London s Natural History Museum to star in new television series
Palaeontologist Dr Susie Maidment, who is one of the experts responsible for the thousands of dinosaur remains at the Museum. Image: The Garden Productions.
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.-Natural History Museum: World of Wonder will air weekly from 7 January 2021 at 8pm on Channel 5 and will be available to view on the video on demand player My5.
Channel 5 Factual Commissioning Editor Lucy Willis commissioned multi-award-winning production company The Garden Productions to make the series.
Lucy says, In this series we go behind the doors of one of the greatest museums in the world. Every year, over five million visitors come to see its incredible collection: from extraordinary dinosaurs to giant whales, rare fossils to space rocks as old as the solar system itself, all looked after by its passionate staff.
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First published 21 December 2020
The Natural History Museum is set to star in a brand-new four-part primetime Channel 5 series next year.
Natural History Museum: World of Wonder, will air weekly from 7th January, 8pm on Channel 5 and will be available to view on the video on demand player My5.
Channel 5 Factual Commissioning Editor Lucy Willis commissioned multi-award-winning production company The Garden Productions (24 Hours in A&E, Mars: One Day on the Red Planet) to make the series.
Lucy says: “In this series we go behind the doors of one of the greatest museums in the world. Every year, over 5 million visitors come to see its incredible collection: from extraordinary dinosaurs to giant whales, rare fossils to space rocks as old as the solar system itself, all looked after by its passionate staff. But visitors see only a fraction of the staggering 80 million items in the collection. Now our cameras have been allowed not just front of house but behind the scenes too, to capt