Arlington, VA — BBC Worldwide America Sales & Distribution and PBS announced today the sale of the first season of the critically acclaimed British drama, Call the Midwife to PBS. The series will premiere on September 30, 2012 at 8:00 p.m. leading into MASTERPIECE CLASSIC Upstairs Downstairs, transforming Sunday nights into a destination for drama…
Read MoreTHE DIAMOND QUEEN and THE QUEEN’S PALACES Street Date: May 29, 2012 Suggested Retail Price: DVD $19.98 each ($24.98 each in Canada) Length: The Diamond Queen is approx. 180 minutes + bonus features/ single disc The Queen’s Palaces is approx. 177 minutes + bonus features/ single disc New York, NY – BBC Home Entertainment is proud to celebrate Queen…
Read MoreNew York, NY – BBC Worldwide Sales & Distribution today announced three key music programming deals in the Latin American market including the sale of The Brit Awards (1 x 90’) to Turner International, Inc, U2: From the Sky Down (1 x 82’) to Globosat, and Radio 1’s Big Weekend 2011 (2 x 60’)to A&E Latin America. The deals were brokered…
Read MoreNew York, NY — BBC Worldwide, the commercial arm of the BBC, today announced the promotion of Parul Patel to Vice President, Factual Co-Productions and Sales, effective immediately. Parul will continue to oversee co-production and sales activity with broadcast partners across key factual programming genres, including natural history, news and current affairs, lifestyle and general…
Read MoreNew York, NY – As all eyes turn to London this summer, BBC AMERICA celebrates with a season of brilliantly British and exceptionally English programming. From The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee in June through the London Olympics in August, BBC AMERICA offers viewers a wide slate of live event coverage, comedies, documentaries, dramas and special features across…
Read MoreNew York, NY –– Inside Men, the next installment of BBC AMERICA’s Dramaville, follows three security depot employees, who plan and execute a multi-million pound cash heist. Every day they watch as millions of pounds worth of cash is counted, bound and stored in a vault. They see more money than they could ever dream of earning…
Read MoreNew York, NY / Washington D.C. – BBC Worldwide America’s Sales & Distribution division announced a co-production deal today with the National Geographic Channels’ U.S. wildlife network Nat Geo WILD, for a unique six-part natural history event, 24/7 Wild. This May, BBC One will broadcast one of its biggest wildlife television events to date, Planet Earth Live. The ambitious project…
Read MoreNew York, NY – As BBC AMERICA warms up for the London Olympics, the actors and creators of some of Britain’s most iconic comedies come together for a new comedy, Twenty Twelve, premiering in the US in June as part of BBC AMERICA’s Saturday night comedy block the Ministry of Laughs. Starring Hugh Bonneville (Downton Abbey), Jessica Hynes (Spaced), Olivia Colman (Peep Show), Amelia Bullmore (I’m Alan Partridge), Vincent…
Read MoreNew York, NY — BBC Future presents the first-ever exhibit of their paleo future columnist, Matt Novak, “The Future That Never Was.” The exhibit, presented in partnership with Atlas Obscura‘s third annual Obscura Day, will showcase Novak’s unparalleled private collection of ephemera, vintage advertisements and miscellaneous retro-future objects that capture the ghosts of future visions past. From…
Read MoreNew York, NY — BBC AMERICA announced today that Downton Abbey’s Dan Stevens will narrate the new two-hour Planet Earth special, The Making of Planet Earth, premiering Sunday, April 22. The original Planet Earth series, which has captivated audiences around the world in over 130 countries, now makes its first ever US broadcast premiere on BBC AMERICA as part of a very special two-day…
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