“Like alien egg sacs”
Free diver and filmmaker Patrick Dykstra goes in search of “some of the world’s most enigmatic creatures” in the Discovery+ documentary series “Chasing Ocean Giants.” Watch an exclusive preview from the series above.
The eight-episode series follows Dykstra as he documents the behavior of whales around the world, “from Arctic Bowheads going head-to-head with killer whales in Russia, to night singing humpbacks in Colombia.”
In the clip from the premiere episode, Dykstra travels to the Caribbean island of Dominica to examine the behavior of sperm whales and encounters a pod of whales taking an eerily vertical “power nap.” According to Dykstra, the reason sperm whales look like “alien egg sacs” while they sleep remains unknown.
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Free diver and filmmaker Patrick Dykstra goes in search of “some of the world’s most enigmatic creatures” in the Discovery+ documentary series “Chasing Ocean Giants.” Watch an exclusive preview from the series above.
The eight-episode series follows Dykstra as he documents the behavior of whales around the world, “from Arctic Bowheads going head-to-head with killer whales in Russia, to night singing humpbacks in Colombia.”
In the clip from the premiere episode, Dykstra travels to the Caribbean island of Dominica to examine the behavior of sperm whales and encounters a pod of whales taking an eerily vertical “power nap.” According to Dykstra, the reason sperm whales look like “alien egg sacs” while they sleep remains unknown.
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- 4/23/2021
- by Reid Nakamura
- The Wrap
ViacomCBS’s Smithsonian Channel has picked up Game Of Thrones star Kristofer Hivju’s living history series Ultimate Viking (working title). Production has begun on the show in the UK and Norway, and it is slated to air in 2021.
The eight-part project was first unveiled at Mipcom last year and is a co-production between two British production companies: I Wanna Marry Harry producer Zig Zag Productions and The 1900 Island producer Wildflame. Hivju’s Tindefilm is also producing.
Cameras will follow ordinary people as they live in a custom built Viking settlement on the Norwegian coast and take part in extraordinary expeditions under harsh Nordic conditions. The clans will compete against each other in a series of authentic and often extreme Viking survival expeditions, challenges, and tasks based on historical facts, literature, and archaeological evidence.
Participants must master axes and swords, learn to forage and fish in Norway’s snow-capped mountains...
The eight-part project was first unveiled at Mipcom last year and is a co-production between two British production companies: I Wanna Marry Harry producer Zig Zag Productions and The 1900 Island producer Wildflame. Hivju’s Tindefilm is also producing.
Cameras will follow ordinary people as they live in a custom built Viking settlement on the Norwegian coast and take part in extraordinary expeditions under harsh Nordic conditions. The clans will compete against each other in a series of authentic and often extreme Viking survival expeditions, challenges, and tasks based on historical facts, literature, and archaeological evidence.
Participants must master axes and swords, learn to forage and fish in Norway’s snow-capped mountains...
- 11/17/2020
- by Jake Kanter
- Deadline Film + TV
Tormund From ‘Game of Thrones’ Is Hosting a TV Competition About Becoming a Real-Life Viking (Video)
Kristofer Hivju, a.k.a. Tormund Giantsbane from “Game of Thrones,” is hosting a Smithsonian Channel competition about becoming a real-life Viking. The hour-long format, working-titled “Ultimate Viking,” has an 8-episode order and Hivju’s wife Gry Molvær Hivju aboard as co-host.
Filming has already begun on the production, which is set in both the UK and Norway. The latter “Ultimate Viking” coastal location comes complete with a “custom Viking settlement being constructed,” according to Smithsonian. The show is set to debut in 2021.
“This ingenious adventure series will feature a diverse cast of modern-day, highly skilled men and women who will be pushed to the extreme as they find out if they have what it takes to live as true Vikings,” the show’s not-too-modest logline reads.
Watch Tormund’s casting call via the video above.
Find more details about the series below.
Each episode is rooted in authentic Viking...
Filming has already begun on the production, which is set in both the UK and Norway. The latter “Ultimate Viking” coastal location comes complete with a “custom Viking settlement being constructed,” according to Smithsonian. The show is set to debut in 2021.
“This ingenious adventure series will feature a diverse cast of modern-day, highly skilled men and women who will be pushed to the extreme as they find out if they have what it takes to live as true Vikings,” the show’s not-too-modest logline reads.
Watch Tormund’s casting call via the video above.
Find more details about the series below.
Each episode is rooted in authentic Viking...
- 11/17/2020
- by Tony Maglio
- The Wrap
A TV crew for Animal Planet's show River Monster was out on the sea filming last November when they came across a man on a largely deserted Australian island. The dramatic moment was captured on camera by the crew and aired on the network last week. "He had said his last prayer," Stephen Shearman, the director of the episode told Inside Edition. "He was prepared to die and meet his maker." According to Shearman, the team was trying to solve the mystery of six men who died in a plane crash near to the Gulf of Carpenaria. But instead, they encountered the man,...
- 4/20/2016
- by Caitlin Keating, @caitkeating
- PEOPLE.com
A TV crew for Animal Planet's show River Monster was out on the sea filming last November when they came across a man on a largely deserted Australian island. The dramatic moment was captured on camera by the crew and aired on the network last week. "He had said his last prayer," Stephen Shearman, the director of the episode told Inside Edition. "He was prepared to die and meet his maker." According to Shearman, the team was trying to solve the mystery of six men who died in a plane crash near to the Gulf of Carpenaria. But instead, they encountered the man,...
- 4/20/2016
- by Caitlin Keating, @caitkeating
- PEOPLE.com
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