• All 13 seasons and 176 episodes of the revived Doctor Who (2005–2022) are coming exclusively to AMC+ on June 11.
• The deal covers the Ninth through Thirteenth Doctors — Eccleston, Tennant, Smith, Capaldi, and Whittaker.
• The show left HBO Max in July 2025 and has been unavailable on U.S. streaming since then.
• The two Ncuti Gatwa seasons and the 60th anniversary specials remain on Disney+ only.
• AMC+ is offering a limited-time deal of $29.99 for a full year of the service through May 25.

U.S. Whovians, your wait is finally over. All 13 seasons of the beloved BBC revival of Doctor Who — 176 episodes including Christmas specials, New Year’s specials, and the iconic 50th anniversary — are coming exclusively to AMC+ starting June 11.

The deal covers the entire modern era of the show, from Christopher Eccleston’s leather-jacketed Ninth Doctor in 2005 all the way through Jodie Whittaker’s Thirteenth Doctor in 2022. That’s a lot of time travel. The series had been streaming on HBO Max until July 2025, and has been essentially homeless on U.S. streaming ever since — which, for a fandom as passionate as this one, has been a long, painful gap.

The move is something of a homecoming. BBC America — which is part of AMC Networks, the same parent company as AMC+ — was the U.S. broadcast home for Doctor Who from 2009 through the end of its run in 2022. Before that, the Sci Fi Channel (now Syfy) aired the first few seasons. So the TARDIS is, in a sense, parking itself right back where it belongs.

What’s Included — and What Isn’t

The AMC+ library covers the full run of what fans call “New Who” — the regenerating Time Lord as played by Eccleston (Nine), David Tennant (Ten), Matt Smith (Eleven), Peter Capaldi (Twelve), and Whittaker (Thirteen), along with all their companions. It also includes the specials from that era, including the massive 50th anniversary episode that brought Tennant and Smith together alongside John Hurt’s War Doctor.

What you won’t find here: the 26 seasons of the classic series from 1963 to 1989 (those will likely remain on BritBox, Pluto, and Tubi), the three 60th anniversary specials featuring Tennant’s return, or the two most recent seasons starring Ncuti Gatwa as the Doctor. Those Gatwa seasons — produced in partnership with Disney — remain exclusively on Disney+.

It’s worth knowing the current state of the show as all this unfolds. The BBC and Disney+ have parted ways on future production, though the BBC has said it remains committed to the series. A 2026 Christmas special is in the works, and there are still open questions about whether showrunner Russell T Davies will continue beyond that. The identity of the next Doctor — teased by Billie Piper’s surprise appearance following Gatwa’s regeneration at the end of last season — hasn’t been revealed yet. So the fandom has a lot to catch up on, and now a place to do it.

Why AMC+ Is Making This Move

AMC+ has been quietly building itself into a destination for exactly this kind of devoted genre fandom — it’s already home to the entire Walking Dead universe, Anne Rice’s Interview With the Vampire (now rebranded as The Vampire Lestat), Mayfair Witches, Dark Winds, and legacy titles like Mad Men, Orphan Black, and Preacher. Adding Doctor Who‘s classic modern run fits that strategy neatly.

“Doctor Who strengthens AMC+’s position as a destination for premium genre storytelling — curated franchises defined by iconic worlds, passionate fan bases and enduring cultural impact,” said Courtney Thomasma, Executive Vice President of AMC Global Media’s linear and streaming products. “We’re thrilled to welcome the Whoniverse into our home of fandoms, giving longtime fans a reason to return while inviting new audiences to discover one of television’s most beloved franchises.”

Lawrence Szabo, EVP of Content Sales for BBC Studios in North America and LatAm, signed off with a very on-brand flourish — borrowing one of the Tenth Doctor’s most famous expressions: “AMC+ has built a differentiated home for premium genre franchises and deeply engaged fandoms, making it the ideal exclusive U.S. streaming partner for these 13 seasons of Doctor Who. We’re excited to bring these adventures back to longtime U.S. fans and welcome new audiences into the Whoniverse. Allons-y!”

For anyone who’s been waiting to dive in — or revisit — AMC+ is currently offering a limited-time deal of $29.99 for a full year of the service. That offer expires May 25, so the clock is already ticking. Appropriately enough.

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• Sir David Attenborough turns 100 on May 8, 2026, sparking a wave of global celebrations
• Prince Harry wrote a heartfelt tribute in Time magazine, calling Attenborough a “secular saint” and “the Voice of Nature”
• A star-studded concert at the Royal Albert Hall airs on BBC One, with a full week of special programming
• Scientists named a newly discovered parasitic wasp Attenboroughnculus tau in his honor — the latest of over 50 species to carry his name
• Attenborough himself said he’d hoped to celebrate “quietly” but has been “completely overwhelmed” by the outpouring of love

Sir David Attenborough turns 100 years old on May 8, 2026, and the world — from royals to rock stars to researchers — has made absolutely sure he knows it.

Prince Harry was among the first to mark the milestone, publishing a deeply personal tribute in Time magazine that stopped well short of the usual celebrity birthday platitudes. The Duke of Sussex called Attenborough “more than a broadcaster” — he called him “a secular saint.”

“He is an institutional pillar as essential to the national fabric as a cup of tea,” Harry wrote. “His almost-whispers have been the soft soundtrack of the home — a shared experience that turned the weekend nature documentary into a national ritual.”

Harry, who has long championed environmental causes and first met Attenborough during his time as a working royal, referred to the naturalist throughout the piece as “the Voice of Nature” — a title he clearly feels has been thoroughly earned. The last time Harry, King Charles, and Prince William appeared together as a trio at an official engagement was in April 2019, at the Natural History Museum premiere of Attenborough’s Netflix documentary Our Planet.

In the essay, Harry zeroed in on what he sees as Attenborough’s most lasting achievement: making the climate crisis feel personal rather than distant. “His most significant contribution has been the systematic dismantling of the notion that climate issues are happening ‘somewhere else,'” he wrote. “Attenborough has made that distance impossible to maintain, and his work has helped us to connect the dots, showing that distant glaciers, forests, and rivers are far more than beautiful landscapes — they are part of the delicate systems upon which our own communities depend.”

He also praised Attenborough’s rare ability to reach younger audiences without condescending to them. “He doesn’t preach or lecture but shares a perspective that spans a century. To a generation overwhelmed by noise and uncertainty, Attenborough represents credible authenticity.”

Harry closed with a challenge as much as a tribute: “The question now is whether those with the power to act will choose to lead before more of our world — our life support system — is lost.”

A Century of Wonder, and a Week to Match

The birthday itself has been surrounded by an extraordinary week of programming on the BBC — a mix of repeats, new projects, and an extensive archive made available on iPlayer. The centerpiece is David Attenborough’s 100 Years on Planet Earth, a live celebration from the Royal Albert Hall airing at 8:30pm on BBC One on May 8, hosted by Kirsty Young and featuring Sir Michael Palin, Steve Backshall, Liz Bonnin, and Chris Packham, with music drawn from Attenborough’s most beloved programmes.

“It’s impossible to overstate what Sir David Attenborough has given us,” said Jack Bootle, the BBC’s head of commissioning for specialist factual. “His programmes have not only defined Science and Natural History broadcasting, but they have also changed how we see our planet and our place within it.”

In London, the Natural History Museum’s immersive experience Our Story with David Attenborough has been adapted into a free five-minute show at Outernet London on Tottenham Court Road from May 8 — a version of the exhibition in which Attenborough guides viewers through the history of people and Earth, ending with a vision of London’s future.

Meanwhile, on PBS in the United States, the documentary Life on Earth: Attenborough’s Greatest Adventure premiered on May 6, revisiting the landmark series that transformed wildlife filmmaking. The doc includes footage of one of Attenborough’s most iconic moments — his encounter with mountain gorillas in Rwanda, during which two young gorillas climbed on top of him while he sat perfectly still. “Next thing we know, two youngsters come out and actually sit on him,” recalled producer John Sparks. “My jaw dropped — you didn’t expect this at all.”

Attenborough himself addressed the fuss in a pre-recorded audio message shared the night before his birthday. “I had rather thought that I would celebrate my 100th birthday quietly,” he said, “but it seems that many of you have had other ideas. I’ve been completely overwhelmed by birthday greetings, from pre-school groups to care home residents, and countless individuals and families of all ages.”

Animal charity PETA also got in on the act, naming a rescued bull “Sir Attenbullock” in his honor — one of the first animals saved through PETA India’s Delhi mechanisation project.

The Wasp That Made History

But perhaps the most unexpected birthday gift came from the scientific community. Researchers at London’s Natural History Museum announced the discovery of a brand-new genus and species of parasitic wasp — named Attenboroughnculus tau — in his honor.

The tiny insect, measuring just 3.5 millimeters, was originally collected in 1983 in Chile’s Valdivia Province and had been sitting, unrecognized, in the museum’s collections for over 40 years. It was volunteer Augustijn De Ketelaere, a graduate student at Ghent University, who finally spotted its unusual characteristics during a detailed examination of the ichneumonid collections. Researchers confirmed it had a unique combination of traits — a strongly curved abdominal segment, toothlike structures on its egg-laying ovipositor, and distinctive wing and leg morphology — that made it impossible to fit into any existing genus. The species name “tau” refers to a striking T-shaped marking on the insect’s abdomen.

The study, published in the Journal of Natural History, was led by Dr. Gavin Broad, the museum’s principal curator of insects — a man who credits Attenborough’s Life on Earth series with inspiring his entire career. “When I was far too young, I learned about taxonomy from David Attenborough’s Life on Earth series and resolved to be a taxonomist,” Broad said. “Amazingly, I ended up a taxonomist, so I have Sir David to thank for that.”

Fittingly, Attenborough has actually featured parasitoid wasps in his own documentaries — memorably in The Trials of Life, where he described them as “body snatcher wasps.” According to National Geographic, more than 50 species now carry Attenborough’s name, ranging from a carnivorous pitcher plant to a fungus that turns spiders into zombies to a ghost shrimp known from just one specimen. But Attenboroughnculus tau joins the more exclusive club of genera — entire new branches of the tree of life — that bear his name.

“We hope to inspire global scientists to take another look in their collections to see if there is something small that could contribute to our collective understanding,” said co-author Jennifer Pullar, the museum’s science communications manager.

A Voice That Changed Everything

At 100, the scope of what Attenborough has accomplished is almost impossible to absorb in one sitting. He helped shape British television before he ever became the face of wildlife documentaries — serving as controller of BBC Two in the 1960s, where he championed ambitious programming including Monty Python’s Flying Circus and Civilisation. He also, somewhat improbably, is the reason Wimbledon switched from white tennis balls to yellow ones (he pushed for the change after the first color broadcasts in Europe to improve visibility on screen).

His career as a broadcaster spans more than 70 years, from his first BBC program in 1952 — about the rediscovery of the coelacanth, a fish scientists thought had been extinct since the dinosaurs — to his 2025 feature-length documentary Ocean with David Attenborough, timed around the United Nations Ocean Conference. He still receives up to 70 letters a day from fans and tries to answer them.

Climate scientist and energy advocate Saul Griffith once put it plainly: “There wasn’t any religion in the house other than Attenborough documentaries. When I started to see signs of damage, I realized: holy shit, we’ve got a lot to lose.”

Billie Eilish, promoting her new concert film with director James Cameron, summed it up more simply. She called Attenborough “the GOAT” — and honestly, it’s hard to argue.

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“At 100, Sir David Attenborough has spent a lifetime delivering us the facts with patience, honesty, and wonder,” Harry wrote. “He has shown us the world in all its brilliance and fragility, and in doing so has left humanity with both a gift and a responsibility.”

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