Toronto, Canada – BBC Worldwide North America has signed a deal for over 50 hours of factual content with AMI-tv, the digital cable channel owned by Accessible Media Inc. Program titles in the deal include David Beckham: For the Love of the Game and 24 Hours on Earth. AMI-tv is a unique Canadian television channel…
Read MoreLos Angeles, CA – BBC AMERICA’s Orphan Black star Tatiana Maslany earned her first Primetime Emmy Award® win for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series. Her multi-character performance as fourteen different clones to date is also the first win for the channel’s original series. The Emmy® rounds out a list of accolades for the…
Read MoreNew York, NY – It’s one of the most celebrated Doctor Who adventures and yet no complete film recordings of The Power of the Daleks are known to have survived. The master negatives were destroyed in an archive purge in 1974. Announced today, BBC AMERICA and BBC Worldwide have commissioned a brand new animation based…
Read MoreNew York, NY – BBC Worldwide North America and Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) have come together to bring season one of the Australian drama The Kettering Incident exclusively to Amazon Prime Video in the U.S.—Prime members in the U.S. can stream or download every episode at no additional cost to their membership starting on August 30. Winner…
Read MoreNew York, NY – Announced this morning by the Television Academy, BBC AMERICA earned top nods with four Primetime Emmy® nominations for Orphan Black and Luther. Sarah Barnett, BBC AMERICA President, commented, “Tatiana and Idris are genius performers, and the objects of extraordinary love from fans and critics. These nominations are testimony to their phenomenal…
Read MoreNew York, NY – BBC AMERICA’s critically-acclaimed co-production, Ripper Street, returns on Thursday, July 28, at 10/9c. The new season sees Edmund Reid (Matthew Macfadyen, Anna Karenina, Pride & Prejudice), Detective Inspector Bennet Drake (Jerome Flynn, Game of Thrones) and surgeon Captain Homer Jackson (Adam Rothenberg, The Immigrant) reunited to restore the peace of the blood-stained…
Read MoreNew York, NY – Based on his hit YouTube series, BBC AMERICA’s Chris Harris on Cars offers Top Gear fans more time with breakout star and motoring journalist Chris Harris as he takes audiences on a ride across seven episodes throughout July and August. Premiering Monday, July 11, 9/8c, Chris gets behind the wheel to…
Read MoreNew York, NY – BBC AMERICA announced today the renewal of its award-winning original series “Orphan Black” for a fifth and final season. The drama starring Tatiana Maslany has been re-commissioned for a 10-episode order from Temple Street and is slated to air in 2017. The series has been hailed as “thoroughly impressive, wildly entertaining”…
Read MoreNew York, NY – Following his hilarious appearance in The Husbands of River Song, Matt Lucas returns to Doctor Who from the opening episode of season 10 which starts filming next week in Cardiff (Monday, June 20). Commenting on his return to Doctor Who, Matt Lucas, said: “I’m chuffed to bits that Nardole is returning…
Read MoreNew York, NY – BBC Worldwide North America has acquired U.S. rights to LONDON ROAD, the film adaptation of the ground-breaking National Theatre play of the same name. The debut film by writer Alecky Blythe, with music by Adam Cork and lyrics by Alecky Blythe and Adam Cork and directed by Rufus Norris (Broken), LONDON…
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