Scambushed

A sophisticated how-to manual for high-class events, such as hosting an outdoor party; mixing the perfect cocktail; and setting up a personal profile at a boutique hotel.

A remembrance of how people traveled during the 1970s, when maps were paper and airline security was much less thorough; and road trips and hitchhiking were commonplace.

Visits to Barcelona, France's Dordogne River Valley and the Czech Republic. Highlights: Antoni Gaudí's unfinished Sagrada Família church, and the art of Picasso and Dali in Barcelona; a medieval castle and the prehistoric Lascaux cave drawings in France; and the Bohemian town Cesky Krumlov and the music of a Gypsy band in the Czech Republic.

Nigel Slater explores the Middle East, cooking and eating with the people of Lebanon, Turkey and Iran, as he discovers the secrets of the world's oldest cuisines.

Renowned art critic David A. Keeps was the host of this six-part miniseries, the first original production from cable's Ovation TV. Each episode surveyed the art scene in a different city, taking into consideration such indigenous means of expression as painting, sculpture, architecture and music. Described by one observer as "a delirious cross between your favorite college professor and a wired Sister Wendy [host of a popular art-oriented PBS series]", Mr. Keeps was equally as enthusiastic over the sights and sounds of Chicago as he was over the beauties of Paris, to say nothing of New Orleans, London, Los Angeles and the Chelsea district of New York City. Art and the City made its first appearance on October 7, 2007.

Australia and New Zealand are explored.