BBC America TV Guide — Friday, 17 July 2026

Browse the full BBC America TV guide for Friday, 17 July 2026. 18 programmes listed , including 6 tonight. US listings updated daily — scroll down to tonight's highlights or use the day tabs above to browse the weekly schedule.

Early Morning

01:00 1h

NCIS

S8 · E13 · Freedom Drama

Freedom

NCIS must spring into action whenever a marine is found beaten to death in his own backyard by searching for his family and the possible assailant responsible.

02:00 1h

NCIS

S8 · E14 · A Man Walks Into a Bar... Drama

A Man Walks Into a Bar...

The NCIS team must undergo a psych evaluation by an inquisitive psych evaluator while investigating the death of a naval commander shot onboard a Navy vessel.

03:00 1h

NCIS

S8 · E15 · Defiance Drama

Defiance

A failed assassination attempt in Belgravia forces the NCIS team to protect the Defense Minister's daughter, who is studying in the U.S. and smitten with McGee.

04:00 1h

NCIS

S8 · E16 · Kill Screen Drama

Kill Screen

NCIS is called in after a pickpocket discovers that the purse he recently stole contains the dismembered fingertips and the teeth of a murdered marine.

05:00 1h

NCIS

S8 · E17 · One Last Score Drama

One Last Score

NCIS discovers one of its former investigative assistants found murdered was selling details to a crew planning to rob a warehouse; a new agent joins the team.

Morning

06:00 1h

NCIS

S8 · E18 · Out of the Frying Pan Drama

Out of the Frying Pan

Vance is eager to have Gibbs interrogate a boy and evoke a confession after his father, a retired Marine, is found dead and all evidence points to him.

07:00 1h

Planet Earth

S1 · E2 · Mountains Nature

Mountains

A portrait of the remarkable animals that live on Earth's tallest and grandest mountain peaks, including a never-before-seen snow leopard hunt in the Himalayas.

08:00 1h 30m

Seven Worlds, One Planet

S1 · E7 · Africa Documentary

Africa

Young chimps learn how to use tools to find food; cheetahs team up to hunt large prey on the savannah; hyenas search for food on the Namib beach.

09:30 2h

Marked for Death

Action, Crime Film ★ 6.0

A newly retired Chicago DEA agent becomes the target of a feared drug kingpin after he is forced to take down some of the drug dealer's men in a gunfight.

★ Cast & Info

11:30 2h

First Blood

Action, Adventure, Thriller, War Film ★ 7.5

A highly skilled and decorated Vietnam War veteran is unjustly arrested and abused until he escapes and wages a one-man war against his tormentors.

★ Cast & Info

Daytime

13:30 2h

Rambo: First Blood Part II

Action, Adventure, Thriller, War Film ★ 6.6

A soldier is sent to look for POWs in Vietnam with the expectation that he won't find any, and when he locates one, the U.S. Army leaves him to die.

★ Cast & Info

15:30 2h 30m

Rambo III

Action, Adventure, Thriller, War Film ★ 6.1

A one-man fighting force heads into Afghanistan where he blows things up single-handedly in an effort to rescue a friend from a military stronghold.

★ Cast & Info

Evening

18:00 1h

Law & Order

S9 · E9 · True North Drama

True North

The double murder of a wealthy man and his daughter will lead the investigating detectives to the wife and stepmother of the deceased.

19:00 1h

Law & Order

S9 · E10 · Hate Drama

Hate

Evidence points the detectives in the direction of a fascist youth gathering after the brutal beating and murder of a high school girl.

20:00 1h

Law & Order

S9 · E11 · Ramparts Drama

Ramparts

Briscoe and Curtis reopen a case that was closed in the 1960s, when a vehicle is dredged from the Hudson River containing the remains of a murdered man.

21:00 1h

Law & Order

S9 · E13 · Hunters Drama

Hunters

Detectives Lennie Briscoe and Rey Curtis will have to race against time to find the killer of a parolee, before two bounty hunters find the suspected murderer.

22:00 1h

Law & Order

S9 · E12 · Haven Drama

Haven

Briscoe and Curtis probe the murder of a popular Harlem community leader while McCoy and Carmichael struggle to prevent a chaotic situation.

23:00 1h

Law & Order

S9 · E14 · Sideshow Drama

Sideshow

Briscoe and Curtis rejoin the Baltimore homicide detectives to investigate the murder of a high-ranking federal official who was involved in a sex scandal.

Early Morning

Morning

Daytime

Evening

Related channels