˙s most sought after delicacies. Working in snow, freezing rain and 20-foot seas, they pull their catch from below the icy cold waters of the Atlantic. But fishing for lobster is more than just a job, it is a way of life for generations of crusty, toughened seamen who have staked their claims to the bottom of the ocean floor. We follow the fortunes of five lobster boat captains and their crews who stare down danger on a daily basis just to make ends meet.

The Discovery Channel

Verminators The attack starts almost imperceptibly, in darkened corners and crawl spaces, but if unchecked can destroy homes and businesses, spread disease, and contaminate food and water supplies. And all it takes is a hole the size of a quarter to let the invasion begin. Verminators follows Mike Masterson and his elite team of pest-busters to the front lines of their never-ending battle against infestations of all kinds. Rats, roaches, killer bees, bats. Black widow spiders, termites, bedbugs. Flies, fleas and fire ants. As they crisscross Los Angeles, the Verminators track their prey through warehouses, hotels and houses, and with the help of remote cameras, inside walls and plumbing systems. Buy Music

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Monster Garage Original Productions blockbuster hit where ordinary cars are incredibly transformed into extraordinary machines, one of the Discovery Channel's top rated series. Monster Garage is also one of the highest rated cable programs among men 18-49 and 25-54. Website Buy Music Click Here for the Builder Application

			IDITAROD IDITAROD , Spanning the most remote stretch of the Alaskan wilderness, the Iditarod trail plays host to the last great race of man. 96 teams will attempt to traverse this 1000 mile expanse with 16 dogs as an engine. Man and dog must work together, care for each other, and play a disciplined game of strategy if they hope to be first to the finish line in Nome. For some the goal is to win; for others surviving would be a feat all its own.

The National Geographic Channel

AMERICA'S PORT Forty-three miles of waterfront, four-thousand two-hundred acres of land. One-hundred and sixty-nine million tons of cargo a year, worth nearly one- hundred and ninety billion dollars. Over sixteen thousand people, from longshoremen to harbor pilots, customs inspectors to truck drivers, the Coast Guard to prison guards. A virtual city within a city, through which 43% of all consumer goods enter the United States. The Port of Los Angeles. America's Port goes inside the busiest container port in America to get an unprecedented look at how this complex network of men and machines keeps the river of commerce flowing in the U.S., twenty-four hours a day. Twenty miles south of downtown Los Angeles, it functions as an independent, self-sustaining complex on the edge of the sprawling metropolis. Vital to the world's modern, globalized economy, even a brief pause in the port's operation would mean empty shelves and a crippling economic impact in retailers across the country. With it's own police and fire departments, its own rail lines, its own restaurants and bars, even its own prison, it is a city that never sleeps.

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L.A Hardhats How do you fit over 250 homes, a dozen shops, a pool, parking, and two stories of luxury penthouses into a single building? How do you build the first sustainable residential high rise in Los Angeles to be awarded a Green Silver rating? How do you get all this done in face of a daunting deadline, where the clock is ticking at $10 a second. These are some of the challenges being faced by the builders of Evo, one of the first residential high rises to be built in downtown Los Angeles in the last 50 years. Website

Dog Brothers The Dog Brothers is an underground fight club. Twice a year, they come together from around the world for a tribal ritual they call "The Gathering of the Pack," an intense day of full contact, one-on-one combat, using hardened rattan sticks as weapons. They fight in street clothes, with no protective padding other than gloves and a thin fencing mask. There are no rules, no judges, no referees, no trophies. They are fully aware that they can get hurt. That's the point... to face not only your opponent, but your fear, your self.

Tattoo Wars Tattoo Wars pits the best tattoo artists of our time against each other in a head to head creation competition. In each episode we explore the world, legend and work of two internationally acclaimed tattooists. Then we travel to a huge tattoo expo where our stars, in three hours time, ink a tattoo on the skin of two willing clients. These creations have a common theme, such as a dragon, a calla lily, a sailor, a tribal gauntlet, or a hanya (Japanese devil mask) but are rendered in the unique style of each artist. As the show closes, thousands of show attendees vote for the creation they like the best and the winning artist takes home the Tattoo Wars trophy.

Disappeared We are all haunted by the faces of the missing children that stared back at us across the breakfast tables of America in the 11020s, familiar reminders that no child is safe from predators. MILK CARTON KIDS is a gripping true crime show that tells the true stories of the children and families who today's headlines have long forgotten. Each one-hour episode will profile three real cases of missing children as we explore what happened to the victims children and their families and dedicated cops who worked the cases, and in some cases, still are. As families, detectives, lawyers and survivors share their compelling stories, we hunt for clues and memories that not only honor innocence lost but remind viewers what children and parents today need to learn to keep predators at bay.

Biker Build Off Biker Build-Off, Season Five, the consistently popular series from Original Productions that made custom bike-building a mass culture phenomenon, is back for its fifth season on TLC.As with the previous Biker Build-Offs, each customizer will be given two weeks to create a one-of-a-kind motorcycle, from the ground up. Although aesthetics are crucial to the builds, the contest also requires the bikes to work; the builders must ride their machines as far as 1,000 miles to major bike events. The stakes are high because if a hard wrought custom breaks down and can˙t be repaired, the builder must forfeit. In two of the six new episodes the builders will race their bikes for the trophy. In the remaining four, thousands of attendees will vote on which bike they like the best and the winner will take the BBO trophy home. Chopper King Web Site

Fugitive Strike Force Las Vegas is a town like no other, and millions of people come and go from Las Vegas each year. However, mixed in with this influx of law-abiding citizens looking for a good time are a number of fugitives: Criminals on the run love to head to Sin City. Standing tall and ready to track them down are the U.S. Marshals Nevada Fugitive Investigative Strike Team, North Las Vegas Police Department S.W.A.T., and the self described Bounty Hunters of Gator Bail Enforcement. Fugitive Strike Force features the most exciting and engaging stories from these three very different fugitive hunting units, as they investigate, track and arrest fugitives, suspects and criminals on the run in Las Vegas.

Monster House The highly rated home improvement show where ordinary homes are creatively remodeled to a specific theme. Examples include: Amusement Park House, Las Vegas House, Old West House and Shark House. Website Buy Music

Boom A weekly half-hour series that ran on SPIKE with a singular focus: DESTRUCTION. That's right--all-out obliteration--all the time. In each episode, we embark on a journey of De-Construction that includes execution methods great and small. We don't discriminate if it's fun and final, we'll do it. From elaborate breathe-taking stunts to simple and senseless acts of demolition, BOOM takes going out with a bang to a whole new level.

The Messengers The Messengers is a reality series dedicated to finding our country˙s next great inspirational speaker. It is a series that asks people to speak from the heart, share their message and, hopefully, inspire others. Throughout the ages powerful speakers have helped define their times, make history and inspire those around them. Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King, Maya Angelou, Desmond Tutu, the list of great speakers runs long but all have one thing in common, the ability to move an audience with words they believe in. Buy Music

BIG This ambitious Original Production's series aired on the Discovery Channel. BIG was the show where appliances, electronics, furniture, and modes of transportation were fabricated from scratch to a scale that transcended traditional limits.

Monster Nation At the heart of the show is a celebration of the unbridled spirit of the rugged individual, the out of the box thinker and the folks who dance to the beat of a very different drummer! Our mission; to go wherever there are people who want to proudly declare themselves citizens of Monster Nation!!

Ballroom Bootcamp "We take regular people from all walks of life and put them through a rigorous six-week training program with world class professional ballroom dancers. The culmination of the training is a face off against one another in an authentic, professionally judged competition." Website

Plastic Surgery Before and After Dynamic and informative, this popular makeover series on the Discovery Health Channel takes the mystery out of plastic surgery but most of all, it conveys the human drama of people whose lives have been given a new beginning with amazing transformations. Whether it's a total body lift from head to toe, extreme breast augmentations or reductions, crucial cutting-edge facial reconstructions, or body-sculpting that goes beyond skin deep, each one-hour episode is packed with real-life stories that are sure to keep you riveted, fascinated and waiting to see the ultimate reveals. In the end, you'll be looking in the mirror and wondering, "Hmmm, perhaps if I just lifted, nipped or tucked would my life open to endless possibilities?"

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Ocean Force Ride along with Beach Police during Spring Break as they patrol the outrageous party zone in and around the beaches and bars of Panama City Beach, Florida. Vacation vice is the hallmark of every episode. For example, punches fly when a girl fight erupts on the beach and a belligerent babe in a bikini ends up behind bars. With guns drawn, Beach Police hog-tie an out-of-control spring breaker and haul him off to jail. A Spring Breaker sets a Beach Police record when he gets arrested three times in one night. Every week the action and the arrests are as outrageous as the partiers who cross the blue line of Beach P.D.

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Dead Tenants "Dead Tenants follows the journey of the Preternatural Research Society (PRS) a team of paranormal investigators through the attics, basements, living rooms and back yards of the most haunted houses in the country. Coming to the aid of families experiencing unwanted ghosts and unexplainable activity in their homes, PRS is there to help. -Produced in association with Triple Threat TV." Official Site

Wing Nuts Too little money. Way too little space. And more than enough ego. Discovery Channel takes viewers inside the world of Wing Nuts and its proprietors, Donovan and Dave. We're there to capture every tick in this volatile relationship. How does a man with an encyclopedic knowledge and love of vintage warplanes come to spend his time dismembering them for commerce? Each trip to an airplane junkyard is more than just an adventure it could mean the difference between filling a massive order and missing opportunity by a mile. It 's an expensive treasure hunt each time, filled with immediate consequences, one that could leave Dave and the rest of Wing Nuts holding a very expensive bag. But there's also the flip side - the adrenaline rush of the search, the euphoria of finding just the right plane, part or pieces and the mad dash back to the shop to turn that find into furniture and funds. Official Store Site

Backyard Nation Premiering June 2nd, 2007 at 10pm this one-hour series for TLC is the ultimate backyard makeover show. For episode #1 we took homeowner Rich Taylor˙s expansive but empty backyard in Woodland Hills, CA and turned it into an Xtreme dream complete with motocross track and a huge skate bowl. In another show we made homeowners Athena and Adam˙s dream come true by transforming their blank canvas backyard into an Alice in Wonderland fantasy, complete with a giant cement mushroom and gigantic tea cup hot tub. It˙s over-the-top wish fulfillment for lucky homeowners. Each of the backyards we tackled averaged approximately $100,000 in materials and labor. Backyard Nation, it˙s a groundbreaking new show (pun intended).

Twister Sisters Tornadoes are nature˙s most violent and destructive atmospheric phenomenon. About a thousand of them touch down in the United States each year, a huge percentage of them in a region known as Tornado Alley. Peggy Willenberg and Melanie Metz are partners in the Twister Sisters tornado tour company, which they have owned and operated for the past five years. Every May the two women kiss their husbands and families goodbye and head out on the road for their annual pilgrimage across the Great Plains, in search of the biggest and baddest twisters around. Buy Music

Tornando Road They call it Tornado Alley; the stretch of land that runs from Texas, north through Oklahoma, into Nebraska and Kansas. Here, a unique combination of geography and climate conspire to create some of the most spectacular, powerful, and deadly weather in the world. But while a massive twister sends most people running for the basement, it causes a very different reaction in others. Meet the storm chasers of Tornado Road. They are the professional and amateur meteorologists for whom a category five tornado is a dream come true, who put themselves in harms way to capture that perfect image of the world˙s deadliest weather, up close and personal.

Motor City Motors A family owned motorcycle shop, The Detroit Bros., like many small businesses around the nation, is hurting and a father and two sons come together to keep it afloat. In the current economic downtown the expensive custom motorcycles they build have fallen off everyone’s shopping list. Miraculously, they’ve been approached to do a TV show for the Discovery Channel. This is a big deal – if the show does well it could turn their fortunes and their shop around. The concept for the show is centered around showcasing the Detroit Brothers’ impressive skills as fabricators, engineers and visionary artists. The fact that they operate within a tight knit family structure is a big plus in the network’s eyes – family-based shows are a hot commodity in the world of cable television. In each episode the Detroit Brothers will assemble a team of similarly talented garage types: gearheads, mechanics, welders, customizers etc. to tackle that episode’s project. It could be anything from turning a car into a washing machine, building the ultimate “pirate catcher” for the Navy Seals or transforming an SUV into a pot hole filler. The Detroit brothers, Dave and Jamie, along with their old school hot rodder dad, John, see this not only as a career-making opportunity but also a chance to reach out into the local community and give a shot in the arm to fellow car and bike enthusiasts who might be down on their luck. The build team members will be paid for their week in the garage and receive an impressive package of tools upon finishing. For the Detroit Brothers, to be back in Motor City, the birthplace of the American automobile, shining a spotlight on the men and women who represent today’s car culture AND to be given a chance to turn their business around – it’s a dream come true. All they have to do is keep it from becoming a nightmare.

Shark U Sun, Sand and Sharks Just off the coast of Florida, on the small island of Bimini, a team of young, twenty-something Marine Biologists, led by grizzled veteran Dr. "Doc" Gruber, have dedicated themselves to the study of the ocean˙s deadliest predator: the shark. Their hope is that by understanding them they can save lives, both human and shark. But before they can learn from them, they˙ve got to catch them. Each week watch as the scientists and students of Shark Lab track down, capture, and hand tag the ocean˙s deadliest creatures. Set against a gorgeous island backdrop, combining the danger of swimming with sharks with the sun and sand of a tropical paradise, this unique series is as beautiful, dramatic and sexy as it is an extreme adventure.

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