The episodes were re-edited and clips of Alan Yentob introducing different segments, shot on location in different areas of America, were added.

The series features interviews with a wide variety of influential people in television, including actors, creators, writers and executive producers, talking about their own shows and others.

[4] Episodes of America in Primetime originally aired in the United States on four consecutive Sundays in late 2011, on PBS.

[5][6] The BBC bought the UK rights to the documentary and aired it in spring 2013 under the title The United States of Television: America in Primetime.

They were shown in a different order to the original US transmission: Man of the House; The Misfit; The Independent Woman; The Crusader.