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BBC Dinos 24/7 TV guide

BBC Dinos 24/7 today, and every day back to March 2026.

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CountryUnited States
Mon 12 Oct28 programmes
Listings fromMar 2026
CategoryGeneral
On now on BBC Dinos 24/706:38 EDT
On now
Ice Age Giants
05:56 to 07:05 EDT
27 minutes left
07:05Ice Age GiantsS1 E3
08:15Deadly DinosaursS1 E1
08:50Deadly DinosaursS1 E2
09:23Deadly DinosaursS1 E3
ScheduleBBC Dinos 24/7 schedule

All times America/New_York. The same day from the API: GET /v1/channels/ch_m31gtss5/schedule?date=2026-10-12&tz=America/New_York

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TimeProgrammeEpisodeCategoryLength
23:53Ice Age GiantsEven after thousands of years of ice crushing the Northern Hemisphere and temperatures of 20 degrees lower than those of today, many of the great g...S1 E3, Last of the GiantsSeries, Documentary1h 9m
01:02Wildlife on OneOnce cast as B-movie dinosaurs, Central America's green iguanas are revealing complex social lives that offer fresh clues to prehistoric dinosaur b...S31 E4, Iguanas, Living Like DinosaursSeries, Documentary37m
01:39Walking with Monsters: Life Before DinosaursPart 1/3. As life starts evolving in the oceans, our bizarre earliest ancestors battle against 3m long sea scorpions and giant carnivorous fish. Th...S1 E1, Water DwellersSeries, Documentary37m
02:16Walking with Monsters: Life Before DinosaursPart 2/3. Millions of years before the dinosaurs, a world full of giant sabretooth reptiles and huge armoured herbivores was obliterated when globa...S1 E2, Reptile's BeginningsSeries, Documentary37m
02:53Walking with Monsters: Life Before DinosaursPart 3/3. The struggle for survival moves onto land in the shape of early reptiles such as Petrolacosaurus. In the Carboniferous swamps, insects an...S1 E3, Clash of TitansSeries, Documentary34m
03:27The Truth About Killer DinosaursBird expert Bill Oddie helps construct amazing, life-sized, biomechanical replicas as he presents an imaginary battle between a tyrannosaurus rex a...S1 E1, Tyrannosaurus VS TriceratopsSeries, Science1h 8m
04:35The Truth About Killer DinosaursHere, Bill Oddie asks whether the Velociraptor was really the monstrous predator of popular legend.S1 E2, Velociraptor VS AnkylosaurSeries, Science1h 9m
05:44Walking with BeastsSpecial effects-filled documentary beginning 49 million years ago. The world is heavily forested and birds rule the planet, preying on small mammal...S1 E1, New DawnSeries, Documentary38m
06:22Walking with BeastsA pregnant basilosaurus, an 18-metre, carnivorous whale which lives in the Tethys Sea, is forced to kill the young of a smaller whale to ensure the...S1 E2, Whale KillerSeries, Documentary37m
06:59Walking with BeastsGoing back 25 million years to the time of the indricothere, which was the largest mammal ever to live on dry land, being seven metres high and wei...S1 E3, Land of GiantsSeries, Documentary34m
07:33Walking with BeastsThe beginnings of mankind can be traced back 3.2 million years to Ethiopia and the advent of Australopithecus, a type of ape which, like humans, wa...S1 E4, Next of KinSeries, Documentary38m
08:11Walking with BeastsRevealing the exotic, oversized creatures that inhabited South America one million years ago, such as the deadly smilodon, the largest of all sabre...S1 E5, Sabre ToothSeries, Documentary36m
08:47Walking with BeastsLooking at the depths of the Ice Age, following a group of mammoths who have been forced to travel south with the advent of winter. On a dangerous ...S1 E6, Mammoth JourneySeries, Documentary34m
09:21HorizonExploring Mongolia's Gobi Desert to determine whether dinosaurs exist in the present as birds. It is one of the harshest places on Earth with the b...S1993 E14, Ghosts in the Dinosaur GraveyardSeries, Science1h
10:21HorizonExploring the newfound remains of a dinosaur species considered the biggest carnivore in history, all while questioning whether they engaged in a f...S2000 E17, Extreme DinosaursSeries, Science59m
11:20Walking With CavemenThe lives of cavemen were nasty, brutish and short, but somehow they evolved over 3.5 million years into Homo sapiens.S1 E1, First AncestorsSeries, Documentary59m
12:19Walking With CavemenTwo very different species compete for survival in Africa 2,000,000 years ago.S1 E2, Blood BrothersSeries, Documentary1h
13:19Attenborough and the Giant DinosaurDavid Attenborough tells the story of the discovery and reconstruction in Argentina of the world's largest known dinosaur, a brand-new species of t...Special, Documentary1h 3m
14:22HorizonThe earth split in India 66 million years ago in a disaster that may have caused the end of the dinosaurs.S1991 E8, The Day the Earth MeltedSeries, Science59m
15:21HorizonIn 2000, scientists made a groundbreaking discovery, explaining how birds evolved from dinosaurs. However, a deeper investigation put a question ma...S2002 E7, The Dinosaur That Fooled the WorldSeries, Science59m
16:20HorizonScientists investigate the meteorite impact responsible for the extinction of dinosaurs. According to a theory, the event was triggered by a comet ...S1997 E10, Crater of DeathSeries, Science58m
17:18Lost Cities of The AncientsA journey to discover the legendary lost city of Piramesse, a magnificent ancient capital built 3,000 years ago by the Egyptian pharaoh Ramesses th...S1 E1, The Vanished Capital of the PharaohSeries, Educational1h 3m
18:21Lost Cities of The AncientsIn the Lambayeque valley in northern Peru lies a strange lost world, the forgotten ruins of 250 mysterious pyramids, including some of the biggest ...S1 E2, The Cursed Valley of the PyramidsSeries, Educational1h 2m
19:23Lost Cities of The AncientsThis is the story of the formidable Hittites and their long-lost capital, Hattusha, which has recently been rediscovered. Buried in this lost city ...S1 E3, The Dark Lords of HattushaSeries, Educational1h 2m
20:25Archaeology: A Secret HistoryArchaeologist Richard Miles presents a series charting the history of the breakthroughs and watersheds in our long quest to understand our ancient ...S1 E1, In the BeginningSeries, Documentary1h 1m
21:26Archaeology: A Secret HistoryArchaeologist Richard Miles shows how discoveries in the 18th and 19th centuries overturned ideas of when and where civilisation began, as empires ...S1 E2, The Search for CivilisationSeries, Documentary1h 1m
22:27Archaeology: A Secret HistoryRichard Miles shows how 20th-century attention turned from civilisation and kings to the search for the common man against a background of science ...S1 E3, The Power of the PastSeries, Documentary1h 2m
23:29HorizonAccording to new evidence, the Woolly Mammoth went on roaming until about the time the Pyramids were built.S1994 E2, The Last MammothSeries, Science59m
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00:27Lost Worlds: Vanished LivesSeries, Documentary
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