Offspring Films has announced natural history series, An Hour On Earth, a new 4×60 co-production for BBC Two and PBS that will use the latest technology and pioneering filming techniques to “shed new light on an exciting area of science for the first time – temporal ecology.”
The new series is Offspring Films’ first commission with PBS and first blue-chip, natural history project for the BBC. It also marks the first collaboration with Fremantle who have taken the international distribution rights.
Told through the prism of time, An Hour On Earth will use unique time-driven storytelling and take audiences on an immersive, cinematic journey through nature’s busiest and most fascinating moments, where Earth bursts into life. Each hour-long episode will capture magic moments during fleeting windows of time when the conditions are just right for animals to spring into action. From the rush hour just before dawn in the Kalahari, as desert creatures dash to beat the morning heat; to the hour after the rains in the Amazon, when the forest fills with activity; and from the hour of high tide in the Australian coral reef, this series takes the audience on a mesmerising cinematic journey through nature’s most extraordinary moments. This is natural history on a deadline.
Diana El-Osta, Senior Director, Programming and Development for PBS says: “We’re thrilled to be partnering with the stellar creatives at Offspring on this innovative series. An Hour on Earth will present our viewers with a never-before-seen view of the natural world during its most important yet ephemeral moments”
Isla Roberston, Offspring Films Co-founder and Managing Director, says: “We’re hugely excited to be working with PBS, The BBC and Fremantle on this innovative new series. It’s more important than ever to bring creative collaborators together to finance ambitious series like this”
Alex Williamson, Offspring Films Co-founder and Creative Director, says: “It’s an opportunity to apply cutting edge filming technologies to an area of natural history that has never really been covered before. Temporal, or time-driven ecology, is a burgeoning area of science that explores how animal behaviour changes through time. We’re thrilled to be able to bring these new stories to an audience in a way they’ve never seen before!”
Jon Creamer
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