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Groundbreaking BBC series that changed TV in the 90s is returning after 25 years

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Updated 11:24 15 Aug 2024 GMT+1Published 11:14 15 Aug 2024 GMT+1

Groundbreaking BBC series that changed TV in the 90s is returning after 25 years

Now this BBC series is a real blast from the past, the prehistoric past

Jess Battison

Jess Battison

Featured Image Credit: BBC

Topics: TV, Science, BBC, Nostalgia, TV and Film

Jess Battison
Jess Battison

Jess is a Senior Journalist with a love of all things pop culture. Her main interests include asking everyone in the office what they're having for tea, waiting for a new series of The Traitors and losing her voice at a Beyoncé concert. She graduated with a first in Journalism from City, University of London in 2021.

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Let’s be honest, there can be tonnes of new shows released and no matter how amazing they are, we’ll still miss our old favourites.

Sure, a new season of the Umbrella Academy is great and we’re all buzzing for Disney’s Daredevil series, but what about the ‘best cancelled show in history’?

Or old Channel 4 dramas finding new fans when they hit Netflix? And in a real blast from the past, a groundbreaking BBC series praised for changing TV back in the 90s is finally returning.

Originally airing a whole 25 years ago, it seems the popular show isn’t as extinct as its subjects. Yes, Walking With Dinosaurs is coming back to British telly.

If you’re old enough to remember or were forced to sit through recordings of it by your big brother or sisters, those six episodes took us into the incredible world of dinosaurs with impressive computer-generated imagery and animatronics.

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The BBC banger became the most expensive documentary series per minute ever made at over £37,654 per minute to produce with the techniques inspired by Jurassic Park.

The original BBC show changed the game. (BBC)
The original BBC show changed the game. (BBC)

Walking With Dinosaurs drew in 15 million viewers for its first episode back in 1999, making it the most watched science programme in British TV during the 20th century.

It ended up picking up two BAFTAs and three Emmy awards and spawned a whole franchise including Walking with Cavemen and Walking with Monsters.

And now, first officially announced back in June, we’re going to get another six-part series to take us ‘on a unique journey back through time, revealing the incredible life stories of these long-lost giants’.

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This Walking With Dinosaurs is going to focus on those dinos whose ‘remains are currently being unearthed by the world’s leading dinosaur hunters’.

The BBC Studios production for the BBC and PBS will be co-produced with ZDF and France Télévisions and is set to land on our screens in 2025.

The dinos are back. (BBC)
The dinos are back. (BBC)

We’re teed up to get a look at a Spinosaurus, a ‘youthful Triceratops battling a ravenous T. rex in North America’ and a lonely Lusotitan who is ‘risking it all for love’.

“A whole new generation of viewers is about to fall in love with Walking With Dinosaurs. The original series was one of the most exciting factual shows of all time, and this reinvention builds on that amazing legacy," said Jack Bootle, BBC Head of Commissioning, Specialist Factual.

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“Each episode is underpinned by the very latest science but is also filled with drama - making this a series for both dino lovers and people who just want to be told a great story."

And Andrew Cohen, Head of BBC Studios Science Unit, added: “It’s the ultimate dinosaur show, where you’ll be hiding behind the sofa one moment and having your mind blown the next. The prehistoric world meets premium documentary production, like never before."

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