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EXCLUSIVE: Secret Garden, nan David Attenborough-fronted earthy history bid that precocious rated large connected nan BBC, is being sounded into nan U.S. arsenic a format.
Plimsoll Productions is taking nan different measurement of shopping a earthy history programme to networks and streamers arsenic a format aft Secret Garden securing a 30% prime-time assemblage stock and becoming nan biggest unscripted motorboat successful nan UK this year. The show is besides nan biggest-rating original British format motorboat successful nan past 5 years.
Natural history shows are almost ever sold arsenic vanished tapes owed to their filming costs and logistical challenges, but nan contained quality of Secret Garden intends a different attack could beryllium taken. Plimsoll makes nan show for UK nationalist broadcaster nan BBC, but owns nan underlying authorities acknowledgment to Britain’s TV position of waste and acquisition regulations.
The five-part bid launched connected BBC One connected April 5 and ran until May 3, conscionable 5 days earlier Attenborough celebrated his 100th birthday. His centenary was marked by tributes from crossed nan UK and beyond and a number of broadcasts, including David Attenborough’s 100 Years connected Planet Earth.
The bid was group successful 5 different gardens crossed nan UK, pinch broadcaster and naturalist Attenborough revealing nan lives of nan secretive animals that inhabit nan hidden worlds wrong them. The U.S. type will purpose to bring viewers into American backyards, from nan heartlands to nan Rockies and to metropolis skylines, we hear.
Grant Mansfield, CEO of Plimsoll, said: “Secret Garden has been nan breakout caller unscripted format deed connected UK TV successful 2026, attracting an assemblage stock of 30%+, retaining assemblage passim nan bid and doubling its assemblage measurement connected 28-day integer views. We’re excited to bring this magical, uplifting and revealing family show to nan States wherever plot secrets are moreover much astonishing and a full batch bigger.”
Plimsoll is simply a earthy history master done shows specified arsenic Disney+’s Awakwafina-narrated A Real Bug’s Life and ITV’s Stephen Fry-fronted A Year connected Planet Earth. It besides made headlines past twelvemonth done Netflix’s arena program Skyscraper Live, which attracted 22 cardinal viewers worldwide and 1 cardinal societal media impressions.
Rolling retired soon are Pompeii Out of Time pinch Tom Hiddleston for Disney+ and Force of Nature for ITV.
