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Tom Hanks-Narrated Wildlife Series ‘The Americas’ Heads NBC Midseason Slate Alongside ‘Destination X’ & ‘The Hunting Party’


Four years after NBC revealed it was moving into big-budget wildlife programming, the fruits of its labor are finally heading to the screen. The Americas, the network’s ten-part tentpole wildlife series narrated by Tom Hanks, will premiere in February. The show will kick off with a two-hour premiere on Sunday, February 23. It will be […]

Earlier this year, Universal Television Alternative Studio boss Toby Gorman called the series the most expensive unscripted project in NBCUniversal’s history.” The Manifest star will play Rebecca “Bex” Henderson, an ex-FBI agent recruited to an elite government task force due to her reputation as a savvy profiler who’s caught some of the world’s most dangerous serial killers Created by JJ Bailey who wrote the pilot episode, The Hunting Party is a high-concept crime procedural about a small team of investigators who are assembled to track down and capture the most dangerous killers the U.S. has ever seen, all of whom have just escaped from a top-secret prison that’s not supposed to exist.

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