Paul O'Grady's Animal Orphans - Season 3

Paul O'Grady's Animal Orphans - Season 3

Season 3

Animal lover Paul O'Grady returns for a third series of Animal Orphans but he's not off to Africa. For the first time, Paul heads further east, to Borneo. He finds out what is being done to support the survival of endangered species to give an insight into the important work being done by dedicated teams of experts and the challenges they face.

Paul encounters orangutans, turtles, and gibbons amongst others, who are being hand-raised or helped by people. Some of the animals he meets are orphans because of humans. Their parents having been killed when their natural habitat of the rainforest was destroyed to make way for palm crops. Paul gets hands-on straight away, helping to care for and rehabilitate the animals.

Network
Episodes2
Datesavr. 14, 2016 - avr. 21, 2016
Previous Season

Episodes

Episode 1
Season 3Episode 160 min

Episode 1

In episode one Paul arrives in Sabah, the Malaysian part of Borneo and finds the heat difficult to deal with.

Paul heads straight for the orangutan rehabilitation centre in Sepilok where he meets Sue Sheward MBE, the founder of Orangutan Appeal UK, the largest fundraiser for the centre. Forest fires across Borneo are clearing the jungle for agriculture and many orangutans have either been killed in the fires or shot when they venture out to farmland to find food.

avr. 14, 2016
Episode 2
Season 3Episode 260 min

Episode 2

In episode two, Paul returns to the Sepilok Orangutan Rehabilitation Centre, where he meets five-year-old Boogie Boy. Two months earlier, Boogie Boy fell out of a tree and broke his arm and is now having physiotherapy. Paul helps distract Boogie while the ranger manipulates his arm. Later, Boogie has to go to the local human clinic for an x-ray to check the fracture has healed. It has, so Paul takes him back to the ropes where the other orangutans are learning to climb. No-one knows whether the fall will have affected his confidence.

avr. 21, 2016

Recently Updated Shows

Recently updated shows that might be of your interest.
See No Evil
Running

See No Evil

See No Evil pieces together the truth when shocking surveillance footage reveals breakthrough clues to solve a murder.

Snapped
Running

Snapped

Who are these women and what drives them to kill? Oxygen's hit true crime series, Snapped, profiles fascinating cases of women accused of murder. Did they really do it? And if they did, why? Whether the motivation is revenge against a cheating husband, the promise of a hefty insurance payoff, or putting an end to years of abuse, the reasons are as varied as the women themselves. From socialites to secretaries, female killers share one thing in common: at some point, they all snapped. Each episode of Snapped chronicles the life of a woman who has been charged with murder. These shocking but true stories turn common assumptions about crime and criminals upside down, and prove that even the most unlikely suspects can be capable of murder.

GenreCrime
Buried in the Backyard
Running

Buried in the Backyard

Buried in the Backyard examines true-crime stories of victims found buried in the most unsuspecting of places. While most people enjoy their backyard as a safe haven, others are not so lucky when they discover the horrors lurking beneath well-trimmed hedges and manicured fences. Uncovering the remains is only the beginning, however, as each hour-long episode follows a unique police investigation to identify the body, determine a cause of death and find the person responsible. Captivating recreations, along with first-hand accounts from those closest to the victims and law enforcement agents involved in the case, bring each shocking tale to life. As investigators dig into the "how" and "why" surrounding each crime, viewers are taken on an unpredictable journey and reminded that this could happen to anyone - in any home, in any neighborhood.

GenreCrime
Signs of a Psychopath
Running

Signs of a Psychopath

For every sadistic psychopath...there were signs. Charm. Narcissism. Lack of empathy. Impulsiveness. Manipulation. Deception. These traits and others are the telltale Signs of a Psychopath. This harrowing half-hour archive series revisits some of the most brutal killers in modern history, reviewing news footage and the words of the killers themselves to see which terrifying traits each killer exhibited. What are the signs...of evil?

GenreCrime
The Twelve
Running

The Twelve

Twelve citizens are called for jury duty on a high-profile murder trial as traumatizing as it is controversial, in which a woman stands accused of killing her sister's child.

As time goes by, the murder trial becomes a trial, not only for the accused, but for the jury members themselves.

Behind the façade of their anonymity, these twelve ordinary people bring with them their own histories. Lives that are as complex as the trial, full of fractured dreams, shameful secrets, hope, fears, personal trauma and prejudice.