BBC Greenlights ‘Evolution’ With Chris Packham & Reveals It Has Doubled Its Number Of Blue-Chip Science Shows Per Year
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: The BBC has tied with PBS on a Chris Packham-fronted series about evolution, as the corporation reveals it has doubled its number of blue-chip science shows.
Evolution will tell the story of the millions of generations that gave rise to animals today, tracking one animal per episode.
Species in focus will range from the bat, whose ultrasonic hearing makes it one of the deadliest hunters on the planet, to the peacock and its magnificent feathers, to the kangaroo, which owes its impressive leaping not to its legs but to its teeth.
Packham, who also hosted last year’s Earth for the BBC, will take viewers back in time to chart evolution utilizing advances in genetic analysis and CGI. “This is new, shiny and immediately accessible,” BBC Head of Science Tom Coveney told Deadline. “It’s full of animal-based facts but also because there are millions and millions of species it gives the opportunity for endless variety, twists and turns.
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