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Countdown
WEEKNIGHTS 8/7C“Countdown with Keith Olbermann,” is a week-nightly commentary show featuring one of journalism’s most provocative and outspoken voices. Regular contributors include Rolling Stone journalist Matt Taibbi; John Dean, Former White House counsel to President Richard Nixon; comedian and activist Maysoon Zayid; Kate Sheppard, Mother Jones energy and investigative journalist and author Jeremy Scahill, among others.
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Democrats for Guantanamo and drone strikes? Heather Hurlburt analyzes new poll results
“Countdown” guest host David Shuster and Heather Hurlburt, executive director of the National Security Network and former White House...
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The Young Turks with Cenk Uygur
Weeknights 7/6cCurrent TV and Cenk Uygur have created an original TV version of "The Young Turks," the world's largest online news show. Uygur's uniquely progressive and topical commentary about politics and pop culture airs weeknights at 7/6c.
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‘Elbow from the Sky’ lands on Cenk for his totally wrong Santorum prediction
After the Florida primary, Cenk made a bold prediction. "Santorum drops out on the night of February 7," Cenk said. "I was totally...
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The War Room
Weeknights 9/8cFrom the caucuses to the campaign trails to Capitol Hill, "The War Room with Jennifer Granholm" sheds light on the Election 2012 news of the day and features in-studio commentary by political insiders, campaign veterans, opinion leaders and newsmakers whose unique perspective will inform and inspire. Granholm, an outspoken and passionate political leader, was the first woman elected governor in Michigan. During two terms as governor, she pioneered the state through an economic storm, strengthening its auto industry, preserving the manufacturing sector, and adding new, emerging sectors, such as clean energy.
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Fired up! Jennifer Granholm on how the US must win jobs from foreign nations
Jennifer Granholm talks about what should keep politicians up at night – jobs – and the need for the U.S. to compete and win against determined,...
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Vanguard
Vanguard is a no-limits documentary series whose award-winning correspondents put themselves in extraordinary situations to immerse viewers in global issues that have a large social significance. Unlike sound-bite driven reporting, the show’s correspondents, Adam Yamaguchi, Christof Putzel and Mariana van Zeller, serve as trusted guides who take viewers on in-depth real life adventures in pursuit of some of the world’s most important stories.
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Women go to battle in mixed martial arts: Scenes from 'Vanguard'
In this scene from "Cage Fighting in the USA," a young woman named Emma insists that more women should get involved with mixed martial arts....
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Fifty Documentaries to See Before You Die
Over the past two decades the documentary film has graduated into mainstream cinema, becoming a major box office draw and an important part of contemporary culture. To celebrate this new age of the cinematic documentary, Current TV has commissioned a brand-new series that explores the most powerful, memorable and moving documentary feature films to have hit our cinema screens in recent years.
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How 'Super Size Me' changed McDonald's menus forever
In this scene from the final episode of "50 Documentaries to See Before You Die," director Morgan Spurlock lets recounts his experience shooting...
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4th and Forever
California’s Long Beach Poly High School has sent more players to the NFL than any high school in America—prompting Sports Illustrated Magazine to name it “Sports School of the Century.” For Poly players, football is a way out of a neighborhood struggling with poverty, drugs and gangs. But 2009 was a down year: Poly lost its first league game in 15 years and fell to crosstown rival Lakewood for the first time since 1982. Can head coach Raul Lara drive his team back to the top this season? His players’ dreams for a better future are riding on it.
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Long Beach Poly's Jackrabbits reunite for signing day: Scenes from '4th and Forever'
In this scene from "4th and Forever" episode "There's No Tomorrow," it's three months after the losing game against Mater Dei...
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This American Life
The televised version of the award-winning Public Radio Show hosted and executive produced by Ira Glass, “This American Life” tells compelling, unscripted first-person stories culled from across America. For the TV show, which made its basic cable premiere on Current TV in January 2011, Glass and a small team of radio producers and filmmakers traveled the country visiting Iowa pig farms, following a first-time filmmaker in California, photographing a raucous night at an Illinois hot dog stand and more. The results are true stories that are dramatic, emotional, and often hilarious.
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The Wieners Circle: This American Life
One popular hot dog stand in Chicago, Illinois caters to its crowd in a unique way -- by trading insults. The customer may always be right, but people...
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Bar Karma
“Bar Karma” is the world’s first community-developed television series. The brainchild of The Sims/Sims City creator Will Wright and Worldwide Biggies’ CEO, Albie Hecht (Nick, Spike TV) for Current TV, the series is the first that lets fans inform the outcome of a scripted TV series – before it airs. Set at a mystical watering hole at the edge of the universe, “Bar Karma” stars William Sanderson (“True Blood,” “Lost,” "Deadwood") as James, the 20,000 year-old bartender, Matthew Humphreys (“Obsessed,” “Big Love,” “The Forgotten”) as bar owner Doug Jones, and Cassie Howarth (“Deranged High,” “Deathclock”) as the lone waitress, Dayna.
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Will Wright Explains It All
If you have a question about Bar Karma, Will Wright has the answer. Kind of. Recipient of the first-ever Gamer God Award at the Spike Video Game Awards...
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Kill It, Cook It, Eat It
In each episode of "Kill It, Cook It, Eat It," a diverse group of participants is challenged to procure their main course the old-fashioned way: by hunting and killing their chosen prey, butchering it in the slaughterhouse, helping to prepare it in the kitchen, and ultimately sampling it at the dinner table. Some may enjoy the process while others recoil, but for each diner it's an intense journey that just may change their perspectives - and appetites - forever.
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The Lonesome Gamekeeper: Kill It, Cook It, Eat It
Throughout the season, volunteers have gotten an in-depth look at the way animals live and die on hunting grounds and in slaughterhouses, but what is it...
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Hooked on Danger
Off the coast of Australia, tough-as-nails longline fishermen risk it all on the hunt for monster-sized tuna and swordfish. Hooked on Danger goes to sea with three larger than life skippers and their crews as they brave treacherous storms, brutal working hours and their own hot tempers. When the fish are biting, a five-day trip can bring in $100,000; but a bad catch means the crew can spend days of grueling work at sea without earning a penny. For some it's an adrenaline rush; for others, it's simply a way of life.
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No Sleep, No Safety: Hooked on Danger
Running on very little sleep, Skipper Chug's crew struggle to capture two quality tuna that get tangled together in the lines. When one crewman is...
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Deadliest Journeys
Think you have the commute from hell? Think again. Deadliest Journeys travels the world’s most menacing roads, skies and waterways, where travelers risk it all to reach their destinations. These routes may be scenic, but they’re also full of wild animals, armed thieves and the occasional avalanche.
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Deadliest Journeys - Death Slide Home
The Fastest way home can sometimes be the deadliest - especially in Bolivia.
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SWAT: Miami Dade
Ten miles inland from the beautiful beaches of Miami are some of America’s meanest streets, where drug trafficking and gang violence threaten the entire community. SWAT: Miami-Dade follows the men and women of Miami-Dade’s Special Response Team (SRT), one of the best-trained elite police units in the world, as they use tactical precision and state-of-the-art weaponry to take down potentially deadly suspects, one mission at a time.
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A New Enemy: SWAT: Miami-Dade
As if building a strategy to arrest dangerous gangsters wasn't enough, Dade County's Special Response Team (SRT) must also plan around another...
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The Beat
The United Nations have described Vancouver, British Columbia, as "paradise, blighted by a two-kilometer square stretch of urban misery." The Beat is 10-part documentary series about a police squad in the Downtown Eastside, filmed over six months of day-and-night access to the members of Beat Enforcement Team Squad Three.
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Attacks on the Unarmed and Elderly: The Beat
Staff Sergeant Toby Hinton undergoes an extensive transformation to pose as an unassuming elderly man on the streets. With robberies and assaults on older...
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Cooking in the Danger Zone
If Vanguard did a food show, it’d be Cooking in the Danger Zone. Intrepid journalist Stefan Gates goes on a worldwide odyssey to check out the crazy (to us!) foods that people eat in the far flung corners of the globe. In each episode he samples the culture and meets the locals, before diving into the local delicacy.
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Authentic Mexican Tortillas: Cooking in the Danger Zone
While traveling through South America, Stefan learns how to make authentic corn tortillas in Mexico. The women are skeptical of Stefan's skills. Can he...
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Long Way Round
Movie star Ewan McGregor and his best friend Charley Boorman travel by motorcycle from London to New York, the long way round. From being held at gunpoint in Kazakhstan to witnessing the majestic vistas of Mongolia, this series captures the spirit of friendship and adventure in a completely fresh way.
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One Year After a Life-Changing Adventure: Long Way Round
Ewan, Charley, and their producers reflect on the adventure around the world one year later, after critical acclaim for their book. How has the experience...
