Hammond: Genius of Nature

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Bits and pieces about this have been surfacing for over a year now (paragliding in SA last year, talking to elephants in Botswana just before TGL SA this year) but it now appears to be coming together for an Autumn release.

Oxford Scientific Films is to produce a high-end, primetime science series for BBC1, fronted by Richard Hammond. The Boom Pictures-owned indie is to produce a 3 x 60-minute ?bio-mimicry? series dubbed Genius of Nature (working title), slated to air at 9pm.


And the text of an article about it from the 'Broadcast Now' website:

The Boom Pictures-owned indie is to produce a 3 x 60-minute ?bio-mimicry? series dubbed Genius of Nature (working title), slated to air at 9:00 pm
The series will explore how nature inspires human innovations and feature ?stunning? footage to highlight how animals from across Africa, the US and Europe have come up with engineering solutions. OSF will use cutting-edge camera technology on the series.
The show will then showcase a series of stunts to demonstrate the ways in which engineers are putting the lessons learned from wildlife into practice. Hammond will launch himself from a cliff to soar with vultures using hot air thermals, before descending into the sea in a submarine that uses the same principles of travel.
He will examine woodpeckers that have four-layered skulls to protect their brains from the huge g-forces resulting from pounding their beaks into trees, before seeing if he can use the same system to prevent a lightbulb dropped from 18,000 feet from smashing.
Hammond will also head deep underground to discover innovative methods of communication that miners are adopting, based on the behaviour of elephants that can ?talk? to each other from 10km apart via low-frequency sound signals.
Genius of Nature is being exec produced by Alice Keens-Soper and series produced by Graham Booth for OSF. It was ordered by BBC commissioning executive producer, history, Cassian Harrison.
?It is rare for a third-party supplier to secure a commission of this scale,? said Keens-Soper. ?We worked long and hard with Cassian to get the right tone of the series. OSF understands exactly how to produce a science show for that BBC1 audience.?
The series, due to air in the autumn, has been produced by OSF in association with Hammond?s indie Hamster?s Wheel and Austrian indie Terra Mater Factual Studio.


It sounds pretty good and a very clever way of Richard of moving from the engineering world to the natural world more as he appears to want to do. (hope he doesn't give up the engineering stuff totally though).;)

In some ways it is a shame that this couldn't have aired before PEL - might have lessened the culture shock that many people felt seeing him doing nature stuff.
 
Starts Monday 5th November, 9.00 pm on BBC1

I thank you...
 
Congratulations to both Richard and Oxford Scientific Films :D

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Huge congratulations to @RichardHammond & the #MiraclesofNature team for winning the @JHwildlifefilm Award for 'Best Presenter-led Program'

Maybe not the most high profile but certainly seems quite prestigious.

http://www.jhfestival.org/festival/
 
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