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Aspiring entrepreneurs pitch various business ideas to "The Sharks" -- tough, self-made, multi-millionaire and billionaire tycoons -- in hopes of landing an investment.

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

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

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.

JB Smoove hosts a business competition where entrepreneurs get 90 seconds to pitch their product to an audience of potential customers: The 100. If The 100 like the product and price, then the entrepreneurs go to a panel of Amazon executives and celebrity entrepreneurs. The panel selects which products join Amazon’s exclusive Buy It Now Store and award one entrepreneur $20,000 each episode.

Sara Davies is meeting people from across the UK who’ve come up with brilliant ideas but need some help getting them made. Can Sara and her team of experts make their ideas work?

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.

The Dragons tour the UK to find out what happened next to their investments

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

Series revealing the lives of the Dragons' Den Dragons

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,

The three-part series tells the story of British architects Richard Rogers, Norman Foster, Nicholas Grimshaw, Michael Hopkins and Terry Farrell.

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.

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.

HISTORY’s longest-running series moves to H2. Modern Marvels celebrates the ingenuity, invention and imagination found in the world around us. From commonplace items like ink and coffee to architectural masterpieces and engineering disasters, the hit series goes beyond the basics to provide insight and history into things we wonder about and that impact our lives. This series tells fascinating stories of the doers, the dreamers and sometime-schemers that create everyday items, technological breakthroughs and manmade wonders. The hit series goes deep to explore the leading edge of human inspiration and ambition.

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

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.

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.

Senya, the creator of the Lucy smart column, experiments with algorithms, discussing personal topics, family, and people around with Lucy, and tries to make her as human as possible. Lucy quickly becomes something much more than just a column - she turns out to be the only one to whom Senya can entrust her experiences, problems and reflections. Only she knows about all the problems that Senya's daughters faced at school, and only with her does he share his feelings about his relationship with his wife. A smart column helps a man to survive public humiliation in front of the whole family, find the son of the deputy who arranged this humiliation, and cope with the consequences of the irreparable act that Senya committed.