Absolutely Fabulous: 20th Anniversary Specials
Street Date: September 11, 2012 Suggested Retail Price: $24.98 each ($30.98 each in Canada) Length: approx. 90 minutes + bonus features/ single disc New York, NY – They’re back, darlings. BBC Home Entertainment is absolutely thrilled to bring Absolutely Fabulous: 20thAnniversary Specials to DVD on September 11, 2012. International comedy sensations Jennifer Saunders (French & Saunders) and Joanna Lumley…
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BBC AMERICA’s Doctor Who Returns Saturday, September 1 With Five Blockbuster Episodes
New York, NY – BBC AMERICA’s Doctor Who returns after a record-breaking season with five blockbuster episodes on September 1 as part of Supernatural Saturday. Join the Doctor, his companions Amy and Rory (aka the Ponds) and numerous friends on their latest escapades through space and time where they puzzle an unexpected invasion of Earth, save a…
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COPPER – Home Entertainment
Street Date: October 30, 2012 DVD Suggested Retail Price: $49.98 Blu-Ray Suggested Retail Price: $59.98 Length: Approx. 450 minutes + bonus features/ 3-disc set New York, NY – BBC Home Entertainment invites you to join New York’s Finest when COPPER shoots its way to Blu-ray and DVD on October 30, 2012. Wall Street Journal calls this gripping drama “powerful,”…
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BBC AMERICA’s First Original Drama COPPER Becomes The Channel’s Highest Rated Series Premiere Ever
New York, NY – BBC AMERICA’s first original scripted series COPPER, which premiered on Sunday, August 19, has become the channel’s highest-rated series premiere ever. COPPER delivered 1.8 million* viewers in total audience. In its 10:00pm premiere, COPPER attracted 1.1 million** total viewers and delivered over half a million in A25-54. Perry Simon, General Manager, Channels, BBC Worldwide…
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Planet Dinosaur: Meet The Monsters You Never Discovered Before
Street Date: August 21, 2012 Suggested Retail Price: $19.96 ($24.98 in Canada) Length: Approx. 180 minutes + bonus feature / single disc New York, NY – Discover the jaw-dropping prehistoric world of the most terrifying reptiles with the North American premiere of Planet Dinosaur on August 21, 2012 from BBC Home Entertainment. The mysteries of the dinosaurs continue…
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BBC Home Entertainment Releases: August Highlights 2012
New York, NY – DOCTOR WHO: SPEARHEAD FROM SPACE SPECIAL EDITION Street Date: August 14, 2012 Suggested Retail Price: $24.98 ($30.98 in Canada) Length: Approx. 97 minutes + bonus features/ single disc The Time Lords have banished the newly regenerated Doctor (Third Doctor – Jon Pertwee) to Earth. But he isn’t the only alien to have arrived,…
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Lifetime’s “The Week The Women Went” to Now Premiere August 14
New York, NY – Lifetime’s new series The Week the Women Went will now premiere on Tuesday, August 14, at 10pm ET/PT, immediately following Dance Moms. Narrated by comedian Jeff Foxworthy, and produced by BBC Worldwide Productions, the five episode, one-hour unscripted series explores modern gender roles and finds out what happens when all of the women leave one…
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BBC Worldwide and MTV Networks Bring Radiohead: The King of Limbs – Live From the Basement to U.S. Audiences
New York, NY – BBC Worldwide America, the commercial arm of the BBC, today announced a deal with MTV Networks for a package of first-class music programming. Headlining the deal is the exclusive Radiohead: The King of Limbs – Live From the Basement, an intimate concert with English alternative rock group Radiohead, one of the most successful…
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Absolutely Fabulous: Olympics Special And Going For Gold – The ‘48 Games To Premiere July 25 On BBC AMERICA
New York, NY– BBC AMERICA’s Summer of London programming continues on Wednesday, July 25 with a tribute to the London Games featuring the US premieres of the uplifting drama Going for Gold – The ‘48 Games, starring Doctor Who’s Matt Smith, and Absolutely Fabulous: Olympics special starring comedy icons Jennifer Saunders and Joanna Lumley. GOING FOR GOLD – THE ’48…
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BBC AMERICA’s Dramaville Earns Five Emmy Nominations
New York, NY – Announced this morning, BBC AMERICA’s Dramaville has earned five Emmy nominations, the most in one year in the channel’s history, for the miniseries Luther and The Hour. BBC AMERICA’s crime miniseries Luther, starring Idris Elba, Ruth Wilson, Dermot Crowley, Warren Brown and Paul McGann, is nominated for Outstanding Miniseries or Movie. Idris Elba (Pacific Rim, Prometheus) is honored…
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