Although there are plenty of superheroes inspired by animals—e.g. the Tick, Ant-Man, some other ones that aren’t bugs—the kangaroo has, at least for the most part, been left out. And that’s really a ...

Phil Dalton, Huw Williams and Matt Gordon of John Downer Productions answered NATURE’s questions about the best moments of creating NATURE’s recent miniseries, Spy in the Wild 2. From the funniest to ...

Barry Walsh is editor-in-chief and content director for , and has served as editor of the publication since 2009. With a career in entertainment media that spans two decades, prior to , he held the ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. John Downer Productions created more than 50 realistic animatronic spy ...

An animatronic “hummingbird” equipped with a camera has been used to film a sea of monarch butterflies taking flight in their wintering grounds in Mexico. The “spy creature” technology is the latest ...

If you were captivated by the recent hyper-visual CG-laden The Lion King, then the Discovery Channel‘s upcoming Serengeti will make your jaw hit the floor — because it is real life. With the series ...

Anyone who remembers the Futurama episode “Birdbot of Ice-Catraz” knows that having a penguin-like robot hang out with penguins can be dicey. But because this is real life (and Bender wasn’t involved) ...

“Spy Bear” at a river with a grizzly bear in background, from the PBS NATURE series “Spy in the Wild.” John Downer Productions PBS Riverdale (8 p.m., The CW) - Jughead works on a twisted tale about ...

Weird Nature is a 2002 documentary television series produced by John Downer Productions for the BBC and Discovery Channel. The series features strange behavior in nature—specifically, the animal ...

This photo provided by Frederique Olivier/John Downer Productions shows a remote-controlled roving camera camouflaged as a penguin chick in Adelie Land, Antarctica. The device is so convincing that ...