Hostile Planet: Story, Cast and Series Facts

Story and premise

Hostile Planet is a ground-breaking wildlife series that explores Earth's most hostile environments. Over the course of six episodes, we explore the extremes of deep, high, cold, hot, wet and dry and reveal the truly extraordinary ways in which animals have adapted to survive in the face of great adversity. It's always been a hostile planet and yet, in the last 40 years, it's got a whole lot tougher for the wildlife. The world has changed more in the last 40 years than at any time in the last 65 million. So animals in the most hostile places on Earth must adapt in the blink of an evolutionary eye. Facing everything from intrinsically hostile habitats and brutally punishing weather to the unrelenting threat of predators and intense competition for resources, their challenge is simple: adapt or die.

Series details

• Title: Hostile Planet
• Format: Documentary
• Language: English
• Genres: Nature
• Premiere date: 2019-04-01
• Final broadcast date listed: 2019-05-06
• Status in TVmaze: Ended
• Network listed by TVmaze: National Geographic
• Network country: United States
• Typical episode runtime: 60 minutes
• TVmaze community rating: 7.3/10
• TVMaze ID: 36326
• IMDb ID: tt8390274
• TVDB ID: 361385

Cast and credited roles

• Bear Grylls — Host

Seasons in the TVmaze catalogue

• Season 1: premiered 2019-04-01; final listed air date 2019-05-06; episode order: 6.

Source and licence

Adapted from Hostile Planet 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.