Equator: Story, Cast and Series Facts

Story and premise

Simon Reeve travels to paradise beaches, dense rainforests and towering volcanoes on a 40,000 kilometre journey following the invisible line around the world. For most people, the equator is just an imaginary line around the globe but in this series Simon Reeve comes face-to-face with the reality. On a 40,000-kilometre journey, he reveals the equator as a unique region of our planet; home to both the world's greatest concentration of human poverty and natural biodiversity. Beneath the sweltering heat of the equatorial sun lie paradise beaches, strange foods and exotic wildlife, along with some of the world's most extreme terrains: dense rainforests, towering volcanoes and perilous rapids.

Series details

• Title: Equator
• Format: Documentary
• Language: English
• Genres: Nature, Travel
• Premiere date: 2006-08-27
• Final broadcast date listed: 2006-09-17
• Status in TVmaze: Ended
• Network listed by TVmaze: BBC Two
• Network country: United Kingdom
• Typical episode runtime: 60 minutes
• TVMaze ID: 30565
• IMDb ID: tt1773971
• TVDB ID: 82558

Cast and credited roles

• Simon Reeve — Presenter

Seasons in the TVmaze catalogue

• Season 1: premiered 2006-08-27; final listed air date 2006-09-17; episode order: 3.

Source and licence

Adapted from Equator on TVmaze. The synopsis is reproduced as plain text; catalogue facts, cast and season records are selected and reformatted. This adapted text is available under CC BY-SA 4.0, following the TVmaze API licence. Network and web-channel credits identify the service listed in this source; they do not establish current streaming availability.