02/02/2011
BBC NI Drama Charts End Of Atlantis
The broadcast schedule for a TV drama telling the story of the greatest natural disaster to shake the ancient world that has been produced by the BBC in Belfast has been revealed.
End of A World - Birth of a Legend goes out on BBC One on Sunday, 13 March, at 9 pm while Atlantis, the Evidence - a documentary - will be on BBC Two on Tuesday 15 March, at 7 pm.
NI Executive Producer Ailsa Orr said: "Atlantis will immerse the viewer in a world they've never seen before, in a brand new, exciting way.
"The world of the Minoans and the disaster that wiped them out has been created using visual effects that have, to date, only ever been used in Hollywood movies.
"It offers our audiences a unique viewing experience - the closest they'll ever get to one of the greatest natural disasters of all time," said the producer who is also BBC Northern Ireland's Head of Programmes and was the producer behind Pompeii – The Last Day, Supervolcano, Hannibal and Superstorm.
The new drama looks back to around 1620BC when a gigantic volcano in the Aegean Sea stirred from its 19,000-year slumber.
The eruption tore the island of Thera apart, producing massive tsunamis that flooded the nearby island of Crete, the centre of Europe's first great civilisation - the Minoans.
This apocalyptic event, many experts now believe, provided the inspiration for the legend of Atlantis.
Based on the work of leading scientists, archaeologists and historians, this drama immerses viewers in the exotic world of the Minoans.
Starring Reece Ritchie (The Lovely Bones; Prince Of Persia ) and Stephanie Leonida (Yes; MirrorMask), Atlantis is the first British TV drama to use the virtual backlot production technique of the movie 300.
Incorporating the latest CGI technology, the film brings viewers face to face with one of history's greatest disasters - from the precursory earthquakes through the eruption sequence to the pyroclastic flows and tsunamis.
In a companion documentary on BBC Two, historian Bettany Hughes traces the origins of the Atlantis myth and presents compelling evidence that the Thera eruption inspired Plato's account of Atlantis.
See: Atlantis Rushes To Its Destruction
(BMcC/GK)
End of A World - Birth of a Legend goes out on BBC One on Sunday, 13 March, at 9 pm while Atlantis, the Evidence - a documentary - will be on BBC Two on Tuesday 15 March, at 7 pm.
NI Executive Producer Ailsa Orr said: "Atlantis will immerse the viewer in a world they've never seen before, in a brand new, exciting way.
"The world of the Minoans and the disaster that wiped them out has been created using visual effects that have, to date, only ever been used in Hollywood movies.
"It offers our audiences a unique viewing experience - the closest they'll ever get to one of the greatest natural disasters of all time," said the producer who is also BBC Northern Ireland's Head of Programmes and was the producer behind Pompeii – The Last Day, Supervolcano, Hannibal and Superstorm.
The new drama looks back to around 1620BC when a gigantic volcano in the Aegean Sea stirred from its 19,000-year slumber.
The eruption tore the island of Thera apart, producing massive tsunamis that flooded the nearby island of Crete, the centre of Europe's first great civilisation - the Minoans.
This apocalyptic event, many experts now believe, provided the inspiration for the legend of Atlantis.
Based on the work of leading scientists, archaeologists and historians, this drama immerses viewers in the exotic world of the Minoans.
Starring Reece Ritchie (The Lovely Bones; Prince Of Persia ) and Stephanie Leonida (Yes; MirrorMask), Atlantis is the first British TV drama to use the virtual backlot production technique of the movie 300.
Incorporating the latest CGI technology, the film brings viewers face to face with one of history's greatest disasters - from the precursory earthquakes through the eruption sequence to the pyroclastic flows and tsunamis.
In a companion documentary on BBC Two, historian Bettany Hughes traces the origins of the Atlantis myth and presents compelling evidence that the Thera eruption inspired Plato's account of Atlantis.
See: Atlantis Rushes To Its Destruction
(BMcC/GK)
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