30 shows

October 26, 2023

Climate change is real. It’s happening now. Big policy, implemented properly and urgently, is needed to change our world … but some people are quietly doing amazing things to make our island a better place. Heated tells their stories. Heated is a new 6-part series on RTÉ One and RTÉ Player dealing with climate change.

April 29, 2023

Based on a French-language comic book, the web series features artists Cathon and Iris—two curious, quirky, and imaginative young women.

February 28, 2020

Youthful ingenuity is on display in this new competition series that features teams of inventive students tasked with designing, building, and testing new contraptions to vie for the title of Shop Class Champs. In each episode, they’ll present their work to a panel of experts who will rate their projects based on engineering, design, and the final test of the build.

Sir David Jason explores his favourite great British inventions and discovers how and why they were first thought up

Take a mind-blowing journey through human history, told through six iconic objects that modern people take for granted, and see how science, invention and technology built on one another to change everything.

Ueno may be the president of the science club at her junior high and a genius inventor, but she still can’t figure out how to confess to her crush, Tanaka! Can she find a way to give her heart what it truly yearns for?

March 18, 2018

Japanese inventions are used and loved around the world. Through interviews and reenactments, go behind the scenes and discover how Japanese craftsmanship brought these top inventions into being.

December 9, 2016

Kari Byron, Tory Belleci and Grant Imahara rank history's greatest inventions, heists and more.

December 7, 2016

The UK's leading inventors create ingenious new solutions to every-day problems and build life-changing solutions for people in desperate need.

Teams of people invent new technology for a chance to win $1 million.

March 1, 2015
February 13, 2014

The show is about two brothers and a sister. The two brothers have a plumbing company and they are trying to invent something that would make the world a better place.

January 24, 2013

Every time we switch on a light or boil a kettle we rely on power - but most people don't stop to think about the inventions and discoveries that allow us to live the way we do. In an exciting new four-part series for BBC Two, The Genius of Invention reveals the fascinating chain of events behind inventions that make everyday life possible.

A look back over the highs and lows experienced by the hundreds of entrepreneurs who have entered the Den over the last nine series, examining the key ingredients required for a successful pitch.

June 20, 2011

Evan Davis looks at the British economy and asks what our country is good at and how it can pay its way in the world,

April 12, 2011

A series in which the buying teams of three high street giants ask members of the public to supply them with the next bestselling product.

In the series, "Wallace will take a light hearted and humorous look at the real-life inventors, contraptions, gadgets and inventions, with the silent help of Gromit. The series aims to inspire a whole new generation of innovative minds by showing them real, but mind-boggling, machines and inventions from around the world that have influenced his illustrious inventing career" (the BBC press statement).

Peter Sallis reprised his role as the voice of Wallace. The filmed inserts are mostly narrated by Ashley Jensen, with one in each episode presented in-vision by Jem Stansfield. John Sparkes also voices a portion in the unseen character of archivist Goronwy.

July 10, 2010

A stone-age animated comedy focusing on the invention of a specific objects or ideas that we use in our everyday life.

September 16, 2009

Dom Byrne presents the underground version of the hit BBC Two show that has been operating exclusively online

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