NBC has set the premiere date for The Americas, another new natural history series from BBC Studios Natural History Unit. (Those folks are busy, busy, busy!)
The Americas is created by BBC Studios Natural History Unit, whose series Planet Earth and Blue Planet, amongst their dozens of programs, won multiple Emmy® Awards.
Narrated by Oscar® winner Tom Hanks (Forrest Gump, Philadelphia), and with music by Oscar® and Grammy® Award-winning composer Hans Zimmer (Dune: Part One, The Lion King), The Americas showcases the wonders, secrets, and fragilities of the world’s great supercontinent (comprised of the continents North America and South America, including the Latin/Ibero America region and Central America sub-region).
For the first time, the singular Americas stars in its own incomparable series, using cutting-edge technology to uncover never-before-seen behavior, and highlight extraordinary, untold wildlife stories. Five years in the making and filmed over 180 expeditions, this groundbreaking series reveals the spectacular landscapes of Earth’s most varied landmass — the only one to stretch between both poles.
The unprecedented scale and ambition of the ten-part event series deliver remarkable world firsts: new species, new intimate courtship, dramatic deep sea hunting, and some of nature’s strangest stories — even a frog that seems to defy death every day. Each hour-long episode features a different iconic location across the Americas: “The Atlantic Coast,” “Mexico,” “The Wild West,” “The Amazon,” “The Frozen North,” “The Gulf Coast,” “The Andes,” “The Caribbean,” “The West Coast,” and “Patagonia.”
The Americas premieres in the US on Sunday, February 23, at 7pm ET/PT, on NBC.
The series kicks off with the episode, “The Atlantic Coast,” an area where wild and urban worlds intersect in unexpected ways. On North Carolina’s Outer Banks, an aging stallion’s battle to defend his family reveals the intense, unseen dramas of wild horse life. In Chesapeake Bay, rare footage captures bald eagles chasing ospreys mid-air for a hard-won meal. Beneath the waters of the “Graveyard of the Atlantic,” sand tiger sharks act as unlikely guardians for schools of scad fish, a behavior only recently observed. In New York City, a young raccoon learns the challenges of urban survival in a vertical world, while under threat from predatory red-tailed hawks, something seldom seen before. In the Appalachian forests, young black bears forage and fireflies light up the darkness. And in New England, a 130-year-old red oak tree’s preparation for winter is captured in stunning macro detail, revealing the intricate changes within its leaves.
The Americas is executive produced by Emmy® and BAFTA Award-winning wildlife producer Mike Gunton (Life, Planet Earth II, Dynasties) for BBC Studios Natural History Unit, the best-known and most respected producers of natural history content in the world, in association with Universal Television Alternative Studio, a division of Universal Studio Group.
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