Public broadcasters BBC (UK) and PBS (US) have teamed up to commission a revival of Walking with Dinosaurs from co-producers BBC Studios, ZDF and France Télévisions. 

This all-new series (six x 60 minutes) is in production now for a 2025 delivery, and will blend live-action recreation footage and interviews with CG animation to introduce viewers to what life was like for these forever-fascinating prehistoric creatures.

The original Walking with Dinosaurs series made a major splash when BBC premiered it in 1999, and was leveraged into a children’s publishing program, a same-name 2013 family feature film and a Walking with Dinosaurs – The Arena Spectacular live stage show. It also went on to spawn a whole Walking with… content franchise at the BBC Studios Science Unit that eventually comprised four series, including Walking with Beasts and Walking with Cavemen. 

There’s a particularly strong global interest in paleontology and dinosaurs at the moment, driven by several recent fossil discoveries and excavation teams currently working at untapped dig sites. The show’s approach of mixing science with storytelling should also give it broad audience appeal, says Jack Bootle, who greenlit the series at the Beeb as head of specialist factual commissioning.