MUMBAI: The travel and lifestyle channel TLC is set to launch a new cookery show, Donna Hay: Fast, Fresh, Simple with Australian cookbook author Donna Hay on 1 January.

The 13-part series will air every night at 10 pm.

Discovery Networks Asia-Pacific - South Asia Sr VP and GM Rahul Johri said, "TLC has always pioneered unique concepts in food programming, whether it is with Nigella Lawson or Kylie Kwong. This new series with Donna Hay will add a new dimension to food shows on television and we are sure that our viewers will love it."

In the programme, the cook will show how her approach to preparing meals can deliver big results in the minimum amount of time. Putting a new spin on old favourites with a mix of fresh and store bought ingredients, Donna will share with viewers her tips and tricks for creating fast and simple dishes.

MUMBAI: US broadcaster TLC takes viewers beyond the music and past the hype with an intimate look into the inner workings of Justin Bieber?s world in the one-hour holiday special, This Is Justin Bieber on 21 December.

In addition to sharing revealing personal interviews, the winning artist sings acoustic renditions from his new holiday album ?Under The Mistletoe?, as well as new performances of his own songs and other R&B hits.

Throughout the special, viewers will go on a behind the scenes journey as British personality Reggie Yates joins Bieber on a private tour of London, a special performance on ?The X Factor UK? and a collaboration with the famed British rapper Tinie Tempah.

Featuring in-depth access to the 17-year-old singing phenomenon, Justin Bieber confesses what it?s like to be the boy behind ?Bieber fever,? with 2.2 billion hits on You Tube, 15 million followers on Twitter and 38 million fans on Facebook.

TLC.com has also added a photo slideshow from the special.

MUMBAI: The documentary team behind ?Planet Earth? and the co-production partners of ?Life? will present ?Frozen Planet? in March 2012 on Discovery Channel in the US. The series will be narrated by actor Alec Baldwin.

Discovery Channel, TLC group president Eileen O?Neill said, "Discovery Channel is very excited to have someone as passionate and talented as Alec Baldwin to lend his voice to such an important landmark television event."

A Discovery Channel/BBC co-production four years in the making, the show aims to provide the ultimate portrait of earth?s polar regions, where the scale and beauty of the scenery and sheer power of the natural elements are unlike anywhere else on the planet. The show will reveal a world filled with creatures, variety, colour and spectacle including the birth of an iceberg bigger than the largest building on earth, a caterpillar with antifreeze in its veins, the greatest concentration of sea birds on the planet, and tiny baby polar bears, who at birth are 25 per cent smaller than human babies. Never-before-filmed sequences will include the growth of a saltwater icicle (brinicle) that freezes everything it touches and orca whales working as a team to create killer waves that wash seals off ice floes.

To capture nature?s majestic power - as well as its ultimate fragility the filmmakers utilised the latest cinematographic techniques and technology to capture groundbreaking imagery both above and below the ice in some of the most extreme and remote regions of our planet. Combined, the team filmed in every nation inside the Arctic and Antarctic circles during a record 2,356 days in the field, 1 1/2 years at sea, more than 6 months on the sea ice and 134 hours beneath that ice, filming in the polar oceans.

MUMBAI: Lifestyle channel TLC has announced that this month, Nigella is back in her kitchen at a time when most people are gearing up for a bit of extended kitchen work to cope with the flurry of gatherings, the Christmas season brings.

Christmas is, after all, the last bastion of traditional cooking; it is a time when people are more than prepared to spend whole days stirring, stuffing and marinating. In her new series Nigella Christmas Kitchen, the show?s host lays out her philosophy for not only coping with, but actively enjoying the festive season. The show will air from 12 December 2011 everyday at 7.30 pm.

She goes back to her kitchen to produce a myriad of dishes which relish tradition, and yet play around it too, to celebrate Christmas. Nigella shows viewers new recipes to match the season, which often ends up being more stressful than joyous to many people.

Discovery Networks South Asia senior VP, GM Rahul Johri said, "TLC offers programming that celebrates the best the world has to offer. We are delighted to present Nigella?s Christmas Kitchen that packs in delectable and inspiring recipes befitted for the warmth and festive spirit of Christmas."

Lawson believes that Christmas is both a season to be treasured and a state of mind that has to be achieved by relishing long established routines and welcoming new ones too. Christmas is also the opportunity of re-discovering slow cooking, preserving and the unhurried joy that the season can be. Nigella shares her Christmas culinary short cuts and tips, plus recipes that can be prepared in advance, frozen and revived at Christmas time for stress-free suppers, topped off with the Domestic Goddess? tips for throwing the best Christmas party!

MUMBAI: What makes high heels a cultural icon? Why does the little black dress resonate in our culture? And what are the little known facts behind the evolution of the bikini?

Love/Lust takes everyday items of desire, and deconstructs them to unpack the historical, social and pop culture events that made these the icons they are today. The show kicks off on 7 November and will air every Monday at 8 pm on lifestyle channel TLC.

Each one-hour episode will unravel the origin and evolution of various fashion items that we love and lust. Blending visual elements with the perspectives of professional commentators and public personalities, the show will aim to deliver an account of how life?s cultural innovations progressed from novelty to ubiquity.

Discovery India VP marketing Rajiv Bakshi said, "Presenting an entire gamut of lifestyle programming from travel, cuisine to fashion, TLC is India?s ultimate lifestyle destination. Love/Lust is an in-depth analysis of iconic elements of fashion with in a fascinating narrative."

The show stitches up the story of the little black dress, revealing how a series of events helped transform an emblem of rebellion into a wardrobe warhorse. The story punctuated with the commentary of numerous fashion insiders, including designer Vera Wang; author and Barneys New York creative ambassador Simon Doonan; and fashion historian Valerie Steele, the director and chief curator of the Museum of the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT).

Subsequent episodes of Love/Lust will continue the inquiry with episodes devoted to the bikini, high heels and make-up.

MUMBAI: Lifestyle channel TLC has launched a new travel series for the restless traveller- ?Xtreme Tourist?, with host and travel enthusiast Ernie Harker.

The show airs every Sunday at 9 pm on TLC.

While travelling, Harker does not just tick off a list of must-visit countries, but fervently seeks out new experiences while taking part in adrenaline-pumping activities like skydiving, hang gliding, surfing and rock climbing in each place.

Harker travels to exotic and iconic destinations around the world, including Cancun, Belize and Rio de Janeiro for some extreme sports action.

Discovery South Asia senior VP, GM Rahul Johri said, "TLC is India?s favourite destination for travel. Having reinvented the travel theme and its wide-ranging manifestations from luxury to self-driving trips, TLC has delivered on its promise of bringing the best of travel across the globe. We are delighted to introduce yet another format that Indians are excited and enthused about- adventure travel."

The show airs in TLC?s ?Just Travel@9pm? programme band dedicated to showcasing the best of travel across the world in diverse formats ranging from weekend getaways, road trips, luxury holidays, spa vacations and culinary expeditions, amongst many others.

In one episode the show?s host goes to Seattle. Ernie takes on America?s Pacific Northwest and the Snoqualmie Falls. He also rock climbs the famous REI Pinnacle and finds himself mountain biking the I-5 Colonnade Trail. If that?s not all, he goes on a cruise on Lake Union and then does kayaking at Portage Bay.