“We Talked About Who Is The American Version Of David Attenborough”: Inside NBC Wildlife Series ‘The Americas’

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“We Talked About Who Is The American Version Of David Attenborough”: Inside NBC Wildlife Series ‘The Americas’

Execs on NBC’s The Americas were seeking “the American version of David Attenborough” when booking Tom Hanks for the upcoming epic wildlife series. Mike Gunton, a storied natural history exec who has worked on the likes of Planet Earth and Dynasties, said he had “written down who I wanted to do the music and who I wanted to be the narrator” when embarking on making the show nearly five years ago, and had scribbled “‘Tom Hanks?’.” “That’s wh…