BBC Dinos 24/7
United States
BBC Dinos 24/7 is a cable channel available in the United States that focuses entirely on prehistoric life. Its programming consists of documentary series and specials about dinosaurs, paleontology, and the geological eras in which these animals lived. Content draws heavily from the BBC’s natural history library, including programs originally produced for BBC Earth and other factual strands. Episodes typically examine dinosaur behavior, fossil discoveries, and the science behind extinction events. The channel does not carry news, sports, or entertainment programming; its schedule is built around long-form factual content aimed at viewers interested in natural history and earth sciences.
Viewers can access BBC Dinos 24/7 through most major cable and satellite providers in the United States. The channel also offers a live stream through select online TV services that carry the full linear feed. TV guide listings for the channel are published by local providers and typically repeat episodes across different time slots to accommodate various viewing schedules. No on-demand library or companion app is currently associated with the channel.
Schedule
00:09 - 01:09
Journeys From the Centre of the Earth
Art
Series, History, Science
Tracing the history of cave paintings.
01:09 - 02:09
Journeys From the Centre of the Earth
Beliefs
Series, History, Science
Dr Iain Stewart examines how the rocks beneath our feet played a crucial role in determining the beliefs of ancient civilisations.
02:09 - 03:09
Journeys From the Centre of the Earth
Water
Series, History, Science
Dr Iain Stewart looks at how ancient civilisations learned to exploit the water around them, from the flooding of our Stone Age ancestors' hunting grounds to the fall of the Roman Empire.
03:09 - 04:10
Journeys From the Centre of the Earth
Salt
Series, History, Science
Dr Iain Stewart looks at how salt has played a crucial role in the history of the Mediterranean, from the ice ages to the preservation of food and dead bodies in ancient Egypt.
04:10 - 05:11
Lost Cities of The Ancients
The Vanished Capital of the Pharaoh
Series, Educational, Science, History, Documentary
A journey to discover the legendary lost city of Piramesse, a magnificent ancient capital built 3,000 years ago by the Egyptian pharaoh Ramesses the Great. When it was finally rediscovered by early archaeologists, it opened up a bizarre puzzle because it was in the wrong place.
05:11 - 06:13
Lost Cities of The Ancients
The Cursed Valley of the Pyramids
Series, Educational, Science, History, Documentary, Performing arts
In the Lambayeque valley in northern Peru lies a strange lost world, the forgotten ruins of 250 mysterious pyramids, including some of the biggest on the planet, colossal structures made out of mud bricks.
06:13 - 07:15
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...
07:15 - 08:13
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...
08:13 - 09:10
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...
09:10 - 10:09
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...
10:09 - 11:11
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.
11:11 - 12:13
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.
12:13 - 13:21
Ice Age Giants
Land of the Sabre-Tooth
Series, Documentary, Nature, Animals
Journey back 40,000 years and discover the great beasts of the Ice Age with Professor Alice Roberts. Alice's Ice Age odyssey begins in the land of the Sabre-tooth, North America, a continent that was half-covered by ice, up to two miles thick. Yet, it also boasts the most...
13:21 - 14:30
Ice Age Giants
Land of the Cave-Bear
Series, Documentary, Nature, Animals
Alice ventures to the parts of the Northern Hemisphere, hit the hardest by the cold - Europe and Siberia. High in the mountains of Transylvania, a cave sealed for thousands of years reveals grisly evidence for a fight to the death between two starving giants, a cave bear and a...
14:30 - 15:39
Ice Age Giants
Last of the Giants
Series, Documentary, Nature, Animals
Even after thousands of years of ice crushing the Northern Hemisphere and temperatures of 20 degrees lower than those of today, many of the great giants of the Ice Age still walked the earth. It was only when the world had warmed up again that mammoths, woolly rhinos,...
15:39 - 16:38
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.
16:38 - 17:40
Lost Cities of The Ancients
The Vanished Capital of the Pharaoh
Series, Educational, Science, History, Documentary
A journey to discover the legendary lost city of Piramesse, a magnificent ancient capital built 3,000 years ago by the Egyptian pharaoh Ramesses the Great. When it was finally rediscovered by early archaeologists, it opened up a bizarre puzzle because it was in the wrong place.
17:40 - 18:42
Lost Cities of The Ancients
The Cursed Valley of the Pyramids
Series, Educational, Science, History, Documentary, Performing arts
In the Lambayeque valley in northern Peru lies a strange lost world, the forgotten ruins of 250 mysterious pyramids, including some of the biggest on the planet, colossal structures made out of mud bricks.
18:42 - 19:44
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...
19:44 - 20:46
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...
20:46 - 21:47
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.
21:47 - 22:48
Archaeology: A Secret History
The Power of the Past
Series, Documentary, History
Richard Miles shows how 20th-century attention turned from civilisation and kings to the search for the common man against a background of science and competing political ideologies.
22:48 - 23:51
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.
23:51 - 00:48
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...