Great Bear Stakeout Airing Soon On BBC And Discovery

Great Bear Stakeout Airing Soon on BBC and Discovery / Post by Chris Morgan

Last summer I was honored to work with an incredible team of people on the creation of GREAT BEAR STAKEOUT. The project took me back to my favorite place on earth, and where we also filmed part of ‘BEARTREK’ and ‘Bears of the Last Frontier’: The Alaska Peninsula. A very special place, and home to around 9000 coastal brown bears (some people call them grizzlies). Here, the bears are thick on the ground, and they offer opportunities to capture their lives on film like never before. Headed by the BBC creators of Planet Earth and Frozen Planet, we were in good hands from the start. In addition to big, traditional natural history cameras, we were also armed with smaller unattended cameras, and high tech equipment that allowed us to really capture angles to help tell the bears’ stories in new and unique ways.

The result is a fascinating look into the daily lives of several bear characters – their trials and tribulations, and the realities of being a bear in this beautiful wilderness setting. I think you’ll be hooked!

I thought you’d enjoy a few pictures from behind the scenes. Please feel free to share this blog with others, and spread the word about bears, and the help that they need worldwide.

Air dates:

In the UK:
Narrated by Billy Connolly
BBC 1: Episode 1, Wednesday April 24th, 9pm – 10pm
BBC 1: Episode 2, Thursday April 25th, 9pm – 10pm

In the USA:
Narrated by John Goodman
Discovery Channel: Sunday, May 12 at 9pm – 11pm

See more Great Bear Stakeout photos here.