Four years after NBC revealed it was moving into big-budget wildlife programming, the fruits of its labor are finally heading to the screen.
The Americas, the network’s ten-part tentpole wildlife series narrated by Tom Hanks, will premiere in February. The show will kick off with a two-hour premiere on Sunday, February 23.
It will be joined in midseason by Destination X, the network’s big new reality series that Deadline revealed received a series order in April, and procedural drama The Hunting Party starring Melissa Roxburgh.
The Americas was first announced in January 2020 by then-NBC boss Paul Telegdy. The show, which was then titled The New World, was originally set to launch on the back of the 2024 Olympics.
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