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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BBC Worldwide North America Appoints Sergei Kuharsky Executive Vice President, Franchise and Digital Enterprises
New York, NY — Sergei Kuharsky has been appointed Executive Vice President, Franchise and Digital Enterprises, BBC Worldwide North America. Kuharsky, who joined BBC Worldwide North America in April, 2016 was most recently Senior Vice President, Strategy and Business Development. Kuharsky will continue to report to Ann Sarnoff, President, BBC Worldwide North America. In his…
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BBC AMERICA Greenlights New Original Series Top Gear America
New 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…
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Traveling Through Space, Time, and Teen Angst – BBC AMERICA’s New Doctor Who Spin-Off
New 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…
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BBC AMERICA’s Planet Earth II, The First Ever Natural History Television Series Released on 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray, In the U.S. and Canada on March 28, 2017 Narrated by Sir David Attenborough
Street Date: March 28, 2017 Suggested Retail Price: UHD $59.99 ($74.98 in Canada) / DVD $35.99 ($44.98 in Canada) / Blu-ray $44.95 ($55.98 in Canada) Length: Approx. 360 mins + bonus content / 3-disc set (UHD) / 2-disc set (DVD/BD) New York, NY – For the first time ever, BBC Home Entertainment is making a 4K Ultra HD…
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Watching Nature Programs Makes You Happier New BBC Research Reveals
New 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,…
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BBC Worldwide and ITV Launch Subscription Video-On-Demand Service Delivering Largest Collection of British Programming Available to U.S. Audiences: BritBox
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New 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…
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Doctor Who: Season 10 Premiere, Starring Peter Capaldi and Introducing Pearl Mackie, Comes to Cinemas for Two Nights Only April 17 & 19, 2017
New York, NY – Presented by Fathom Events, the Doctor is back on the big screen with BBC AMERICA’s Doctor Who: Season 10 Premiere, starring Peter Capaldi, who will be joined by new companion Pearl Mackie (Bill) and returning alien companion Matt Lucas (Nardole). Following BBC AMERICA’s television premiere on Saturday, April 15 at 9/8c, the episode…
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BBC AMERICA’s London East End Drama, Ripper Street, Returns for its Final Season on March 8
New 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…
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2.7 Million Viewers #GatherTogether for Planet Earth II Premiere
New 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…
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