''Yellowstone'' is a

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series broadcast from 15 March 2009. Narrated by

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, the series takes a look at a year in the life of

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, examining how its wildlife adapts to living in one of the harshest wildernesses on Earth. Yellowstone debuted on

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at 8:00pm on Sunday 15 March 2009 and has three episodes. Each 50-minute episode was followed by a ten-minute film called ''Yellowstone People'', featuring visitors to the Park and locals who had assisted the production team. The series was the channel's highest-rated natural history documentary in over five years with audiences peaking at over four million. In the United States, an edited version of the series was broadcast under the title ''Yellowstone: Battle for Life''. It aired as a two-hour

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, and premiered on

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on 22 March 2009. The series was one of the most popular titles at BBC Worldwide's annual market for international clients with pre-sales to nine territories including Spain (Canal+), Germany (WDR), Russia (Channel 1) and Italy (RTI).

Production

''Yellowstone'' was commissioned by Roly Keating, then Controller of BBC Two, as a follow-up to the award-winning series '' Galápagos'' which aired in autumn 2006. Filming began in January 2007 and continued through the following four seasons. Filming techniques previously used for both ''Galapagos'' and ''

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'' were again put to good use, including shooting with high definition cameras and high-speed shooting to slow down fast action sequences. Stabilised camera mounts also enabled the team to capture natural animal behaviour from the air, as well as dramatic, wide angle landscape shots. Aerial cinematography was provided by Aerial Camera Systems. ''Yellowstone'' was produced by the

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and

. The executive producer was

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and the series producer Andrew Murray. The British version was narrated by

Episodes

Reception

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'''s David Horspool described the series as "amazingly shot" and a "work of art". Andrew Billen in ''

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'' gave it five out of five, and TV Scoop described it as "majestic yet understated and consistently surprising".

Awards

At the 2009 Jackson Hole Wildlife Film Festival, Yellowstone gained the Best Series Award, and "Winter" gained the Best Wildlife Habitat Program award. It was also a finalist in the Best Cinematography category. At the 2009 International Wildlife Film Festival Awards, the series won the Best Cinematography and Best Ecosystem awards, and gained Merit Awards for Editing and Sound Design. Edmund Butt also won the Music – Original Title award at the 2009

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Craft and Design Awards. The series was nominated for the 2010

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for Best Specialist Factual. and won a craft BAFTA for Photography Factual in the same year.

References

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