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Airdate: Australia Remastered

Natural history series draws upon 16mm & 35mm footage from ABC archives, narrated by Aaron Pedersen.

ABC has dug deep into its vaults for natural history footage which it has digitally remastered for Australia Remastered, a 15 part series now narrated by Aaron Pedersen.

Exploring the country’s iconic wildlife, unique landscapes and great oceans the one hour series will screen Sunday nights at 6pm.

The series draws upon 16mm and 35mm archive footage, which has been digitally remastered and produced by WildBear Entertainment.

Across 15 weeks, Pedersen, a proud Arrenente and Arabana man, explores everything from orca pods and wombat kingdoms, to the epic seasons of Kakadu and the rugged beauty of Australia’s arid Red Centre, plus the vast aquatic wildernesses of the Indian, Pacific and Southern Oceans. Offering insights into the stories of the land and the animals that live there, rare footage is deftly woven together with the latest scientific research, shining a new light on Australia’s remarkable natural world.

Over 15 hour-long episodes, Australia Remastered focuses on the country’s wildlife, landscape and its coastlines:

Australia Remastered: Wild Australians explores the lives of iconic Australian animals, including kangaroos, platypuses, echidnas, wombats, parrots, orcas and reptiles.

Australia Remastered: National Treasures showcases places of ecological significance and natural beauty, including the Northern Territory’s Kakadu National Park, with its extreme wet and harsh dry seasons; Australia’s distinctive Red Centre; the pristine southern island of Tasmania; the Australian Alps, the country’s highest mountain range; and the ancient Daintree rainforests that sit alongside the largest living structure visible from space, the Great Barrier Reef.

Australia Remastered: Oceans looks at the three great bodies of water that surround the country, the Indian, the Pacific and the Southern Oceans, and their diverse aquatic creatures. As environmental changes heat the globe, life is changing for everything beneath the waves and along the coasts.

Australia Remastered is an astonishing and timely reminder of the immense value of Australia’s wild heritage. Grab the family and join the ABC in celebrating our beautiful country on Sunday nights at 6pm.

Produced by WildBear Entertainment in association with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. ABC Commercial holds worldwide distribution rights.

6pm Sundays from August 30 on ABC.

Australia Remastered: Wild Australians
Kangaroo Tales – 30 August
Parrot Paradise – 6 September
Platypus and Echidna – 13 September
Wombat Kingdom – 20 September
Reptile Realm – 27 September
Orca – 4 October

Australia Remastered: National Treasures
Wild Alps – 11 October
Kakadu – 18 October
Red Centre – 25 October
Ancient Forests – 1 November
Great Barrier Reef – 8 November
Tasmania – 15 November

Australia Remastered: Oceans
Wild Indian Ocean – 22 November
Wild Pacific Ocean – 29 November
Wild Southern Ocean – 6 December

5 Responses

  1. What a wasted effort and an utter travesty that they’re cropping most (if not all) of the restored footage to 16:9 (judging by the abundance of tightly framed shots in the trailer). There’s no way that the photographers at the time would have shot these with so little breathing space. Hell, there’s hardly enough room for the animals to fit in many of the shots because the geniuses want to arbitrarily fill widescreen TVs to the detriment of the integrity of the footage.

    I was initially quite excited, but anything in this country claiming to be “remastered” always arouses skepticism, and in cases like these, quite rightfully so. I can’t help but wonder what could have been had this project been in better hands.

    1. With that said, if they have only cropped the footage for promotional purposes, then that’s fine, and I would love to be proven wrong about my previous comment, but alas, I am not optimistic.

    2. You took the words right out of my mouth ,I for one will not watch shows that have been altered to fill widescreen televisions ,it ruins the image and destroys the original integrity.

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