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VIBE – Friday 11 December, 8.30pm

With the ranks of professional baseball depleted by players going off to war, in 1943 minor leagues were closing down and it was feared the majors might do the same. Thus was born the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. Washed-up ballplayer Jimmy Dugan, who is hired to coach a team of athletic and driven young women including Dottie Hinson, the “baseball Dollie” with the Babe Ruth swing, and her younger sister Kit Keller. A comic look at the true story of these amazing young women who left their homes to become part of the league and revel in a skill they might once have been ashamed of, and made history in the process.

Starring Academy Award® winners Tom Hanks (You’ve Got Mail) and Geena Davis (Thelma & Louise).

VIBE – Fridays from 11 December, 7.30pm

10 amateur photographers get the chance to live out their wildest fantasies in pursuit of their dream: to become the next great fashion photographer. The cast will live and work together in a downtown L.A. loft while being guided by world-renowned fashion photographer Russell James. For the first time in their lives, the cast will work with supermodels and high-end professionals, while travelling to exotic locations – all to capture that one perfect shot.

VIBE – Thursdays from 10 December, 7.30pm

A group of talented hairstylists from around the world (including Tabatha Coffey from Tabatha’s Salon Takeover) will literally go head-to-head in creative challenges that require more than just talent with a comb and scissors. Whether it’s the bob, bouffant, perm, or chignon, hair becomes an art form as the contestants with a flair for hair compete in challenges that could put them one step closer to being crowned a SHEAR GENIUS. Hosted by Golden Globe-nominated actress, designer, and entrepreneur Jaclyn Smith (Charlie’s Angels), this reality series offers a behind-the-scenes look at the competitive and creative world of high-end hairstyling.

VIBE – Wednesdays from 9 December, 7.30pm

Follow five sophisticated women and their families who lead glamorous lives in a picturesque Southern California gated community where the average home has a $1.6 million price tag. From diamond parties to Botox sessions, this show is The O.C meets Desperate Housewives… but in reality.

VIBE – Tuesdays from 8 December, 7.30pm (premieres Sundays at 5.40pm from 6 December)

She might have snagged an Emmy®, but Kathy Griffin (Suddenly Susan) is still on the D-list. Griffin returns for a fourth season in this unscripted series that documents the comic’s life and efforts to keep her career afloat. My Life on the D List is an insider’s look at the indignities and encounters that can only happen to a well-known and under-appreciated comic doing what it takes to make a living.

VIBE – Mondays from 7 December, 8.30pm

The Most Haunted Team are back on Vibe, and this time they are in the US – will American paranormal phenomena match that which they’ve found in the UK?

Led by Yvette Fielding, whose open mind and objectivity represent the agnostics amongst us, the team are prepared to forsake comfort and safety to spend twenty-four hours in some of America’s most renowned haunted properties, starting with the Stanley Hotel, made famous by Stephen King’s The Shining. Along the way, the team examines the many manifestations of ghosts, from poltergeist to doppelgangers, possessions to apparitions. Hear from those people whose lives have been turned upside down by departed souls and see all the paranormal phenomena that the team experiences.

VIBE – Mondays from 7 December, 7.30pm

Take one sweet, beautiful and slightly naive girl. Add 14 gorgeous men whom she thinks are there to try and win her heart. Then throw in a big twist — make some of those men gay! Tune in and find out how difficult it is to tell who is gay and who isn’t when everyone is playing the game and some of them are Playing It Straight.

VIBE – Friday 4 December, 8.30pm

Buck’s carefree lifestyle is turned on its side when his autistic sister, Molly, whose refreshing and childlike spirit transforms the lives of everyone around her, comes to live with him. From rescuing lobsters at a fancy restaurant to interrupting a performance of Romeo & Juliet to give their story a happy ending, Molly is a true innocent who insists on only seeing the beauty and joy of life. When she undergoes a new medical treatment, it not only cures her but turns her into a genius. Based on true events.

Starring Academy Award® nominees Elisabeth Shue (Leaving Las Vegas), Aaron Eckhart (Erin Brockovich) and Jill Hennessy (Crossing Jordan).

VIBE – Thursday 3 December, 9.30pm (encores Sunday 13 December, 10.30pm)

Take a light hearted, brutally honest and scathingly self-deprecating look at one man’s attempts to turn himself into the type of lover he’s spent his adult life thinking he already was… and more importantly, the type his wife wishes he were!

After two decades of marriage, family, and the same romantic routines, comedian Greg Lawrence spares no humiliation in his attempt to morph into a man able to go for hours, without ever losing focus on his wife’s desires and needs. His sexual makeover includes visits with a sex therapist, stylist, psychologist, porn actor, life coaches and specialists in romance. He learns about Tantric sex, ointments, aphrodisiacs, toys and desensitising creams – in short- any aid, device, enhancer or sexual tool, regardless of how silly or odd. How To Make Love To My Wife is self-help at its funniest, as Greg attempts to overcome his ineptitude in bed, turn himself into a world class lover, and finally please his wife.

VIBE – Friday 27 November, 8.30pm

Doug Kinney could use a miracle. A devoted husband, father and businessman, Doug is married to an adoring wife and a demanding job, both of which leave him little time to enjoy either. With too much to do and not nearly enough time to do it in, Doug is ready to snap until he meets world-renowned geneticist Dr. Owen Leeds. Dr. Leeds offers him the chance to get control of his life by becoming the ultimate split personality – by having himself cloned. If life was complicated with just one Doug, wait until he multiplies. A visual and comedic delight, Multiplicity exposes the scientific possibility of cloning for the hilarious disaster it may someday be.

Starring Michael Keaton (Batman) and Andie MacDowell (Groundhog Day).