Discovery Family Channel’s Newest Series
Steve Backshall, Wildlife Expert & Host of WEIRD, WILD AND DEADLY
(Washington, DC, Tuesday, April 14, 2015) – From the Arctic to Antarctica, the world is full of incredible and formidable creatures—and Discovery Family Channel’s newest series, WEIRD, WILD AND DEADLY, is on a mission to find them. Led by British adventurer Steve Backshall, this 12×30 series brings viewers along for a globe-spanning journey of a lifetime, traveling over 10,000 miles to find deadly places, deadly adventures and deadly animals. Traversing glaciers, jungles, deserts, mountains and oceans, WEIRD, WILD AND DEADLY will premiere on Wednesday, April 15 at 8:00 p.m. Eastern Time.
A consummate adventurer, Steve has circumnavigated the globe time and again to satiate his passion and curiosity about the wild world. In WEIRD, WILD AND DEADLY, Steve treks down through North, Central and South America to Antarctica, and along the way, encounters some of the world’s most aggressive predators—from great white sharks and belugas, to Mexican freetail bats and red diamond rattlesnakes. Throughout the series, viewers will see Steve facing our most primeval human fears— being hunted by a polar bear in Svalbard; exploring the underbelly of an Antarctic iceberg alongside a predatory leopard seal; and catching dozens of deadly species of snake and crocodile. WEIRD, WILD AND DEADLY also features Steve’s crew in action as they race to capture the action by chasing animals—and experience some heart-pounding escapes.
About Steve Backshall: Wildlife expert and one of TV’s busiest presenters, Steve Backshall is hugely popular with young TV viewers who are both terrified and delighted to watch his encounters with extraordinary and inspiring predators. Steve’s extreme adventures include being part of the BBC’s Lost Land of the Tiger, Lost Land of the Volcano and Lost Land of the Jaguar. He made the first descent into an unexplored sinkhole for BBC One’s Emmy-nominated epic Expedition Borneo, and trekked into the heart of America’s most inhospitable terrain for Discovery’s Expedition Alaska. Closer to home, Steve has presented Britain’s Lost World, Extreme Caving, Inside Out, The Nature of Britain, and The Really Wild Show for CBBC.