With Wonderstruck, BBC America wants to give you a break from the news

Turn on the BBC America cable channel on any given Saturday from now on, and you'll see natural history programs like 'Blue Planet.'

New York Turn on the BBC America cable channel on any given Saturday from now on, and you'll see natural history programs like "Blue Planet."

The channel is adopting a new name, Wonderstruck, on Saturdays only, and"counter-programming the world with the world," Sarah Barnett says.Barnett, the president of both the AMC Networks Entertainment Group and AMC Studios, calls Wonderstruck a"mini-network" and likens it to Adult Swim, the network that takes over the Cartoon Network at night.Wonderstruck is billed as a 24-hour dose of"wildlife and wonder.

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