• BBC and PBS have revived Walking with Dinosaurs for a 2025 version of the iconic documentary series.
• Six new episodes of the show will be aired, following new dinosaurs with cutting edge science and CGI.
• The show will start streaming on Youth Day, 16th June 2025, and we’re hoping to see it on Showmax but time will tell.

The series that series that revolutionized paleontology in popular culture and introduced millions to the world of dinosaurs is getting a revival thanks to original producers BBC and America’s PBS, with the first trailer released on Thursday evening.

More than a quarter century since the debut of Walking with Dinosaurs in 1999, this latest American-British collaboration will again take us back in time to when dinosaurs ruled the Earth across six episode, starting on 16th June 2025.

You can watch the trailer in the video below:

Unlike the original series that was a combination of practical effects and cutting-edge CGI (for its time), this turn of the series will be entirely done in CGI, similar to Apple TV’s Dinosaur Planet. Narratively, the series will also be changing.

In the original, each episode took place during a certain prehistoric time period and followed a group of dinosaurs, written and shot like an actual documentary, as if cameras were taken 60 million years back in time. This time will be a little different.

“Each episode of WALKING WITH DINOSAURS 2025 will tell the dramatic story of an individual dinosaur whose remains are currently being unearthed by the world’s leading dinosaur hunters,” PBS writes in a press release.

“Thanks to cutting-edge science, experts can reveal how these prehistoric creatures lived, hunted, fought, and died more accurately than ever before. As the dinosaur’s bones emerge from the ground, the series will bring these prehistoric stories to life with state-of-the-art visual effects — making each episode a gripping dinosaur drama based on the very latest evidence.”

While it doesn’t look as good as the practical effects of the original nor the CGI in Dinosaur Planet, we hope that the series still manages to do the original justice. The dinosaurs at least look scientifically accurate to the latest information, at least from what we saw in the trailer.

“We are incredibly excited to be bringing Walking With Dinosaurs to a whole new generation of audiences around the world,” said Andrew Cohen, Executive Producer, BBC Studios Science Unit.

“Brought to life with the very latest cutting-edge science, world class VFX and the world’s best science storytellers, this is the ultimate dinosaur show,” Cohen boasted.

In terms of dinosaurs in the series, one of the biggest highlights is footage of a Spinosaurus and its family which takes place in prehistoric Morocco. This is the first time the Spinosaurus is being featured in a major documentary.

A far-cry from the bloodthirsty monster portrayed in Jurassic Park 3, the massive fish-eater is infamously a difficult spot for paleontologists as very little fossil evidence of the species has ever been found, meaning that a lot of what we know about it comes from conjecture and from fossils of similar species found elsewhere.

We also see the return of the T. rex, because no dinosaur show would be complete without it, as well as some feathered dromeosaurs, triceratops, pterodactyls, unique-looking sauropods and more. The series will now be narrated by actor Bertie Carvel, replacing Kenneth Branagh who did an amazing job with the original.

According to PBS, the 2025 version of Walking with Dinosaurs will be available to stream on all station-branded PBS platforms including PBS.org and the PBS App, available on iOS, Android, Roku streaming devices, Apple TV, Android TV, Amazon Fire TV, Samsung Smart TV, Chromecast and VIZIO

South Africa’s don’t have access to the PBS app without a VPN, so here’s hoping it comes to Showmax like other BBC series.