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Producing Team Behind Tom Hanks Wildlife Docuseries ‘The Americas’ Tease ‘The Biggest Trees, Deepest Canyons and A-List Animals’


NBC Universal and BBC Studios' wildlife series 'The Americas,' narrated by Tom Hanks, promises sweeping vistas and 'A-list animals.'

“We were collectively starting to internally discuss whether this is a genre we wanted to enter,” Gorman recalls during a panel previewing the series at MIP TV in Cannes. When Mike Gunton, creative director of BBC Studios Factual, happened to knock on Gorman’s door, it felt like “kismet.” Gunton was proposing a “full job” on one of the few areas of the planet that had never been fully explored on film: the North and South American continents.

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