V-me Adds to nature block.

V-me adds new titles to its natural history schedule. Two new programs from the BBC, Big Cat Diary and Dinosaur Detectives, join acclaimed titles including NATURE, Wild Chronicles and Animal Park: Wild Africa.

With over 13 hours each week, V-me offers an extensive line-up of nature and adventure programming making its US Spanish premiere on V-me. V-me is presented locally by public TV stations and carried on basic digital cable and digital broadcast in many cities and nationally on DIRECTV Ch. 440, DISH Network Ch. 9414 and DISHLatino Ch. 846. To find specific channel information for your market, visit www.VmeTV.com

In Dinosaur Detectives (Dinodetectives) at 6:00pm (ET) on Wednesdays and 4:00pm (ET) on Saturdays a crack task force of kids from four continents team up with experts and high-tech tools to research dinosaur sites and report their findings to a central hidden location. Together they reveal what dinosaurs were, how they lived and how they died. An excellent family resource for unraveling the mysteries of these prehistoric giants, Dinosaur Detectives is produced by award-winner Marc Goodchild for the BBC and BBC Worldwide.

Big Cat Diary (El diario de grandes felinos) airs at 6:30pm (ET) on Wednesdays and 4:30pm (ET) on Saturdays at 4:30pm (ET). The show chronicles the every day fight for survival of lions, cheetahs and leopards in the Masai Mara region of northwest Kenya, where a unique weather system and abundance of fresh water from three rivers attracts vast numbers of grazing animals, supplying the big cats with their food.

On Tuesdays and Thursdays at 6:00pm (ET) and Saturday at 5:00pm (ET), V-me proudly presents NATURE (Naturaleza) – the benchmark for natural history on television – with over 400 honors from the television industry, the international wildlife film community, parent groups, and environmental organizations – including 10 Emmy Awards, two Peabody Awards and the first honor ever given to a program by the Sierra Club. NATURE travels the globe with the world’s foremost natural history filmmakers to bring fascinating images and insights into survival, sex, endangered species, human and animal interaction and much more.

Wild Chronicles (Crónicas Salvajes), airing Mondays and Fridays at 5:30pm (ET), tells the story of our planet from the vantage of those who explore its reaches, probe its scientific mysteries and advocate for its protection. Winner of two CINE Special Jury Awards and three CINE Golden Eagle Awards, Wild Chronicles was named a 2007 Parents’ Choice Award Winner. Wild Chronicles is made possible by National Geographic Mission Programs, the science and education arm of the National Geographic Society.

On Mondays and Fridays at 6:00pm (ET), Animal Park: Wild in Africa (Africa Salvaje), a dramatic reality series from the BBC, follows rangers and wildlife experts who risk their personal safety to study and protect the exotic animals in a Namibian animal park.