{"id":23221,"date":"2025-06-24T08:30:43","date_gmt":"2025-06-24T12:30:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/worldscreen.com\/"},"modified":"2025-06-24T08:45:07","modified_gmt":"2025-06-24T12:45:07","slug":"bbc-pts-pick-up-nhk-coelacanth-doc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/bbc-pts-pick-up-nhk-coelacanth-doc\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC &amp; PTS Pick Up NHK Coelacanth Doc"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The BBC and the Taiwanese public broadcaster PTS have acquired NHK\u2019s documentary <em>Deep Ocean: Kingdom of the Coelacanth<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The 52-minute documentary, produced with ZDF\/ARTE and OceanX in collaboration with CMMAI, captures the ancient fish that has lived unchanged for 400 million years. It follows a 72-hour consecutive observation expedition that achieves the first-ever video images of a group of coelacanths and their behavior indicative of reproduction.<\/p>\n<p>The team behind the documentary is the same team that was behind the 2013 documentary <em>Legend of the Deep: The Giant Squid<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>NHK\u2019s <em>Deep Ocean<\/em> team has created eight documentaries including this one, and David Attenborough has narrated all the English versions. Regarding this documentary, Attenborough commented, \u201cI have a special affection for the species. A live ten-minute program about the discovery of a living one in South Africa back in the 1950s was in fact the first program I ever actually directed. So, I count it a real privilege to be invited to speak the English words of the first film to do the job.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hiromichi Iwasaki, executive producer of NHK\u2019s <em>Deep Ocean<\/em> project, said, \u201cFollowing our success with the giant squid, our next endeavor was to capture the elusive coelacanth in its deep-sea habitat. Anticipating that such a feat would require long and continuous observation, we collaborated closely with dedicated researchers to devise our approach. It took us a decade to realize. Although the project faced two postponements due to the Covid-19 pandemic, this period allowed us to develop an advanced 8K deep-sea imaging system. As a result, we were able to achieve the highest visual quality throughout the entire series.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am deeply grateful to the engineers and scientists who contributed to the development of our equipment, to our co-production partners who offered unwavering support to the very end and to the coelacanths themselves, whose unexpected behaviors enriched our understanding and brought the project to life.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The BBC and the Taiwanese public broadcaster PTS have acquired NHK\u2019s documentary Deep Ocean: Kingdom of the Coelacanth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1412,"featured_media":23222,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[517,11137,128,11138,11139,851,11140,10437,8788,11141,11142],"class_list":["post-23221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-top-stories","tag-bbc","tag-cmmai","tag-david-attenborough","tag-deep-ocean-kingdom-of-the-coelacanth","tag-hiromichi-iwasaki","tag-nhk","tag-nhk-enterprise","tag-oceanx","tag-pts","tag-the-bbc-and-the-taiwanese-public-broadcaster-pts-have-acquired-nhk-and-nhk-enterprises-documentary-deep-ocean-kingdom-of-the-coelacanth","tag-zdf-arte","pmpro-has-access"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>BBC &amp; PTS Pick Up NHK Coelacanth Doc - 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\/?p=23221\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"BBC &amp; PTS Pick Up NHK Coelacanth Doc - TVREAL\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The BBC and the Taiwanese public broadcaster PTS have acquired NHK\u2019s documentary Deep Ocean: Kingdom of the Coelacanth.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/?p=23221\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"TVREAL\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-06-24T12:30:43+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-06-24T12:45:07+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2025\/06\/NHK-DeepOceanKingdomoftheCoelacanths-0625.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\/?p=23221\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/?p=23221\",\"name\":\"BBC &amp; PTS Pick Up NHK Coelacanth Doc - TVREAL\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2025-06-24T12:30:43+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-06-24T12:45:07+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/#\/schema\/person\/0da12602224807cc7b179b8405018deb\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/?p=23221#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/?p=23221\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/?p=23221#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"BBC &#038; PTS Pick Up NHK Coelacanth Doc\"}]},{\"@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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