ONE AMAZING SUMMER
Celebrate the summer with the world’s best natural history programming
A WEEK ON EARTH – Saturday, June 30 to Saturday, July 7
Starting with Best of Blue Planet II, BBC AMERICA will present a week of the best natural history programming including acclaimed series Blue Planet II, Emmy-winning Planet Earth and Planet Earth II, Africa, Wild West, Wild Alaska, Life and ending with the U.S. premiere of Earth: One Amazing Day.
BEST OF BLUE PLANET II – Saturday, June 30, 9/8c – US TV PREMIERE
BBC AMERICA’s Planet Earth: Blue Planet II was the most-watched nature program on ad-supported TV in nearly eight years when it premiered in January. Narrated by David Attenborough, it takes viewers on a revelatory and magical journey into the mesmerizing world of our oceans – the most undiscovered place on our planet.
The Atlantic called it “The greatest nature series of all time” and Vogue suggested: “Blue Planet II is an amazing excuse for a party.”
Best of Blue Planet II revisits the most memorable scenes from the seven episodes and shows that there is more life in the deep sea than anywhere else on Earth. Highlights include the Giant Trevally that fly out of the water to snatch seabirds in mid-air; the industrious Tuskfish, who uses a coral anvil to crack open his clams; the first deep manned submersible to dive 3,280 feet into the frigid waters of the Antarctic and 2,000 feet deep in the Gulf of Mexico. witness methane volcanoes erupting with bubbles the size of basketballs.
EARTH: ONE AMAZING DAY – Saturday, July 7, 9/8c – US TV PREMIERE
Earth: One Amazing Day is narrated by Academy Award-winning filmmaker and actor Robert Redford, and tells an astonishing journey over the course of one single day, tracking the sun from the highest mountains to the remotest islands, from exotic jungles to urban jungles.
Told with humor, intimacy, emotion and a jaw-dropping sense of cinematic splendor, the film features a baby zebra desperate to cross a swollen river, a penguin who heroically undertakes a death-defying daily commute to feed his family, a family of sperm whales who like to snooze vertically and a sloth on the hunt for love. Earth: One Amazing Day spectacularly highlights how every day is filled with more unseen dramas and wonders than you can possibly imagine.
SOUTH PACIFIC - Saturday, July 14, 9/8c – UK ORIGINAL, NEW BEHIND THE SCENES FOOTAGE
This is the UK original of South Pacific, which explores the remote South Pacific islands. It is narrated by Emmy-winner Benedict Cumberbatch, and also has additional footage with South Pacific Diaries showing behind the scenes on each of the six episodes. The Pacific is 99% water and only 1% land - made up of 20,000 islands. It stretches from the heat of the tropics to the sub-Antarctic; coral gardens thrive in its warmest waters – and icebergs float in its coldest.
The distance between the islands can be huge – literally hundreds or thousands of miles – yet these were the journeys that plants, animals and people had to make to colonize these remote places, encircled by the ocean. And isolation does curious things to plants, animals and even people.
Witness flesh-eating caterpillars, giant crabs capable of opening coconuts, vampire bugs with antifreeze in their veins, geckos that can breed without any need of a male, frogs that have never been tadpoles and the humans that combine hand-made kites and spider webs to catch fish. In human terms, the ocean journeys of the Polynesians were the most incredible ever taken – navigating thousands of miles in just canoes. They had reached Hawaii even before the Vikings launched a ship.
The South Pacific's innumerable islands look like pieces of paradise, but the reality of life here is sometimes very different, with waves the size of buildings, brutal tropical storms, and, in the far south, even blizzards. This is the real South Pacific.
MISSION GALAPAGOS – Saturday, August 25, 9/8c
Four million years ago a furnace of molten rock erupted and created the Galapagos Islands – a beautiful oceanic outpost 600 miles off mainland South America. It’s an unforgiving landscape – yet this unique chain of rocky islands is home to giant tortoises, equatorial penguins, pink iguanas, and dandelion trees. The islands also attract a wave of extraordinary ‘visitors’ every year, including albatross, whale-sharks and hammerhead sharks. Why do these ocean giants return every year, and how exactly do they find it? Could a strong geomagnetic force-field be guiding the ocean giants towards the islands?
Mission Galapagos uses submersible cameras and 3D imaging to tell us about the volcanoes and creatures that lie beneath while a team of experts abseil into volcanoes, journey through mangroves to monitor baby sharks and free-dive off shore to tag mighty hammerheads and film baby sea lions at play. Scientists explore the extraordinary ways that local wildlife has adapted to island-life. From sunbathing penguins to iguanas that have learnt to swim, the series reveals just how far a species will stretch itself in order to survive.
YELLOWSTONE – Saturday, September 15, 9/8c
Larger than some American states, Yellowstone National Park is one of the world’s last and most spectacular wildernesses – a global icon of natural beauty. It is also home to some of the richest wildlife beyond the plains of Africa.
Yellowstone is no ordinary wilderness – a lost world of vast plains and endless forests defended on all sides by towering mountains, home to America’s last great Bison herds and realm of the wolf. It is also the most extensive thermal area on Earth. There are more than 10,000 boiling springs, fumaroles and bubbling mud pots here and more Geysers than the rest of the world put together. These strange natural wonders first made Yellowstone famous and still make it unique today.
In a land of beauty and peril, the dramatic lives and fortunes of its animals are inexorably bound together. Intimate and emotional, epic and engaging, Yellowstone reveals the grandeur of this amazing place as its animals struggle to survive over the course of three vividly changing seasons.
About BBC AMERICA
BBC AMERICA is a hub of innovative, culturally contagious programming including the Emmy® and IDA-winning Planet Earth II and acclaimed Planet Earth: Blue Planet II, top-rated science-fiction phenomenon Doctor Who, ground-breaking unscripted series Top Gear, buzzy and hilarious The Graham Norton Show as well as the upcoming series Killing Eve from Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Dynasty (w/t), the next chapter in the epic story of our planet, as well as Premier League Darts. A joint venture between BBC Worldwide (the commercial arm of the BBC) and AMC Networks, BBCA’s influential shows such as Orphan Black and Luther, among many others, have attracted critical acclaim and earned Emmy® Awards, Peabody Awards, Critics’ Choice Awards and Golden Globes®. Created in 1998, the irrepressible network has garnered one of cable’s most curious, educated and affluent audiences, with many properties boasting super-fan levels of engagement. Available through cable, satellite TV and streaming services, BBC AMERICA broadcasts in both standard and high-definition. Get caught up, BBCA offers full episodes On Demand across all major digital platforms, BBC AMERICA app and bbcamerica.com.
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