Recent Productions

Forget everything you thought you knew about dinosaurs. In this cutting edge new Dinosaur series, palaeontologist Dr. Phil Manning borrows the world’s most advanced technologies, from the space race, the arms race and the world of medicine, and turns them on the past.  This thought provoking series projects how dinosaurs actually moved, sensed, lived, died and even how they thought.

250 million years ago, our world was dominated by a giant supercontinent  created by forces that could flatten mountains, drain oceans and move entire continents. Those forces are still at work, and will bring our world full circle, back to a time when the land will come together and the world will again be one gigantic Supercontinent.  Millions of years in the future, what evidence will remain that we were ever here?

For more than 2 000 years, hundreds of pyramid tombs towered over the fabled Silk Road near the ancient Chinese city of Xian, their secrets buried and largely ignored. These enormous structures, built in preparation for the afterlives of China’s Emperors and other royalty, may hold riches beyond belief.  Mostly still unexcavated they are slowly revealing their mysteries to archeology.

How would you react if confronted by your worst nightmare? We reveal the harrowing and inspirational stories of those who have faced death and survived. This series of compelling stories offers insight from people who successfully battle and outsmart vicious criminals, mother nature, the elements and human error into just how they did survive – in their own words, as they offer a minute-by-minute account of their greatest ordeal.

In the aftermath of China’s killer quake, ground shaking science investigates the cause of the catastrophe and startling new discoveries reveal how massive loss of life could one day be prevented in earthquake prone zones all over the world.

Awesome Pawsome 2 - The Next Generation explores the brand new world of three rare Sumatran tiger cubs and the dedicated team rearing them by hand at Australia's Tiger Island. The bond formed between these babies and their substitute Moms will last a lifetime and may help save a species.

Deep in the heart of China’s Sichuan province lies the largest stone sculpture in the world.   Taller than the Statue of Liberty, the Leshan Giant Buddha is over a thousand years old ... carved out of a sheer cliff by a monk who dedicated his life to create it.  But now the modern world threatens to destroy this man made marvel.  Join the quest by Chinese scientists to save it before it’s too late.

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In the abandoned ruins of an ancient Sri Lankan city a violent storm is brewing... Against this backdrop of unrest we follow the fates of two infants born into Monkey City on the same day. This is a rich, dark, dramatic story of conflict, adversity and courage told from the monkeys' perspective. Dark Days uses cutting edge special effects to enhance the storytelling.

http://animal.discovery.com/tv/dark-days-monkey-city/

On the banks of the Pearl River in Guangzhou city, an impressive new silhouette is placing China’s third largest city firmly in the limelight.  The Guangzhou Sightseeing and TV Tower is a shrine to modern technology and design – and testimony to the vision of a small architectural team who dared to dream big.

Mike Leahy used to be a motorcycle mechanic, but after 10 years of grease and gears he decided to go back to school, and completed a PhD in Virology - so now he's Dr Mike. Dr Mike is really interested in two things: travelling and bugs. Join Dr Mike on an unforgettable journey around the globe to learn more about creatures who love nothing more than to take a little vacation of their own on, around or inside the human body.

Find out about Dr Mike's explorations...
Read more about cameraman Giles' travel adventures...

Those lovable orangutans from Orangutan Island are back. Join Cha Cha and friends in this drama with a difference. Orangutan Island 2 chronicles the lives of a group of orphaned orangutans who, with a little help, have formed their own society on an isolated island sanctuary. It's a bold experiment - if they succeed, they just might have a chance of making it on their own in the wild.

http://animal.discovery.com/tv/orangutan-island/orangutan-island.html

Join a team of marine scientists as they embark on an unprecedented journey across the Great Southern Ocean and beyond to Antarctica. In this extreme environment, the stakes are high but if successful; their findings could profoundly affect all our lives.