DAVID Attenborough is teaming up with the BBC and Netflix for a spectacular Life in Colour documentary series.
The 93-year-old presenter will examine how colour is used in the animal world to communicate as well as means of cooperation.
The series marks the first time the BBC has collaborated with Netflix on a natural history programme.
Sir David previously worked with the streaming giant on the hugely successful Our Planet series last year.
Netflix has also ordered a natural history series based on the oceans, but no further details are currently available.
Filming has already started on Life in Colour in Australia, with the shoot visiting Adelaide, Sydney and Lizard Island.
Patrick Holland, controller of BBC Two, said in a statement: “I am looking forward to seeing the combination of innovative photography and rich analysis to explore the role colour plays in animals’ lives.”
Meanwhile Stephen Dunleavy, exec producer for UK-based Humble Bee Films, which is sharing production duties with SeaLight Pictures in Australia added: “The use of colour is an under-explored aspect of animal behaviour, and we are looking forward to taking newly designed cameras into the field to help reveal the whole story.
“It will be a beautiful and revelatory series.”
Screen Australia is backing the project and Bernadine Lim, the company’s head of documentaries, said the project was a huge deal for local producer SeaLight, and will have a big impact locally.
She said: “The series will leave an enduring legacy for our national identity through innovation and scientific insights as it presents a new way of seeing and understanding Australia’s unique fauna.”
The series will hit screens in 2021, and will be broadcast on the BBC in the UK, Nine Network in Australia and Netflix for all over territories.
Yesterday, the iconic presenter had a polar research vessel named after him.
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge attended the ceremony in Birkenhead, Merseyside alongside Sir David.
But the public’s chosen name, Boaty McBoatface, was not used for the vessel – with it instead named RSS Sir David Attenborough after the vote was vetoed.
Instead a submarine on board will be given the name.
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