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David Attenborough Will Return To Our Screens This Year With New Show 'Dynasty'

David Attenborough Will Return To Our Screens This Year With New Show 'Dynasty'

The new show will focus on relationships between animals as well their relationships with humans

Tom Wood

Tom Wood

After blowing everyone's minds with Blue Planet II last year, Sir David Attenborough will return to our screens for a new programme that focuses on the relationships within groups of animals.

Not to be confused with the popular 1980s drama series, Dynasty will air on the BBC later in the year and will tell the story of how different animals including lions, chimps, dogs, and penguins maintain their rule over each other and their environments.

The show will also talk about the impact that humans have on these environments and groups of animals.

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A BBC One Facebook post said: "Sir David Attenborough will return later this year to present Dynasty, a brand new five-part landmark series from the makers of Planet Earth and Blue Planet.

"Each episode follows individual animals - lions, African wild dogs, chimpanzees, tigers, and emperor penguins - at the most critical period in their lives. Each is a ruler - a leader of their family, their troop, their pride - each determined to hold on to power and protect their family, their territory... and their dynasty.

"The odds are stacked against them. Our planet is changing at an extraordinary rate, and the habitats these animals live in are under increasing pressure, not least from the impact of humanity itself."

The series comes from the BBC Natural History Unit and is produced in association with BBC America, and France Television. It has been made by the same team who worked on Attenborough's other popular nature programmes, Planet Earth II and Life Story.

The BBC's director of content, Charlotte Moore said: "The wonderful David Attenborough will inspire audiences once again when he brings the natural world to life on BBC One with Dynasty.

"Four years in the making, capturing extraordinary family dynamics and behaviour, I hope these intimate animal dramas will connect with audiences just as Blue Planet II and Planet Earth II did."

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By the time the series airs it is likely that David Attenborough will be 92 years old, which is pretty good going by anyone's standards - let alone if you are wandering around in the Antarctic.

He has previously said that he will only retire if he thinks his work isn't up to it or if he can't go up and down the stairs anymore.

The first episode of Blue Planet II was watched by 14 million people and has been credited with helping to force MPs in Parliament into taking seriously the problem of how much plastic ends up in our oceans.

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