PBS Preps America Revealed

BOSTON: This fall, PBS will premiere America Revealed, a four-part series from Lion Television based on the BBC series Britain From Above.

Using aerial footage, HD video and real-time satellite data, America Revealed traces the movements and communications that come together to manufacture goods, transport people and materials, grow food and power the nation. Yul Kwon (winner of Survivor: Cook Islands), a technology expert and communications attorney, will host.

“America is a nation of intricate networks that keep the country running every minute, every hour of every day,” said Nick Catliff, executive producer and president of Lion Television. “And yet most of us probably know very little about what it really takes to deliver goods to our door, build the cars we drive, power our homes and mobile devices, and feed our families.”  

Tony Tackaberry, executive producer and CEO of Lion Television, added: “The aerial photography, along with a range of pioneering visual techniques the series will employ, will give viewers a glimpse of the nation as they’ve never seen it, while the previously untapped data will offer new insight into the forces that shape our everyday lives.”

"America Revealed will be a completely new experience for PBS viewers,” noted John F. Wilson, PBS’s chief television programming executive. “This series employs an imaginative new form of storytelling, bringing visual imagery and information together to offer viewers an unprecedented way to fully explore and understand the country where we live and work.”