The BBC has unveiled a landmark pure historical past sequence on bugs as its head of unscripted manufacturers the notion that the streamers are taking up “utter bollocks.”
The Traitors commissioner Kate Phillips talked robust on the BBC’s place within the ecosystem at Inventive Cities Conference, citing analysis that BBC iPlayer is watched by extra individuals within the UK than Disney+, Prime Video and Netflix mixed. “This concept that broadcasters are irrelevant and streamers are taking up is utter bollocks,” she mentioned. “Greater than 9 out of 10 adults entry the BBC within the UK.”
Notably, Phillips was talking a session after Grant Mansfield, the EP behind Disney+’s most-watched pure historical past sequence of all time, A Actual Bug’s Life, who had known as on indies to embrace alternatives within the States.
The BBC unveiled Hidden Planet, a observe as much as David Attenborough’s 2005 sequence Life within the Undergrowth, though the 97-year-old iconic presenter is just not but connected to the brand new present.
Throughout 5 globally-filmed episodes, Hidden Planet will reveal bugs to be doting dad and mom that care for his or her offspring and defend their households, achieved architects that construct stunning buildings and complex communicators, attractive and manipulating massive animals. The present is being produced by BBC Studios Pure Historical past Unit, which is predicated in Bristol, the place Inventive Cities is happening.
Hidden Planet includes a trio of recent pure historical past exhibits alongside Hamza’s Hidden Wild Isles helmed by Strictly Come Dancing winner Hamza Yassin and one-off movie Expedition Killer Whale.
Phillips mentioned the BBC stays eager to take dangers within the trendy period, mentioning that “we don’t have business day-to-day pressures,” whereas acknowledging a poor current license payment settlement and inflation available in the market.
Phillips was talking on the Inventive Cities Conference together with the likes of Netflix UK boss Anne Mensah, Channel 4’s Alex Mahon and the forged of The Outlaws.