No! Not that kind of binge!
BBC America has gathered a veritable feast of movies and TV shows to gladden the hearts of most everyone – Movies That Sleigh; Sci-Fi Binge; Earth Binge; Darts Binge; A Few of Our Favorite Things; Doctor Who Christmas specials; and a Doctor Who Marathon.
Check out the trailer and a list of Binge for the Holidays programming below.
Continue reading BBC AMERICA’S BINGE FOR THE HOLIDAYS LAUNCHES MONDAY, DECEMBER 3!
New Doctor; new holiday!
Following a marathon of Christmas specials, Jodie Whittaker’s thirteenth Doctor will be featured in the first Who Year’s Day special.
The New Year’s episode will find Team TARDIS facing an evil from across Earth’s history, courtesy of writer/showrunner Chris Chibnall and director Wayne Yip.
This week on Doctor Who (BBC America, 8/7C), The Doctor and her friends find themselves on a hospital ship following the exploding of a sonic mine – but the hospital ship is no sanctuary.
Continue reading Doctor Who: The Tsuranga Conundrum – Risk to Life: Absolute!
BBC America has greenlit a ‘punk rock thriller’ series based on the City Watch subset of Sir Terry Pratchett’s Discworld novels.
The Watch is a disruptive, character-driven thriller that centers on Sir Terry’s misfit cops as they fight to save a ramshackle city of normalized wrongness, from both the past and future in a perilous quest.
Continue reading BBC America Greenlights Series Based on Sir Terry Pratchett’s Discworld Novels!
With Arachnids in the UK, Doctor Who (BBC America, Sundays, 8/7C) returns to one of the genres it does particularly well – horror. Time to start watching from between your fingers (or from behind your sofa)!
BBC America will air Snatches: Moment’s from Women’s Lives – eight short films inspired by women who have spoken out.
The eight films star Jodie Comer (Killing Eve), Shirley Henderson (Harry Potter), Antonia Thomas (The Good Doctor), Romola Garai (The Hour) and more.
Snatches: Moment’s from Women’s Lives premieres on Sunday, November 4th (9/8C). The trailer and taglines from all eight short films follow.
Continue reading BBC AMERICA TO AIR SHORT FILM SERIES SNATCHES: MOMENTS FROM WOMEN’S LIVES!
Rosa opens in Montgomery, Alabama in 1943, as Rosa Parks tries to catch a late bus – resulting in humiliation and even the loss of her bus fare. Cut to twelve years later, Mrs. Parks sitting on a bench eating her lunch – and the TARDIS appearing in an alley just around the corner.
The Doctor discovers that there are traces of Altron energy – the same energy that powers the TARDIS.
Continue reading Doctor Who: Rosa – One Person Can Change the Universe!
The eleventh season premiere of Doctor Who – introducing Jodie Whittaker as the thirteenth Doctor – produced ratings 48% higher than the previous season premiere in Nielsen live/same day ratings.
Whittaker’s Doctor also produced nearly unanimous praise from critics.
Doctor Who can be found on BBC America on Sundays (8/7C).
The global premiere of BBC America’s Doctor Who on Sunday, October 7th, will now be simulcasting coast-to-coast at 1:45pm ET/10:45am PT on the network. That evening, BBC America will air a special encore at 8pm ET/PT with bonus interviews with Jodie Whittaker and footage from New York Comic Con. For the run of the season, the series will premiere regularly at 8pm ET/PT on Sundays.
Check out Jodie Whittaker’s interview on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert below.
Continue reading BBC America Announces Doctor Who’s Global Premiere Date and Times!
Dynasties follows five of the world’s most celebrated but endangered animals – chimpanzees, emperor penguins, lions, painted wolves and tigers – as they do whatever it takes to survive and protect the next generation.
Dynasties – produced and narrated by Sir David Attenborough – will premiere on BBC America on Saturday, January 19. 2019 (9/8C).
Continue reading First Look Trailer: BBC America’s Dynasties!
Doctor Who will have its global premiere on Sunday, October 7th (1:45/12:45C) in a simulcast that will be shown at New York Comic Con 2018 – followed by a panel with star Jodie Whittaker, showrunner Chris Chibnall and executive producer Matt Strevens.
The season premiere, The Woman Who Fell To Earth, will air on BBC America at 8/7C (with bonus interviews with Jodie Whittaker and footage from New York Comic Con),the show’s new regular timeslot.