The Americas Schedule Change You Need to Know About This Weekend (Sunday, March 2)
The 10-episode nature docuseries is narrated by Tom Hanks and scored by Hans Zimmer.
Based on the successful premiere of its new nature docuseries The Americas, NBC has decided on another double-episode presentation this Sunday, March 2, featuring starring turns from wooly bison and giant otters.
The 10-episode event narrated by Tom Hanks (Forrest Gump, Toy Story) and scored by Hans Zimmer (The Lion King, Dune: Part Two) spotlights the natural beauty found across North and South America.
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The Americas schedule change for Sunday, March 2
NBC will air The Americas' third and fourth episodes — "The Wild West" and "The Amazon" — Sunday, March 2 at 7:00 p.m. and 8:00 p.m. ET, respectively, with the latter leading into the sophomore installment of Suits LA at 9:00 p.m. ET.
Episode 3, "The Wild West," will transport viewers to the plains of the United States, where wooly bison battle to survive, while Episode 4, "The Amazon," showcases the hunting habits of giant otters.
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From then on out, the remaining six episodes of The Americas — "The Frozen North,” “The Gulf Coast,” “The Andes,” “The Caribbean,” “The West Coast,” and “Patagonia" — are set to drop one-by-one on Sunday evenings at 8:00 p.m. ET.
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"A ton of it is just ... me reacting to this footage," Hanks said in a recent Today interview. "There are times where I cannot believe what I am looking at. There is not a moment of artificiality in there. Nothing has been CGI'd ... [You ask yourself], 'How long is someone bent over an eyepiece of a camera, saying, I think the bee is going to land where the other bee is'?"
“I had the idea that there was an area of the planet no one had ever really covered,” BAFTA-winner Mike Gunton (Life, Planet Earth II, Dynasties), who serves as executive producer on behalf of of BBC Studios' Natural History Unit, told The Hollywood Reporter last spring. “It’s the Americas. What’s so exciting is that nowhere has this range. You cannot imagine anything more diverse. As a wildlife filmmaker, you are looking for superlatives. It hasn’t got elephants, but it’s got everything else. [We] are delivering things people have never seen before."
