Montreal, Canada – Quebecor Content is pleased to announce that it has acquired the format rights for the ITV hit series You’re Back in the Room through a deal with BBC Worldwide North America. This fantastic gameshow format sees contestants performing simple tasks with hilarious results as they are all under hypnosis. The sometimes slapstick,…
Read MoreNew York, NY – BBC AMERICA announced today the greenlight of Top Gear America. With a nod to its UK roots, the reimagined US spin-off of Top Gear will appear on BBCA with three new presenters in eight hour-long episodes starting later this year. The series will be hosted by racing enthusiast and veteran film and television actor William Fichtner, world…
Read MoreNew York, NY – Set in London, BBC AMERICA’s new coming-of-age series, Class, follows four ordinary Coal Hill Academy students from opposite ends of the cafeteria’s social landscape, who find themselves drawn together in the most extraordinary of circumstances. The students must form an unlikely alliance to battle, in secret, against alien threats which have broken…
Read MoreNew York, NY – BBC Earth, the BBC’s global factual brand, has today published findings of an international study titled The Real Happiness Project showing nature programming’s direct impact on the mood and wellbeing of its viewers. The research, conducted with Professor Dacher Keltner, an expert in the science of emotion at the University of California, Berkeley,…
Read MoreNew York, NY –It is a service truly fit for a queen. BBC Worldwide, the commercial arm of the BBC, and ITV, the UK’s biggest commercial broadcaster, today launch BritBox, a new subscription video-on-demand (SVOD) streaming service with the most comprehensive collection of British television, across all genres, available anywhere in the U.S. With thousands of…
Read MoreNew York, NY – BBC AMERICA’s critically acclaimed co-production, Ripper Street, returns for a fifth and final season with six episodes on Wednesday, March 8 at 11/10c. The powerful closing chapter picks up mere days after the grisly death of Detective Inspector Bennet Drake (Jerome Flynn – Game of Thrones), which reunites his old friends, Detective Inspector Edmund Reid (Matthew…
Read MoreNew York, NY – The critically acclaimed programming event Planet Earth II, which premiered across BBC AMERICA, AMC and SundanceTV on February 18th, delivered 2.7 million total viewers, including 1.2 million adults 25-54 and 1 million adults 18-49 in Nielsen live+3 ratings. In the key 25-54 demo, the episode now ranks as the most watched…
Read MoreNew York, NY – Announced today, BBC AMERICA will premiere the new season of Top Gear on a new date and night – Sunday, March 12, at 8/7c followed by after show Extra Gear. HOSTS: The car show sees Matt LeBlanc, Chris Harris and Rory Reid at the helm, with appearances from German race ace Sabine Schmitz, F1 pundit Eddie Jordan, and the international man of mystery referred to…
Read MoreLiverpool, UK – BBC Worldwide, the commercial arm and main subsidiary of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), announced today the premiere on Brazil’s RecordTV of Dancing Brasil, the local adaptation of Dancing with the Stars, one of the British company’s most globally successful franchises. Dancing Brasil is BBC Worldwide’s first agreement of its kind with…
Read MoreNew York, NY – BBC AMERICA announced today the greenlight of Blue Planet II, the next chapter in the epic story of our planet. This brand new seven-part landmark nature series exploring the world’s oceans, will be presented by world renowned broadcaster and naturalist Sir David Attenborough. Today’s news comes following the premiere of Planet Earth II this past Saturday…
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