Walking with Dinosaurs
| Walking with Dinosaurs | |
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The official DVD cover of Walking with Dinosaurs
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| Genre | Documentary |
| Created by | Tim Haines |
| Directed by |
Tim Haines Jasper James |
| Creative director(s) | Mike Milne |
| Narrated by |
Kenneth Branagh (BBC broadcast and home video and Discovery Channel) Avery Brooks (Discovery Channel broadcast) |
| Composer(s) | Ben Bartlett |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of episodes | 6 (list of episodes) |
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| Executive producer(s) | John Lynch Michelle Clark (Season 2) |
| Producer(s) |
Tim Haines Jasper James |
| Location(s) | Bahamas, California, Chile, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Tasmania |
| Cinematography | John Howarth Michael Pitts |
| Editor(s) | Andrew Wilks |
| Running time | 30 minutes |
| Production company(s) |
BBC Natural History Unit Impossible Pictures Banyan Productions (Season 2) |
| Distributor |
BBC Worldwide 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment (USA home video, 1999–2000) Warner Home Video (USA home video, 2000–present) |
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| Original network | BBC, Discovery Channel, TV Asahi, France 3, ProSieben |
| Original release | 4 October – 8 November 1999 |
| Chronology | |
| Followed by | Walking with Beasts |
| Related shows | Other shows in the Walking with... series |
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| Website | |
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| Walking with Dinosaurs (Music from the BBC TV Series) | |
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| Film score by Ben Bartlett | |
| Released | April 11, 2000 |
| Recorded | January 1999 |
| Studio | Angel Studios, Islington |
| Genre | Soundtrack |
| Length | 48:42 |
| Label | BBC Music |
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Walking with Dinosaurs is a six-part documentary television miniseries created by Tim Haines and produced by BBC Natural History Unit. The series first aired on the BBC in the United Kingdom in 1999 with narration by Kenneth Branagh. The series was subsequently aired in North America on the Discovery Channel in 2000, with Avery Brooks replacing Branagh. The first entry in the Walking with... series, the program explores ancient life of the Mesozoic Era, portraying dinosaurs and their contemporaries in the style of a traditional nature documentary.
Developed by Haines and producer Jasper James, Walking with Dinosaurs recreated extinct species through the combined use of computer-generated imagery and animatronics that were incorporated with live action footage shot at various locations. The Guinness Book of World Records reported that the series was the most expensive documentary series per minute ever produced. The series received critical acclaim, winning two BAFTA Awards, three Emmy Awards and a Peabody Award in 2000. A feature film of the same name, inspired by the series, was released in 2013.
A re-edited version of Walking with Dinosaurs aired on Discovery Kids for the first season of Prehistoric Planet. It was made more appropriate for children by removing most of the graphic content and trimming down some footage to fit the run time.
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