玛雅人于800多年前写下预言，他们预见基督教的来临与西班牙征服中美洲，此外他们还预测到第一次世界大战，希特勒的崛起与2006年12月重创东南亚的海啸，再过短短几年，即2012年12月21日，马雅人预测一场史无前例的天灾，将摧毁地球消灭人类。2012年12月21日逐渐逼近，玛雅人的预言受到全球瞩目。2009年11月，导演罗兰·艾默瑞奇的全新灾难片大作“2012”首映，它正是以玛雅人的预测为故事主轴，然而马雅人的预言背后是否有科学根据？请看本节目的抽丝剥茧。
开幕式于2024年7月26日举行，计划在巴黎的标志性地标——埃菲尔铁塔前进行。此次开幕式的设计和理念与以往不同，主办方将开幕式的主要部分安排在塞纳河沿岸，旨在打破传统体育场馆的界限，打造一个开放的、面向公众的盛大仪式。 届时，运动员将乘坐船只沿塞纳河游行，这一创意既展示了巴黎的城市风貌，又能让更多观众近距离感受奥运会的开幕盛况。据悉，预计将有60多万人沿河观看这一独特的开幕式。 此外，开幕式将包括传统的文艺表演、烟花秀、以及奥运圣火的点燃仪式。法国总统和国际奥委会主席将出席并致辞，宣布奥运会正式开始。
According to Giorgio Vasari, the first art historian, the Renaissance was centred on a revival of interest in classical art that began and flourished in Italy. Waldemar disagrees, and accuses Vasari of errant jingoism. In fact, the most significant early developments in Renaissance art took place not in Italy, but in the ‘barbarian’ lands of Flanders and Germany. Instead of understanding the Renaissance as a return to classical models, we should see it as a climax of medieval values - an epoch of huge religious passions and powerful human emotions. The series will celebrate material that is new to television. Waldemar will include art that is not usually thought of as Renaissance art. This will involve 're-classifying' what is sometimes called Late Gothic, and showing it off as a marvellous and native artistic tradition, particularly in the remarkable field of polychrome sculpture. On top of all the new art to be introduced, Waldemar will also look from fresh and intriguing angles at many of the established Renaissance giants, including Michelangelo in the Vatican, Leonardo in the Louvre, Botticelli in the Uffizi and Van Eyck in Ghent.
American Blackout imagines the story of a national power failure in the United States caused by a cyberattack — told in real time, over 10 days, by those who kept filming on cameras and phones. You’ll learn what it means to be absolutely powerless. Gritty, visceral and totally immersive, see what it might take to survive from day one, and who would be left standing when the lights come back on.
In trying to comprehend our universe, just how big is big? How far is far? This users guide to the cosmos will bring the incomprehensible down to a human scale such as Venus melting a tank, the density of a black hole compared to 1000 cars in a Coke can, and the comets in the Solar System equated to grains of sugar weighing half a ton.
Simon's adventure starts in the magnificent 'red centre' of the continent and onwards through South Australia, via the extraordinary Indian Pacific Railway until he reaches the west coast city of Perth. On the way, he joins an Aussie rancher in the parched outback and takes part in a spectacular camel round-up. This mad aventure, involving specially adapted off-road vehicles and a chopper, is part of an ongoing effort to stop the damaging spread of up to a million feral camels across the country. Simon also passes through Australia's wine country and to the lucrative tuna fishing city of Port Lincoln, and he investigates the impact these trades are having on the environment. In Western Australia, he joins a 21st century gold rush - part of the resource boom that has made Australia one of the richest countries in the world. Finally in Perth, Simon discovers a full scale British invasion. Working in a mine or driving a lorry can bring a salary of a hundred thousand pounds a year, as evidenced when Simon meets a former binman from hull who is now living the dream, with a beautiful house in the sun, private pool and his very own boat.
Out of the chaos, darkness and violence of the Middle Ages, one family rose to seize control of England. Generation after generation they ruled the country for more than three hundred years, ruthlessly crushing all competition to become the greatest English dynasty of all time. They were The Plantagenets. Presented by award-winning journalist and acclaimed historian Dan Jones, the Plantagenets combines creative and insightful research with searing dramatic reconstructions to bring to life this shocking and visceral time in England’s history. From Henry II, betrayed by his own wife and children when they try to seize the throne to the powerful friendship between Henry III and Simon de Montfort which falls into hatred and bloody civil war; from Edward II’s adulterous French wife and his ‘legendary’ death from a red hot poker to the boy king and tyrant Richard II one of the most vicious and inventive despots in English history; Britain’s Bloodiest Dynasty: The Plantagenets uncovers a dark, vengeful and bloody history which compels viewers into the heart of the action as they bear witness to the most ruthless dynasty in English history.
Combining the comedic forces of Jeff Ross and Dave Attell, and filmed at New York's Comedy Cellar, the series features zingers, audience roasts, celebrity cameos, and mic bumps.
在这场变幻莫测的生存和策略游戏中，13 名玩家从零开始，争夺豪华别墅的一席之地和15 万欧元的巨额奖金。
这是覆盖在头颅下四十四条肌肉，还是身份的表征?每个人都有一张脸,但我们真的了解脸部吗?这是全世界人脸的完整故事.演员、谐星、康乃尔大学荣誉教授, 以及心理学畅销作者约翰克里斯,以机智幽默的分析探索脸部:其构成、功能、性别、沟通、身份以及认知.参与本节目的人还包括明星伊丽莎白赫莉、麦克帕林、皮尔斯布洛斯南、琼瑞福斯、甘蒂丝柏根,以及BBC自然历史节目名主持人戴维艾登堡禄等.
