AMC Sets Date for BBC America Premiere of 'Asia'

Sir David Attenborough's name is virtually synonymous with natural history and wildlife programming. The award-winning naturalist has taken us everywhere, exploring the full breadth of our world with the Planet Earth series and delving even further into the specifics of everything from the deep sea (Blue Planet) and the Arctic (Frozen Planet) to the complex global ecosystems of plants (The Green Planet). Now, his latest series aims to give viewers an in-depth view of life on the world's largest continent: Asia. 

Filmed over nearly four years with 120 shoots in 21 countries, the sweeping wildlife series will showcase the breathtaking diversity of Asia’s wildest places. This region is simultaneously home to the world's highest mountain range, the deepest ocean, the tallest jungles, and the most extensive cave, meaning the sheer scope of life on this continent is unlike anywhere else — and fairly breathtaking to watch. 

The seven-part series, currently airing in the U.K., will officially premiere on BBC America and AMC+ in January. It will take viewers from the heights of the Himalayas to the depths of the forests of Kurdistan and the unrelenting heat of the Gobi desert. Along the way, it features stunning (and occasionally unprecedented) footage of countless animal species: sea snakes in the western Pacific, a lone wolf high on the Tibetan Plateau, rhinos courting in Nepal, and more. 

Asia will also explore the conservation challenges facing the continent and highlight the potential solutions championed by the region’s conservation heroes.

Here's the series' logline. 

Narrated by Sir David Attenborough, Asia will feature dramatic wildlife stories from each corner of the continent from the Tibetan plateau, the mighty taiga forest, the Gobi Desert, and the Himalayas, and the animals that thrive at the heart of Asia’s megacities. 

The series is broken into themed installments based on region and habitat, ranging from a "Beneath the Waves" hour that explores marine life to "Tangled Worlds," which looks at jungles, and "The Arid Heart," which explores deserts and dry grasslands. As many of Attenborough's recent series have often done, an installment will be dedicated to the increasingly complex ways that animals and humans must share a crowded world and the surprising ways that the habitats of both have begun to merge. (Yes, this is the one where elephants will literally stop traffic.)

Attenborough narrates all seven episodes and is an executive producer alongside Roger Webb. Matthew Wright is the series producer. The BBC Studios Natural History Unit produced the series and co-produced it with BBC America, France Télévisions, and ZDF.

Asia will premiere on Saturday, January 25, 2025, at 8 p.m. ET on BBC America and will be available to stream on AMC+ the same day. The series will continue with weekly installments through the beginning of March.