THE GREEN PLANET RETURNS FOR SECOND SERIES ON BBC ONE

The multi award-winning The Green Planet changed the way we see plants, and now in a major five-part series, The Green Planet II will once again journey into their magical, parallel universe. The series will go further than ever before, exploring the extraordinary, interconnected relationships between plants and their animal neighbours.

Plants support all life on the planet, and every animal, including us, couldn’t survive without them. But it’s the plants that are in charge – both forging wonderfully harmonious relationships, but also using bribery, trickery and deception to get what they want.

Unique, cutting-edge filming technology including hyperlapse and multi axis robotics and 4K mini-drones, will transport the viewer into the plant’s world, showing life from their unique perspective and timescale, and capturing the drama of their dynamic lives.

Scott Alexander, Series Producer says: “For years plants have always been the backdrop to wildlife films but given the chance to put them front of stage and give them they recognition they deserve was one I couldn’t resist. By discovering, and revealing, just how clever, cunning, and devious they can be, and the surprising ways they use animals to get what they want, I hope we can begin to look at plants as individuals with lives full of challenges, struggles and dramas all of their own.”

The Green Planet II, a 5 x 60’ is a BBC Studios Natural History Unit production, co-produced by PBS and the Open University for BBC One and iPlayer and PBS.