A satirical, comedic drama, based on the occasional historical fact, about the rise of Catherine the Great. An idealistic romantic young girl, she arrives from Prussia for an arranged marriage to the mercurial Emperor Peter hoping for love and sunshine and finds instead a dangerous, depraved, backward world that she resolves to change. All she has to do is kill her husband, beat the church, baffle the military, and get the court on her side.

Australia's Southeast Queensland attracts visitors from every corner of the globe. With one of the world's most consistent climates, it boasts 300 days of sunshine a year. This sunshine has sculpted the landscape with lush forests and golden beaches. In this episode, Lin Sutherland hikes through verdant World Heritage-listed rain forests, visits a renowned eco-resort, meets the wonderful migrating humpback whales, tries a few extreme sports, and explores...

Ancient Roots traces the family history of three quintessential voices in American life. All three descend from ancestors that were part of the wave of Greek immigrants that flooded America's shores in the early decades of the 20th century. But along the way, the stories of their Greek ancestors were lost. In recovering these stories, we'll find that their ancestors overcame terrible hardship, and showed remarkable courage in times of war. For Tina...

Mickey goes searching the farm for different farm sounds and comes across a donkey he mistakes for a horse. He decides to try to teach the donkey how to sound like a horse, but to no avail. Megan and Duncan the Donkey teaches Mickey that donkeys don't neigh, they bray.

Chuck and Andy set out to save the world by using their brains. With the evil Skink plotting the demise of the world, Chuck and Andy find themselves as contestants on the world’s wackiest TVgame show. The show is hosted by Dr. Greenie and his sidekick GP. Chuck is forced to use all the knowledge he has accumulated over the last four seasons of PE to defeat the Skink, save the world… and Andy in this head to head competition. The questions and...

Joe the albatross gives a crab the news of the imminent arrival of one Jack, causing a round of Chinese whispers and a ray of mystery around this figure. By the time Ripples, Polly and Jason (intent in asking Icarus’s advice on a system to produce bubbles that won’t explode) hear the news, the Chinese whispers have turned Jack into a terrible sea dragon

Henry Louis Gates uncovers the long-hidden roots of Broadway stars Nathan Lane and Leslie Odom, Jr., introducing them to relatives whose names and birthplaces they’ve never heard before. With only a handful of clues to guide him, Gates leads his guests back to unexpected places in Ireland, Barbados, and Africa, uncovering the stories of ancestors who laid the groundwork for their success.

While playing in the sand on the beach Duck and Shark discover the perfect home for Shark: a sand castle! But why does it disappear every night? When the WordFriends try to hunt down the thief, they learn about tides and waves from a singing Crab. Duck thinks Frog doesn't want to play in the rain because Duck accidentally broke Frog's boat. But the real reason is that Frog doesn't like the rain.

Colleen Cutschall is a painter and installation artist of Lakota heritage. Her work has long been concerned with the history of first peoples. This is not a history written on paper but history seen on the land and rocks, the skies and stars, and in the sprits of her people. Her fascination with archaeo-astronomy guides us to otherwise unknown sites in Southern Manitoba. She explains how the countless ancient earth mounds, altered boulders, petroglyphs,...

How is a suspiciously ornate document connected to the earliest settlers of New York City - and a potential multimillion dollar land dispute? How did a Civil War-era tintype help reignite a fiery debate about African-Americans bearing arms for the Confederacy? And what does a 1915 accounts ledger for a movie company have to do with the changing world of the Lakota Sioux? History Detectives investigates.