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Major new series produced by Parthenon's Bristol Office
Posted by: Admin | 03.12.07
Parthenon Entertainment, the leading producer and distributor of high quality factual and children’s programming, is co-producing a major new high definition, popular animal series called Baby Planet (working title) with Animal Planet US, Animal Planet International and leading French broadcaster France 5 which will be produced at the company’s Bristol office.
The series will feature the best good news stories from the world’s wildlife maternity wards through Parthenon’s access to conservation and breeding initiatives for some of the planet’s best loved species.
Production has already started on the 5×60’ series and amongst the highlights are the rare birth in captivity of a giant panda cub on panda-cam CCTV, a Wattled Crane chick who thinks a glove puppet is its parent, Barbary lion cubs who are hand-reared by keepers and mothered by a domestic dog and the surprise arrival of a white rhino calf.
The deal for Baby Planet was put together by Natalie Humphreys, Parthenon’s creative director. Humphreys, an international co-production specialist, is also the show’s executive producer along with Andrew Buchanan (ex Granada Wild) who is based in Parthenon’s Bristol office. The series producer is Molly Fry (ex BBC Natural History Unit). Parthenon produces over 70 hours a year of programming in high definition and is increasingly moving into the production of long-running series for the international marketplace.
Natalie Humphreys said:
As well as continuing to supply broadcasters with our landmark blue-chip specials, producing more long-running series is a priority for us. I’m especially pleased we are making Baby Planet. It’s a real work of passion and taps into the unique access we’ve built up over the last few years.”
For more information on the work at Parthenon Entertainment visit www.parthenonentertainment.com“
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