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Manila Bulletin devider Entertainment devider Kick-start 2024 with Discovery Channel, TLC, HGTV, AFP and Animal Planet

Kick-start 2024 with Discovery Channel, TLC, HGTV, AFP and Animal Planet

Published Jan 4, 2024 06:10 am

At A Glance

  • Tune in to HGTV's Flipping 101 with Tarek El Moussa Season 3 for home improvement ideas and tease your taste buds on AFN with the Heart 2 Heart Kitchen Season 5 premiere and A Taste of Festival. 

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Kick off 2024 with thought-provoking programs from the documentary on Jan. 6 on Discovery Channel to extreme confectionary challenges on TLC’s Candy Land. 

Tune in to HGTV’s Flipping 101 with Tarek El Moussa Season 3 for home improvement ideas and tease your taste buds on AFN with the Heart 2 Heart Kitchen Season 5 premiere and A Taste of Festival. 

Catch some of nature’s most impressive predators in Animal Attack Rate on Animal Planet and much more!

Discovery Channel

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January 6th
Premieres Saturday, Jan. 6 at 9 p.m.

Experience a first-hand look at the events that unfolded at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, featuring interviews with members of Congress and exclusive accounts from police officers and first responders.

Gold Rush Season 14
Premieres Monday, February 26 at 9pm

The ambitious gold miners from the hit series Gold Rush are in for a make-or-break season that shifts the balance of power forever.  After 10 years working in the Klondike, 28-year-old mining prodigy Parker Schnabel is at a crossroads. He must decide whether to play it safe and scale back his operation or risk it all on a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to acquire historically gold-rich virgin ground. It’s a massive gamble that could bankrupt him or deliver hundreds of millions in profit and cement his place as one of the most powerful miners in the region.

TLC

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90 Day: The Last Resort
Premieres Thursday, Jan. 11 at 10.50 pm

90 Day couples who have reached their relationship breaking points head to a paradise resort for a group couples retreat. With everything on the line, each couple will have to decide if they will stay together or move on alone.

Candy Land
Premieres Wednesday, Feb. 7 at 9 pm

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Host Kristin Chenoweth challenges teams to create eye-popping and heavenly confectionaryn showpieces for judges Nacho Aguirre and Aarti Sequeira as they vie for the grand prize of $25,000.

Flipping 101 with Tarek El Moussa Season 3
Premiered Tuesday, Jan. 2 at 10 pm

Flip or Flop's Tarek El Moussa draws upon his enormous success from flipping over 300 homes to help novice renovators get in the game. He provides
beginners hungry to make it big with a foundation for creating profitable flips and avoid bank-breaking flops.

Celebrity IOU Season 4
Premieres Friday, Feb. 2 at 10 pm

Hollywood A-listers express their deep gratitude to people who have impacted their lives by surprising them with home renovations. The celebrities get hands-on with Drew and Jonathan Scott to imagine a design plan and create beautifully customized spaces.

AFN

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Luke Nguyen’s India
Premieres Thursday, Jan. 25 at 9 pm

In his next adventure Luke navigates Southern India discovering the cuisines, sounds, smells, and colours creating the perfect stage for this exceptional series of exploration. With breath-taking mountain backdrops to small towns, hectic cities and sacred waterways, Luke ventures into the diverse and colourful society that is India.

Celebrate Chinese New Year with AFN
Monday to Friday, Feb. 5 to Feb. 23 at 7 pm

Titles include:
 Heart 2 Heart Kitchen Season 5 (premiere)
 A Taste of Festival (premiere)
 Eat China Season 2
 Mean Street Gourmet
 Axian Small Town Foodcation

Animal Planet

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Animal Attack Rate
Premieres Monday, Feb. 26 at 8 pm

Animal Attack Rate is the ultimate countdown of nature’s most successful killers. Whether for defense, mating rivalry, food, or for survival; there’s a long list of animals that will attack. But which is the most dangerous? This archive series travels the world searching for and calculating the risk of a deadly assault by our gnarliest predators, ambushers, and defenders. 

Channel numbers for your reference:
 Discovery – Sky Cable: SD CH39 & HD CH180 / Cignal: CH 140
 TLC – Sky Cable: SD CH62 & HD CH243 / Cignal: CH63
 HGTV – Cignal: CH201
 AFN – Cignal: CH62
 Animal Planet – Sky Cable: SD CH40 & CH194 / Cignal: CH143


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