Mesozoic Mind

Hoo boy, strap in... So on Sunday the 13th, Dinosaur - With Stephen Fry  premiered on the british Channel 5. Remember how I said I was interested in it?  That as the first major palaeo-documentary after Prehistoric Planet and had the rare "Human host back in time and interacts with them" format I love and want to see more, I was hyped and eagerly awaited more after its announcement. But then came the trailer , and all that hype pretty much vanished. Once did premiered however, the Palaeosphere literally flipped on it overnight. Why? Stephen Fry's Dinosaur was not very good. At all. It feels like the monkey's fist flipped me and us all off, a cheap cash in on the success of Prehistoric Planet . The basic premise is that Stephen Fry imagines himself going back in time to interact with dinosaurs. The first episode focuses on the Jurassic period and focusing on both Diplodocus and Allosaurus  and a confrontation between them, before Fry watches the Diplos do other stuff...

 If you haven't heard, two new palaeo-documentaries were announced just a few months ago, right after the success of Prehistorc Planet . While I did miss the initial announcements because I was on vacation, they excite me no less. Surviving Earth https://deadline.com/2022/06/nbc-dinosaur-docuseries-surviving-earth-1235053396/ The bigger announcement is Surviving Earth , an eight-part series intented to be about the many mass extinctions of Earth and how life bounced back. It is notable for two things: the first is that its being created by the legendary Tim Haines, who you may recall also invented the modern palaeo-documentary with a certain 1999 series, as well as the acclaimed exhibition Dinosaurs in their Time . The other is that instead of a streaming service or some cable channel, big network NBC will air it, along with another BBC Natural History Unit documentary. I admit my interested is at the very least not as big as you'd expect. I admit that extinctions are a bit ha...