Meet the Planets, Diana, Surviving Pompeii, Actual Discovering Nemo: Nationwide Geographic Broadcasts New Collection

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“Nationwide Geographic continues to guide the cost in producing boundary-pushing storytelling with the greenlight of a various new unscripted collection slate that encapsulates the model’s ethos throughout exploration, journey, modern and historical historical past, and pure historical past.

“These new unscripted collection epitomize all the things Nationwide Geographic stands for – daring, charming storytelling rooted in world-class analysis and experience,” stated Tom McDonald, govt vice chairman of International Unscripted and Factual Content material. “Whether or not it’s the cutting-edge innovation of THE REAL FINDING NEMO (working title), the storytelling panache of SURVIVING POMPEII (working title), the sweeping ambition of MEET THE PLANETS (working title), or the unparalleled entry in DIANA: ONE DAY IN PARIS, Nationwide Geographic is constructing on its repute as the house of essentially the most distinctive factual collection from the perfect storytellers on this planet.”

Increasing upon Nat Geo’s lauded, award-winning unscripted collection slate, new greenlights embody the next:

THE REAL FINDING NEMO (Working Title)

Following the success of the Disney+ Unique collection, “A Actual Bug’s Life,” comes THE REAL FINDING NEMO (working title), an intimate and entertaining journey by the thrilling underwater world of charming characters the place life is crammed with epic drama and relatable life conditions. Impressed by Pixar’s smash hit movie, this collection will immerse viewers within the intricate dynamics of life on the reef and past because the underwater residents interact in friendship, deception, romance, and resilience. From Freeborne Media (“Our Nice Nationwide Parks,” “Our Oceans,” “Our Dwelling World”) together with the world’s greatest underwater cinematographers, our ocean characters will transport viewers into the world under with themes which can be related to sea creatures and human creatures alike. Dive right into a clownfish’s epic quest, the unpredictable danger-filled “drop-off,” and expertise the on a regular basis jobs that maintain Reef Metropolis alive like every thriving metropolis within the human world.

For Freeborne Media, James Honeyborne is govt producer. For Nationwide Geographic, Tracy Rudolph Jackson is govt producer; Janet Vissering is senior vice chairman, Growth and Manufacturing; Charlie Parsons is senior vice chairman, Growth; and Tom McDonald is govt vice chairman, International Factual and Unscripted Content material.

SURVIVING POMPEII WITH TOM HIDDLESTON (Working Title) (Plimsoll Productions)

Tom Hiddleston brings his ardour for historical historical past to life in SURVIVING POMPEII WITH TOM HIDDLESTON (working title), produced by Plimsoll Productions. Persevering with his partnership with “Loki” govt producer Kevin R. Wright on this unique idea, Hiddleston leads a groundbreaking historic exploration that immerses audiences within the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 A.D. and the hauntingly preserved Roman metropolis it left behind.

SURVIVING POMPEII (working title) is a creatively formidable meld of documentary and drama on a journey into the previous that’s nonetheless echoed within the current. Hiddleston, who studied Classics at Cambridge College and is a devoted fanatic of historical historical past, embarks on a detective-like quest, respiration life again into the misplaced voices of Pompeii’s individuals. Every episode uncovers actual tales hidden for hundreds of years, revealing the extraordinary instants of on a regular basis life that enable us to the touch the humanity of those that lived nearly 2,000 years in the past. By way of richly emotional narratives, Hiddleston unveils a remarkably trendy metropolis and brings to gentle the lives of peculiar Romans – not simply the elite – exhibiting how their resilience and selections nonetheless echo in our world at the moment. SURVIVING POMPEII (working title) is each a forensic investigation and a deeply empathetic expertise, drawing viewers right into a meticulous, minute-by-minute retelling of Pompeii’s closing moments. That is historical past as you’ve by no means seen it: charming, pressing and profoundly human.

For Plimsoll Productions, Grant Mansfield, Alan Eyres, Helen Flint and Tom Barbor-Would possibly are govt producers. Kevin R. Wright and Tom Hiddleston are govt producers. For Nationwide Geographic, Carolyn Payne is govt producer; Bengt Anderson is senior vice chairman, Manufacturing; Charlie Parsons, is senior vice chairman, Growth; and Tom McDonald is govt vice chairman, International Factual and Unscripted Content material.

MEET THE PLANETS (Working Title) (Most Effort, BBC Studios Science Unit)

From Ryan Reynolds’ Most Effort and the Emmy(R) Award-winning BBC Studios Science Unit (“The Surgeon’s Reduce,” “Strolling with Dinosaurs”) comes MEET THE PLANETS (working title), an astronomy collection that brings the galaxy’s most well-known household to life, with the solar because the matriarch, surrounded by her unruly planetary kids. The primary collection of its variety, MEET THE PLANETS (working title), will collide mind-blowing science with sharp scripted comedy and unique animation, permitting the planets to talk for themselves.

For BBC Studios Science Unit, Andrew Cohen is govt producer. For Nationwide Geographic, Betsy Forhan is govt producer; Bengt Anderson is senior vice chairman, Manufacturing; Charlie Parsons, is senior vice chairman, Growth; and Tom McDonald is govt vice chairman, International Factual and Unscripted Content material.

DIANA: ONE DAY IN PARIS (72 Movies)

DIANA: ONE DAY IN PARIS is a three-part documentary collection exploring the tragic dying of Princess Diana on the thirtieth anniversary of that fateful paparazzi automotive chase by a Parisian motorway tunnel. Produced by the crew behind the critically acclaimed “9/11: One Day in America” and “JFK: One Day in America,” the collection will use the “One Day In… ” franchise’s trademark present-tense method that bypasses conspiracy theories in favor of factual accuracy. It is going to uncover new insights utilizing uncommon archives and interviews with witnesses who’ve by no means spoken publicly. This landmark collection will have a look at the 24 hours earlier than and after Diana’s dying in forensic element and observe the story by to her funeral one week later when the world mourned the passing of an icon.

For 72 Movies, David Glover and Mark Raphael are govt producers. TJ Martin and Dan Lindsay are govt producers. For Nationwide Geographic, Carolyn Payne is govt producer; Bengt Anderson is senior vice chairman, Manufacturing; Charlie Parsons, is senior vice chairman, Growth; and Tom McDonald is govt vice chairman, International Factual and Unscripted Content material.”