THE GRAHAM NORTON SHOW SEASON 7 – U.S. PREMIERE
The Graham Norton Show is back with the U.S. premiere of its seventh season on BBC AMERICA as host Graham Norton continues to merge pop culture, celebrity gossip and humor in his multi-award winning comedy chat show. Last season featured guests Robert Downey Jr, Ricky Gervais, David Tennant, Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne, 50 Cent, Rod Stewart and this season continues Norton’s tradition of bringing even bigger Hollywood and Britain’s A-list celebrities to the couch every week.
The Graham Norton Show premieres Saturday, April 17, 10:07 p.m. ET/PT and every Saturday following at its regular time of 10:00 p.m. ET/PT
FRIDAY NIGHT WITH JONATHAN ROSS TOP GEAR SPECIAL – BBC AMERICA ORIGINAL PREMIERE
The Friday Night with Jonathan Ross Top Gear Special features past interviews from previous seasons of Friday Night with Jonathan Ross with Top Gear presenters Jeremy Clarkson and James May. May takes a trip down memory lane with Ross as he revisits his trip to the Edge of Space while Clarkson and Ross go back to 1991 via a particularly embarrassing Top Gear video clip.
Friday Night with Jonathan Ross Top Gear Special premieres Monday, April 19, 9:40 p.m. ET/PT
BBC EARTH SUNDAY
The breathtaking natural history programming from BBC EARTH presents an afternoon of incredible specials every Sunday beginning April 4 with extended versions of three new incredible specials – including the BBC AMERICA premieres of Amazon: Super River, Cheetahs: Fast Track to Freedom and U.S. premiere of Elephants of Samburu.
AMAZON: SUPER RIVER – BBC AMERICA PREMIERE
This is the story of a river that almost splits a continent in half and contains a fifth of all the river water on the planet. With the help of the best of wildlife imagery, fantastic aerial and space photography, and new-look visual effects, Amazon: Super River takes the ultimate look at the biggest river system on the planet, from its primordial origins to the life that now survives there. The river’s animals and plants have evolved to cope with its elements from melted ice, torrential rain, fierce rapids and extreme floods. Make an impossible journey from the Andes to the Atlantic and explore the untameable, super force – the most diverse and biggest rainforest on earth, The Amazon.
Amazon: Super River premieres Sunday, April 25, 5:00 p.m. ET/PT
CHEETAHS: FAST TRACK TO FREEDOM – BBC AMERICA PREMIERE
This is the tale of two orphaned cheetah cubs, Sambu and Toki, and the task of transforming them from tame loveable kittens into bold, powerful hunters of the wild. It is a daunting task. Through the cheetahs hardships, a stroke of remarkable good luck delivered them into the care of The Lewa Wildlife Conservancy. Here, the task of Simon King’s, a wildlife filmmaker with many years experience of working with cheetahs was to ensure the survival of these two hapless creatures. Using a vocal and physical language that King observed wild cheetahs using, he hopes to teach Sambu and Toki to survive and give them the best possible chance. Lewa Wildlife Conservancy is full of Africa’s most impressive and dangerous animals from temperamental black rhinos to suspicious lions and the cheetahs lessons will be tested. King has to take a back seat and force the cubs’ natural hunting instincts in hopes of surviving their environment and becoming fully independent.
Cheetahs: Fast Track to Freedom premieres Sunday, April 25, 6:00 p.m. ET/PT
ELEPHANTS OF SAMBURU – U.S. PREMIERE
Saba Douglas Hamilton, who grew up among Africa’s elephants, is on home ground as she opens up their world. She encounters rivalry and passion as she visits old friends, the elephants in Kenya’s Samburu reserve. The biggest male in the park fights over a female, a baby elephant is washed away in a flooded river and an orphaned elephant is found starving, alone and in need of rescue.
Elephants of Samburu premieres Sunday, April 25, 7:00 p.m. ET/PT
STUNTS
KITCHEN NIGHTMARES SUNDAY
Renowned chef Gordon Ramsay dishes out a heavy serving of tough love as he turns around failing restaurants on both sides of the Atlantic in this Kitchen Nightmares marathon.
Kitchen Nightmares Sunday airs Sunday, April 4, starting at 1:00 p.m. ET/10:00 a.m. PT
REVEALING SUNDAY
Revealing Sunday features the “best of” BBC AMERICA Reveals from people who risk their health to lose weight, a woman’s club who campaign for the legalization of the world’s oldest sex profession, to the highs and lows of life as a stoner.
Revealing Sunday airs Sunday, April 11, starting at 1:00 p.m. ET/ 10:00 a.m. PT
WAITING FOR THE DOCTOR
As BBC AMERICA anxiously awaits science fiction television’s most anticipated event of the year – Matt Smith making his debut as the new Doctor Who, get ready for the big event by catching up on all the Doctor’s recent adventures and specials, in this all-day marathon.
Waiting for the Doctor airs all day Saturday, April 17
DUAL FEED/NEW WEEKNIGHT SCHEDULE
Please note beginning Monday, April 26, at 6:00 a.m. ET, BBC AMERICA will become a dual-feed network, with programming airing at the same time in both the Eastern and Pacific time zones. In conjunction with this switchover, we are modifying our primetime and late night schedule on weeknights, pre-empting the 10:00 p.m. episode of BBC World News America. There will be no changes to the weekend primetime schedules.
