BBC America Reviews

Before the last update would crash and then start me back at the very beginning of the show with no way to skip back ahead. Adds would play and then send me back to beginning again. Since last update doesn’t even let me log in with my tv provider goes straight to the billing page for that provider. I definitely still have bbca through the provider and no issues logging in with other tv provider apps using the same log in information.

Watching ‘live’ the NY2020 Doctor Who right now, and the stream shifted back to the very beginning of the first episode of the 13th Doctor. This happens almost every single ad break on regular streaming, and it’s infuriating. In addition, every single time I open BBCA I’m forced to login, and sometimes I’ll be halfway though program and it will reset and force me to login again, even though I did 30 minutes before, Your app is practically useless. And it certainly was useless to watch the new Doctor Who this evening.

I have watched the exact same commercial probably a thousand times by now. It shows about 6-8 times per commercial break and those come very frequently. It’s making me question my sanity. Normally, I’d find the number of commercial breaks, comparatively, excessive and would be complaining about that. This is so bad that I mainly just want the repetitive commercial madness to end, that’s all. I will never buy a Chevy again and it’s their fault with their horrible programming. Get your crap together. Shame on you.

this is the WORST media player I have ever seen. Glitched repeatedly through an entire series, ads would break into the middle of scenes, restart them, skip them altogether, but it saved the worst for last. Could not finish the episode — from the second segment on, had to watch part or all of it multiple times to see the next one. Just before the last segment of the entire series, it went back to the middle of the ep AGAIN. Was never able to watch the end, even after 2 hours of trying.

I am deleting this piece of crap and never installing it again.

Updating because 1. The chromecast option still isn’t working 2. The glitches in this thing are terrible. Watching an episode when all of a sudden it freezes and then re starts you from the beginning! And trying to fast forward to get back to where you were is frustrating when it only gives you the 15sec forward option. 3. If you leave BBCAmerica and come back to it, it doesn’t let you start from where you left off. Although it does give you the option to, it still just starts you from the beginning again.
BBCAmerica is just frustrating and horrible to use overall

I've used at least 7 other streaming apps and none compare to this frustration. Impossible to rewind just a few seconds if you miss something. End up stuck with ads popping up at weird times then just skipped forward about half the show. Didn't capture where I left off last time and too difficult to find the right spot and then actually have it play from there after it decides to shove in more ads but then starts playing from somewhere else in the program. Having to login into my provider again and again is only a minor pain compared to all the other glitches.

Of all the apps I have for various channels and streaming services, this is hands down the worst. Commercials that drop right in the middle of a scene, freezing, and god help you if you try to forward or rewind. Tap the “15 second” button either direction, and you are spinning a roulette wheel. See where it lands! Most likely all the way back to the beginning. Conveniently, if you try to fast-forward back to where you were, it keeps sending you back to the beginning. Everyone associated with the design of BBCAmerica should be sacked, and banned from working in the industry again!

I use this on my Apple TV. I’ve been trying to watch Killing Eve but it’s impossible. Every time the Zales commercial comes on, my app crashes and closes. Then I have to open BBCAmerica and go through an entire commercial break all over again, and then when that’s over, I have to scroll through and try to find my spot in the show where it crashed. Even when I choose “Resume” instead of “Restart,” the episode starts over from the beginning. I can see months of similar complaints in the reviews, so I can’t believe BBCAmerica hasn’t been fixed yet. This is what happens when companies refuse to fund tech support.

Love the shows but BBCAmerica does not work. Crashes constantly. Have to delete and reinstall to to get functioning again on new iPad with up to date iOS. Freezes in middle of play. Impossible to get started again. Hold viewed shows is incomplete. Advertising overload. Every time playback fails, you have to watch 2 minutes of advertising to get back to the show. Then adjust the the point of failure and another 2 minutes of adverting only to have the show crash immediately after. Note the advertising never fails.

This is one of the worst streaming apps I've come across since I got Apple TV. It makes watching something extremely difficult, if you can even find it. Trying to rewind or fast forward just makes it jump to a random spot and always plays the same ads first. The 10 sec back or forward function is not available. When I turn subtitles on they turn off after every ad break and I have to keep turning them on. Sometimes they don't turn on at all. Sometimes when I pause it refuses to resume, or it goes to the settings menu but doesn't actually let me choose anything in the settings or exit. The only way I've been able to get out is by going back to Apple TV, deleting BBCAmerica and reinstalling. All these things have just happened to me trying to watch 1 episode of Killing Eve, but they all happened before. It's seriously awful. No other TV channel or streaming app I've used has been this bad.

There were only a handful of shows and movies on BBCAmerica and none of them would play, there was no menu anywhere that I could find, and nothing would come up in the search. I downloaded BBCAmerica because I love the channel and Dr. Who but I could not watch or find anything! Please fix whatever bugs you have. I would love to use BBCAmerica. Also, I tried to use BBCAmerica on my son’s Xbox and it has an error message and would not work there either. Something is definitely wrong with the entire app.

This is by far the worst streaming app I’ve come across. It keeps glitching, closing out, & making you rewatch commercials to get back to your program. Most of the time it doesn’t even load the program back after the ad is over!

There were NINE ads per commercial break, and the commercial breaks came after only 2-5 mins of programming, only for the program to glitch out. I spent half an hour to watch 7 minutes of Killing Eve. Not worth it at all.

I’ve not been able to make it through one single movie. Every time an add starts it changes my playback position. If I try to adjust it manually, it freezes then plays another add then changes position again. If I try to go forward or back 15 seconds, it will automatically play another add then rewind for maybe 30 minutes. There’s just no playback control making it unusable. I am using it on an iPhone 6s but it does the same on my other iPhone 7plus. Definitely needs a good bit of work.

About half the time when I try to use BBCAmerica on Apple TV, it says “You are not authorized to view this channel.” I tried logging out and back in, and the activation page on the phone’s browser says I’m signed in, but I still keep getting the message and can’t watch anything. I tried reinstalling BBCAmerica and cycling the power on the Apple TV, but that didn’t do any good. All of my other streaming apps work fine.

Unable to rewind easily. Ads do not transition smoothly. They come in at what appears to be the end of a scene but you’re not sure. And sometimes they don’t transition out of the ad correctly so then you miss part of the next scene. And without ability to rewind easily, it becomes frustrating quickly. If you scroll back too far on the timeline then it repeats the ad and you end in a vicious loop. Otherwise the quality of BBCAmerica is fine.

Started off liking BBCAmerica, but every single time I try logging in BBCAmerica crashes. When I was able to log in and watch a show, if I tried fast forwarding BBCAmerica would go backwards to the last commercial break. Also, when you want to watch something like Top Gear, you'd figure they'd list the most recent episode first...nope. "We figured we didn't make you work hard enough to get into BBCAmerica ...try finding the exact episode you want out of a messy drop down menu." Good luck to whoever tries BBCAmerica out.

There were some issues with transitions to commercials not aligning with the set breaks (so commercials would start a few seconds after the break in the show were the commercial was supposed to be). I noticed that first on airplay and chrome cast. Well, now it appears chrome cast has been disabled as of this version, and airplay has issues pairing with my vizio tv. However on my phone it seems to work fine so far.

I never write reviews, but it’s quite frustrating that I am willing to pay for your app to be able to watch Doctor Who and Killing Eve, etc. However, there’s no option for streaming outside of a cable provider. I don’t want cable when everything else I watch is available via apps/streaming services. Please give us an option for streaming at a fair price.

BBCAmerica is pretty straightforward and easy to use. Yes there are ads but not so much and not so frequent that it interrupts the viewing experience. BBCAmerica streams its videos in high quality and I thoroughly enjoy watching some of the shows on BBCAmerica . Keep up the good work and I honestly don’t know why there are so many negative reviews.

I feel lucky to even be able to see Doctor Who, so, as far as I’m concerned...I love BBCAmerica! I appreciate the only app that allows me to see these shows. And trust me, you aren’t going to find them anywhere else, especially for free. So, endure the adds...critique them, judge their acting ability, ponder on the fact that they spent millions to make them and most are just irritating and never clever (like good ol’ Cal Worthington -N- his dog spot), go get food, whatever¿...just know that being able to see these fantastic shows is a gift...and purchasing them would be beyond expensive! :O ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
And be thankful that they aren’t doing the interactive adds; where you have to choose between surveying one commercial, or watching 5/6 of them :(............