BBC America brings award-winning British television to the United States from the BBC and other broadcasters. It features razor-sharp comedy, groundbreaking movies, provocative drama and news with a global perspective.
BBC America was launched in March 1998. It is wholly owned by BBC Worldwide Ltd, one of the BBC’s commercial subsidiaries, and distributed by Discovery Networks. It is available via digital cable and satellite TV.
Programmes on BBC America include The Office, Coupling, So Graham Norton, Manchild, Changing Rooms, Ground Force, What Not To Wear, Wire in the Blood, Waking the Dead, Tipping the Velvet and BBC World News.
BBC America is part-financing the production of Robin Hood and the series is due to air on the corporation’s US cable channel in 2007.
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