Dinosaur Britain

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Dinosaur Britain
Series title with the shadow of a dinosaur's head
GenreDocumentary
Presented byEllie Harrison and Dean Lomax
Narrated byEllie Harrison
ComposersNainita Desai and Malcolm Laws
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Original languageEnglish
No. of series1
No. of episodes2
Production
Executive producerDan Goldsack
ProducerCaroline Lee
CinematographyTom Pridham
Running time45-46 minutes
Production companyMaverick Television
Original release
NetworkITV
Release31 August (2015-08-31) –
1 September 2015 (2015-09-01)

Dinosaur Britain is a two-part British documentary on ITV telling the story of many of the dinosaurs that once roamed Great Britain, revealing how they hunted, what they ate and how they died from the evidence revealed from their bones. Presenter Ellie Harrison teams up with young paleontologist Dean Lomax in order to depict different species of dinosaurs set to the backdrop of modern Britain.

Episodes[edit]

No.TitleProduced and directed byOriginal air date
1"Episode 1"Gareth Johnson31 August 2015 (2015-08-31)
This episode features Baryonyx depicted wandering the halls of the British Natural History Museum before going fishing in the Thames, along with the very first ever dinosaur to be named, Megalosaurus, as it rampages through the streets of Oxford. It then depicts the large herbivorous Iguanodon feeding among the anchronistic statues of itself at Crystal Palace, and Nuthetes, a relative of the famous Velociraptor, hunting and causing mischief in and around Stonehenge, as well as the armoured Scelidosaurus.
2"Episode 2"Gareth Johnson1 September 2015 (2015-09-01)
In this episode, the duo travels to the Isle of Skye and the Isle of Wight to meet Cetiosaurus and Echinodon. They meet paleontologist Darren Naish, who shows evidence for a fight between two dinosaurs, Mantellisaurus and Neovenator, and they meet Proceratosaurus, an ancestor to T. rex, as well as Dacentrurus. The episode concludes with a recent discovery that has yet to be named (now called Dracoraptor).

External links[edit]

  • [1] ITV press pack