It is probably just part of the trend of people increasingly using the local names for animals, Takhi being their Mongolian name...
Upcoming BBC wildlife documentaries
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It is probably just part of the trend of people increasingly using the local names for animals, Takhi being their Mongolian name...
Osedax
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Great news @Krookaburra and fellow Australians - Mammals debuts in Australia on Friday the 14th of February at 7:30pm on Channel Nine!!!Still waiting for mammals to be available to watch in AustraliaHow does Myanmar have it but not us?
There is actually another big BBC wildlife documentary that has been announced - it was actually announced in April of last year, but I somehow missed the news.
'Hidden Planet' will be a sequel to Life in the Undergrowth that aired in 2005. Each of the five hour-long episodes will be about insects, using filming techniques first used for The Green Planet in 2022.
Although no airdate has been announced, because the press release mentions the series coming 20 years after Life in the Undergrowth, I am pretty much certain it will air sometime this year.
'Hidden Planet' will be a sequel to Life in the Undergrowth that aired in 2005. Each of the five hour-long episodes will be about insects, using filming techniques first used for The Green Planet in 2022.
Although no airdate has been announced, because the press release mentions the series coming 20 years after Life in the Undergrowth, I am pretty much certain it will air sometime this year.
Another BBC Natural History programme that seems to have passed me by, this one coming much sooner, is 'The Americas'. It will be airing on BBC One from Sunday 2nd March at 6:30, with the ten episodes being narrated by Tom Hanks.
The ten episodes are as follows (the confirmed species from each episode I will put in spoilers):
The Atlantic Coast
Mexico
The Wild West
The Amazon
The Frozen North
The Gulf Coast
The Andes
The Caribbean
The West Coast
Patagonia
The ten episodes are as follows (the confirmed species from each episode I will put in spoilers):
The Atlantic Coast
Feral horse, bald eagles stealing from ospreys, sand tiger shark, raccoon, red-tailed hawk, American black bear and fireflies
Pygmy owl, orcas hunting dolphins, blue-footed booby, orchid bee, cave brittlestar and monarch butterflies
Coyote, rattlesnake, acorn woodpecker, honeypot ant, American bison, feral horse and sandhill cranes
Turtle hatchlings predated by black caiman, harpy eagle, giant otter, army ants and yacare caiman
Polar bear clashing with wolves, Canada lynx and snowshoe hare, sharp-tailed grouse, walrus, salmon and caribou
American alligator, West Indian manatee, apple snail, burrowing owl and Texan ocelot
Spectacled bear, spatuletail hummingbird, marbled four-eyed frog, torrent duck, salt-flat lizard and flamingos
Sailfish, sperm whale, Cuban land crabs, purple-throated carib hummingbird and white-faced capuchin
Coastal wolves, giant Pacific octopus, sea otter, wandering salamander, deep-sea life and courting blue whales
Rockhopper penguins and Southern sea lions, puma, Chilean stag beetle, Darwin's rhea, orca and elephant seal
peruvianbirdie
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Im reserving judgment. Nostalgia for the original may go some way, however Prehistoric Planet set the bar high enough that even this new WWD may struggle to supersede it
Also it would seem there’s no return for Kenneth Branagh. It’s Bertie Carvel doing the narration
The PBS website now has a synopsis up for all 6 episodes of the new Walking with Dinosaurs. Also a premiere date of June 16th, so I imagine the BBC won’t be too far off this.
The new Walking with Dinosaurs will start airing on the BBC on the 25th of May.
I have just learned, via the newest issue of the BBC Wildlife magazine that arrived today, that a new series narrated by David Attenborough will be airing on BBC One from Sunday 3rd August.
Titled Parenthood, it is seen as a direct sequel to The Mating Game that aired in 2022. It will also have a very similar structure, with four episodes about habitats (the same habitats will feature in both series) and one more general episode.
The episode titles, and the animals so far confirmed, include:
1. The Greatest Adventure
2. Oceans
3. Grasslands
4. Freshwater
5. Jungles
The following animals are also mentioned, but the episode they appear in has not been confirmed:
There is an article about the upcoming series in this link.
Titled Parenthood, it is seen as a direct sequel to The Mating Game that aired in 2022. It will also have a very similar structure, with four episodes about habitats (the same habitats will feature in both series) and one more general episode.
The episode titles, and the animals so far confirmed, include:
1. The Greatest Adventure
Burrowing owls, lions in the Kalahari Desert and African social spiders in Namibia
2. Oceans
Skeleton shrimp and garibaldi fish
3. Grasslands
A British potter wasp species and cheetah
4. Freshwater
Giant Amazon turtles and Namaqua sandgrouse
5. Jungles
Rufous-necked hornbill and Southern cassowary
The following animals are also mentioned, but the episode they appear in has not been confirmed:
Iberian lynx, bottlenose dolphin, dyeing poison-dart frog, Hanuman langur, Bornean orangutan, an Indonesian crab species, Western lowland gorilla, San Joaquin kit fox, African wild dog, killer whales teaching their young to hunt blue whales, hippopotamus and guanaco
There is an article about the upcoming series in this link.
There is an additional article about Parenthood on the BBC Media Centre included here, which includes a fuller list of species and filming locations.
Mr.Ivory
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Although being streamed by Apple the BBC has also worked on a squeal series for Prehistoric planet, Prehistoric planet: Ice Age set during the pleistocene epoch. The new five episode series airs on November 26, 2025
Apple TV+ announces “Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age”
Apple TV+ announces “Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age”
There is a potentially very interesting documentary coming this Sunday (21st September) on BBC 2, running from 20:10 to 21:00 and narrated by David Attenborough.
Titled 'Deep Ocean: Kingdom of the Coelacanth', it follows attempts by Japanese scientists to film coelacanths in the deep ocean via a submersible. What makes it even more interesting is that the latest Radio Times says that the search is being done off Sulawesi, meaning the species shown will be the Indonesian coelacanth. As far as I am aware, all previous films of wild coelacanths have been of the West Indian Ocean species.
Titled 'Deep Ocean: Kingdom of the Coelacanth', it follows attempts by Japanese scientists to film coelacanths in the deep ocean via a submersible. What makes it even more interesting is that the latest Radio Times says that the search is being done off Sulawesi, meaning the species shown will be the Indonesian coelacanth. As far as I am aware, all previous films of wild coelacanths have been of the West Indian Ocean species.
Today, the BBC have announced six new natural history documentaries that will be airing in the near-future.
Wild London: A single-episode programme, presented by David Attenborough, that will explore the wildlife of Britain's capital city. Species mentioned include pigeons (which commute on the tube), snakes along Regent's Canal (presumably Aesculapian), parakeets, Eurasian beavers, red foxes and peregrine falcons.
Kingdom: A series of six fifty-minute episodes that follow the fortunes of lions, leopards, spotted hyaenas and painted dogs in Zambia's Luangwa Valley that was filmed across five years. This series will be narrated by David Attenborough.
Tiger Island: A two-part series looking at a river island in Nepal, part of a community-owned forest reserve, that has the highest density of tigers on the planet, with multiple adult tigers (including mothers with cubs) sharing a four-square-kilometre island. This documentary will include some tiger behaviour that has apparently never been filmed before.
The Green Planet II: A series of five hour-long episodes that will build upon the previous series, focusing on exploring the interconnecting relationships between plants and animals.
Gordon Buchanan: Wild Horses and Me: A continuation of this series of single-episode one-hour programmes following filmmaker Gordon Buchanan following the lives of a group of animals, in this case feral horses in the Canadian Rockies.
Bearwalker: A single-episode 75-minute programme, following wildlife biologist Lynn Rogers and his daughter as they attempt to find his favourite study black bear 'Lily' for one last time.
Wild London: A single-episode programme, presented by David Attenborough, that will explore the wildlife of Britain's capital city. Species mentioned include pigeons (which commute on the tube), snakes along Regent's Canal (presumably Aesculapian), parakeets, Eurasian beavers, red foxes and peregrine falcons.
Kingdom: A series of six fifty-minute episodes that follow the fortunes of lions, leopards, spotted hyaenas and painted dogs in Zambia's Luangwa Valley that was filmed across five years. This series will be narrated by David Attenborough.
Tiger Island: A two-part series looking at a river island in Nepal, part of a community-owned forest reserve, that has the highest density of tigers on the planet, with multiple adult tigers (including mothers with cubs) sharing a four-square-kilometre island. This documentary will include some tiger behaviour that has apparently never been filmed before.
The Green Planet II: A series of five hour-long episodes that will build upon the previous series, focusing on exploring the interconnecting relationships between plants and animals.
Gordon Buchanan: Wild Horses and Me: A continuation of this series of single-episode one-hour programmes following filmmaker Gordon Buchanan following the lives of a group of animals, in this case feral horses in the Canadian Rockies.
Bearwalker: A single-episode 75-minute programme, following wildlife biologist Lynn Rogers and his daughter as they attempt to find his favourite study black bear 'Lily' for one last time.
Osedax
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Very excited for these, especially Green Planet II. Wild London sounds like it should be good too.
Any more news on this?
Also, fantastic news for Australians, the first episode of Asia aired last night with the rest to follow!!!
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Not heard any news about this series since November 2024, when the BBC announced that it was one of three documentaries due to be screened in China (alongside Kingdom and Blue Planet III).
In fact, with Kingdom due to last six weeks and coming fairly soon, I'm now not so sure that Hidden Planet will be coming this year. With any luck, it will come sometime next year.
“Hamza’s Hidden Wild Isles” has now been released by the BBC. Presented by wildlife cameraman Hamza Yassin, the 4 part series follows Hamza around the British Isles following the seasons across the year as he films a variety of wildlife, and meets those individuals trying to save them.
By chance, I saw the first episode last week. It’s very good considering the BBC seemed to have placed it in an early Sunday evening slot! Plus Hamza’s personality and enthusiasm is nothing if not infectious!
By chance, I saw the first episode last week. It’s very good considering the BBC seemed to have placed it in an early Sunday evening slot! Plus Hamza’s personality and enthusiasm is nothing if not infectious!
The BBC has announced that Kingdom will begin airing this coming Sunday - the 9th of November - at 6:20pm.
I have really enjoyed Hamza's Hidden Wild Isles. My personal highlight was the Wirral spring tide sequence from the first episode - I'm amazed that such an impressive natural event hasn't appeared more often in wildlife programmes.
