BBC Dinos 24/7
Estados Unidos
BBC Dinos 24/7 é um canal a cabo disponível nos Estados Unidos focado inteiramente na vida pré-histórica. Sua programação consiste em séries documentais e especiais sobre dinossauros, paleontologia e as eras geológicas em que esses animais viveram. O conteúdo é amplamente extraído do acervo de história natural da BBC, incluindo programas originalmente produzidos para a BBC Earth e outras vertentes factuais. Os episódios geralmente examinam o comportamento dos dinossauros, descobertas de fósseis e a ciência por trás dos eventos de extinção. O canal não transmite notícias, esportes ou entretenimento; sua grade é construída em torno de conteúdo factual de longa duração voltado para telespectadores interessados em história natural e ciências da terra.
Os telespectadores podem acessar o BBC Dinos 24/7 através da maioria dos principais provedores de TV a cabo e satélite nos Estados Unidos. O canal também oferece uma transmissão ao vivo por meio de serviços de TV online selecionados que veiculam o feed linear completo. As listagens de guia de TV para o canal são publicadas pelos provedores locais e geralmente repetem episódios em diferentes horários para acomod
Programação
00:01 - 01:03
Lost Cities of The Ancients
The Dark Lords of Hattusha
Series, Educational, Science, History, Documentary
This is the story of the formidable Hittites and their long-lost capital, Hattusha, which has recently been rediscovered. Buried in this lost city is one of the greatest libraries of the ancient world, and all the secrets of this mysterious civilisation were written in two codes...
01:03 - 01:36
Wildlife on One
Iguanas: Living Like Dinosaurs
Series, Documentary, Nature, Animals
Once cast as B-movie dinosaurs, Central America's green iguanas are revealing complex social lives that offer fresh clues to prehistoric dinosaur behaviour.
01:36 - 02:07
Wildlife on One
Pterodactyls: Alive?
Series, Documentary, Nature, Animals
Fossil remains serve as clues in discovering how prehistoric flying creatures lived.
02:07 - 03:16
Prehistoric Autopsy
Neanderthal
Series, Documentary
Anatomist Professor Alice Roberts and biologist Dr George McGavin go on an extraordinary evolutionary journey to meet our ancient ancestors. They start with our closest prehistoric relative - a Neanderthal. To make the reconstructions as accurate as possible Alice and George...
03:16 - 04:25
Prehistoric Autopsy
Homo Erectus
Series, Documentary
The team go back 1.5 million years to meet one of the earliest humans, Homo erectus. They walked the earth far longer than any other human species and were the first ancestors to look a lot like we do today. The team reveal the latest research that suggests Homo erectus were...
04:25 - 05:34
Prehistoric Autopsy
Lucy
Series, Documentary
The team looks at probably the most famous of all our early ancestors. She is called Lucy from the species Australopithecus afarensis, and she lived 3.2 million years ago. Lucy's species had traded life in the trees for life on the ground, but this ability to routinely walk...
05:34 - 06:36
Lost Cities of The Ancients
The Dark Lords of Hattusha
Series, Educational, Science, History, Documentary
This is the story of the formidable Hittites and their long-lost capital, Hattusha, which has recently been rediscovered. Buried in this lost city is one of the greatest libraries of the ancient world, and all the secrets of this mysterious civilisation were written in two codes...
06:36 - 07:34
Tutankhamun: Life, Death and Legacy
Series, Documentary, Ancient history
Dan meets the mummies of Tutankhamun's parents at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, and discovers that they were actually brother and sister. CT scans reveal how this incestuous relationship could have been responsible for Tutankhamun's poor health. Raksha heads underground to a...
07:34 - 08:31
Tutankhamun: Life, Death and Legacy
Series, Documentary, Ancient history
Picking up the story in 1323BC, the pharaoh sustains the injury that would eventually kill him. On a scan of Tutankhamun's skeleton, Dan sees a break to his thigh bone which could have been a battle injury. John visits Howard Carter's house and probes the 1920s craze of...
08:31 - 09:30
Tutankhamun: Life, Death and Legacy
Series, Documentary, Ancient history
Dan discovers a series of curious anomalies in Tutankhamun's burial, and spots that the faces on his coffins and canopic jars do not match that of the famous golden mask. Raksha looks at Seti's tomb, which shows how low quality and hurried Tutankhamun's was in comparison. John...
09:30 - 10:32
Treasures of Ancient Egypt
The Birth of Art
Series, Art, History, Documentary, Miniseries
Alastair Sooke tells the story of Ancient Egyptian art and how it reflected the civilisation's religion, through thirty extraordinary masterpieces.
10:32 - 11:34
Treasures of Ancient Egypt
The Golden Age
Series, Art, History, Documentary, Miniseries
Alastair Sooke explores the sumptuous treasures of the Golden Age of Egyptian art, starting with troubling psychological portraits of tyrant king Senwosret III, and ending with the golden mask of boy-king Tutankhamun.
11:34 - 12:35
Treasures of Ancient Egypt
A New Dawn
Series, Art, History, Documentary, Miniseries
Alastair Sooke looks at how, despite political decline, the final era of the Egyptian Empire saw its art enjoy revival and rebirth. From the colossal statues of Rameses II that proclaimed the pharaoh's power to the final flourishes under Queen Cleopatra, Sooke discovers that the...
12:35 - 13:37
Secrets of the Pyramids
Episode 1
Series, History, Documentary
Exploring fresh archaeological excavations that shed new light on the lives of those who worked tirelessly on the pyramids.
13:37 - 14:11
Walking with Beasts
New Dawn
Series, Documentary, Science
Special effects-filled documentary beginning 49 million years ago. The world is heavily forested and birds rule the planet, preying on small mammals. Whales have not yet evolved, and their ancestors walk on the land.
14:11 - 14:45
Walking with Beasts
Whale Killer
Series, Documentary, Science
A pregnant basilosaurus, an 18-metre, carnivorous whale which lives in the Tethys Sea, is forced to kill the young of a smaller whale to ensure the survival of her unborn calf.
14:45 - 15:20
Walking with Monsters: Life Before Dinosaurs
Water Dwellers
Series, Documentary, Nature, History, Science, Animals, Miniseries
Part 1/3. As life starts evolving in the oceans, our bizarre earliest ancestors battle against 3m long sea scorpions and giant carnivorous fish. Their ability to survive will determine the shape of life on Earth and whether humans will exist at all. As our amphibian ancestors...
15:20 - 15:56
Walking with Monsters: Life Before Dinosaurs
Reptile's Beginnings
Series, Documentary, Nature, History, Science, Animals, Miniseries
Part 2/3. Millions of years before the dinosaurs, a world full of giant sabretooth reptiles and huge armoured herbivores was obliterated when global temperatures soared and vast deserts blanketed the land. As the environment recovered, populations of one species of tough reptile...
15:56 - 16:30
Walking with Monsters: Life Before Dinosaurs
Clash of Titans
Series, Documentary, Nature, History, Science, Animals, Miniseries
Part 3/3. The struggle for survival moves onto land in the shape of early reptiles such as Petrolacosaurus. In the Carboniferous swamps, insects and arthropods have taken over and grown into giants, from the giant spider Mesothelae to millipede-like monsters. As the swamps dry...
16:30 - 17:29
Horizon
Crater of Death
Series, Science, Technology, Documentary
Scientists investigate the meteorite impact responsible for the extinction of dinosaurs. According to a theory, the event was triggered by a comet hitting the present-day Gulf of Mexico.
17:29 - 18:38
The Mystery of Rome's X Tomb
Special, Documentary, History
Historian Dr Michael Scott unlocks the secrets of a mysterious tomb containing over 2,000 bodies unearthed within one of the catacombs of Rome. The bodies are found to have been wrapped in elaborate plaster and cloth shrouds, liberally sprinkled with ground up amber. Working...
18:38 - 19:23
Lost Worlds: Vanished Lives
Magic in the Rocks
Series, Documentary
Part 1/4. David Attenborough shows us how ancient creatures have come to be preserved as fossils and how those fossils can shed light on characteristics of these creatures' lives, and even their death.
19:23 - 20:12
Lost Worlds: Vanished Lives
Putting Flesh on Bone
Series, Documentary
Part 2/4. Could pterodactyls fly? And why did trilobites have such good eyes? David Attenborough investigates the secret lives of animals from the past, as told in the fossil record.
20:12 - 20:57
Lost Worlds: Vanished Lives
Dinosaur
Series, Documentary
Part 3/4. David Attenborough uncovers dinosaur bones in the Sahara desert and visits the biggest, most spectacular dinosaur displays in the world.
20:57 - 21:42
Lost Worlds: Vanished Lives
The Rare Glimpses
Series, Documentary
Part 4/4. David Attenborough uncovers bizarre creatures of the earliest seas, tiny horses the size of spaniels and an animal that's half bird and half reptile - the rarest of them all.
21:42 - 22:44
Secrets of the Pyramids
Episode 1
Series, History, Documentary
Exploring fresh archaeological excavations that shed new light on the lives of those who worked tirelessly on the pyramids.
22:44 - 23:46
Archaeology: A Secret History
In the Beginning
Series, Documentary, History
Archaeologist Richard Miles presents a series charting the history of the breakthroughs and watersheds in our long quest to understand our ancient past. He begins by going back 2,000 years to explore how archaeology began by trying to prove a biblical truth - a quest that soon...
23:46 - 00:47
Archaeology: A Secret History
The Search for Civilisation
Series, Documentary, History
Archaeologist Richard Miles shows how discoveries in the 18th and 19th centuries overturned ideas of when and where civilisation began, as empires competed to 'own' the past.