MUMBAI: Factual entertainment network, Discovery Channel will launch ?Frozen Planet?, a series that will take viewers through the Earth?s polar regions. The show is a co-production between Discovery and UK pubcaster The BBC.

The series will air every Monday to Friday at 8 pm from 6 May. Narrated by naturalist Sir David Attenborough and featuring wildlife cinematography, the show has taken new technology to the most extreme and remote parts of the planet, capturing imagery above and below the ice.

Discovery South Asia senior VP and GM Rahul Johri said, "Frozen Planet is one of those captivating series which will showcase the splendour of the most intriguing and extreme places on our planet - the polar region. Viewers will be inspired by the breathtaking landscapes and will realise the efforts that go behind capturing such amazing moments."

The show will take viewers through polar landscapes, which most humans will never get to experience. This series brings to the screen the frozen habitat of the polar region for what could be the last time before global warming changes them forever.

The series will take viewers on a ride from deep under the frozen seas to a world of erupting polar volcanoes. It will travel to the South Pole across the Antarctic icecap - the largest concentration of ice on our planet. The programme retraces the steps of how life evolved under trying circumstances and is surviving against all odds.The show is sponsored by amul, samsung, nerolac and pulsar.

MUMBAI: The documentary team behind ?Planet Earth? and the co-production partners of ?Life? will present ?Frozen Planet? in March 2012 on Discovery Channel in the US. The series will be narrated by actor Alec Baldwin.

Discovery Channel, TLC group president Eileen O?Neill said, "Discovery Channel is very excited to have someone as passionate and talented as Alec Baldwin to lend his voice to such an important landmark television event."

A Discovery Channel/BBC co-production four years in the making, the show aims to provide the ultimate portrait of earth?s polar regions, where the scale and beauty of the scenery and sheer power of the natural elements are unlike anywhere else on the planet. The show will reveal a world filled with creatures, variety, colour and spectacle including the birth of an iceberg bigger than the largest building on earth, a caterpillar with antifreeze in its veins, the greatest concentration of sea birds on the planet, and tiny baby polar bears, who at birth are 25 per cent smaller than human babies. Never-before-filmed sequences will include the growth of a saltwater icicle (brinicle) that freezes everything it touches and orca whales working as a team to create killer waves that wash seals off ice floes.

To capture nature?s majestic power - as well as its ultimate fragility the filmmakers utilised the latest cinematographic techniques and technology to capture groundbreaking imagery both above and below the ice in some of the most extreme and remote regions of our planet. Combined, the team filmed in every nation inside the Arctic and Antarctic circles during a record 2,356 days in the field, 1 1/2 years at sea, more than 6 months on the sea ice and 134 hours beneath that ice, filming in the polar oceans.

MUMBAI: BBC Worldwide has sold natural history epic ?Frozen Planet? to 12 international broadcasters.

The landmark series, produced by Alastair Fothergill at the BBC?s Natural History Unit and narrated by naturalist Sir David Attenborough, has been acquired by Australia (Nine Network), Japan (NHK), Belgium (VRT), Finland (YLE), South Africa (BBC Knowledge), New Zealand (TVNZ), Netherlands (NPO), Italy (RAI), Denmark (DR), Norway (NRK), Russia (Channel 1) and Sweden (SVT) and will be on offer to buyers at next week?s television trade event Mipcom in Cannes, France.

BBC Worldwide Sales and Distribution president, MD Steve Macallister said, "BBC Worldwide has a long history of bringing to market the most captivating, and spectacular natural history series in the world. Frozen Planet, the latest offering from BBC Earth is nothing short of phenomenal and it?s no surprise to me that so many broadcasters have snapped it up before it has even gone to air."

Joining Frozen Planet on the natural history slate at Micpom is another series, ?Great Barrier Reef?. From the producer behind ?Wild China? and ?Planet Earth?, the series offers a definitive guide to the Australian reef, investigating how the reef was created, how it works, the intricate relationships between its inhabitants and how climate change and other factors might shape its future.

?John Downer?s Earthflight? will also wing its way to Cannes. More than three years in the making, the series shows viewers astonishing aerial images of the world as seen by migrating birds. In addition, inquisitive natural history series How Life Works uses cutting-edge technology to discover the secrets of our most crucial habitats and reveal why they are so special.

In science, Planet Dinosaur presents a brand-new global perspective on the prehistoric era. Using unique hi-tech graphics to bring to life the most awesome and amazing creatures that ever lived, the series is a completely immersive visual experience studded with curious facts and jaw-dropping action from the charismatic monsters.

Also fresh are ?How Plants Made Us?, a series offering a perspective on Earth history and ?Origins of Us?, which explores the anatomical changes that have given us, and our ancestors, the edge.