The animal history documentary series Prehistoric Planet returns today on Apple TV with a new Ice Age installment. If you aren’t a subscriber, now is a great time with a 50% off Black Friday deal available right now.
With the series hailing from the makers of the recent live action Lion King remake, Prehistoric Planet uses the latest CGI techniques to depict photorealistic sequences of long-extinct creatures …
The show is cleverly presented as if these beasts are still roaming the Earth today, in the style of a modern-day nature docuseries. It is fittingly produced by the BBC Studios Natural History Unit.
The current Ice Age is technically referred to as the Pleistocene era, which the series depicts using cutting-edge rendering technology backed by the latest in scientific understanding. It follows species as they try and survive in the punishingly-cold climates, as well as portray what might have happened during ‘The Big Melt’.
The original Prehistoric Planet season was narrated by David Attenborough. The new Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age is narrated by Tom Hiddleston, who also was the voice of Apple’s nature docuseries Earthsounds. The Prehistoric Planet musical score is by Hanz Zimmer.
All five of the new Ice Age episodes are available to stream right now, featuring mammoths, saber-toothed tigers, elephant birds, ancient relatives of the kangaroo, and much more.
How to watch Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age
You can watch Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age with an Apple TV subscription. Normally priced at $12.99 per month, the service is running a ‘$5.99 for six months offer’ right now for new sign-ups.
Watch using the Apple TV app on your device of choice, including iPhone, Android, Roku, Amazon Fire Stick, PlayStation, Xbox and more. You can also watch in a web browser at tv.apple.com.
Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age is presented simply as the third season of Prehistoric Planet, so in the TV app, search for Prehistoric Planet and then scroll across to season three to find the five new episodes.
If you use the appropriate version of the TV app on a compatible TV set, you can enjoy the show in 4K HDR quality with Dolby Vision and Dolby Atmos audio.
Also streaming today on Apple TV
For the Thanksgiving holiday, Apple has moved up all new episodes of its other ongoing series this week to Wednesday.
That means there are new episodes of Pluribus, The Last Frontier, Loot, Palm Royale, and Down Cemetery Road to enjoy, as well as the final season of children’s animated series WondLa.
(If you enjoy nature content like Prehistoric Planet, there’s a bunch of high production value animal docuseries already on Apple TV, and Born to be Wild joins the roster next month.)
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