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A Dutch reality series offering a detailed look at the work of traffic police, recovery crews, roadside assistance personnel, and service station staff along the A4 a vital traffic artery stretching from Amsterdam, via Rotterdam, to the Belgian border. The series highlights the diverse tasks and challenges these professionals face daily, ranging from maintaining traffic safety and providing roadside assistance to the swift and efficient handling of incidents. Through compelling footage and personal stories, viewers are immersed in the dynamics and complexities of working along one of the Netherlands' busiest motorways.
This year, Janny van der Heijden and André van Duin are keeping their boat in the harbor. Instead of exploring the Netherlands, the famous duo is exploring the animal world—because animals offer comfort, humor, and a sense of calm at a time when the need for connection is great. *Beestenboel* is an uplifting program that fosters connection, with animals—and, of course, their well-being—at its heart.
Bureau Groningen In the program Groningen Office, we follow six police officer pairings as they work on the streets: Mitchel and Bas, Yorick and Sezgin, Ruth and Ilse, Hannah and Evan, Rob and Shannell, and Annemarie and Pim. "Groningen is a beautiful, vibrant city with a wide variety of residents and consequently, a wide variety of incidents. I want to show how we handle that, what we experience, and just how special our work is," says police officer Evan on the police force's website.
John van den Heuveland his team take on international child abductions. They give it their all to safely reunite the child with their parent back in the Netherlands.
Unspun World provides an unvarnished version of the week's major global news stories - reliable, honest and essential viewing with the BBC's world affairs editor John Simpson.
Rotterdam: city of 'no talking, just cleaning'. A city that is one of the largest in our country with almost 700,000 inhabitants. But who are these cleaners and who gives Rotterdam colour? In this four-part series we follow the ups and downs of the most striking and funny residents.
A special team searches for missing persons.
Former Amsterdam police detective Floris Wolfs has been transferred to the police department of the south-Dutch country town Maastricht. His metropolitan experience nicely complements the local expertise of his new country colleagues, who know the folks. Slowly he fits in, while solving countless crimes together with his female partner Eva van Dongen.
Prize-winning journalist Feurat Alani gives his personal perspective on global current affairs, including his own experiences of reporting on the ground. Animated by Ulysse Gry.
In the new Bureau season, Ewout Genemans shadows police officers in Utrecht. It's a large and busy city, of course, so the program maker will have plenty of interesting cases to tackle.