{"id":15881,"date":"2022-05-23T17:34:33","date_gmt":"2022-05-23T15:34:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/?p=1649610"},"modified":"2022-05-23T18:13:11","modified_gmt":"2022-05-23T16:13:11","slug":"prehistoric-planet-team-on-further-seasons-weve-only-touched-the-surface","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/rss_feed\/prehistoric-planet-team-on-further-seasons-weve-only-touched-the-surface\/","title":{"rendered":"Prehistoric Planet team on further seasons: \u201cWe\u2019ve only touched the surface\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

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By Patrick Cremona\n \t\t<\/p>

Published: Monday, 23 May 2022 at 12:00 am<\/p>

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The team behind Apple TV+\u2019s groundbreaking natural history series Prehistoric Planet have revealed they hope to be able to return with future episodes following the first five part-instalment.<\/p>\n

Speaking exclusively to RadioTimes.com<\/a> at the BFI & Radio Times Television Festival,<\/strong> producer Mike Gunton, series producer\/showrunner Tim Walker, and lead scientific consultant Darren Naish all outlined what might lie in store in the future.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think the answer to that is this is a Planet Earth format,\u201d Gunton explained. \u201cThere are five habitats [explored in the first season] and there are a lot more habitats on planet Earth than just five. And there\u2019s this incredibly rich fauna of creatures, we\u2019ve only touched the surface. So read into that.\u201d<\/p>

\u201cI\u2019ll add in as well that like Mike says there\u2019s a lot of different habitats to explore,\u201d Walker added. \u201cPrehistoric Planet as a whole was a big place, you know, and the period of dinosaurs and prehistoric life that we show is a very, very small one \u2013 we only show about 6 million years of the whole evolution period and it extends almost 160 million.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe all desperately want to get in that time machine and go back and see what else is out there,\u201d said Gunton. \u201cSo yeah, we\u2019re gonna do it if we can.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Mike Gunton and Tim Walker at the BFI IMAX for Prehistoric Planet screening.<\/span><\/figcaption> David M. Benett\/Getty Images for Apple<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n

Asked if there was anything particular \u2013 in terms of species or specific time periods \u2013 that he\u2019d like to see in future seasons, Naish said it was hard to single anything out.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s so many,\u201d he said. \u201cI mean, my comments will echo what my colleagues have said, even for specific species we\u2019ve probably only shown a tiny portion of their lives.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve shown the T-Rex doing two or three things, and it did so many other things in its life. And then there are all these other species. So even just for the Maastrichtian, just for that last 6 million years of the late Cretaceous, we\u2019ve scratched the surface.\u201d<\/p>\n

Our panel, Executive Producer Mike Gunton, Producer Tim Walker and Lead Scientific Consultant Darren Naish, answer all the audience\u2019s dinosaur-related questions. #TVFest<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/wAwFLzFu9Y<\/a><\/p>\u2014 Radio Times (@RadioTimes) May 20, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote>