On Assignment - Season 6

On Assignment - Season 6

Season 6

Network
DatesOct 23, 2018 - Nov 20, 2018
Previous SeasonNext Season

Episodes

Episode 1
Season 6Episode 135 min

Episode 1

James Mates returns to Greece, three months on from the devastating fires which killed almost 100 people in the town of Mati. Rohit Kachroo is in Serbia attending a Russian-inspired 'military patriotic' youth camp that hopes to strengthen ties between this former Yugoslavian state and close friend and ally, Russia. Charlene White travels to Budapest, home of this year's EuroSkills Championships, to meet the British joiners, engineers and restaurant staff competing to be the best in Europe.

Oct 23, 2018
Episode 2
Season 6Episode 260 min

Episode 2

This time, as the NHS prepares to start offering a more accurate blood test for Down's Syndrome to expectant parents in England, Nina Hossain is in Denmark, where the same test has been available for a year. Nina explores a unique partnership between hospitals and families, which aims to provide more information about raising a child with Down's. Nearly thirty years after the city's last serious earthquake Geraint Vincent hears how San Franciscans are preparing for the next seismic shock. And Peter Smith travels to Berlin to explore 'Free Body Culture' and other intriguing aspects of the German phenomenon of 'Ostalgie' - the sentimental nostalgia for Communist East Germany.

Oct 30, 2018
Episode 3
Season 6Episode 335 min

Episode 3

Rageh Omaar travels to Genoa to investigate the collapse of the Morandi Bridge. Romilly Weeks is in Moscow, to find out whether the renewed popularity of medical leeches reveals problems in Russia's healthcare system. And as we approach the 100-year anniversary of the end of World War One, John Irvine travels from France to Belgium to find out whether many lives could have been saved in the final hours of the Great War.

Nov 6, 2018
Episode 4
Season 6Episode 430 min

Episode 4

Juliet Bremner travels to a small town in North Carolina, to meet troubled ex-soldiers enrolled in a Veteran Treatment court. A year on from the end of Mugabe's reign in Zimbabwe, John Ray returns to see just what has and hasn't change. And Tom Clarke visits 'Nemo's Garden' in Italy, where they're growing crops underwater. Could this be the future of farming in a world growing ever scarce of resources?

Nov 13, 2018
Episode 5
Season 6Episode 535 min

Episode 5

China was the first country in the world to declare internet addiction as a clinical disorder. Debi Edward visits one of the country's 300 treatment clinics, trying to cure patients with military-style bootcamps for children, teens and adults. Neil Connery travels to Madrid to meet Venezuelans who've fled the economic crisis in their country and Rageh Omaar explores the fascinating resurgence of Viking culture in Denmark.

Nov 20, 2018

Recently Updated Shows

Recently updated shows that might be of your interest.
Matlock
Running

Matlock

After achieving success in her younger years, the brilliant septuagenarian Madeline Matlock rejoins the work force at a prestigious law firm where she uses her unassuming demeanor and wily tactics to win cases and expose corruption from within.

Outlander
Running

Outlander

Outlander follows the story of Claire Randall, a married combat nurse from 1945 who is mysteriously swept back in time to 1743, where she is immediately thrown into an unknown world where her life is threatened. When she is forced to marry Jamie, a chivalrous and romantic young Scottish warrior, a passionate affair is ignited that tears Claire's heart between two vastly different men in two irreconcilable lives.

The Outlander series, adapted from Diana Gabaldon's international best-selling books, spans the genres of romance, science fiction, history and adventure into one epic tale.

The Boys
Running

The Boys

In a world where superheroes embrace the darker side of their massive celebrity and fame, The Boys centres on a group of vigilantes known informally as "The Boys," who set out to take down corrupt superheroes with no more than blue collar grit and a willingness to fight dirty.

Monarch: Legacy of Monsters
Running

Monarch: Legacy of Monsters

After surviving Godzilla's attack on San Francisco, Cate is shaken yet again by a shocking secret. Amid monstrous threats, she embarks on a globetrotting adventure to learn the truth about her family—and the mysterious organization known as Monarch.

Fire Country
Running

Fire Country

In Fire Country, seeking redemption and a shortened prison sentence, young convict Bode Donovan joins a firefighting program that returns him to his small Northern California hometown, where he and other inmates work alongside elite firefighters to extinguish massive blazes across the region.