![]() and Canada, BBC will showcase six exclusive short form episodes that feature new scenes made to compliment the theme of each television episode, specifically for Snapchat’s vertical mobile viewing experience. Hosted on Snapchat’s Discover Platform in the U.S. To that end, BBC Worldwide secured an exclusive partnership with image messaging and multimedia mobile app Snapchat in the weeks leading up to the program’s North American launch. In an era where co-viewing opportunities are gradually becoming a network’s white whale, Planet Earth II has shown its potential to be a unifying family viewing focal point experience, measuring as the third most highly rated BBC UK series of 2016 among viewers aged 16-34, with episodes “Deserts” and “Mountains”, for example, receiving 1.5 million viewers and 1.8 million viewers in the 16-34 demographic, respectively. BBC America is available to more than 80 million television households in the U.S., according to the network. ![]() “We do hope that our audience, which will be in sheer volume smaller, but no less passionate and more time-shifted, will also love and be moved by this amazing storytelling in just the same way as humans across the pond were,” she added. “Numbers aside, what we hope is very similar is the extraordinary combination of this remarkable show with a particular moment in time where audiences are craving something that lifts them up and brings them together,” said Sarah Barnett (pictured below), president and GM of BBC America ahead of Planet Earth II‘s stateside premiere. The series – which encompassed a total of 2,089 shooting days across 117 filming trips in 40 different countries – has now reached a cumulative audience of more than 30 million people in the UK, or nearly half of the country. The sophomore episode entitled “Mountains,” in which the harsh realities of living at extreme altitudes are explored, generated 13.14 million UK viewers. 6, the episode ranked as the most watched of any natural history program in the UK for more than 15 years, receiving an audience of 12.26 million viewers, according to BARB, the organization that compiles audience measurement and television ratings in the UK. When Planet Earth II‘s debut episode “Islands”, which explores remote islands that offer sanctuary for some of the planet’s rarest creatures, aired in the UK on Nov. Over three years in the making and produced by BBC’s Natural History Unit with BBC America, the 6 x 50-minute series utilizes the latest advances in filming technology – such as Ultra HD – to explore Earth’s jungles, deserts, mountains, islands, grasslands and cities, while revealing the characteristic animals living within them.įilm crews employed drones, stabilized handheld camera MōVI systems and remote recording as they explored Earth’s ecosystems and the characteristic animals living within them. and the newly launched BBC Earth in Canada. After premiering to rave reviews and critical acclaim in the UK last fall, BBC’s natural history juggernaut Planet Earth II will make its way stateside for its North American television debut across BBC America in the U.S.
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