Cablevision adds BBC America

Finally: One of the great missing channels has been made available to Cablevision customers.

BBC America -- home of  "Dr. Who" and other groovy programs -- will be available Thursday on Channel 101 for Cablevision's IO customers. (Cablevision owns Newsday.)

Also joining Cablevision are TV One, a channel aimed at African-American viewers (Channel  178) and Reelzchannel, (Channel 177), a network for movie fans that was also where the infamous "Kennedys" miniseries landed after the History channel dumped it.