BBC America User Reviews

BBC America
BBC America
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Did a monkey design this app?

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 this app should be sacked, and banned from working in the industry again!
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App not functioning

This app is terrible. I’ve deleted and reinstalled the app on my Apple TV and iPad to see if that would help, but is didnt. I open the app and choose the show I want to watch. Then the show begins with the 1st ad, and then freezes. I have been trying to reboot and reinstall the app for 4 days now and nothing. This app needs to be fixed. It’s very disappointing when there are so many apps, this app is having this many problems.
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You were hired to make an app

that performs the very same actions that any other tv/movie watching app does. How did somebody pass off on this glitch ridden, comically organized, CD-rom’esque menu system (that may be offensive to CDrom menu designers come to think of it, I made a pretty cool one for my band’s additional content CD back in the day) anyway. You get he idea. That said, if I get to watch Dr. Who, I’m mostly all good...(.) until the closed captions can’t be turned off on the 2nd episode of Season 12. 🤦‍♂️ Cheerio.
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Some features that were glitchy seem disabled now

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.
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Log in issues

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.
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Great Concept bad execution

This app could’ve been so useful however so many problems; can’t cast on any of my devices, app seems to force close quite a bit, you can’t really control how much your rewinding and fast forwarding by so in situations where the app randomly force closes or just starts from beginning you can’t exactly skip to where you were. Great concept for app however bad execution.
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This app is the worst...

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.
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Worst quality streaming app

By far worst quality Apple TV app. Completely unreliable and often hangs necessitating reboot of the Apple TV box. Mine has permanent sub titles on shows that cannot be turned off from the subtitles menu. Loads of reviews with similar theme and yet there are never any app softwares updates to fix the obvious flaws. Badly managed all round and not worth downloading
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Sell up shows that aren’t all available.

The shows they show on the commercials to get you to get the app don’t have all the full shows available to watch.

Where is the paid version?

It’s so weird there isn’t a paid version of this app that has no commercials. I downloaded this app to watch the 12th season of Doctor Who, only to see... COMMERCIALS? WHAT? So we deleted it and subscribed to the season on iTunes instead. Paying any price is WAY better than commercials.

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