Channel 4 is marking Easter with a natural history event that will see a variety of eggs hatch live on air.
Easter Eggs Live is being produced by Windfall Films, the maker of Inside Nature’s Giants and Foxes Live – Wild in the City.
Mark Evans, Jimmy Doherty and amphibian enthusiast Lucy Cooke will front the series of programmes starting on 25 March with 6 x 3-minute live programmes being broadcast daily at 7.55pm. Two 60-minute documentaries will then be shown on Easter Sunday 31 March and Easter Monday 1 April.
The programme will be broadcast from a state of the art studio and feature a mixture of homegrown and exotic eggs, which may include crocodiles, cockroaches, fish, frogs, turtles, termites and sharks.
Powerful scanners and super-sensitive microphones will be used to provide an insight of how animals break into the world. For the first time viewers will be able to listen to eggs for sounds and vibrations.
Viewers will also be to l follow the action at channel4.com/eggs and twitter.com/eastereggslive.
C4 specialist factual commissioner Sara Ramsden ordered the series and said: “As well as being a fascinating series of programmes, Easter Eggs Live is a huge technical challenge, based as it is on 17 live streams of hatching eggs!
As a mad keen observer of animal behaviour I’m so looking forward to being glued to the live streams of a huge range of animals hatching all week. But there is, of course, a classic TV warning to ‘never work with children or animals’, which makes this an exciting - but also slightly nerve-wracking - challenge!”
David Dugan is executive producing and Jamie Lochhead is series producing.
“We’re excited to be working with C4 on this new project which will push the boundaries of natural history programming. Easter Eggs Live will celebrate a remarkable part of the natural world in a major TV and online event.
Our presenters are in for a tough time reacting to eggs hatching at odd moments during the shows. But once they’re watching a creature emerging from its shell, they’ll be as captivated as the rest of us”, said Lochhead.
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