Blue Ant Media’s wildlife and nature brand Love Nature announced Monday it has greenlit a new three-part series exploring the wonder and resilience of wildlife along the northern coastlines of North America.
Filming across North America’s Pacific, Atlantic and Arctic coasts, Life on the Edge is produced by award-winning U.K-based production company Passion Planet with Vancouver-based River Road Films in collaboration with PBS, ARTE France and CBC.
The series “takes viewers to the meeting points of land and sea, where dramatic wildlife spectacles unfold along the world’s largest coastal rainforest, icy tundra, and rugged shorelines,” reads a Blue Ant Media press release.
Showcasing extraordinary gatherings of wildlife and the surprising ways species are adapting to a rapidly changing climate, Life on the Edge will feature species such as bald eagles, black bears, garter snakes, humpback whales, polar bears, narwhals, grey seals and black tip sharks.
“Life on the Edge weaves together scientific discoveries and intimate animal behavior to reveal how ecosystems, including both the people and wildlife within them, are responding to changes in climate with resilience,” the press release says. “Additionally, the perspectives of Indigenous communities will play a central role in deepening the narrative of humans and nature thriving together at these environmental frontiers.”
“This series embodies what Love Nature does best, bringing audiences into the heart of wild places with powerful storytelling and stunning visuals,” Alison Barrat, senior vice president and head of content at Love Nature, said in the press release. “Life on the Edge features stories of animals adapting to climate change on the wild North American coasts, living their lives at a pivotal moment in time as their habitats transform in ways they never experienced before.”
“With this series, we’ve been able to tell new and incredible wildlife and nature stories in details that have rarely, if ever, been seen before, which is a great achievement in the natural history space,” said Jeff Turner, executive producer at River Road Films.
“It has been an absolute privilege to immerse ourselves in incredible stories that link an entire continent,” said David Allen, managing director of Passion Planet. “In a changing world, the great wildlife spectacles of North America are rewriting our understanding of both the fragility and the resilience of nature.”
Life on the Edge will premiere in the U.S. on PBS and globally on Love Nature in 2026. It will also air on ARTE in France and on CBC in Canada on the public broadcaster’s The Nature of Things under the banner Wild Canadian Waters. In addition, the series will air on Sky Nature in the U.K., Italy and Germany as part of Love Nature and Sky’s expanded content partnership. Blue Ant Studios oversees pre-sales and licensing outside of commissioning territories.
The series is produced by David Allen and Oliver Twinch at Passion Planet and Jeff Turner at River Road Films. James Manfull is executive producer on behalf of Love Nature. For CBC, Sally Catto is general manager of entertainment, factual and sports, Jennifer Dettman is executive director of unscripted content, Sandra Kleinfeld is senior director of documentary, and Lesley Birchard and Sue Dando are executives in charge of production for CBC Docs and The Nature of Things.
Photo courtesy of Blue Ant Media. Photo credit: Joanna Steidle.
