New David Attenborough show’s use of drones and moving cameras creates immersive experience like Adolescence
David Attenborough’s new BBC series Kingdom has broken ground by using elements from TV dramas, such as cliffhangers and drone and moving-camera shots, to immerse viewers “into the action” like the hit Netflix drama Adolescence did.
Since the advent of streaming services, there has been an increase in natural history TV shows thanks to the worldwide appeal of the genre popularised by Attenborough and the renowned BBC Studios natural history unit (NHU).
From Apple TV’s nature adventure series The Wild Ones to the Ryan Reynolds-voiced Underdogs on Disney+ and National Geographic, natural history programmes are big business, but they are having to evolve in a crowded market.
Kingdom follows four families of lions, leopards, wild dogs and hyenas living by a river in Zambia to document, for the first time, how their interactions impact one another after a pack of wild dogs arrive in the territory.
