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COMING EARTH DAY 2025
Three years in the making, this extraordinary blue-chip series reveals penguins as we’ve never seen them before.
Using cutting-edge technology, world-class scientific research and unprecedented access, National Geographic unlocks the secrets of the species that make their home in surprising and challenging landscapes around the Southern Hemisphere.
In three stunning episodes, featuring Lead Storyteller Bertie Gregory, the series unlocks previously untold stories and revelatory behaviours from global penguin societies, held together by unbreakable bonds, strategic behaviours and unwavering tenacity.
The series is currently in production.
To capture truly world-first penguin behaviours, our crews are filming in some of the most challenging and inaccessible locations on Earth. Our team in Antartica are spending the entire Antarctic winter as guests of a scientific base, with no prospect of evacuation until the better weather returns. But our team's forensic research and unstoppable field craft is yielding jaw dropping results.
In March 2024, National Geographic released a social media taster of world-first footage captured by our team, of young emperor penguin chicks on their first march to the ocean. Finding themselves atop a 50ft cliff, the penguins begin to 'tombstone' into the water below. Some first swimming lesson! The clip went viral in a way that none of us could ever have imagined. It has already become National Geographic's most clicked TikTok in history, topping 60 million views, and it is now their most viewed animal Instagram ever, with over 56 million views.
To view the extended scene on YouTube, click here.
To view news coverage of the clip, click:
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Showrunner: Serena Davies
Lead Storyteller: Bertie Gregory
Field Producers/ Directors: Heather Cruickshank, Ruth Peacey, Alex Ponniah, Ross Kirby, Andrew Graham-Brown
Line Producer: Elisabeth Pinto
Assistant Producers: Marina Hui, Amabel Adcock
Exec Producers: Ruth Roberts & Martin Williams
Production Managers: Tabitha Hilton-Berry, Rob Slater
Production Co-Ordinator: Jas Singh, Natalie Pendleton
