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Akihito, a college student with a penchant for pretty faces and a penchant for womanizing, finds Sae's beautiful face and aloof attitude utterly irritating. At a group date, he discovers that the girl he was targeting was only interested in Sae, pushing his frustration to its peak. Just then, Akihito stumbles upon Sae arguing with a man in a hotel district. Seeing Sae so vulnerable, a stark contrast to his usual self, Akihito is provoked and forcefully pushes him down. However, his unexpected reaction causes him to lose control...?!

Elite financier Damon Cheuk Yuk never hesitates to use any dirty tricks to gain a profit, so he has always been under close surveillance by the Commercial Crime Bureau (CCB). Being obsessed with money and power, Damon constantly neglects his family members and friends. Because of him, his wife and mentor passed away, yet he shows no remorse at all. On the contrary, his craving for money and power continuously increases. When his brother-in-law, a CCB inspector, renews determination to put him behind bars, it launches a series of events that slowly undermine Damon's ambition. In the fiercely competitive finance industry, who will eventually come out on top?

My Strange Addiction is an American documentary television series that premiered on TLC on December 29, 2010. The series focuses on people with unusual compulsive behaviors. These range from eating specific non-food items to ritualistic daily activities to bizarre personal fixations or beliefs.

A shamed actor uses his insomnia as a trap to lure a former classmate closer, but his calculated game turns into a real, messy addiction.

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Song Ting, deputy director of the Kaihe Compulsory Detoxification Center in Yunnan Province, has always adhered to the "people-oriented" working philosophy. She is often considered too idealistic with her passion for work. Luo Jing and Liao Mingkang, two important suspects of the overseas drug trafficking gang, were locked in Kaihe compulsory drug treatment center. While Leng Wenkun was investigating the case, Song Ting assisted and relied on her unremitting efforts and the support of leaders at all levels to complete the transformation of the "compulsory detoxification center" to a "safe island".

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From gaming and social media obsession, to cyber relationship addiction and compulsive information seeking, each episode uncovers the damaging world of digital dependency and the dramatic impact on the families affected by it.

Wednesday Addiction explores the interactive entertainment world by looking for new technologies and reviewing new releases.

Arlo, a charming art teacher by day and reckless gambler by night, falls under the patronage of Zane to pay off his debts. Their sugar arrangement sparks a double life—daytime campus romance, nighttime domination of the gambling world. What begins as a transaction grows into real love and mutual redemption.

A series of 13 short films examining different aspects of addiction, treatment and recovery, including drug-court programs, insurance problems and interviews with health-care professionals.

Bobby Flay pulls out all the stops and delivers a high-impact cooking series that takes outdoor grilling to a whole new level! Surrounded by a sea of grills and abundant, flavor-packed ingredients from around the world, quintessential grill master Bobby Flay transforms a backyard into a Mecca of barbecue deliciousness. In Bobby Flay's Barbecue Addiction, the grilling maestro steps up his game--from charcoal, to smoke, to the global Q--and proves why he's truly addicted to barbecue!

An uplifting, warm and often eye-watering exploration of the motives and experiences of people who go under the needle.

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Unusual cravings and strange obsessions consume these addicts' lives. Hear brand new addiction stories and catch up with fan favorites from the past.

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Hooked: How Addiction Hijacks the Brain, is a three-part series hosted by Dr Brian Pennie looking at the impact of addiction on the brain and seeking to explain and destigmatise both behavioural and substance addictions, from smartphones to hard drugs.

Fishing expert Mark Berg visits some of Australia’s most remote fishing destinations in this brand new series. Pursuing his love for recreational fishing, each episode Mark will invite one lucky addicted fisherman along on an adventure to a remote location. Mark gives his guest adventurer a challenge with a prize of $5000 worth of fishing gear up for grabs. From Melville Island in the Northern Territory to Whyalla in South Australia join Mark as he shares his lifelong skills, techniques and general love of the sport.

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Dr. Gregory House, a drug-addicted, unconventional, misanthropic medical genius, leads a team of diagnosticians at the fictional Princeton–Plainsboro Teaching Hospital in New Jersey.

A group of high school students navigate love and friendships in a world of drugs, sex, trauma, and social media.

Follows the lives and families of three adults living and growing up in the United States of America in present and past times. As their paths cross and their life stories intertwine in curious ways, we find that several of them share the same birthday - and so much more than anyone would expect.

A dangerously charming, obsessive man goes to extreme measures to insert himself into the lives of women who fascinate him.

A self-loathing, alcoholic writer attempts to repair his damaged relationships with his daughter and her mother while combating sex addiction, a budding drug problem, and the seeming inability to avoid making bad decisions.

People whose uncontrollable addiction to drugs, alcohol or compulsive behavior has brought them to the brink of destruction and has devastated their family and friends are presented with a life-changing opportunity of intervention and rehab. Each addict must confront their darkest demons in order to begin their journey to recovery in the hopes that they can turn their lives around before it’s too late.

Every day is a matter of life and death in a hectic New York City hospital, but for Nurse Jackie that's the easiest part. Between chronic back pain that won't quit, and a personal life on the constant edge of collapse, it's going to take a white lie here, a bent rule there, and a handful of secret strategies to relieve the pain, and stay one step ahead of total disaster.

Kaiji Itou is a good-for-nothing loiterer who spends his days drinking beer and stealing hubcaps—that is, until he ends up being tricked by his former co-worker. Unable to suddenly repay his friend's huge debt all by himself, Kaiji is offered a shady deal to participate in an illegal underground gamble on a cruise ship. This turns out to be nothing more than the beginning of his new life of hell—thrown headlong into a life-threatening roller coaster of mind games, cheating, and deceit.

In a 1950s orphanage, a young girl reveals an astonishing talent for chess and begins an unlikely journey to stardom while grappling with addiction.

Telling powerful stories in hourlong episodes, TLC follows medical journeys of morbidly obese people as they attempt to save their own lives. The featured individuals - each weighing more than 600 pounds confront lifelong emotional and physical struggles as they make the courageous decision to undergo high-risk gastric bypass surgery. In addition to drastically changing their appearances, they hope to reclaim their independence, mend relationships with friends and family, and renew their feelings of self-worth.

A teenager who dreams with a career as a top model becomes part of a prostitution scheme and meets a powerful and obsessive businessman. As a last resort, he marries the girl's mother just to be near her. This series explores the limits of obsession, wealth and pleasure, using the fashion world as backdrop.

With no money and a sick young son, Angel returns to the underworld of fashion and luxury. Giovanna believes that Angel killed her father and will do anything to put her in jail. As a result, they start a personal war, which involves Cristiano, a private investigator.

High school students in Bangkok wrestle with issues such as sex, teen pregnancy, drugs, school violence, family turmoil and more in this Thai drama.

Three friends dive into the dark side of the sex industry to find a missing person, facing their own fears and desires along the way.

A desperate father searching for his runaway daughter gets caught up in a murder case — and stumbles upon secrets which could destroy his family for good.

The arrival of a charismatic young priest brings glorious miracles, ominous mysteries and renewed religious fervor to a dying town desperate to believe.

Set in downtown New York in 1900, 'The Knick' is centered on the Knickerbocker Hospital and its staff, notably Dr. John Thackery, the hospital's brilliant chief surgeon who pushes medicine's boundaries, pioneering new procedures despite a severe drug addiction.

Henry Drax is a harpooner and brutish killer whose amorality has been shaped to fit the harshness of his world, who will set sail on a whaling expedition to the Arctic with Patrick Sumner, a disgraced ex-army surgeon who signs up as the ship’s doctor. Hoping to escape the horrors of his past, Sumner finds himself on an ill-fated journey with a murderous psychopath. In search of redemption, his story becomes a harsh struggle for survival in the Arctic wasteland.

A father who never stopped fighting against drugs. A son who never stopped using them. Two sides of the same coin. Victor is a cop who has fought all his life to curb cocaine trafficking. His son is a drug addict who has become one of the most wanted burglars in Rio de Janeiro. Will a father’s love be enough to save his son’s life?

As a mysterious corpse gets found in the middle of nowhere, four upper-class individuals emerge as suspects.