November 2008

Week One

Monday, November 3
Time Warp: Taser
4:00 p.m. Discovery Channel
Jeff, Matt, and the Time Warp cameras discover what happens when you're hit by a taser gun. They also investigate how a pole-vaulter defies gravity for a record-making jump and how a jackhammer pounds the pavement and its operator's body.

Monday, November 3
Alter Eco: Eco-Fabulous
9:00 p.m. Planet Green
Darren helps build a bathroom at the Green Team HQ house while Angela gears up for her Vogue fashion shoot showcasing eco fashion.

Saturday, November 8
Dogs 101: Boxer, Beagle, etc.
7:00 p.m. Animal Planet
Which breed is a certified lifeguard? Which breed came first -- the "hot dog" or the dog that "looks" like a sausage? In this episode of DOGS 101, experience a dog's eye-view of the Newfoundland, the Bichon Frise, the Dachshund, the Beagle and the Boxer.

Saturday, November 8
Mystery Diagnosis: Sleeping Beauty
9:00 p.m. Discovery Health
Jessica is a healthy teenager living with her parents in suburban New York. At the start of her first year in high school, she has bizarre episodes where she sleeps for 10 days straight. Doctors are baffled when her EEGs, EKGs, and MRIs appear normal.

Week Two

Sunday, November 9
Survivorman: Boreal Forest
2:00 p.m. Discovery Channel
The boreal forest of Northern Canada is no enchanted wonderland. This wilderness is vast, stretching from the Atlantic to the Pacific. Wild animals are king here, and Les Stroud is about to enter their woods uninvited, and alone, as winter approaches.

Sunday, November 9
Mean Green Machines: Snowmobile Shakedown
5:00 p.m. Planet Green
It's a gas snowmobile vs. an electric snowmobile in a no-holds barred battle to see who can out-race, out-climb and out-haul the other in the savage, below-zero outdoors -- where to survive, you've got to be mean -- even if you're green.

Monday, November 10
Time Warp: Samurai Sword Master
4:00 p.m. Discovery Channel
The Time Warp team reveals the secrets behind a samurai swordsman's lethal blow, a pool pro's award-winning moves and the inner workings of a hummingbird. Plus, see the artful side of an accident with tempered glass.

Thursday, November 13
Mountains of the Wolf
8:00 p.m. Animal Planet
In the cloudy mountains of Northern Spain, a legend still lives on. All the forest dwellers know that the mist conceals the most successful predator in the Northern Hemisphere, the wolf. Its howl has resounded in these mountains for ages.

Thursday, November 13
The Truth about Food: How to Be Healthy
9:00 p.m. Discovery Health
In this episode, nine fast-food junkies consume half a ton of raw fruit and vegetables in just 12 days, two truckers swallow an unusual pill to get them moving, and intestinal bacteria are examined.

Week Three

Sunday, November 16
How It's Made: Episode 45
7:00 p.m. Science Channel
In this episode, find out how brushes and push brooms are manufactured, how blackboards are formed, how salmon is smoked and how zippers work.

Sunday, November 16
Super Animal: Super Worm
8:00 p.m. Science Channel
The worm, a living tube of flesh, inspires at the most indifference, and at the worst, disgust. Yet, it's a basic model in the understanding of living beings, a key to genetic research and a source for blood substitutes.

Tuesday, November 18
Weird, True & Freaky: Animal Feats
8:00 p.m. Animal Planet
A piano-playing cat, an artist elephant --hard to fathom yet it's for real. These animals open our eyes to uncanny agility and intelligence all too often overlooked-- performing, perfecting and amazing in never-before-seen animal feats.

Thursday, November 20
The Vanishing Frog
8:00 p.m. Animal Planet
In this one-hour film, Animal Planet focuses worldwide attention on the deadly fungus that is destroying frogs and other amphibian populations around the world. Travel with Jeff Corwin from the rocky streams of coastal Australia to the jungles of South America -- and even to the American West to find out why the world's frogs are vanishing at alarming rates.

December Sneak Peek

Saturday, December 13
2008: The Year in Animals
10:00 p.m. Animal Planet
This past year was filled with incredible animal stories from serious issues, to animal triumphs, to quirky pet trends, to animal-passionate celebs, to some downright hysterical animal antics. Join Animal Planet as they recap the best, and in some cases, the most poignant animal stories of the year.