NHK is happy to announce that NHK’s “Deep Ocean: Kingdom of the Coelacanth” was selected as the winner of the Content Creation category at the IBC Innovation Awards 2025. The program was filmed using 8K HDR and 22.2 multichannel surround sound. It is a co-production between NHK, ZDF/ARTE, OceanX and also technically supported by GOTO Aquatics, SGO, Restar. The IBC Innovation Awards recognizes the best in collaborative efforts to develop new solutions to real-world technical challenges and to … [Read more...] about NHK’s Coelacanth Program Wins IBC Innovation Award 2025
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WildBear Entertainment announces ZDF Arte as its co-production partner on new History title Fatal Conflicts
WildBear Entertainment, one of Australia’s leading producers of factual programming, has announced that ZDF Arte has boarded its latest history series, Fatal Conflicts, as co-producer and that ZDF Studios has acquired the international distribution rights. The deal between WildBear and ZDF was brokered by WildBear’s international agent, Edwina Thring of Wild Thring Media. Fatal Conflicts (2x90’ / 4x60’) is a high-end, repeatable series that explores two cataclysmic wars, both turning … [Read more...] about WildBear Entertainment announces ZDF Arte as its co-production partner on new History title Fatal Conflicts
NHK’s Coelacanth Doc Goes to the BBC and Taiwan PTS
NHK and NHK Enterprises have announced that the BBC and PTS, the Taiwanese public broadcaster, have acquired NHK’s doc “Deep Ocean: Kingdom of the Coelacanth,” co-produced with ZDF/ARTE and OceanX in collaboration with CMMAI. The doc is known for its success in conducting a 72-hour consecutive observation filming expedition, and for succeeding in capturing, in 8K, the world’s first-ever video images of a group of coelacanths and their behavior indicative of reproduction. Deep Ocean: Kingdom … [Read more...] about NHK’s Coelacanth Doc Goes to the BBC and Taiwan PTS
NHK’s Deep Ocean team succeeds in capturing new behavior of the mysterious deep sea creature coelacanth
Japan’s public broadcaster NHK and its production affiliate NHK Enterprises, Inc., together with ZDF/ARTE and OceanX, conducted a 72-hour consecutive observation filming expedition, and have succeeded in capturing, in 8K, the world’s first-ever video images of a group of coelacanths and their behavior indicative of reproduction. NHK’s “Deep Ocean” team, which is known for its success in capturing on film the Giant Squid in 2012, has brought us various scoops from the deep sea. This time, teaming … [Read more...] about NHK’s Deep Ocean team succeeds in capturing new behavior of the mysterious deep sea creature coelacanth
