{"id":23029,"date":"2025-05-27T12:04:37","date_gmt":"2025-05-27T16:04:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/nat-geo-slates-ryan-reynolds-narrated-underdogs\/"},"modified":"2025-05-27T12:05:19","modified_gmt":"2025-05-27T16:05:19","slug":"nat-geo-slates-ryan-reynolds-narrated-underdogs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/nat-geo-slates-ryan-reynolds-narrated-underdogs\/","title":{"rendered":"Nat Geo Slates Ryan Reynolds-Narrated Underdogs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Underdogs<\/em>, a new series about the outcasts of the animal kingdom narrated by Ryan Reynolds, is to bow on National Geographic and ABC on June 15.<\/p>\n<p>Each episode of the five-part series showcases a different aspect of often-overlooked animals\u2019 bizarre mating strategies, surprising superpowers, dubious parenting skills and gross behaviors. After premiering on Nat Geo and ABC, it will stream the next day on Disney+ and Hulu.<\/p>\n<p><em>Underdogs<\/em> features a range of never-before-filmed scenes. The series marks the first time a film crew has ever entered a special cave in New Zealand that glows bright due to the glowing butts of mucus-coated grubs.<\/p>\n<p>The series is produced by Reynolds\u2019 Maximum Effort and Wildstar Films. It includes music from composer Harry Gregson-Williams (<em>Shrek<\/em>,<em> The Martian<\/em>, <em>Gladiator 2<\/em>), as well as an original theme song from Green Day.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGetting to work with National Geographic on <em>Underdogs<\/em> was a dream come true\u2014mostly because I can finally watch a project of ours with my children,\u201d Reynolds said. \u201cTechnically, they saw <em>Deadpool &amp; Wolverine<\/em>, but I don\u2019t think they absorbed much while covering their eyes and ears and screaming for two hours.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re so proud to elevate the unsung heroes of the natural world to the top of the entertainment food chain and can\u2019t wait for everyone to see.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Underdogs, a new series about the outcasts of the animal kingdom narrated by Ryan Reynolds, is to bow on National Geographic and ABC on June 15.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1412,"featured_media":23030,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[855,4324,11005,267,6861,1009,1444,6859,6317],"class_list":["post-23029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-top-stories","tag-abc","tag-disney","tag-green-day","tag-hulu","tag-maximum-effort","tag-national-geographic","tag-ryan-reynolds","tag-underdogs","tag-wildstar-films","pmpro-has-access"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - 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