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Some fin-tastic news for Anthony Mackie: he can now add "Daytime Emmy nominee" to his résumé.

The blockbuster actor, who has starred in several Marvel films, most recently as the title character in Captain America: Brave New World, as well as Best Picture Oscar winner The Hurt Locker, earned his first career Daytime Emmy nomination on Thursday for Shark Beach With Anthony Mackie: Gulf Coast. His specific category, Best Personality (Non-Daily), was only created last year, and specifically honors "hosts, cohosts, anchors, correspondents, and narrators on Daytime eligible content that airs or streams weekly or all at once, and/or has fewer than 52 episodes per calendar year."

Mackie will compete against David Attenborough for Secret Lives of Orangutans; Brad Bestelink for Living With Leopards; Andi Sweeney Blanco, Courtney Dober, Rob North, and Kirin Stone for The Fixers, and Martha Stewart for Martha Gardens.

Mackie was previously on the Primetime...

In the season finale of Big Cats 24/7, the team’s remarkable journey in the Okavango Delta comes to an end. Brad Bestelink observes Xudum, a leopard fighting to protect her newborn cubs. Anna Dimitriadis discovers a courageous cheetah thriving in the heart of lion territory, an unusual and dangerous setting for this solitary cat. Meanwhile, […]

Big Cats 24/7: Season Finale...

Summer doesn’t officially begin until June 20, 2024, but for the entertainment industry, the summer season starts in early May. In fact, as far as the Netflix streaming service is concerned, summer this year starts on May 3rd, so they have just unveiled their full 2024 Summer Movie slate! As they put it, “Summertime: The living is easy, school’s (almost) out, and the days are growing longer and hotter — which means there’s plenty of space for cool nights spent on the couch. Curl up with family, pals, or a really big bowl of popcorn, and queue up your next Netflix obsession.” Here’s what they’ll have to offer over the next few months:

May 3

Unfrosted

Genre: Comedy

Synopsis: Michigan, 1963. Kellogg’s and Post, sworn cereal rivals, race to create a pastry that will change the face of breakfast. A tale of ambition, betrayal, sugar, and menacing milkmen, Unfrosted stars...

"The first two years are incredibly dangerous... I had no idea where this story was going to go, but I knew by following this family I would open a window into a leopard's world that nobody has ever seen." Netflix has revealed a beautiful trailer for Living with Leopards, a fascinating nature doc about a leopard family living in Africa. An ambitious film crew follows the lives of two leopard cubs as they make the fascinating journey from infancy into adulthood in this up-close-and-personal nature documentary. Narrated by world-renowned wildlife cinematographer Brad Bestelink, who tells his own story about how he embedded in the outdoors to photograph this journey and follow these cubs. Whoa - this is an immensely fascinating trailer! Starts with this long, adorable sequence with the cubs. Then breaks out into this song ("Feet Don't Fail Me Now" by Joy Crookes) with stunning shots blending into each other.

"It's the bonds within the pride, the pack, and the herd, that allow each member to succeed." Netflix has debuted an official trailer for another nature documentary titled Surviving Paradise: A Family Tale, all about the animals of the Okavango Delta. The delta is a vast oasis, isolated from the rest of the world by unforgiving desert, found in Botswana in the middle of Africa (check Google Maps). Big cats may appear to reign here, but in reality, the fate of every creature, great and small, is intertwined. This film explores the blueprints for building the perfect world, managing it sustainably, and maintaining it – despite extremes of drought, famine, and flood. Most crucially, the film exciting will spotlight those passing the secret formula on to their descendents. Sounds like it's a bit more than just your usual discovery channel film! Featuring cinematography by Brad Bestelink, and narration by Regé-Jean Page.

“Game of Thrones” and “His Dark Materials” actor Lucian Msamati is to narrate wildlife documentary film “Okavango – A Flood of Life” from “River Monsters” producer Icon Films, which has partnered with international producer-distributor Fremantle on global sales.

Originally filmed in full 8K, the documentary special explores Africa’s greatest oasis, the Okavango Delta, and is told through the eyes of the region’s indigenous river people.

Commissioned by Japanese broadcaster Nhk last year, “Okavango – A Flood of Life” sees veteran natural history filmmaker Brad Bestelink and his team at Natural History Film Unit use the latest technology to film a full seasonal cycle on the Delta.

Botswana-born Bestelink has spent most of his life living and working in the Delta. His credits include two-part documentary, “The Flood,” for National Geographic, which was set in the Delta, and “Savage Kingdom”, also for Nat Geo.

Fremantle will be distributing an HD version...

New tech for producers, fresh platforms weighing in and a generation of environmentally conscious viewers have made natural history programming hot. With Oscar-winning filmmakers finding new ways to tell stories, and wildlife TV-friendly 4K TV sets shipping in greater numbers, insiders say we are headed into a golden age of natural history.

“The natural history genre is just booming, when you think about the number of projects announced that are out in the field, and coming to fruition,” says Geoff Daniels, executive vice president, global unscripted entertainment, at National Geographic Channels, and a former general manager of the Nat Geo Wild cable net. “Where the technology is leading us is allowing us to set the bar even higher in terms of cinematic craft and storytelling.”

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Africa’s Okavango Delta will be seen in 8K after Nhk greenlit a feature documentary on the African wildlife oasis.

“Okavango” will be made by Icon Films, the U.K.-based shingle behind Animal Planet hit series “River Monsters,” alongside veteran natural history filmmaker Brad Bestelink’s Botswana-based Natural History Film Unit.

Natural history filmmakers are among the first to experiment with, and embrace, the possibilities offered by 8K . Japanese pubcaster Nhk has also been a keen advocate of the emerging ultra high definition format.

The “Okavango” team will film a seasonal cycle on the delta, using aerial and underwater photography. The final film will be told through the eyes of indigenous river people of the Okavango over 14 months.

“Revealing the epic beauty of both the people and animals of the Okavango is a great subject to be shooting in 8K,” Bestelink said. “It’s a time to see it in its full aesthetic glory.