Just logged onto http://www.bbcamerica.com/ to see what sort of stuff they showed. From the front page alone I spotted two ITV dramas! What is going on?
BBC America is a "best of British TV" channel rather than exclusively BBC.
They have shown Faking It (Channel Four in the UK), as well as Graham Norton's shows before he moved to the BBC (when he was still with Channel Four over here)
As long as BBC America buy the rights to show the programmes in the US, they can show them (whether they were made by or for the BBC or not)!
Why is the BBC AMERICA logo in the top left of the screen?
The logo is positioned according to the BBC's international guidelines and is consistent with all the BBC's international channels. Additionally,
it is customary for television stations in the United States to identify themselves with an on-screen logo.
A question about rights - do the BBC have to offer British programmes on the "open market", with BBC America bidding for the rights?
Although the number of UK programmes on US TV is far fewer than US programmes on UK television, I just wondered if it followed a similar pattern to here, where for example E4 bid to screen Fox programmes, rather than Sky / FX getting them automatically.
To be fair, as much as I hate DOGS their are 6 main US TV Networks, ABC, CBS, NBC, FOX, UPN, WB. and they can be confusing which channel your watching. So the dog which is hardly noticable can be helpful.
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To be fair, as much as I hate DOGS their are 6 main US TV Networks, ABC, CBS, NBC, FOX, UPN, WB. and they can be confusing which channel your watching. So the dog which is hardly noticable can be helpful.
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I do think the US dogs in the bottom right are far less intrusive than the UK ones in the top left - possibly because you read from left to right, top to bottom - so it's the last thing you notice on US TV, and the first in the UK. US dogs also tend to be more transparent.
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