January 2026

Observing Ancient Creatures in Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age

What do you get when you blend the blue-chip nature documentaries of the BBC’s Natural History Unit (Life on Earth, Blue Planet, Planet Earth) with the cutting-edge digital creature effects of films like The Lion King and The Jungle Book? In the first two seasons of Apple TV’s Prehistoric Planet, narrator and natural historian — and presenter the aforementioned documentaries — Sir David Attenborough teamed up with executive producer Jon Favreau — director of the aforementioned films — for a new breed of wildlife series that gave viewers a realistic glimpse at the environments and inhabitants of Earth’s distant past. Series cinematographer Jonathan Jones shot Seasons 1 and 2, which featured Tyrannosaurs, Triceratops and other famous dinos...more