Wild Sky

The skies above our planet never stop moving. Wind, rain, drought and blizzards shape the lives of every living thing. The polar vortex provides hunting opportunities for polar bears and fuels tornadoes dodged by prairie dogs and wolves. In South America a mysterious river of clouds brings life-giving rain to frogs and monkeys, while flamingos and puma eke out a living in the rain shadow. In Africa elephants, meerkats and lions choose different strategies to deal with drought, while in Australia the monsoon baths crocodiles and kangaroos. As weather sweeps across four continents, creatures find ingenious solutions to survive our planet’s WILD SKY.

World's Biggest Baddest Bugs

How big and how bad are the beasties lurking in your backyard? Bugman Ruud Kleinpaste is taking us on an entomological odyssey around the globe in search of the ultimate biggest and “baddest” creepy crawlies.

Masa Off Grid

Urbanite Masa Takei was fascinated with the idea of a simpler, self-sufficient lifestyle. He wondered if he “had what it takes” to build a shelter and to hunt for his food, with no running water, no electricity or other comforts of home. Setting out for a year to live and learn off grid in a remote, northern area, Masa takes viewers along for the entire experience.

Neu Earth

Neu Earth is a place and a time where humanity has triumphed against climate change. What does Neu Earth look like? The answer unfolds through the investigations of a future historian living in 2050 and looking back in time. Key global innovations become apparent: controversial cloud manipulation experiments, the enhancing of photosynthesis to create food and energy, and innovations in construction with bamboo and fungi. Efforts to capture carbon dioxide directly also loom large. The future historian discovers the origins of an atmospheric filtration system, and the development of methods to capture carbon by land, soil and sea.

Wild Survivors

Africa’s animals display an incredible diversity – countless species have evolved into endless shapes, colours and sizes. Each has its own solutions to day-to-day problems and each behaves differently in its quest to eat, mate and survive. WILD SURVIVORS takes a look at the relationship between animal and environment, and reveals the various ways each impacts the other.

Volcanic Odysseys

Travel to the places where the Earth’s inner fury explodes. In this fascinating and adrenaline-fuelled exploration of the globe’s mightiest mountains, fearless adventurers travel to the most eruptive volcanoes on the planet.

Great Parks of Africa

Experience exhilarating cliff-side vistas, stunning succulent flora, vast arid deserts, lush wetlands and amazing animal populations across more than 4 million hectares of parkland in GREAT PARKS OF AFRICA, a series that illustrates the remarkable diversity of the continent’s epic parks.

Amazing Animal Friends

This heart-warming and fascinating returnable series brings you the most surprising animal friends from around the world. From a duck that won't enter the water without her Labrador retriever guardian, to a very special friendship between a rhino and a lamb, to an elephant who thinks she’s a buffalo. We travel the globe to track down the cutest, funniest and most unusual animal relationships and bring you the delightful and compelling stories behind these bizarre animal bonds, why they have formed and how they help animals find a brighter future.

Gangs of Lemur Island

Feuding families, civil war, and lovers’ trysts. This is not Romeo and Juliet; this is a troop of ring-tailed lemurs leading extraordinary lives on ‘Lemur Island’. Meet the lemurs of Berenty, a spiny forest reserve in Madagascar, where the primates are obsessed with social rank and status, and have shown to be adept at adapting to survive in an environment of extremes in a changing climate. Science and behaviour intersect in the gripping GANGS OF LEMUR ISLAND.

The Orchard

THE ORCHARD follows life in an apple orchard from spring to the autumn harvest season. Each month from May to September is an act in this dramatic story filled with love, loss, battles of nature, amazing characters, and a bountiful payoff. May is cultivation and blossom. June brings the animals. July is green with the bloom of summer, babies, changing weather, and farm work. August bears the fruit and brings in more animals and plants, fruit and vegetables in the orchard. September brings the harvest season in all its glory, before the cycle begins again.