BBC Worldwide North America Announces Amazon Prime Video as U.S. Home for Peter Moffet’s Newest Drama The Last Post
New York, NY – BBC Worldwide North America and Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) have added the newest drama from Peter Moffat (The Night Of), The Last Post, as an Amazon Original in the U.S. The new six-part drama starring Jessica Raine (Call The Midwife), Jessie Buckley (War and Peace), Jeremy Neumark Jones (Denial), Amanda Drew (Broadchurch),…
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Streaming Service BritBox Comes To Amazon Channels
New York, NY – BritBox, the subscription video-on-demand (SVOD) streaming service from BBC Worldwide, the commercial arm of the BBC, and ITV, the UK’s biggest commercial broadcaster, which launched exclusively in the U.S. earlier this year, is now available on Amazon Channels. Prime members can subscribe to BritBox for $6.99 per month after a 7-day…
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BBC AMERICA Releases World Premiere Videos For Doctor Who at San Diego Comic-Con
San Diego, CA – Today, BBC AMERICA released the first-look teaser of the highly-anticipated Doctor Who Christmas Special, as well as a trailer of Peter Capaldi as the 12th Doctor, during its Hall H panel at San Diego Comic-Con. In addition, it was revealed that Peter Capaldi’s final episode of Doctor Who this Christmas will…
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BBC AMERICA Debuts Three-Part Documentary Wild West Saturday, August 19, 9/8c
New York, NY – Canyonlands, high country and sprawling shores take center-stage in BBC AMERICA’s Wild West. Explore this fascinating area of North America in the networks three-part natural history program premiering Saturday, August 19 at 9/8c. The all-new series anchors a look back at some of BBC AMERICA’s groundbreaking, Emmy®– nominated natural history events…
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BBC Worldwide and PBS Announce Call the Midwife Christmas Special and Season 7 Filming
Arlington, VA –PBS announced today that the popular Christmas special and a seventh season of the critically-acclaimed BBC drama, CALL THE MIDWIFE will return to PBS. The CALL THE MIDWIFE HOLIDAY SPECIAL will air in late 2017, and the seventh season will air in the spring of 2018. Joining the cast in Season 7 is…
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WILD ALASKA LIVE, a PBS and BBC Co-Production, Captures Life and Survival in the Alaskan Wilderness in Three-Part, Not-to-be-Missed Television Event
Arlington, VA – PBS announced plans today for its latest venture into live, natural-history adventure programming with WILD ALASKA LIVE, a three-part, multi-platform production that airs July 23, 26 and 30 at 8:00 p.m. ET, as a part of its “Summer of Adventure” lineup. Over three nights, in partnership with the BBC, PBS turns the cameras on a must-see natural spectacle that plays out across the vast Alaskan wilderness, where some of the world’s mostremarkable animals – bears, wolves, moose, orcas and eagles –…
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Discovery Networks Latin America / US Hispanic and BBC Worldwide Sign Strategic Multi-Year Content Agreement
Miami, FL – Discovery Networks Latin America/US Hispanic (DLA/USH), a division of Discovery Communications, and BBC Worldwide, the commercial arm and main subsidiary of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), announced today a first look deal for the factual, lifestyle, natural history and motor programming categories, through which Discovery’s networks will become the home to many…
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BritBox Becomes Exclusive U.S. Streaming Home to Classic Doctor Who Catalogue
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New York, NY – Whovians, rejoice! BritBox, the new digital streaming service launched earlier this month by BBC Worldwide and ITV – which gives fans access to the most comprehensive collection of British programming – today releases the largest digital catalogue of Classic Doctor Who available in the U.S. As the only subscription video-on-demand (SVOD)…
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BBC.com to Join NewFronts First Time for the International News Organization
New York, NY – BBC.com, the award-winning international news website, has today announced it will be hosting a breakfast and ad sales presentation event, for the first time ever, at the sixth annual Digital Content NewFronts on Monday, May 8, 2017 from 9:00am – 11:00am ET in New York. BBC.com joins a long line of…
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Academy Award-Winner Hans Zimmer and Bleeding Fingers Music to Create Score for BBC AMERICA’s Blue Planet II
New York, NY – BBC AMERICA announced today that the highly anticipated natural history landmark Blue Planet II will be scored by Academy Award-winner Hans Zimmer’s ‘Bleeding Fingers Music’. The brand new seven-part series comes from the world’s leading BBC Studios Natural History Unit. Today’s news follows last Saturday’s finale of Planet Earth II on BBCA. Zimmer lent his musical…
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