BBC America Releases First Look Image of Its New Natural History Series DYNASTIES

Today, BBC America released first-look images for its upcoming five-part co-production Dynasties (formerly known as Dynasty), premiering in early 2019.

Presented by world-renowned naturalist Sir David Attenborough (Blue Planet II, Planet Earth II) and executive produced by Emmy®-winner Mike Gunton (Planet Earth II), Dynasties follows five of the world's most celebrated but endangered animals, as they do whatever it takes to survive and protect the next generation.

Pressure is mounting on some of the most iconic species in the world, as their environments face destruction and change.

This series will focus in never-seen-before detail on one particular family from each species per episode:

• Emperor penguins in the frozen wastes of Antarctica
• Chimpanzees on the edge of the Sahara in Senegal, West Africa
• Lions on the savannahs of Kenya's Masai Mara
• Painted wolves on the floodplains of the great Zambezi river in Zimbabwe
• Tigers in the jungles of Bandhavgarh, India

BBC Studios' Natural History Unit has painstakingly filmed them over four years in a new landmark format as they play politics, fight battles, make alliances, launch take-overs, battle rivals and win family feuds.

Dynasties will show perhaps the most intimate and intense stories of their kind that have ever been captured before, showing both the immense difficulties of leadership in nature and the relentless determination of animals to protect their families. They face unforeseen challenges not only from within their species and their rivals, but from changes to their environment, and the impact humanity has had on our fragile ecosystem that will ricochet throughout generations. The series will tell the unique and emotional stories of some of the greatest families in nature through the inimitable lens of BBC Studios' Natural History Unit.

BBC AMERICA's most recent landmark natural history series, Blue Planet II, is nominated for five Emmy® Awards including Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Series, which was won last year by BBCA's Planet Earth II.

Dynasties is a BBC Studios Natural History Unit Production for BBC One, co-produced with BBC America and France Télévisions.

BBC AMERICA is a hub of innovative, culturally contagious programming including the critically acclaimed series Killing Eve from Phoebe Waller-Bridge, the Emmy® and IDA-winning Planet Earth II, the acclaimed Planet Earth: Blue Planet II, and the forthcoming next chapter in the epic story of our planet, Dynasty (w/t), the top-rated science-fiction phenomenon Doctor Who, the ground-breaking unscripted series Top Gear, the buzzy and hilarious The Graham Norton Show, as well as Premier League Darts. A joint venture between BBC Studios (the commercial arm of the BBC) and AMC Networks, BBCA's influential shows such as Orphan Black and Luther, among many others, have attracted critical acclaim and earned Emmy® Awards, Peabody Awards, CRITICS' CHOICE AWARDS and Golden Globes®. Created in 1998, the irrepressible network has garnered one of cable's most curious, educated and affluent audiences, with many properties boasting super-fan levels of engagement. Get caught up, BBCA offers full episodes On Demand across all major digital platforms, BBC America app and bbcamerica.com. Find out more by visiting press.bbcamerica.com.

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