Simon Sebag Montefiore charts the rise of Istanbul from pagan trading post to capital of three empires and two religions, becoming not only holy but the most coveted city in the world.

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　　东非大裂谷自红海至赞比西河口，连绵三千里，从太空都能看到。这里是多姿多彩的地方，有喷发的火山、覆盖着森林的高山、美丽的峡谷、广袤的草原、巨大的平湖和河流，是鳄鱼、河马、狮子、大象、火烈鸟和非洲人的家园。BBC采用最新的高清摄影技术，探讨了形式东非大裂谷的地质力量，展现世界上野生动物品种最多的地貌。
　　Visible from space, Africa's Great Rift Valley runs three thousand miles from the Red Sea to the mouth of the Zambezi. It's a diverse terrain of erupting volcanoes, forest-clad mountains, spectacular valleys, rolling grasslands, huge lakes and mighty rivers, and is home to crocodiles, hippos, lions, elephants, flocks of flamingos and a diversity of indigenous peoples.
　　Using state-of-the-art high definition filming techniques, this series investigates the geological forces which shaped East Africa's Great Rift, and which make it one of the world's most wildlife-rich landscapes.
　　Part 1: Fire
　　The valley is the product of deep-seated geological forces which have spewed out a line of cloud-wreathed volcanoes stretching from Ethiopia to Tanzania. Their peaks provide a refuge for East Africa's most extraordinary wildlife, including newly discovered and previously unfilmed species which have evolved surprising survival strategies to cope with their challenging mountain environment.
　　Part 2: Water
　　The Great Rift Valley channels a huge diversity of waterways - rivers, lakes, waterfalls, caustic springs and coral seas - spanning from Egypt to Mozambique. Some lake and ocean deeps harbour previously unseen life-forms, while caustic waters challenge life to the extreme. But where volcanic minerals enrich the Great Rift's waterways, they provide the most spectacular concentrations of birds, mammals and fish in all Africa.
　　Part 3: Grass
　　The Great Rift Valley provides the stage for an epic battle between trees and grass - its course influenced by volcanic eruptions, landscape and rainfall. On its outcome rests the fate of Africa's great game herds. In the Rift's savannas, grazers and their predators struggle to outwit each other, forcing one group of primates to develop a social system that paved the way for the evolution of mankind.

　　一名英国的考古学家研究圣经数十载，他认为自己找到了罪恶之城所多玛与蛾摩拉的所在地。出土的陶器碎片，显示这里曾经发生了威力极大的爆炸事件。这些罪恶之城是否真的存在？它们又在何处？此外，节目还介绍了伏尼契手稿，这份十五世纪的文件中所记录的图像与文字，连全球顶尖密码高手也无法破译。伏尼契手稿中究竟有什么样不为人知的秘密？

　　这部名为《北极熊：冰上侦探(Polar Bear: Spy On The Ice)》的纪录片将于29日在英国BBC1电视台播放。
　　北京时间12月28日消息，野生动物纪录片拍摄人员往往需要绞尽脑汁，不断增加拍摄方法的隐秘性，才能悄悄潜入到他们想要拍摄的动物世界里，窥探它们的一举一动，但是不要认为这些动物都很愚笨，下面的图片就是很好的证明。
　　获奖导演约翰·唐纳最近把他的遥控间谍相机装扮成一个大雪球，用来追踪一只北极熊母亲带着它的小幼仔穿过挪威斯瓦尔巴特群岛的海冰，寻找海豹的过程。但没想到的是，这种伪装并没能骗过附近的一只成年雄性北极熊的眼睛。它快速追上移动照相机，用大而有力的爪子对眼前的“雪球”进行一番摸索，让唐纳和他的制片人拍了一些特写后，很快把相机砸得粉碎。
　　但它并没就此罢休，它想都没想，又开始追赶唐纳的另一个价值10万英镑(15.45万美元)的暴风雪相机。这个相机上带有轮子，可以遥控操作，尽管吃了一惊的纪录片拍摄者设法遥控这个昂贵的设备逃跑，但是被激怒的北极熊一直穷追不舍，最后这只体重超过半吨的北极熊把第二个相机也砸得粉碎。
　　不过幸运的是，唐纳还有另一个相机，它记录了摄影设备遭袭的整个过程。北极熊毁掉两个相机后，慢慢变得平静下来。唐纳说：“好奇心得到满足后，这些动物开始表现正常起来。最终我们的间谍相机显示，北极熊的‘智慧和好奇心’是它们在海冰不断缩小的情况下继续幸存下来的关键。”

　　野生动物专家走访全球各地，分析神奇动物行为背后的原因
　　智力、关系、沟通、身体

　　BBC 在英国牛津郡的布莱特韦尔小镇，镇上所有的狗狗们正在参加一场盛会。通过别开生面的竞赛与测验，主持人与专家们试图揭开这些人类忠实伙伴的秘密。而历史学家古德曼则会奔赴各地，探寻一些备受人们喜爱的犬种背后鲜为人知的历史与故事。

　　Best Of Jimmy Fallon IN Saturday Night Live

　　《极速前进》第33季在因新冠疫情停机一年半后重新开拍，比赛已于21年10月结束，有望在22年春季档播出，制作组包机保障参赛选手和工作人员的健康安全。

　　This show is quite possibly the biggest waste of videotape, electricity, and RF bandwidth in the 70 year history of television. It's nothing but 60 minutes of some of the worst bile that can come out of human beings, male or female. Basically, it's nothing but pure bitchy, catty, c*nty, vile harpiness among the contestants, judges, and the fashionistas (or should I say fashionazis). Typically a lot of insulting, backbiting, and bitchy, unnecessarily anal-retentive criticism.
　　The thing that gets me about the show is how much the judges and fashionazis (and the pretentious shallow fashion industry in general) nit-pick against the equally bitchy contestants about little, petty, trivial, frivolous, anal-retentive things about their appearance, personality, etc. Things that the *REAL* people in this world (which the fashion industry lacks, thankfully) wouldn't give rat's ass number 1 about. (Myself included.)
　　Crap like: "Oh, your left eyebrow is a yoctometer off center. That isn't gonna fly, and nobody will take you seriously in this industry because of it!" Or, "You're breathing wrong. Good luck with winning this competition." I'm just kidding here, but they usually end up saying things almost exactly like this on this show.
　　If getting into the fashion industry is this hard, painful, bitchy, insulting, nit-picky, catty, backstabbing, and anal-retentive as this show tries to portray, than thank the good Lord that He made me all fat, balding, hairy, and dumpy-frumpy-dowdy-frowsy-geeky-lookin', because I would never want to be required to have the caustic bitchiness and anal, pretentious attitude of any model or fashionazi (or any fashion industry worker), namely the people on this show.
　　And Janice Dickinson, mercy, do not get me started on her...
　　This show needs to die. It's this show (and many other "reality" shows like it) that proves that competitiveness (and the fashion industry) is truly the devil's tool...

　　七百万年前，北太平洋海底的火山大爆发，多个小岛从海中冒起，成为了今天的夏威夷。阳光、棕树与延绵不绝的海滩，令该地成为人们梦寐以求的度假天堂；但在林林总总的度假设施外，夏威夷岛屿大片的沙滩和清澈的海洋，孕育著令人赞叹的自然生态。由於地理独特，时至今天夏威夷的生态和地理仍然不断地转变，由国家地理杂志摄制的《狂野夏威夷》带你深入这个美丽的小岛，从海洋深处的火山，到水面的巨浪，逐一解构这个与别不同的热带岛屿如何从一片荒芜之地，演变成生机勃勃的人间仙境。
　　夏威夷的热带岛屿住著多种濒危动物，数量是美国所有州分之冠。一连两集《狂野夏威夷》会走过这片「水火交融」之地，认识其中的可贵生态。
　　第1集 - Land of Fire 火焰之地
　　第一集，节目将会从夏威夷这片土地的起源开始探索，看看夏威夷群岛如何逐渐从海中冒起。夏威夷的气候特别，更有超过九成的动植物是当地独有，包括当地海陆空多种有趣生物：夏威夷群岛独一无二的「笑脸蜘蛛」以及逆流爬上瀑布求存的鱼类等，向观众展现夏威夷的野性一面！
　　第2集 - Secrets of the Deep 深海的奥秘
　　海洋世界是夏威夷的重要生态环境，最后一集《狂野夏威夷》将会深入介绍水中的夏威夷。节目首先到夏威夷最西面的燕鸥岛（tern island），认识一班雀鸟如何在岛上成长；又解释火山爆发出的熔岩如何在水底继续膨胀，形成夏威夷的岛屿。节目深入海底，介绍会隐形的夏威夷八爪鱼和视力惊人的孔雀螳螂虾，亦会与一班保育学家寻找濒临绝种的海豹，并捕捉珍贵的鲸生活片段。

　　Daniel Sloss HBO单口特辑

　　瑞奇·贾维斯 (Ricky Gervais) 以全新的 Netflix 原创脱口秀特辑《瑞奇·贾维斯：人性》 开启 2018 年。这场表演在伦敦汉默史密斯的阿波罗剧场 (Apollo Hammersmith) 录製，由这位曾获金球奖 (the Golden Globe) 与艾美奖 (Emmy Award) 的英国喜剧明星，重返伦敦舞台，带来观点犀利的特辑，谈论变老、变得娇生惯养，以及他如何养小孩等种种主题。

　　Netflix定档了凯文·哈特全新喜剧特辑——《凯文·哈特：不负责任》，将于4月2日下午3点首播。在这部全新的喜剧特辑中，凯文·哈特将自己的短处转变为绝佳笑料，和观众从婚姻中所犯的错误，一路谈到亚斯本的惊险刺激经历。这个喜剧特辑录制的是之前在伦敦O2剧院的表演，现场吸引1.5万人观众。

　　《谁是内鬼》是一部奖金丰厚的比赛剧集，在这部翻拍版中，12 名玩家一起参加挑战：用金钱作为赌注，最后只有一人胜出。在这些玩家中，有一个人被秘密指定为“内鬼”，负责破坏该组织的赚钱活动。最后，一名玩家将在竞争中胜出，并揭发内鬼赢得奖金。

　　遭人勒索。冒犯职业拳击手。与儿子玩“不给糖就捣蛋”。盖布瑞在这部重量级的单口喜剧特辑中，分享自己人生的高峰和低谷。

　　From the weird relationship humans have with dogs to how dating a model is like owning a dune buggy, Neal Brennan muses on his life in this stand-up special.