The Hero Effect - Season 1
Season 1
Episodes
Mission United
Founded by Stephen Moss, who was inspired after his daughter returned from deployment injured, Mission United supports military veterans and their families.
Café Momentum
Chef Chad Houser creates a Dallas-based restaurant and culinary training facility to transform the lives of at-risk youth who spent time in juvenile facilities.
More Too Life
Mary's Center
Raising Readers in Story County
Rising Tide Car Wash
Treehouse Foundation
Katie's Krops
Seventeen-year-old Katie Stagliano starts an organization to teach kids about growing vegetables and how providing those crops to disadvantaged populations can help fight hunger.
Cheyenne River Youth Project
Project leader Julie Garreau works with young people from poverty stricken Native American families in the Eagle Buttle, S.D., community to create services that foster healthy choices and life practices.
Indo Jax Surf Charities
Jack Viorel leads an organization that empowers disadvantaged, medically fragile and special needs children by exposing them to the ocean environment and teaching them to surf.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
On Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, John Oliver presents a satirical look at the week in news, politics and current events.
Lioness
Lioness, inspired by an actual U.S. Military program, follows the life of Joe while she attempts to balance her personal and professional life as the tip of the CIA's spear in the war on terror. The Lioness Program, overseen by Kaitlyn Meade and Donald Westfield, enlists an aggressive Marine Raider named Cruz to operate undercover alongside Joe among the power brokers of State terrorism in the CIA's efforts to thwart the next 9/11.
Doc
Doc centers on the hard-charging, brilliant Dr. Amy Larsen, Chief of Internal and Family Medicine at Westside Hospital in Minneapolis. After a brain injury erases the last eight years of her life, Amy must navigate an unfamiliar world where she has no recollection of patients she's treated, colleagues she's crossed, the soulmate she divorced, the man she now loves and the tragedy that caused her to push everyone away. She can rely only on her estranged 17-year-old daughter, whom she remembers as a 9-year-old, and a handful of devoted friends, as she struggles to continue practicing medicine, despite having lost nearly a decade of knowledge and experience.
Mock the Week
The highly anticipated return of Mock the Week, the UK's much-loved topical, satirical panel show. Back with Dara Ó Briain at the helm, Mock the Week fans can enjoy even more of what they love with new one-hour episodes and the nation's favourite comedians as TLC names Rhys James, Sara Pascoe, Angela Barnes, Ed Byrne, Ahir Shah, Milton Jones, Katherine Ryan, Hugh Dennis, Sarah Keyworth, Lou Sanders, Glenn Moore, Ellie Taylor and Russell Howard as part of the series line-up – with more to follow. The series will stay true to the original format, with returning rounds including ‘If this is the answer, what is the question?', ‘Wheel of News', ‘Picture of the Week', and ‘Scenes we'd like to see', as well as introducing some exciting new rounds within the extended format.