Companion bookĪ companion book was written by Tim Haines to accompany the first screening of the series in 1999. The aging Ornithocheirus on a desperate final flight to his mating grounds, the sauropod hatchlings struggling for survival in the late Jurassic, the migrating herds and the undersea life of 150 million years ago would all seem as real as a nature program about polar bears or snow monkeys.' This technique of narrating the prehistoric life as though it were current has been used several times since, for example in the BBC's 2011 Planet Dinosaur series. CommonSense Media greatly praised the program, giving it five stars out of five and saying that, 'Somebody had a great idea, which was to make a documentary series about dinosaurs, but with a twist. The series won two BAFTAs (Innovation and Best Original Television Music) and three Emmy Awards: Outstanding Animated Program, Outstanding Special Visual Effects and Outstanding Achievement in Non-Fiction Programming – Sound Editing. In a list of the 100 Greatest British Television Programmes drawn up by the British Film Institute in 1999, voted on by industry professionals, Walking with Dinosaurs was placed 72nd. A feature film of the same name, inspired by the series was released by 20th Century Fox and BBC Earth in 2013. The series won two BAFTA Awards, three Emmy Awards and a Peabody Award in 2000. The Guinness Book of World Records reported that the series was the most expensive documentary series per minute ever made. Holtz, Jr., Peter Dodson, Peter Larson, Dave Martill, and James Farlow as advisors (their influence in the filming process can be seen in the documentary The Making of Walking with Dinosaurs). The series used palaeontologists such as Michael Benton, Thomas R.

The programme's aim was to simulate the style of a nature documentary and therefore does not include 'talking head' interviews. series and used computer-generated imagery and animatronics to recreate the life of the Mesozoic, showing dinosaurs and their contemporaries in a way that previously had only been seen in feature films. It is the first entry of the Walking with. The series was subsequently aired in North America on the Discovery Channel in 2000, with Branagh's voice replaced with that of Avery Brooks. Walking with Dinosaurs is a six-part documentary television miniseries that was produced by the BBC, narrated by Kenneth Branagh, and first aired in the United Kingdom, in 1999. Warner Home Video (USA home video, 2000-present)īBC, Discovery Channel, TV Asahi, France 3, ProSieben The Bahamas, California State Parks, Chile, New Caledonia, New Zealand, TasmaniaĢ0th Century Fox Home Entertainment (USA home video, 1999-2000)

Kenneth Branagh (BBC and Discovery Channel Version) The official DVD cover of Walking with Dinosaurs

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