The producers in this case are Jon Favreau ( Iron Man) and Mike Gunton ( Planet Earth), and the BBC Studios Natural History Unit. With the third entry in the excruciatingly retrograde Jurassic World series on its way, a couple of those producers had the bright idea to give the people their own bit of counterprogramming. You almost can’t lose money if you do it right. Dinosaurs are just too cool to not always be somewhere in the back of a producer’s mind. So, just as Jurassic Park yielded ripoff films like Carnosaurand Dinosaur Island, Walking With Dinosaurs also inspired a legion of imitators. As far back as 1999’s Walking With Dinosaurs, a landmark bit of speculative historical reporting based on what was best understood about the behavior of extinct super-species, production houses have seen the value of presenting factual renderings of dinosaur behavior to match the endless fictional media about them. Who doesn’t like dinosaurs? Cretaceous minds It’s uncanny stuff - and exactly the kind of lightly challenging edutainment that’s been a staple of TV programming for decades, with good reason. The show relies on gorgeous CGI renderings of dinosaurs, but also on location and animal photography to accurately place them in their environs. See the parenting skills of the Tyrannosaurus rex, the first flight of winged predators, the dental upkeep of the mosasaurus and so much more in this sleekly produced and beautifully photographed study of animal life. In this dino documentary series, with a new episode airing every night from May 23 to 27, you’ll learn about ecosystems and species from before recorded time.
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