The Howling

A villainous carnival owner traps a young werewolf to include in his growing menagerie of inhuman exhibits.

In the frozen wilderness of Antarctica, where oceans ice over and just staying alive is an achievement, one creature has perfected the art of survival - the emperor penguin.

Search “animals making music” online and thousands of videos pop up. Dogs howling to Elvis. Parrots bopping to rock and rap. In nature, rhythm surrounds us: the blinking light of the firefly, the loud sounds of the cicada,, even the rhythmic buzzing of a mosquito as it mates. Do humans and animals share musical traits? Does music have deeper roots than we have ever imagined? Scientists around the world are searching for evolutionary evidence of a biological basis to music.

THE WILD CANADIAN YEAR’s fourth episode Winter reveals stories from the harshest time of year, as Canada’s landscapes are transformed by the cruel and dramatic beauty of snow and ice. For all wild animals it’s a challenge to adapt to winter’s harsh conditions. Winter weather creates severe conditions across the country, including one of Canada’s most remote and far-flung islands a crescent-shaped sliver of land 300 kilometres off the coast of Nova Scotia: Sable Island. Here 400,000 grey seals have come ashore to give birth and mate.

This made-for-TV remake of the classic movie chiller Carrie is slightly more faithful to the original Stephen King novel–and slightly less profane and violent. Following in the bloody footsteps of Sissy Spacek, Angela Bettis stars as woebegone high school girl Carrie White, whose shy and awkward demeanor obscures the fact that she is "gifted" with awesome telekinetic powers. As part of a cruel and vicious student prank, Carrie's better-looking and more socially savvy classmates arrange for the hapless heroine to be elected prom queen–and one does not have to have seen the original film to know the terror that is unleashed once Carrie is crowned (in more ways than one). The climax is infinitely more "high tech" than in the 1976 film, but whether it is equally as frightening is a matter of taste; additionally, the 2002 version boasts a radically different ending, one that could very well accommodate a sequel or two…or three… Patricia Clarkson reprises the old Piper Laurie role as Carrie's abusive religious-fanatic mother.