Australia’s Nine Slates Planet Earth II

SYDNEY: BBC Worldwide Australia & New Zealand (ANZ) has reached an agreement with Nine in Australia that will see its natural-history title Planet Earth II premiere on the network in 2017.

Produced by the BBC’s Natural History Unit and narrated by David Attenborough, the title is the sequel to Planet Earth, the first natural-history series to be filmed in HD. Planet Earth II includes footage from 40 different countries and 117 filming trips.

Planet Earth II recently premiered on BBC One in the U.K., where it drew 9.2 million viewers in overnight figures. It is co-produced with BBC America, ZDF, Tencent and France Télévisions.

BBC Worldwide ANZ’s director of content sales, Irene Read, said, “This is a spectacular series that has all the wow-factor of the original Planet Earth, with the added benefit of new technology to capture the scale of our planet and get close to its animals in a way that was not possible ten years ago. Nine will be able to offer viewers a real treat with this series.”

Hamish Turner, Nine’s program director, added, “Ten years after launch, Planet Earth still stands as a landmark natural-history series, the first to be filmed in high definition. We’re thrilled to have secured this stunning sequel coming to Nine in 2017.”