America's Got Talent

The motivational weight-loss series returns for another season.

Veterinary professionals work to save the lives of animals in need of urgent medical care.

Recollections (and, in some cases, re-creations) of disasters, natural and otherwise. The series was also known as 'Guess What Happened,' and was produced with the California company Failure Analysis Associates, which presented computer analyses.

This weekly NBC reality/game show combined elements from several similar TV series as well as from such recent theatrical films as National Treasure and The Da Vinci Code. The contestants were divided into ten three-person teams, bearing such designations as "Geniuses," "Miss USA," and "Ex-CIA." Five of the teams were dispatched in one direction, five in another, whereupon all the players trotted around the globe, stopping at various historical sites to seek out hidden clues and code words that would enable them to find a "buried treasure" of gold. Along the way, the players were also expected to outperform each other in various mental and physical challenges -- many of them extremely embarrassing and humiliating in nature (especially toward those players who had the misfortune to be too fat, too thin, too short, or too tall -- at least by the prevailing "beautiful people" standards). Hosted by Laird Macintosh, Treasure Hunters debuted June 18, 2006.

Celebrities tap into their unknown skills to put on an entertainment show in this series blending comedy, reality and variety.

Communities renovate aging, decaying schools in this real-world series. Four community organizers---including an interior designer and a SWAT commander---assist students, teachers and parents as they restore the facilities, and in turn reestablish a sense of pride.