After a successful run as a cocaine smuggler in glamorous 1980s Fort Lauderdale, Donna Buchanan gets caught up with an older gentleman named Charlie.  But Charlie, it turns out, is an enabler and abuser. After years of misery, Donna snaps and stabs Charlie 54 times in what she claims was self-defence.

1. Donna Buchanan

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Wives With Knives features gripping stories of women who fought at close range. Whether motivated by greed and jealousy or triggered by years of physical abuse, each episode reveals the traumatic events that lead up to these deadly confrontations.

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For the Love of Dogs with Alison Hammond

Alison Hammond follows the ups and downs of life at Battersea Dogs and Cats Home.

Alison meets a rare Romanian Mioritic Shepherd with a fear of stairs and doorways, and there is chaos when a van with seven Belgian Shepherd cross puppies arrives.

Diane falls for charismatic politician Joe Reilly, but as soon as they say "I do", Joe reveals his inner abusive tyrant. One fight escalates, landing Joe in the hospital from stab wounds. It's a messy he-said, she-said affair in court, but in the end, Diane avoids prison, and she and Joe stay together.

2. Diane Reilly

Krista Clark is a social misfit who's been shunned her entire life. She uses sex to win attention from men and is sure that true love will be her ticket to a happier life. She meets Tim and thinks she's found it. But when that relationship unravels, Krista's frustration reaches a bloody breaking point.

3. Krista Clark

Single mother Laureen Blastow starts dating her neighbour Chris and unwittingly enters into a decades-long cycle of terrifying abuse. She refuses to leave, thinking she can change him. When she finally gathers the courage to demand Chris grant her a divorce, tensions explode into a bloody climax.

4. Laureen Rugen

Charlene Jackson puts her military career on hold to marry Paul. When she finds out he's into threesomes with other women, she runs and deploys to Kuwait, falling in love with another soldier. When she asks Paul for a divorce, it's a fight to the finish.

5. Charlene Jackson

After a failed marriage with a cheating husband and an abusive relationship with a cruel boyfriend, Liz Cahoon finally finds the perfect man in Eric. But the ghosts of her past and the demons of her addiction mix to cause an out-of-body trance that leads to a bloody attack.

6. Liz Cahoon

Nicole Taylor is a spoilt princess who never learned how to be independent. After spending a lifetime abusing drugs and chasing bad boys, she falls head over heels for Freddie, a man 12 years younger than her. When her infatuation turns to obsession, a lover's quarrel quickly becomes violent.

7. Nicole Taylor

Former track star Fatimah Leday joins the army and is stationed in Iraq, where she meets a smooth-talking soldier named Carlton. When the two return stateside, they marry and have a child. Unfortunately, Fatimah is young and still wants to sow her wild oats, leading to a full-scale war with her soldier husband.

8. Fatimah Leday

Jamie Santos is a wild child who refuses to be tamed. She meets Jonathan and quickly becomes obsessed to the point of pushing him away.  They break up but later reunite, marry and have a child. But her jealousy eventually boils over with devastating consequences.

9. Jamie Santos

Beautiful Latvian immigrant Yekaterina Petrov's mother dies, and she loses herself in the glitzy Miami nightclub scene. When she meets Mark, a handsome club promoter, the two set off on a rocky romance fuelled by sex, drugs and violence, which ends up making front-page news.