‘Friday Night With Jonathan Ross' Added to BBC America

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BBC America is adding the British Broadcasting Corporation talk show, Friday Night With Jonathan Ross to its lineup.

The show, which has been a BBC One staple since 2001, will begin airing on the U.S. channel beginning Friday, June 12, at 8 p.m. That will be episode 18 of this season's BBC run, featuring Dustin Hoffman and Hugh Laurie, among others.

Friday Night will also extend its BBC reach to BBC Canada, UKTV New Zealand and BBC feeds to Latin America, Scandinavia and Africa.

John Eggerton
John Eggerton

Contributing editor John Eggerton has been an editor and/or writer on media regulation, legislation and policy for over four decades, including covering the FCC, FTC, Congress, the major media trade associations, and the federal courts. In addition to Multichannel News and Broadcasting + Cable, his work has appeared in Radio World, TV Technology, TV Fax, This Week in Consumer Electronics, Variety and the Encyclopedia Britannica.