Today let us move away from the big, mainstream content and look at what can be found on the fringes and in the corners. And let’s keep it short. Mere minutes in some cases. This list of original, sometimes startling content is mainly about performance and competition. is not your usual British sitcom. Created by and starring stand-up star Roisin Conaty, it began life on E4, a peripheral outlet to Chanel 4 in Britain, before eventually moving to Channel 4 itself.
Created and hosted by playwright Tracey Erin Smith, the series chronicles a gaggle of aspiring drag performers as they figure out what they want to be, learn to perform and then make their debut as performers. It’s like a close-up look a drag school training course and the motley assortment of characters there. Often, unlike RuPaul’s creation, it’s about the '”drag thing” and what the term means.
-type mockumentary series – six episodes at eight to 14 minutes each – it’s all about a duck-carving competition. It’s so off-the-wall Canadian funny-strange it should be watched every Canada Day. Created and written by David Pelech, it chronicles, fly-on-the-wall style, a small group of fanatics hoping to win top prize at the Northern Alberta Carving Cup.
is a six-part series offering a blunt, unvarnished look at the road to becoming an elite gymnast in the U.S. It covers the development of gymnastics in recent decades and pays close attention to the mental, physical and emotional rigours that top gymnasts endure. It doesn’t shy away from the sexual abuse scandal that engulfed the U.S. gymnastics program in the past few years.