![]() I mean, we were doing the voiceover yesterday and just even doing the voiceover, it was quite emotional - when the elephants die in the drought and that whole thing. I don’t often cry in programs, but there were definitely tears involved. Hostile Planet you go to be almost shocked, because it is hard reality of what a lot of animals are going through. I think traditionally with natural history you’re meant to be wowed. I have quite a savvy family who are quite hard to please on TV stuff, but they watched the Hostile Planet trailer, and the boys have been texting me, and Shara has been going, “This looks insane!” They almost didn’t really know what I was doing, you know? They knew I was hosting it, but they hadn’t seen any of the footage, and just seeing a bit of it, they’ve all separately been texting me, “OK, this show looks insane.” So from a heart perspective, I’m really excited about that one, and I hope that there’ll be millions and millions of fans around the word. ![]() I really do think the natural history stuff is a strong one for us. (Photo by National Geographic/Holly Harrison) What’s coming soon that you can’t wait for? We’re actually big fans of Amazon and Netflix stuff. So I said, “Do me a favor, go to the last episode of season 6 or 7, watch it, tell me if I’ve missed anything.” She watched it, she went, “You didn’t miss anything.” And then I go, “There’s another series?” She goes, “Oh, there’s another seven series.” I go, “How many episodes?” She goes, “130 or so.” We’re not waiting 130 episodes. We watched the first 15, and I was hooked. You’d think, “that was such a waste of time.” Shara did that with Nashville the other day. And I think in the early days all these streaming services with hundreds of episodes, everyone would plow through it to get to episode 24 and then it still wouldn’t end. And actually, what I don’t enjoy is: I find long series that don’t conclude really annoying. I quite enjoy a bit of escapism like that. Because we’re traveling, she’s going, “Make sure you’ve watched up to episode 12, so when we get back we can watch the finale together.” So I’m on the plane catching up on this. Shara at the moment is knee-deep in Netflix’s Money Heist. I’m married and have a family and a lovely wife and children, so I end up watching things that they really like. The landmark natural history stuff is always in my heart. Over the years I’ve got a few great friends who do TV, so I’ll watch other survival stuff and adventure-y stuff when they have things coming out. ![]() But I think the things I end up watching are things that involve friends. To be honest, I’m not a great TV watcher. (Photo by National Geographic/Tanja Bayer) ![]() He also told us what he’s watching on TV when he’s not camping out in the wilderness somewhere, and his answers might surprise you. “It was and still is incredible TV, but I suppose what we’re trying to do is really going to give it a really strong, powerful refresh and make it really powerful for a young generation of people who maybe have never experienced wildlife, natural history programming before.” “I grew up on all the classic BBC Planet Earth, Blue Planet ,” he said. Wild on Netflix beginning April 10 - talked to Rotten Tomatoes about why Hostile Planet is different from other natural history shows. The star, who’s bringing back his popular Running Wild series on Nat Geo later this year and is hosting the interactive series You vs. They employed approximately 245 crew members during their 82 shoots, which covered more than 1300 days of filming and approximately 1800 hours of footage on all seven continents. Grylls executive produces the show alongside Oscar-winning cinematographer Guillermo Navarro, BBC natural history grads Martha Holmes and Tom Hugh-Jones, and Grylls’ collaborator Delbert Shoopman - which means there is plenty of talent behind the camera too. There are plenty of those, too, but the series, hosted by Bear Grylls, focuses on how six different environments - mountains, oceans, grasslands, jungles, deserts, and polar - are increasingly more punishing on the animals who live there. (Photo by Hostile Planet National Geographic NatGeo African Photo Productions © 2018)Įarth Day is on April 22, and National Geographic is celebrating all month long with Hostile Planet, a new natural history series that focuses on the brutal realities of nature rather than breathtaking vistas. ![]()
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