{"id":37617,"date":"2015-12-09T11:15:18","date_gmt":"2015-12-09T19:15:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/?p=37617"},"modified":"2016-02-06T23:09:27","modified_gmt":"2016-02-07T07:09:27","slug":"the-bbcs-noahs-ark-is-coming-to-dvd-in-north-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2015\/12\/the-bbcs-noahs-ark-is-coming-to-dvd-in-north-america.html","title":{"rendered":"The BBC&#8217;s <i>Noah&#8217;s Ark<\/i> is coming to DVD in North America"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/227\/2015\/12\/Noahs-Ark-DVD-a.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/227\/2015\/12\/Noahs-Ark-DVD-a-1024x416.jpg\" alt=\"Noah's Ark DVD-a\" width=\"600\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-37618\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/tag\/ark-2015\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">The Ark<\/a><\/i> was produced by the BBC and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/gp\/product\/B00TR1P5XU\/film013c-20\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">released to DVD<\/a> in the United Kingdom almost immediately after it aired there earlier this year. Meanwhile, in the United States, the film was renamed <i>Noah\u2019s Ark<\/i>, and it even <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2015\/03\/wait-theres-a-new-noah-movie-premiering-on-sunday.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">premiered on UpTV<\/a> over a week before it aired in the United Kingdom \u2014 but so far it has not had a home video release.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->That will change, however, when the DVD <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B017S3Z1IW\/film013c-20\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">comes out February 2<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Today I received a press release announcing the DVD release, and it included a link to this trailer on YouTube (which does not work outside the United States):<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Noah's Ark Trailer\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5SzoKnpmq_E?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s the North American DVD cover art:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/227\/2015\/12\/Noahs-Ark-DVD-f.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/227\/2015\/12\/Noahs-Ark-DVD-f-725x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Noah's Ark DVD-f\" width=\"600\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-37619\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And here\u2019s the cover art that was used for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/gp\/product\/B00TR1P5XU\/film013c-20\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">the British DVD release<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/227\/2015\/12\/ark-bbc.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/227\/2015\/12\/ark-bbc-722x1024.jpg\" alt=\"ark-bbc\" width=\"600\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-37621\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I have not yet seen the film myself, though I\u2019ve been meaning to get around to it. In the meantime, my friend Matt Page wrote an interesting review of it <a href=\"http:\/\/biblefilms.blogspot.ca\/2015\/03\/the-ark-2015.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The film aired on British and American television earlier this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1116,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[2213],"class_list":["post-37617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-ark-2015"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The BBC&#039;s Noah&#039;s Ark is coming to DVD in North America<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The film aired on British and American television earlier this year.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2015\/12\/the-bbcs-noahs-ark-is-coming-to-dvd-in-north-america.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The BBC&#039;s Noah&#039;s Ark is coming to DVD in North America\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The film aired on British and American television earlier this year.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2015\/12\/the-bbcs-noahs-ark-is-coming-to-dvd-in-north-america.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"FilmChat\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2015-12-09T19:15:18+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2016-02-07T07:09:27+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"http:\/\/wp.production.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/files\/2015\/12\/Noahs-Ark-DVD-a-1024x416.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Peter T. 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