{"end_date": "2026-05-19", "name": "BBC Dinos 24/7", "info_url": "https://epg.pw/channels/487333/20260518.html", "country": "US", "description": null, "error_message": "", "provider": "", "source_url": "https://epg.pw/api/epg.json?channel_id=487333&date=20260518&timezone=None", "epg_list": [{"desc": "Though the ancient powers have endured for centuries, their destruction is close at hand. However, some will leave lasting legacies that will continue to shape the world long after their downfall.", "start_date": "2026-05-18T00:28:00+00:00", "title": "Ancient Powers"}, {"desc": "A journey to discover the legendary lost city of Piramesse, a magnificent ancient capital built 3,000 years ago by the Egyptian pharaoh Ramesses the Great. When it was finally rediscovered by early archaeologists, it opened up a bizarre puzzle because it was in the wrong place.", "start_date": "2026-05-18T01:28:00+00:00", "title": "Lost Cities of The Ancients"}, {"desc": "In the Lambayeque valley in northern Peru lies a strange lost world, the forgotten ruins of 250 mysterious pyramids, including some of the biggest on the planet, colossal structures made out of mud bricks.", "start_date": "2026-05-18T02:30:00+00:00", "title": "Lost Cities of The Ancients"}, {"desc": "This is the story of the formidable Hittites and their long-lost capital, Hattusha, which has recently been rediscovered. Buried in this lost city is one of the greatest libraries of the ancient world, and all the secrets of this mysterious civilisation were written in two codes - one a unique form of hieroglyphs with which we can recreate the lost world of the Hittites.", "start_date": "2026-05-18T03:32:00+00:00", "title": "Lost Cities of The Ancients"}, {"desc": "Special effects-filled documentary beginning 49 million years ago. The world is heavily forested and birds rule the planet, preying on small mammals. 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These early members of the human family faced many dangers, including the sabre-toothed cat, malaria, and the 14-tonne delnotherium.", "start_date": "2026-05-18T06:16:00+00:00", "title": "Walking with Beasts"}, {"desc": "Revealing the exotic, oversized creatures that inhabited South America one million years ago, such as the deadly smilodon, the largest of all sabre tooth cats.", "start_date": "2026-05-18T06:50:00+00:00", "title": "Walking with Beasts"}, {"desc": "Looking 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 journey across the Alps, many become trapped in bogs or fall victim to predators. However, their most formidable enemies are waiting for them on their return journey - Neanderthals.", "start_date": "2026-05-18T07:25:00+00:00", "title": "Walking with Beasts"}, {"desc": "Part 1/3. As life starts evolving in the oceans, our bizarre earliest ancestors battle against 3m long sea scorpions and giant carnivorous fish. Their ability to survive will determine the shape of life on Earth and whether humans will exist at all. As our amphibian ancestors struggle onto land the monsters they face are even more deadly.", "start_date": "2026-05-18T07:59:00+00:00", "title": "Walking with Monsters: Life Before Dinosaurs"}, {"desc": "Part 2/3. Millions of years before the dinosaurs, a world full of giant sabretooth reptiles and huge armoured herbivores was obliterated when global temperatures soared and vast deserts blanketed the land. As the environment recovered, populations of one species of tough reptile exploded until it alone dominated the planet, but its reign was short-lived.", "start_date": "2026-05-18T08:33:00+00:00", "title": "Walking with Monsters: Life Before Dinosaurs"}, {"desc": "Part 3/3. The struggle for survival moves onto land in the shape of early reptiles such as Petrolacosaurus. In the Carboniferous swamps, insects and arthropods have taken over and grown into giants, from the giant spider Mesothelae to millipede-like monsters. As the swamps dry up, the world becomes dominated by the first ever giant reptiles - the huge, sail-backed Edaphosaurus.", "start_date": "2026-05-18T09:07:00+00:00", "title": "Walking with Monsters: Life Before Dinosaurs"}, {"desc": "The life of the first reptilian carnivores on Earth, told through computer animation.", "start_date": "2026-05-18T09:40:00+00:00", "title": "Walking with Dinosaurs"}, {"desc": "This programme travels 152 million years into the past to a planet dominated by mighty, long-necked sauropods - the largest animals ever to walk the earth. There were no birds, flowers or grass, and the land was carpeted by fern prairies and coniferous forests.", "start_date": "2026-05-18T10:15:00+00:00", "title": "Walking with Dinosaurs"}, {"desc": "A look at the world as it was 149 million years ago - in the late Jurassic Period. The old continents have broken up and much of the land is under water. Huge shallow seas have supported a revolution in marine life.", "start_date": "2026-05-18T10:48:00+00:00", "title": "Walking with Dinosaurs"}, {"desc": "A mind-expanding trip back through time to look at how the skies of 127 million years ago were dominated by huge flying reptiles, some as large as aeroplanes. The programme also follows the extraordinary journey of the pterosaur, which flew for thousands of miles in order to reach its breeding site. Narrated by Kenneth Branagh.", "start_date": "2026-05-18T11:22:00+00:00", "title": "Walking with Dinosaurs"}, {"desc": "This programme looks at the Cretaceous period, 106 million years ago. Volcanic activity forces the continents apart, and dinosaurs diversify into a range of species to cope with environmental extremes. The landmass that will become Australia and Antarctica is in sunlight for half of the year, and in frozen darkness for the rest.", "start_date": "2026-05-18T11:56:00+00:00", "title": "Walking with Dinosaurs"}, {"desc": "Looking at the closing chapters of the Cretaceous period, 65 million years ago, when the world is poisoned by massive volcanic activity. Among the fields of burning ash, the dinosaurs struggle for survival, oblivious to the Earth's impending collision with a giant comet.", "start_date": "2026-05-18T12:30:00+00:00", "title": "Walking with Dinosaurs"}, {"desc": "In a time when monstrous creatures ruled the earth, South America was the land of the giants. Nigel Marven walks among these gigantic creatures, on a quest to witness the largest predator bringing down the largest prey.", "start_date": "2026-05-18T13:04:00+00:00", "title": "Walking with Dinosaurs"}, {"desc": "Nigel Marven journeys back to the sand dunes of Mesozoic Mongolia to track the owner of the largest claws of all time, the Therizinosaurus. His adventure yields a series of surprising clues, a nest, footprints, dung, and more.", "start_date": "2026-05-18T13:38:00+00:00", "title": "Walking with Dinosaurs"}, {"desc": "Scientists study the perfectly preserved remains of an adolescent allosaurus they call Big Al.", "start_date": "2026-05-18T14:12:00+00:00", "title": "Walking with Dinosaurs"}, {"desc": "This scientific detective story traces the evidence for Big Al the allosaur's existence, using clues from climate change studies, forensics, and fossil records to bring him back to life.", "start_date": "2026-05-18T14:46:00+00:00", "title": "Walking with Dinosaurs"}, {"desc": "Featured species are the coelophysis and the diplodocus.", "start_date": "2026-05-18T15:20:00+00:00", "title": "Walking with Dinosaurs: Shortbites"}, {"desc": "Featured species are the ophthalmosaurus and the ornithocheirus.", "start_date": "2026-05-18T15:45:00+00:00", "title": "Walking with Dinosaurs: Shortbites"}, {"desc": "Featured species are the Leaellynasaura and the Tyrannosaurus.", "start_date": "2026-05-18T16:10:00+00:00", "title": "Walking with Dinosaurs: Shortbites"}, {"desc": "This episode explains how the 120-million-year reign of the dinosaurs ended when mammals became the fastest and fiercest creatures on the planet.", "start_date": "2026-05-18T16:35:00+00:00", "title": "Science of Walking With Beasts"}, {"desc": "A look at the science that has proved Darwin's idea that intelligent, sophisticated humans have an ancestral connection with the ape.", "start_date": "2026-05-18T17:35:00+00:00", "title": "Science of Walking With Beasts"}, {"desc": "Animatronics, computer animation and science re-create the dinosaurs' world.", "start_date": "2026-05-18T18:35:00+00:00", "title": "The Making Of: Walking With Dinosaurs"}, {"desc": "Special effects-filled documentary beginning 49 million years ago. 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On a dangerous journey across the Alps, many become trapped in bogs or fall victim to predators. However, their most formidable enemies are waiting for them on their return journey - Neanderthals.", "start_date": "2026-05-18T22:25:00+00:00", "title": "Walking with Beasts"}, {"desc": "Part 1/3. As life starts evolving in the oceans, our bizarre earliest ancestors battle against 3m long sea scorpions and giant carnivorous fish. Their ability to survive will determine the shape of life on Earth and whether humans will exist at all. As our amphibian ancestors struggle onto land the monsters they face are even more deadly.", "start_date": "2026-05-18T22:59:00+00:00", "title": "Walking with Monsters: Life Before Dinosaurs"}, {"desc": "Part 2/3. Millions of years before the dinosaurs, a world full of giant sabretooth reptiles and huge armoured herbivores was obliterated when global temperatures soared and vast deserts blanketed the land. As the environment recovered, populations of one species of tough reptile exploded until it alone dominated the planet, but its reign was short-lived.", "start_date": "2026-05-18T23:33:00+00:00", "title": "Walking with Monsters: Life Before Dinosaurs"}, {"desc": "Part 3/3. The struggle for survival moves onto land in the shape of early reptiles such as Petrolacosaurus. In the Carboniferous swamps, insects and arthropods have taken over and grown into giants, from the giant spider Mesothelae to millipede-like monsters. As the swamps dry up, the world becomes dominated by the first ever giant reptiles - the huge, sail-backed Edaphosaurus.", "start_date": "2026-05-19T00:07:00+00:00", "title": "Walking with Monsters: Life Before Dinosaurs"}, {"desc": "The life of the first reptilian carnivores on Earth, told through computer animation.", "start_date": "2026-05-19T00:41:00+00:00", "title": "Walking with Dinosaurs"}, {"desc": "This programme travels 152 million years into the past to a planet dominated by mighty, long-necked sauropods - the largest animals ever to walk the earth. There were no birds, flowers or grass, and the land was carpeted by fern prairies and coniferous forests.", "start_date": "2026-05-19T01:15:00+00:00", "title": "Walking with Dinosaurs"}, {"desc": "A look at the world as it was 149 million years ago - in the late Jurassic Period. The old continents have broken up and much of the land is under water. Huge shallow seas have supported a revolution in marine life.", "start_date": "2026-05-19T01:49:00+00:00", "title": "Walking with Dinosaurs"}, {"desc": "A mind-expanding trip back through time to look at how the skies of 127 million years ago were dominated by huge flying reptiles, some as large as aeroplanes. The programme also follows the extraordinary journey of the pterosaur, which flew for thousands of miles in order to reach its breeding site. Narrated by Kenneth Branagh.", "start_date": "2026-05-19T02:23:00+00:00", "title": "Walking with Dinosaurs"}, {"desc": "This programme looks at the Cretaceous period, 106 million years ago. Volcanic activity forces the continents apart, and dinosaurs diversify into a range of species to cope with environmental extremes. The landmass that will become Australia and Antarctica is in sunlight for half of the year, and in frozen darkness for the rest.", "start_date": "2026-05-19T02:57:00+00:00", "title": "Walking with Dinosaurs"}, {"desc": "Looking at the closing chapters of the Cretaceous period, 65 million years ago, when the world is poisoned by massive volcanic activity. Among the fields of burning ash, the dinosaurs struggle for survival, oblivious to the Earth's impending collision with a giant comet.", "start_date": "2026-05-19T03:31:00+00:00", "title": "Walking with Dinosaurs"}, {"desc": "In a time when monstrous creatures ruled the earth, South America was the land of the giants. Nigel Marven walks among these gigantic creatures, on a quest to witness the largest predator bringing down the largest prey.", "start_date": "2026-05-19T04:05:00+00:00", "title": "Walking with Dinosaurs"}, {"desc": "Nigel Marven journeys back to the sand dunes of Mesozoic Mongolia to track the owner of the largest claws of all time, the Therizinosaurus. His adventure yields a series of surprising clues, a nest, footprints, dung, and more.", "start_date": "2026-05-19T04:39:00+00:00", "title": "Walking with Dinosaurs"}, {"desc": "Scientists study the perfectly preserved remains of an adolescent allosaurus they call Big Al.", "start_date": "2026-05-19T05:13:00+00:00", "title": "Walking with Dinosaurs"}, {"desc": "This scientific detective story traces the evidence for Big Al the allosaur's existence, using clues from climate change studies, forensics, and fossil records to bring him back to life.", "start_date": "2026-05-19T05:47:00+00:00", "title": "Walking with Dinosaurs"}, {"desc": "Featured species are the coelophysis and the diplodocus.", "start_date": "2026-05-19T06:21:00+00:00", "title": "Walking with Dinosaurs: Shortbites"}, {"desc": "Featured species are the ophthalmosaurus and the ornithocheirus.", "start_date": "2026-05-19T06:46:00+00:00", "title": "Walking with Dinosaurs: Shortbites"}, {"desc": "Featured species are the Leaellynasaura and the Tyrannosaurus.", "start_date": "2026-05-19T07:11:00+00:00", "title": "Walking with Dinosaurs: Shortbites"}, {"desc": "Steve is going large, as he focuses on the biggest animals to have ever walked the earth. In his dino-den, he starts by meeting the Argentinosaurus, an animal so large that even its poo was deadly. But if you thought that that was the biggest dinosaur ever, then think again.", "start_date": "2026-05-19T07:35:00+00:00", "title": "Deadly Dinosaurs"}, {"desc": "The Jurassic was home to the most vicious and violent predators the world has ever seen. To survive, herbivores had to fight back! Steve Backshall goes on a mission to track down the deadliest of all dinosaur defenders. He'll meet the armoured tank that is Nodosaurus, he'll test whether an Iguanodon really has what it takes to beat a T-rex, and thanks to some mega-engineering he'll unleash an Anky", "start_date": "2026-05-19T08:09:00+00:00", "title": "Deadly Dinosaurs"}, {"desc": "Steve tries to chomp through a car like a T. rex, wield an axe like an Allosaurus and hitch a ride in Britain's biggest tank to showcase the might of a Spinosaurus.", "start_date": "2026-05-19T08:41:00+00:00", "title": "Deadly Dinosaurs"}, {"desc": "Steve gets freaky on a mission to find the weirdest dinosaur ever. He kick-starts with a Gigantoraptor, an 8-metre tall giant that laid the biggest eggs in history.", "start_date": "2026-05-19T09:14:00+00:00", "title": "Deadly Dinosaurs"}, {"desc": "Steve discovers just what it takes to be a terror from the skies. He straps himself into one of Britain's fastest wind tunnels where he goes head-to-head against Microraptor.", "start_date": "2026-05-19T09:47:00+00:00", "title": "Deadly Dinosaurs"}, {"desc": "Steve travels to new depths as he discovers just what it takes to be an aquatic terror. His quest sees him rocket through water in spectacular style, just like an Ophthalmosaurus.", "start_date": "2026-05-19T10:20:00+00:00", "title": "Deadly Dinosaurs"}, {"desc": "Steve's on a mission to find dinosaurs that have something a little special: fearsome killers, with incredible abilities! Get ready for a sensory sensation! His quest sees him race in the dark like a Troodon, track prey from miles away taking tips from the Daspletosaurus, and finally he gets his hands on a real life Caiman to show how their pressure pits are just like that of the Spinosaurus. Stra", "start_date": "2026-05-19T10:53:00+00:00", "title": "Deadly Dinosaurs"}, {"desc": "Steve goes on an undercover mission to unearth the sneakiest dinosaurs that were far deadlier than they first appeared.", "start_date": "2026-05-19T11:26:00+00:00", "title": "Deadly Dinosaurs"}, {"desc": "Steve Backshall is on the hunt for the most deadly animals to have ever walked the earth: dinosaurs. Steve goes on a mission to uncover what was deadlier than the dinosaurs, from massive monsoons and super-sized sandstorms to ballistic bacteria and gory gas. In an epic finale, Steve ends with a bang as he recreates the dinosaur-killing asteroid impact in an experiment.", "start_date": "2026-05-19T11:58:00+00:00", "title": "Deadly Dinosaurs"}, {"desc": "Steve Backshall looks back at the most awesome experiments over the series and chooses his highlights.", "start_date": "2026-05-19T12:31:00+00:00", "title": "Deadly Dinosaurs"}, {"desc": "Archaeologist Richard Miles presents a series charting the history of the breakthroughs and watersheds in our long quest to understand our ancient past. He begins by going back 2,000 years to explore how archaeology began by trying to prove a biblical truth - a quest that soon got archaeologists into dangerous water.", "start_date": "2026-05-19T13:04:00+00:00", "title": "Archaeology: A Secret History"}, {"desc": "Archaeologist Richard Miles shows how discoveries in the 18th and 19th centuries overturned ideas of when and where civilisation began, as empires competed to 'own' the past.", "start_date": "2026-05-19T14:06:00+00:00", "title": "Archaeology: A Secret History"}, {"desc": "Richard Miles shows how 20th-century attention turned from civilisation and kings to the search for the common man against a background of science and competing political ideologies.", "start_date": "2026-05-19T15:07:00+00:00", "title": "Archaeology: A Secret History"}, {"desc": "Anatomist Professor Alice Roberts and biologist Dr George McGavin go on an extraordinary evolutionary journey to meet our ancient ancestors. They start with our closest prehistoric relative - a Neanderthal. To make the reconstructions as accurate as possible Alice and George have travelled the globe, gathering evidence from the world's leading scientists.", "start_date": "2026-05-19T16:08:00+00:00", "title": "Prehistoric Autopsy"}, {"desc": "The team go back 1.5 million years to meet one of the earliest humans, Homo erectus. They walked the earth far longer than any other human species and were the first ancestors to look a lot like we do today. The team reveal the latest research that suggests Homo erectus were good hunters, were skilled at making stone tools and could probably control fire.", "start_date": "2026-05-19T17:17:00+00:00", "title": "Prehistoric Autopsy"}, {"desc": "The team looks at probably the most famous of all our early ancestors. She is called Lucy from the species Australopithecus afarensis, and she lived 3.2 million years ago. 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