Exclusive: Netflix has tapped actress Helena Bonham Carter to narrate a blue-chip natural history series about the secret world of baby animals in the wild.
Bonham-Carter will reveal the animals’ moving stories in Wild Babies, which comes from UK indie Humble Bee Films and will run to eight episodes.
Netflix will launch the show globally on May 5 but has kept it under wraps until now.
The character-driven series will follow 17 wild animal families across 16 countries, with lions, wild dogs, sea otters, orangutans, grizzly bears, elephants, bottlenose dolphins and emperor penguins featuring.
Their young will be followed from birth through developmental milestones and coming-of-age moments.
Stephen Dunleavy and Charlotte Crosse are Executive Producers for Humble Bee, which is the Bristol-based producer behind BBC, Netflix and Channel Nine co-production Attenborough’s Life in Colour and Attenborough and the Giant Elephant for the BBC and CBC. Beth Brooks is Showrunner.
“Wild Babies will...
Bonham-Carter will reveal the animals’ moving stories in Wild Babies, which comes from UK indie Humble Bee Films and will run to eight episodes.
Netflix will launch the show globally on May 5 but has kept it under wraps until now.
The character-driven series will follow 17 wild animal families across 16 countries, with lions, wild dogs, sea otters, orangutans, grizzly bears, elephants, bottlenose dolphins and emperor penguins featuring.
Their young will be followed from birth through developmental milestones and coming-of-age moments.
Stephen Dunleavy and Charlotte Crosse are Executive Producers for Humble Bee, which is the Bristol-based producer behind BBC, Netflix and Channel Nine co-production Attenborough’s Life in Colour and Attenborough and the Giant Elephant for the BBC and CBC. Beth Brooks is Showrunner.
“Wild Babies will...
- 4/19/2022
- by Jesse Whittock
- Deadline Film + TV
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