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(3 march 2003) The success of ''Land of Giants'' and ''The Giant Claw'' led to the creation of ''
''Walking with...'' is a
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media franchise
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produced and broadcast by the BBC Natural History Unit
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. The franchise began with the critically acclaimed series ''Walking with Dinosaurs
''Walking with Dinosaurs'' is a 1999 six-part nature documentary television miniseries created by Tim Haines and produced by the BBC Science Unit the Discovery Channel and BBC Worldwide, in association with TV Asahi, ProSieben and France 3. Envi ...
'' (1999), created by Tim Haines
Tim Haines is a screenwriter, producer and director who is best known for his work on the BBC popular science shows ''Walking with Dinosaurs'', ''Walking with Beasts'', and ''Walking with Monsters''. He is co-creator and executive producer o ...
. By far the most watched science programme in British television history, ''Walking with Dinosaurs'' spawned numerous companion material and four sequel series: ''Walking with Beasts
''Walking with Beasts'', marketed as ''Walking with Prehistoric Beasts'' in North America, is a 2001 six-part nature documentary television miniseries created by Impossible Pictures and produced by the BBC Natural History Unit, the Discovery C ...
'' (2001), ''Walking with Cavemen
''Walking with Cavemen'' is a 2003 four-part nature documentary television miniseries produced by the BBC Natural History Unit, the Discovery Channel and ProSieben. ''Walking with Cavemen'' explores human evolution, showcasing various extinct Hom ...
'' (2003), ''Sea Monsters
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'' (2003) and ''Walking with Monsters
''Walking with Monsters – Life Before Dinosaurs'', marketed as ''Before the Dinosaurs – Walking with Monsters'' in North America, is a 2005 three-part nature documentary television miniseries created by Impossible Pictures and produced by ...
'' (2005). Each series uses a combination of computer-generated imagery
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and animatronics
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, incorporated with live action
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footage shot at various locations, to portray prehistoric animals in the style of a traditional nature documentary
A nature documentary or wildlife documentary is a genre of documentary film or series about animals, plants, or other non-human living creatures, usually concentrating on video taken in their natural habitat but also often including footage of tr ...
.
The ''Walking with...'' programmes were praised for their special effects and for their science communication. Though largely praised by scientists for the effort to adhere to science and for portraying prehistoric life as animals rather than movie monsters, some academic criticism has been leveled at the series for not making clear through their narration what is speculative and what is based in fact.
In addition to the five main series, the success of ''Walking with...'' also led to the production of the ''Walking with Dinosaurs'' special episodes ''The Ballad of Big Al
''The Ballad of Big Al'', marketed as ''Allosaurus'' in North America, is a 2000 special episode of the nature documentary television series ''Walking with Dinosaurs''. ''The Ballad of Big Al'' is set in the Late Jurassic, 145 million years ago, a ...
'', ''The Giant Claw'' and ''Land of Giants''. The franchise has also been accompanied by several books, merchandise, video games and the live theatrical show ''Walking with Dinosaurs − The Arena Spectacular
''Walking with Dinosaurs − The Arena Spectacular'' was a live adaptation of the award-winning television series ''Walking with Dinosaurs''. Like the TV series, ''The Arena Spectacular'' has to recreate dinosaurs to the point of the viewers accep ...
''. In 2013, a movie
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based on ''Walking with Dinosaurs'', with the same name, was directed by Neil Nightingale
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and ''Who's Who 2015'', A & C Bl ...
Barry Cook
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.
Development
''Walking with Dinosaurs
''Walking with Dinosaurs'' is a 1999 six-part nature documentary television miniseries created by Tim Haines and produced by the BBC Science Unit the Discovery Channel and BBC Worldwide, in association with TV Asahi, ProSieben and France 3. Envi ...
'' was devised by the then BBC #REDIRECT BBC #REDIRECT BBC
Here i going to introduce about the best teacher of my life b BALAJI sir. He is the precious gift that I got befor 2yrs . How has helped and thought all the concept and made my success in the 10th board exam. ...
...Tim Haines
Tim Haines is a screenwriter, producer and director who is best known for his work on the BBC popular science shows ''Walking with Dinosaurs'', ''Walking with Beasts'', and ''Walking with Monsters''. He is co-creator and executive producer o ...
in 1996. Inspired by the 1993 film ''Jurassic Park'', Haines envisioned a more science-based documentary programme using the same techniques as ''Jurassic Park'' to bring dinosaurs to life. Though such a series was initially feared to be far too expensive to produce, particularly considering the production costs of ''Jurassic Park'', Haines managed to bring down the costs through working with the award-winning UK-based graphics company Framestore
Framestore is a British animation, visual effects company and creative studio based on Chancery Lane in London. Formed in 1986, it acquired (and subsequently merged with) the Computer Film Company in 1997. It works on feature films and tele ...
. It was only after the production of a six-minute pilot episode in 1997 that Haines managed to secure funding for the series; ''Walking with Dinosaurs'' was funded by the BBC, BBC Worldwide
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and the Discovery Channel
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, alongside major investments from TV Asahi
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in Japan and ProSieben
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in Germany.'''' At a cost of £6.1 million ($9.9 million), ''Walking with Dinosaurs'' cost over £37,654 ($61,112) per minute to produce, making it the most expensive documentary series per minute ever made. The visual effects of ''Walking with Dinosaurs'' were done by Framestore and the puppets and animatronics were done by the special effects company Crawley Creatures
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.
The success of ''Walking with Dinosaurs'' led to the rapid creation of ''Walking with...'' as a brand of documentary series. In the aftermath of ''Walking with Dinosaurs'', Haines founded the production company Impossible Pictures together with Jasper James, one of the producers on ''Walking with Dinosaurs''.''''
2000 saw the release of a special episode of ''Dinosaurs'', ''The Ballad of Big Al
''The Ballad of Big Al'', marketed as ''Allosaurus'' in North America, is a 2000 special episode of the nature documentary television series ''Walking with Dinosaurs''. ''The Ballad of Big Al'' is set in the Late Jurassic, 145 million years ago, a ...
'', focusing on a single ''Allosaurus
''Allosaurus'' () is a genus of large carnosaurian theropod dinosaur that lived 155 to 145 million years ago during the Late Jurassic epoch (Kimmeridgian to late Tithonian). The name "''Allosaurus''" means "different lizard" alluding to ...
'' specimen.'''' The first entire sequel series released in 2001: ''Walking with Beasts
''Walking with Beasts'', marketed as ''Walking with Prehistoric Beasts'' in North America, is a 2001 six-part nature documentary television miniseries created by Impossible Pictures and produced by the BBC Natural History Unit, the Discovery C ...
'', which explored the life of the Cenozoic, after the age of the dinosaurs. Like ''Walking with Dinosaurs'' before it, ''Beasts'' was the idea of Haines. Haines wished to introduce the general public to the assortment of animals of the Cenozoic, typically less represented in popular culture than the dinosaurs. Haines served as executive producer on the series, with James and Nigel Paterson producing and directing. ''Beasts'' was in terms of effects more challenging to produce than ''Dinosaurs'', owing to mammals having features such as fur, whiskers, eyebrows and various floppy parts absent in dinosaurs, and to audiences being more familiar with how mammals move and act and thus better at spotting mistakes.
In late 2002 and early 2003, further special episodes of ''Dinosaurs'' were broadcast: '' Land of Giants'' and ''The Giant Claw
''The Giant Claw'' is a 1957 American monster film from Columbia Pictures, produced by Sam Katzman, directed by Fred F. Sears, that stars Jeff Morrow and Mara Corday. Both Sears and Katzman were well known as low-budget B film genre filmmakers. ...
''. These sepcials starred wildlife presenter Nigel Marven
Nigel Alan Marven (born 27 November 1960) is a British wildlife TV presenter, naturalist, conservationist, author, and television producer. He is best known as presenter of the BBC miniseries '' Chased by Dinosaurs'', its sequel, '' Sea Monsters ...
as a "time-traveling zoologist". Marven's inclusion was mainly so that audiences would have a better understanding of the scale of the animals shown. While Haines, James and Impossible Pictures worked on ''Land of Giants'' and ''The Giant Claw'', the BBC produced a further series without their involvement: ''Walking with Cavemen
''Walking with Cavemen'' is a 2003 four-part nature documentary television miniseries produced by the BBC Natural History Unit, the Discovery Channel and ProSieben. ''Walking with Cavemen'' explores human evolution, showcasing various extinct Hom ...
'', also broadcast in 2003. ''Cavemen'' acted as a sequel to ''Beasts'', exploring human evolution
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. The series was created by Richard Dale and Peter Georgi, both of whom had previously worked together on documentaries such as '' The Human Body'', and starred Robert Winston
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Early life
Robert Winston was born in London to Laurence Winston and Rut ...
as a presenter.''Walking with Cavemen'' - BBC One Press Pack(3 march 2003) The success of ''Land of Giants'' and ''The Giant Claw'' led to the creation of ''
Sea Monsters
Sea monsters are beings from folklore believed to dwell in the sea and often imagined to be of immense size. Marine monsters can take many forms, including sea dragons, sea serpents, or tentacled beasts. They can be slimy and scaly and are ofte ...
'', broadcast in 2003, a miniseries exploring the "seven deadliest seas of all time", once again starring Marven.
The series ''Space Odyssey
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'' (2004), produced by Haines and James at Impossible Pictures together with BBC Worldwide, the Discovery Channel and ProSieben, was originally going to be titled ''Walking with Spacemen''. Both executives of the BBC and ProSieben heralded ''Walking with Spacemen'' as the logical next step in the series, following on from the journey began with ''Walking with Dinosaurs'', ''Beasts'' and ''Cavemen''. ''Space Odyssey'' used special effects and techniques from the ''Walking with...'' documentaries to speculate how astronauts may explore the various planets in the Solar System
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on crewed missions. Despite the title change, ''Space Odyssey'' has at times been referred to as ''Walking with Spacemen'' also after its release and the old title was used in some of the companion material, including as the title of the earliest editions of the companion book, co-authored by Haines and Christopher Riley
Christopher Riley (born 1967) is a British writer, broadcaster and film maker specialising in the history of science. He has a PhD from Imperial College London, Imperial College, University of London where he pioneered the use of digital elevat ...
.
Instead of a futuristic series, Haines and Impossible Pictures decided to round off the ''Walking with...'' series by making a programme on the before then largely underutilized Paleozoic
The Paleozoic (or Palaeozoic) Era is the earliest of three geologic eras of the Phanerozoic Eon.
The name ''Paleozoic'' ( ;) was coined by the British geologist Adam Sedgwick in 1838
by combining the Greek words ''palaiós'' (, "old") and ' ...
era, set before the dinosaurs. ''Walking with Monsters
''Walking with Monsters – Life Before Dinosaurs'', marketed as ''Before the Dinosaurs – Walking with Monsters'' in North America, is a 2005 three-part nature documentary television miniseries created by Impossible Pictures and produced by ...
'', broadcast in 2005, utilized the most sophisticated effects of the entire franchise, owing to advancements in technology by the time of its production.
Framestore and Crawley Creatures returned to do the computer graphics and animatronics, respectively, for every successor series, with the sole exception of ''Walking with Cavemen'', which involved Framestore but not Crawley Creatures. The practical effects of ''Walking with Cavemen'' were done by several companies, including Altered States FX, Animated Extras and BGFX. After the release of ''Monsters'', Impossible Pictures, Framestore and the others involved were effectively forced to move on from documentary filmmaking and produce other series like ''Primeval
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'' (2007–2011) due to companies and executives losing interest in funding fact-based documentaries on prehistoric life.
Television series
''Walking with Dinosaurs'' (1999)
Envisioned as the first "Natural History of Dinosaurs" and a series that would provide viewers with "a window into a lost world", ''Walking with Dinosaurs'' explores life in theMesozoic
The Mesozoic Era ( ), also called the Age of Reptiles, the Age of Conifers, and colloquially as the Age of the Dinosaurs is the second-to-last era of Earth's geological history, lasting from about , comprising the Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceo ...
era, particularly dinosaur
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s, in the format of a traditional nature documentary
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.
Specials (2000–2003)
The first special episode of ''Walking with Dinosaurs'' to be released was ''The Ballad of Big Al'' (2000). ''Big Al'' follows a single ''Allosaurus'' specimen nicknamed "Big Al" whose life story has been reconstructed based on a well-preserved fossil of the same name. The two later specials, ''The Giant Claw'' (2002) and ''Land of Giants'' (2003), star "time-travelling zoologist" Nigel Marven as he travels back in time to encounter and interact with prehistoric life.''Walking with Beasts'' (2001)
''Walking with Beasts'' follows ''Walking with Dinosaurs'' in showcasing prehistoric life in a nature documentary style. ''Beasts'' tracks animal life, particularly the rise of themammal
Mammals () are a group of vertebrate animals constituting the class Mammalia (), characterized by the presence of mammary glands which in females produce milk for feeding (nursing) their young, a neocortex (a region of the brain), fur or ...
s to dominance, in the Cenozoic
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era. The series also gives some insight into human evolution, with an episode devoted to ''Australopithecus
''Australopithecus'' (, ; ) is a genus of early hominins that existed in Africa during the Late Pliocene and Early Pleistocene. The genus ''Homo'' (which includes modern humans) emerged within ''Australopithecus'', as sister to e.g. ''Australopi ...
'' and appearances by both Neanderthal
Neanderthals (, also ''Homo neanderthalensis'' and erroneously ''Homo sapiens neanderthalensis''), also written as Neandertals, are an extinct species or subspecies of archaic humans who lived in Eurasia until about 40,000 years ago. While th ...
s and anatomically modern humans
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.
''Walking with Cavemen'' (2003)
''Walking with Cavemen'' follows ''Walking with Dinosaurs'' and ''Walking with Beasts'' in adopting the same nature documentary style, though this time involving presenterRobert Winston
Robert Maurice Lipson Winston, Baron Winston, (born 15 July 1940) is a British professor, medical doctor, scientist, television presenter and Labour Party politician.
Early life
Robert Winston was born in London to Laurence Winston and Rut ...
. ''Cavemen'' follows the story of human evolution through exploring key developments on the path from ''Australopithecus afarensis'' to modern humans. The programme often focuses on particular characters and their relationships to each other in order to be more accessible to viewers.
''Sea Monsters'' (2003)
''Sea Monsters'' once again stars Nigel Marven as a "time-traveling zoologist" who this time travels to seven different periods of time in prehistory, diving in the "seven deadliest seas of all time" and encountering and interacting with the prehistoric creatures who inhabit them.''Walking with Monsters'' (2005)
Serving as a prequel series to ''Walking with Dinosaurs'', ''Walking with Monsters'' explores the prehistoric life of thePaleozoic
The Paleozoic (or Palaeozoic) Era is the earliest of three geologic eras of the Phanerozoic Eon.
The name ''Paleozoic'' ( ;) was coined by the British geologist Adam Sedgwick in 1838
by combining the Greek words ''palaiós'' (, "old") and ' ...
era. The series focuses on "the struggle for the survival of the fittest", using stories of individual animals to cast the Palaeozoic as a long "war" between various animal groups for dominance, some of which are described within the context of the series as being distantly related to humans.
Reception
Accolades
Viewership
''Walking with Dinosaurs'' was broadcast to record audiences in 1999 and is sometimes considered the biggest science documentary series ever created. With 15 million viewers viewing the first episode on 4 October 1999 and another 3.91 million viewing it on its repeat the Sunday afterwards, ''Walking with Dinosaurs'' is by far the most watched science programme in British television history. Viewership figuers steadily declined for later series; the first airing of the first episode of ''Walking with Beasts'' in 2001 had around 8 million viewers and the first airing of the first episode of ''Walking with Monsters'' in 2005 attracted 4.57 million viewers. The ratings shown below are 7-day data, including both the original airings of the episodes and their repeats some days later. There is only data for the top 30 programmes in terms of viewers; episodes labeled N/A failed to reach the top 30 programmes during their airings.''Prehistoric Planet''
''Prehistoric Planet'' is a revision of ''Walking with Dinosaurs'' and ''Walking with Beasts'', done byDiscovery Channel
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and NBC
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for the Discovery Kids
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network in 2002–2003. Though the producers kept most of the original animation, David Bock and Peter Sherman wrote new text for a younger target audience, narrated by Ben Stiller
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(in Season 1) and Christian Slater
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(in Season 2), and interspersed the scenes with occasional quizzes to act as bumpers around the commercial breaks. New music
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was incorporated as well. Most marketing and advertising for the series focused on the dinosaur episodes. In addition, the final episode, ''Prehistoric Planet Top 10'', focused solely on the creatures from ''Walking with Dinosaurs''.
Books
Companion books
The first four ''Walking with...'' series were accompanied with companion books. These books werecoffee table book
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s exploring the settings from each series in detail, with scientific information, facts and narratives similar to those shown on screen. All of the books were lavishly illustrated with stills from the episodes. All of the ''Walking with...'' companion books were well received.
* ''Walking with Dinosaurs: A Natural History'' (1999), by Tim Haines
* ''Walking with Beasts: A Prehistoric Safari'' (2001), by Tim Haines
* ''Walking with Cavemen: Stand Eye-to-Eye with your Ancestors'' (2003), by John Lynch and Louise Barrett
* ''Sea Monsters: Prehistoric Predators of the Deep'' (2003), by Nigel Marven and Jasper James
Other books
''Walking with Monsters'' was not accompanied by a companion book, instead the series was in 2006 accompanied by the book ''The Complete Guide to Prehistoric Life
''The Complete Guide to Prehistoric Life'' is a 2005 encyclopedia featuring 111 of the prehistoric animals from the '' Walking with...'' series, as well as an additional one (''Homo floresiensis''). It was published in 2005 by Firefly Books, an ...
'', an encyclopedia and reference work with images from the entire franchise, co-authored by Haines and Paul Chambers. In addition to the companion books and ''The Complete Guide to Prehistoric Life'', several other books have been released to accompany the different series. ''Walking with Dinosaurs'' was in addition to its companion book also accompanied by ''Walking with Dinosaurs: The Evidence'' (2000) by David Martill and Darren Naish
Darren William Naish is a British vertebrate palaeontologist, author and science communicator.
As a researcher, he is best known for his work describing and reevaluating dinosaurs and other Mesozoic reptiles, including ''Eotyrannus'', ''Xenopos ...
and ''Walking with Dinosaurs: The Facts'' (2000) by Michael Benton
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, both books serving to corroborate the science behind the series. Among the various children's books that have been released alongside the ''Walking with...'' documentaries is a children's book adaptation of ''The Ballad of Big Al'' by Stephen Cole, titled ''Allosaurus! The Life and Death of Big Al'', as well as 3D albums, sticker album
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s and photo journals for both ''Walking with Dinosaurs'' and ''Walking with Beasts''.
Electronic media
With the exception of ''Walking with Monsters'', all of the ''Walking with...'' series launched with accompanying websites. The original 1999 ''Walking with Dinosaurs'' website was considered innovative for the time and included scientific information, fact files, glossaries, as well as games and puzzles. The content of the websites of following series was similar, offering both accompanying scientific information and games. In addition to the games on the website, full ''Walking with...'' games have also been developed. The first such game was thefreeware
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video game ''Dinosaur World'', developed by Asylum Entertainment and published by the BBC Imagineering in June 2001. ''Dinosaur World'' is an adaptation of ''The Ballad of Big Al'' where players try to find various animals and plants. The game was never finished but could be downloaded from the BBC website in its alpha
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form. There was also a video game adaptation of ''Walking with Beasts'', ''Walking with Beasts: Operation Salvage'', developed by Absolute Studios and published by BBC Worldwide Ltd. in 2001. ''Operation Salvage'' is a top-down shooter
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) are a sub-genre of action games. There is no consensus as to which design elements compose a shoot 'em up; some restrict the definition to games featuring spacecraft and certain types of chara ...
where players travel back in time to observe animals and fight time-traveling enemies. Another ''Walking with Dinosaurs'' game was released in 2013, titled simply ''Walking with Dinosaurs
''Walking with Dinosaurs'' is a 1999 six-part nature documentary television miniseries created by Tim Haines and produced by the BBC Science Unit the Discovery Channel and BBC Worldwide, in association with TV Asahi, ProSieben and France 3. Envi ...
'', to accompany the film adaptation of the series released that year. ''Walking with Dinosaurs'' is an augmented reality
Augmented reality (AR) is an interactive experience that combines the real world and computer-generated content. The content can span multiple sensory modalities, including visual, auditory, haptic, somatosensory and olfactory. AR can be de ...
game developed by Supermassive Games
Supermassive Games Ltd is a British video game developer based in Guildford, Surrey. The studio is best known for developing horror games such as ''Until Dawn'' for the PlayStation 4, ''The Dark Pictures Anthology'' for Bandai Namco Entertainmen ...
in collaboration with the BBC.
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