MUMBAI: Lifestyle channel TLC is renewing focus on the dedicated travel band ? ?Just Travel@9 pm? - which aims to deliver the ultimate in travel experiences the world has to offer.

?Just Travel@9pm? will feature exotic locales with global travel personalities and experts.

This month on the block, TLC will showcase new series such as ?Not Your Average Travel Guide? and new seasons of series such as ?Xtreme Tourist?, ?1000 Places To See Before You Die?, ?World Caf?: Asia?, ?Bizarre Foods With Andrew Zimmern? and ?Girl Meets Hawaii?.

Discovery Networks Asia-Pacific senior VP, GM South Asia Rahul Johri said, ?TLC has garnered great responses from millions of its viewers and we will continue to focus on generating appointment viewership through our time-band strategy. A step in this direction has been our dedicated travel band - Just Travel@9pm, that has changed the way viewers watch programming in the travel and lifestyle genres.?

MUMBAI: Discovery Science is set to launch a 13-part series, Sports Science, on 1 February.

The show, exploring the science and engineering underlying athletic endeavours,will air every Wednesday at 8.30 pm.

Discovery Networks Asia-Pacific Sr. VP and GM - South Asia Rahul Johri said, ?Discovery Science is dedicated to bringing cutting-edge innovations, explorations and technologies that have an impact on our everyday lives. It questions everything and goes beyond imagination to bring never-seen-before insights. Sports Science is a high octane series that unveils mysteries of the sports world via studio and field tests, stunning CGI animation and high definition footage.?

The channel plans to utilise cutting-edge technology to unveil the mysteries behind the sport with the support of athletes and scientists. It will also explore the extremes of human ability and sports performance through first person exploits.

Wayne State University in Detroit- Michigan professor of biomedical engineering Dr. Cynthia Bir is the lead engineer in the series. Using methods that have been developed to understand human injury biomechanics, and developing new techniques to address the unique challenges found when studying live volunteers in high impact and high speed activities, Dr. Bir helps viewers to understand the forces (internal and external) sustained and generated by the body during high level athletic activities.

MUMBAI: Welcoming the Christmas season, lifestyle channel TLC is all set to launch a new series Choccywoccydoodah featuring the work and crew of the cake shop by the same name.

The show premieres today at 8 pm.

Discovery Networks Asia-Pacific - South Asia SVP and GM Rahul Johri said, "TLC continues to showcase the best lifestyle experiences to its viewers. The uniquely named series Choccywoccydoodah brings across the insider story of one of the world‘s best cake shops."

The follows the stresses and strains faced by the team as it tries to live up to the reputation of being one of the most innovative cake makers in the world.

The cake shop situated in Brighton, UK has earned acclaim for innovative designs and produces 7,500 cakes every year and charges up to ?9,000 a piece for their one-of-a-kind creations. The confectionary boasts of a celebrity clientele that includes the likes of Madonna, Hugh Grant, Bob Geldof, Kylie, Katie Price, Johnny Depp and Kylie Minogue. The shop also supplied the chocolates for the Tim Burton movies Charlie & the Chocolate Factory and Alice in Wonderland.

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!

NEW DELHI: Discovery will air Curiosity from 17 October every Monday at 8 pm.

Produced with a budget of $1 million per episode, Curiosity looks to leave no stone unturned in the quest for answers.

Curiosity will look to uncover the truths behind life?s most challenging questions. Questions like why sex is so enjoyable, if one could live forever, what would happen if aliens attacked, whether there is a parallel universe, or how the world will end have perplexed mankind always.

This series has been conceived by Discovery?s founder John Hendricks and aims to capture the fundamental sense of wonder and presents an engaging visualisation of the human mind?s search for answers.

The series is designed to tackle the fundamental questions and underlying mysteries of time in fields such as space, biology, geology, medicine, physics, technology, nature, archaeology, history and the human mind.

Discovery India senior VP, GM Rahul Johri said, "Discovery Channel through its programmes empowers viewers to explore their world. Embarking on a fascinating voyage of discovery, the channel brings a new landmark series ?Curiosity? that goes to extreme lengths to seek surprising answers to underlying mysteries of our lives. From the micro to the macro, ?Curiosity? delves into most enduring and insightful subjects."

?Curiosity? dives into a world of questions posed by well-known personalities including physicist Stephen Hawking tackling the mysteries surrounding the origins of the universe, Oscar winner Morgan Freeman investigating the possibility of a parallel universe, MythBusters? Adam Savage testing if we can really live forever, award-winning filmmaker Morgan Spurlock seeing if living as a primitive caveman would actually improve our health and ?Dirty Jobs?? Mike Rowe revealing the hidden live organisms that call our bodies home.

Intel, the sponsor of the series, will use it as a global marketing platform in more than 40 countries, with key partnership elements including four ?Curiosity? premiere episodes and broad exposure in all episodes of the first season.