David Attenborough returns to celebrate the natural world with a long anticipated second series of Planet Earth
Planet Earth II comes a decade after the original series was filmed – and it looks set to be just as visually stunning as the first
THESE amazing pictures are just a few grabs of the incredible animals soon to be on our screens as Sir David Attenborough's Planet Earth returns this month.
The second series comes a decade after the original Planet Earth series was filmed – and it looks set to be just as visually stunning as the first.
The BBC said that the original, first series “redefined natural history film-making, giving us the ultimate portrait of life on Earth.”
It added: “Planet Earth II will reveal our planet from a completely new perspective, using significant advances in both filming technology and our understanding of the natural world.”
The new series of the show begins later this month on BBC One and comprise of six episodes, each an hour long.
Each episode will deal with animals living in different environments - from mountains, to islands to jungles.
When the series was announced earlier this year, Sir David said: “I am very excited to once again be working with the Natural History Unit on its latest landmark series and am especially looking forward to getting out on location in the next month or so.”
The series was filmed over three years in different locations across the globe, using the latest in technology – meaning that the new Planet Earth uncovers stories about the natural world that we just wouldn’t have been able to before.
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When the first series of Planet Earth was made, it was the most expensive documentary ever broadcast, costing a whopping £20million and taking a long five years to compile.
The first episode in series two takes viewers to the Galapagos - where a hatchling marine iguana sits on the head of an adult at Cape Douglas, on the island of Fernandina.
Tom McDonald, BBC Head of Commissioning for Natural History and Specialist Factual Formats, said : “Following the success of The Hunt, Great Barrier Reef, and Attenborough And The Giant Dinosaur, I'm delighted that Sir David will be presenting our landmark natural history series for 2016 on BBC One.
“Ten years on from Planet Earth, it feels like the perfect moment to bring our audience a series of such ambition which will change the way we see the natural world.”