BBC releases Frozen Planet II first-look trailer

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28 Aug 2022, 13:58

It features music from Camila Cabello and Hans Zimmer.

You know what this often very miserable year needs? It needs a new David Attenborough documentary.

But wait, almost as if they read our minds, BBC One has now released a first-look trailer for the long-awaited Frozen Planet II. The original, which focused on life and the environment in both the Arctic and Antarctic, aired way back in 2011.

It's said that the follow up series will show new areas of life and new changes to habitats since that time. Cuban born popstar Camila Cabello and Hans Zimmer will provide the score.

Zimmer's music and Cabello's vocals for 'Take Me Back Home' - which you can hear below - is the first original song ever to be recorded for a BBC natural history documentary. It was performed live on last night's Earth Prom, part of the BBC Proms at the Royal Albert Hall.

Ooooh. Tigers!

Soundtrack legend Zimmer, who has composed the song with his regular collaborators arranger Anže Rozman and producer Russell Emanuel for Bleeding Fingers Music, composed the BAFTA-nominated score to Planet Earth II, and critically-acclaimed music for Blue Planet II.

He also did Gladiator, Inception and Dune. But you know that...

The new series features footage from the BBC Studios Natural History Unit's expeditions to all the Earth’s frozen frontiers - the Arctic, Antarctic, Tundra, Boreal Forest and the High Mountains. Not the Virgin Radio studios, mind. Oh no. They're absolutely roasting.

Earlier this year Sir David Attenborough was given the rare honour of a second knighthood, the Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael And St George, in recognition of his wildlife documentaries and his work to raise awareness about climate change and its effects.

While the 96-year-old still narrates programmes, he recently admitted he is unlikely to travel to distant locations to film for much longer as he does not enjoy flying.

“It’s probably a fact of age," he said, "but I was finding my heart was sinking deeper and deeper into my boots every time I walked up into an aircraft and looked down that long line and thought, ‘I’m going to be here for another 24 hours.’"

Sir sir David, you could narrate documentaries about the wildlife in your kitchen and we'd be happy!

'Frozen Planet II' will air on the BBC later this year.