{"id":22590,"date":"2025-02-13T11:48:31","date_gmt":"2025-02-13T16:48:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/itv-commissions-extreme-planet-earth\/"},"modified":"2025-02-13T12:04:48","modified_gmt":"2025-02-13T17:04:48","slug":"itv-commissions-extreme-planet-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/itv-commissions-extreme-planet-earth\/","title":{"rendered":"ITV Commissions Extreme Planet Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ITV has commissioned the six-part series <em>Extreme Planet Earth<\/em> from Plimsoll Productions (<em>A Year on Planet Earth<\/em>, <em>A Real Bug\u2019s Life<\/em>).<\/p>\n<p>Three years in the making, the series underscores the high-stakes battle for wildlife survival in a time of extreme weather, wildfires and environmental upheaval. Each episode reveals footage of wildlife that has been pushed beyond the brink, from elephants in Borneo navigating treacherous floodwaters to wombats in Australia with fires raging around them to Caribbean flamingos in Mexico facing the earliest Category 5 hurricane on record.<\/p>\n<p>The animals show grit in the face of these events, but grit can only take them so far. Conservationists and scientists are hard at work in the planet\u2019s harshest conditions, trying to intervene to protect species with groundbreaking initiatives.<\/p>\n<p><em>Extreme Planet Earth<\/em> is co-produced with the ARD Group in Germany in association with ITV Studios, which will also be distributing the series internationally.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWherever you live on the planet, you can relate to extreme weather,\u201d said Mark Brownlow, creative director of natural history at Plimsoll Productions. \u201cFrom the devastating fires in Los Angeles to floods across Europe, extreme weather is constantly breaking news and affecting us all. In <em>Extreme Planet Earth<\/em>, we are going to unveil how our favorite wildlife faces these challenges with sheer courage, resilience and determination. Their remarkable endurance is truly inspiring.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jo Clinton-Davis, controller of factual at ITV, added, \u201cThis series is unique in charting the impact of wild weather on wildlife\u2014and Plimsoll deploying a combination of outstanding visuals, gripping storytelling and anthropomorphic approach will bring to life the drama of the animal kingdom grappling with an issue that affects all of us.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ITV has commissioned the six-part series Extreme Planet Earth from Plimsoll Productions (A Year on Planet Earth, A Real Bug\u2019s Life).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1412,"featured_media":22591,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[10537,423,6722,6700,641],"class_list":["post-22590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-top-stories","tag-extreme-planet-earth","tag-itv","tag-jo-clinton-davis","tag-mark-brownlow","tag-plimsoll-productions","pmpro-has-access"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>ITV Commissions Extreme Planet Earth - TVREAL<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/itv-commissions-extreme-planet-earth\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"ITV Commissions Extreme Planet Earth - TVREAL\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"ITV has commissioned the six-part series Extreme Planet Earth from Plimsoll Productions (A Year on Planet Earth, A Real Bug\u2019s Life).\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/itv-commissions-extreme-planet-earth\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"TVREAL\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-02-13T16:48:31+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-02-13T17:04:48+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2025\/02\/2025-02-13-ITV-Logo-0225.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"640\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"394\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Jamie Stalcup\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Jamie Stalcup\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/itv-commissions-extreme-planet-earth\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/itv-commissions-extreme-planet-earth\/\",\"name\":\"ITV Commissions Extreme Planet Earth - TVREAL\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2025-02-13T16:48:31+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-02-13T17:04:48+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/#\/schema\/person\/0da12602224807cc7b179b8405018deb\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/itv-commissions-extreme-planet-earth\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/itv-commissions-extreme-planet-earth\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/itv-commissions-extreme-planet-earth\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"ITV Commissions Extreme Planet Earth\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/\",\"name\":\"TVREAL\",\"description\":\"\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/#\/schema\/person\/0da12602224807cc7b179b8405018deb\",\"name\":\"Jamie Stalcup\",\"description\":\"Jamie Stalcup is the executive editor of World Screen. 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