BBC One Readies New David Attenborough-Led Docuseries

BBC One is gearing up for The Green Planet (working title), a brand-new five-part series from BBC Studios Natural History Unit, which is set to be narrated by Sir David Attenborough.

The Green Planet (w/t) will be the first immersive portrayal of an unseen, interconnected world, full of remarkable new behavior, emotional stories and surprising heroes in the plant world. The series is billed as “Planet Earth from the perspective of plants.”

Across the 5×60-minute series, Attenborough will travel to the U.S., Costa Rica, Croatia and northern Europe, from deserts to mountains, from rainforests to the frozen north, to find new stories and a fresh understanding of how plants live their lives. He will meet the largest living things that have ever existed, trees that care for each other and plants that breed so fast they could cover the planet in a matter of months.

The series will use new developments in robotics, moving time-lapse, super-detail thermal cameras, deep focus “frame-stacking” and ultra-high-speed to travel beyond the power of the human eye and make visible the hidden life of the green planet.

Attenborough said: “This is a wonderful opportunity to explore a neglected yet truly remarkable part of the natural world. Once again, the innovative approach of the BBC NHU and groundbreaking technology will reveal new and surprising wonders to the BBC One audience.”

Mike Gunton, executive producer, added: “This series will take viewers into a world beyond their imagination—see things no eye has ever seen. The world of plants is a mind-blowing parallel universe; one that we can now bring to life using a whole range of exciting new camera technology. This is Planet Earth for plants!”