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Saga Cruises partners with BBC Studios

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Exciting news! Saga Cruises is now partnering with BBC Studios for a selection of special cruises. Joining you onboard will be celebrity guests and experts from some of your favourite TV shows.

From Strictly Come Dancing to Sky at Night, enjoy dazzling performances in the on-board Playhouse theatre along with themed talks, Q&As and more. All included in the price.

This is the first time BBC Studios have partnered with a cruise line, bringing these unique experiences from your television screen to Saga’s beautiful boutique ships!

Let’s have a look at the experts and special guests sailing in the coming months…

Strictly Come Dancing

‘Strictly’ is one of the most popular entertainment shows on British television, filled with glitz and glamour as celebrities join talented professional dancers and learn how to dance.

On two magical cruises, join Strictly professionals, including Luba Mushtuk and Vito Coppola, doing what they do best, delivering showstopping performances in the ship’s Playhouse theatre!

The Sky at Night

A staple of British television, ‘The Sky at Night’ has brought the world of astronomy and space to our screens for over 65 years. Covering subjects such as black holes, neutron stars, satellites and space missions the show has become a cultural fixture featuring on stamps issued by the Royal Mail and even having a comet named after it.

Dame Maggie Aderin-Pocock DBE is a space scientist and science educator. She has presented the programme since 2013 with Chris Lintott. Maggie also undertakes ground-breaking space science research and works to inspire new generations of astronauts, scientists and engineers and is a pioneering figure in communicating science to children.

Over two appearances on board, Maggie will give you an insight into her stellar career, the world of science and space exploration, and how she takes the most complex astrophysics and makes it accessible for the non-scientist. She will also tell you about the making of ‘The Sky at Night’, its long history, and how it continues to engage the audience with astronomy and space science.

Human with Ella Al-Shamahi

Explorer, evolutionary biologist, paleoanthropologist, writer and stand-up comedian, Ella has presented a range of television programmes for BBC Studios. This includes ‘Neanderthals – Meet Your Ancestors’, ‘Horizon – Body Clock’, ‘Waterhole’ and the new flagship science programme ‘Human’ which transmits on BBC Two in 2025. ‘Human’ tells the story of how humanity went from being just one of many hominin species to the dominant form of life of Earth.

Onboard, Ella will give you an insight into her career and work from researching Neanderthal history to exploring for fossils in danger zones around the World. She will also give an insight into the making of the new BBC Studios produced series ‘Human’ and the ground-breaking techniques and research involved to bring the story of mankind to the screen so join Ella for two appearances in the Playhouse theatre.

Millennium FX

Millennium FX are a multi award-winning visual effects company who have worked extensively on BBC Studios productions as well as many other TV shows, major Hollywood films, West End-theatre productions and international tours.

From Doctor Who to Silent Witness, Gladiator to Saving Private Ryan, Phantom of the Opera to Stranger Things, The BBC Philharmonic Orchestra to Iron Maiden, Millennium FX have made prosthetics, costumes, animatronics and props, bringing the fantastical to the stage and screen.

On board the ship, Millennium FX Director, Kate Walshe, will tell you all about the fascinating world of visual effects, and how some of the weird, wild and wonderful effects used on BBC Studios produced programmes are created. In one of her two talks, Kate will also demonstrate how to turn an ordinary man into a gruesome vampire!

Here are some of the awesome Saga BBC Studios cruises you can join in 2024 and 2025.

Caribbean and Central America Discovery

6 included panoramic excursions + onboard: BBC Studios (The Sky at Night’ + Millennium FX); Presenter and travel expert Johanna Grove; music specialist Howie Poole; botanical artist Amber Halsall; chocolatier Andrew Cameron; artist Clare Foster; speciality coffee professor in Latin America, Karen Attman; Spanish teacher, Zsuzsi Dingsdale; Colonel David King; and designer Jill Alblas.

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Book Cruise

Contrasts of Canada and the USA

5 included panoramic excursions + onboard: BBC Studios (Human with Ella Al-Shamahi); chef Phil Vickery; fitness guru Derrick Evans, aka Mr Motivator; Supercrafters; wildlife experts from ORCA; and The Temptations tribute band.

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