Recent Productions

The première season of Frock Stars follows fashion icon and entrepreneur Doris Raymond on her treasure hunting exploits to find rare vintage gems for her beloved boutique and star clientele. With her exquisite taste, her shrewd expertise, and one-of-a-kind panache, Doris and her flamboyant fun-loving staff make their mark on the vintage world stage.

Journey to the Amazon Rainforest to Raise Butterflies with Flutter™: Butterfly Sanctuary for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. This mobile game from DeNA Co., Ltd. and Runaway™ that takes players deep into a realistic rainforest environment to raise and collect butterflies from all over the world, is now available for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. Flutter: Butterfly Sanctuary is featured on DeNA's Mobage™ social games platform.

A flea can jump 8 inches (the equivalent of a human jumping over an 80-story building); a cheetah can run the 100-meter dash in 3.6 seconds (sorry, Olympians); and a tiger shark can swim 33 mph — the fastest human swimmer, only 5 mph. We're hosting the ultimate animal countdown to crown the kingdom’s newest leader.

A monster crocodile terrorizes a small Filipino community. It starts in 2009, with an attack on two young school girls. More attacks on fishermen and livestock follow until September 2011, when Filipino croc legend Ronnie Sumiller succeeds in catching the killer alive. Called Lolong, the beast that they pull from the swamp is more massive than anything they’ve ever seen. Could it be the largest croc in the world?

The world's deadliest animals are not natural born killers. They enter a world full of danger, and race to develop the skills needed to overcome prey with fatal precision. Exposing real life and death struggles in dramatic second-by-second detail, Built for the Kill compares the abilities of top predators both on land and sea. Different predators in different worlds, but all have one thing in common. They’re built for the kill.

Ryan and Colin Pyle are crazy about motorbikes. There is nothing these two gear-heads love more than a long, hard, road trip. Now, their obsessive thirst for two-wheeled adventure is taking them on a record-breaking quest going where no one has gone before - a circumnavigation of China by motorbike, a journey they call “The Middle Kingdom Ride”.

Abalone Wars ventures inside the high stakes game of one of Australia’s most dangerous professions, the hunt for green and black abalone shellfish from the ocean floor. These are the extraordinary men and women who face Great White Sharks, some of the planet’s most hostile waters and the battle against the multi-million dollar black market, in their search for the prized delicacy dubbed - abalone ‘gold.’

The threat of a cataclysmic volcanic eruption that could wipe out millions of people and plunge the world into volcanic winter is very real. Predicting where and when the next volcano might erupt could help avoid a tragedy. But understanding a volatile system that lies many miles underground is extremely difficult. Now an elite team of scientists is going further than ever before as they race to unlock the secrets of volcanoes before the next big one strikes. Volcano Time Bomb combines real scientific missions with cutting edge computer graphics to offer a comprehensive view of Planet Earth's most powerful and potentially lethal force.

Find out what life inside a cult is really like from individuals who drank the Kool-Aid, living and practicing the beliefs of a radical organization. Brent and Maura tell their emotional stories. Brent describes what it was like as a young boy growing up in Salt Lake City as a member of the FLDS, the Fundamentalist Church of the Latter-Day Saints. The cult still practices polygamy; his father had three wives and 20 kids. But to a young boy, it all seemed normal.

The Harris Hawk is one of the few birds in the world that hunts in a pack. James Currie is on a mission to witness these majestic birds hunting in the wild. James ventures into the hostile Arizona desert ditching traditional bird watching methods for more radical tracking techniques to ensure he sees with his own eyes this remarkable and rare raptor behaviour.

This 3D show on China is a fusion of cultures, colors and landscapes - a tribute to the spectacular diversity of life on earth.  From the iconic to the undiscovered - these scenes have been captured in breathtaking 3D detail to reveal China as never seen before.

Lions are 400 pounds of muscle, teeth, and claw. Built for the Kill: Lion follows the transformation of a helpless cub into an accomplished killer; exposing real life and death struggles in dramatic detail. A lion hones its hunting skills over two years of hard, intensive training. Only the strongest survive to face off in the ultimate showdown: an epic battle against the world’s largest land animal, the elephant – which is why lions are truly Built for the Kill.

Jewels of the World is a 3D journey of discovery through some of the world’s most awe inspiring landmarks. From wild untamed wilderness areas to ancient beacons of civilization, Jewels of the World is an unforgettable visual voyage through the past to the present.

Life Force is a breath-taking, blue-chip documentary series that celebrates and explores the unusual, the unexpected ... and the downright bizarre. This series reveals incredible habitats where nature has allowed eccentric animals, eclectic lifestyles and unorthodox patterns of behavior to flourish through the miracle of natural selection and the magic of evolution. In this six-part series we visit New Zealand, Australia, the Cerrado grassland in Brazil, Africa's Rift Valley, Madagascar and Japan.

Read more about the making of Life Force...

Uncovering the secret of how Emperor Qin Shihuangdi's army of terracotta warriors was made reveals the true extent of the First Emperor’s power.

America’s National Parks reveal nature in all its splendour. Each is a precious reminder of an unspoilt past when nature reigned supreme. And now through the magic of 3D the colourful sights of some of the country’s most storied and spectacular settings are revealed in magnificent detail.

In 2007 the mammoth Airbus A380 took the Boeing 747's crown for size and capacity. A record Boeing held for over 37 years. Boeing wants its crown back, but it needs to get a new plane in the air, and fast. The upgrading of Boeing's 747 is already two years overdue. Time is running out. Can Boeing's Mega Factory deliver?

Hunting the Ice Whales is the remarkable story of the 2010 Antarctic Whale Expedition which set out to prove it’s possible to undertake Antarctic whale research totally using non-lethal techniques. The expedition is a dynamic roller coaster ride through the turbulent Southern Ocean with an intrepid team, led by top marine mammal researcher Nick Gales, tackling the most horrendous conditions imaginable to implant satellite tags and retrieve whale biopsies.

A journalist is kidnapped in the mountains of Pakistan by a Taliban faction and held prisoner for 45 days, constantly afraid that each day is to be the day of his execution.

Two hours after detonating a massive car bomb in Norway's capital, Oslo, the bomber, now disguised as a policeman, makes his way to Utoya Island where 530 teenagers are attending a summer camp. During an 80 minute rampage he stalks and shoots the defenceless teenagers. Sofie, Adrian, Rebekka and Magnus survive the massacre, but 69 others die.

A place where wild meets weird and nothing is quite what it seems. Presenter Peter Elliott traces the origins of New Zealand’s weird and wonderful wildlife from the iconic kiwi to the weird alpine weta, along the way challenging our fondest ideas about New Zealand’s unique creatures.

Now in its fifth season! I Survived... explores first-person accounts of extraordinary true-life stores of those who have faced death but found the strength and courage to endure. Each episode features life-changing stories in which the survivors explain in their own words how they battle and overcame their ordeals.

Check out which episode is now airing on the Bio Channel.