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BBC unearths dinosaur series in Canada The BBC and Discovery are onboard an ambitious new Canadian kids television series that promises to bring some Walking With Dinosaurs-style computer wizardry to the tween audience.  In production in Alberta, Canada until the end of July, DinoSapien (15x30', right) will air on BBC Kids in Canada and Discovery Kids in the US in March 2007, and on the CBBC digital channel in the UK in May 2007.The CGI/live-action series is being coproduced by Ontario's CCI Entertainment, UK distributor BBC Worldwide and Calgary-based Alberta Filmworks, with finance also coming from several Canadian production funds and tax credit schemes. The show tells the story of a 15-year-old girl, played by Brittney Wilson from Nickelodeon's Romeo!, whose father mysteriously disappears on a fossil-hunting expedition in the badlands of Alberta. With her friends, played by Mackenzie Porter, Bronson Pelletier, Jeffrey Watson and Suzanna Hamilton and a friendly dinosaurette called Eno, she heads off to solve the riddle. James Coombes also stars. Behind the cameras, the show reunites producers Jim Corston of CCI and Rick Siggelkow of BBC Worldwide, who have joined forces on numerous children's programmes over the past decade, including Ace Lightning, Noddy and Shining Time Station. Corston described the new project as "ambitious," adding that it will attempt to "combine the sophistication of high-end CGI with great storytelling. Because we are shooting in HD, it will really accentuate the exotic Alberta environment." Siggelkow added that the show's premise, ie dinosaurs having evolved into intelligent creatures in parallel with humans, was "scientifically accurate" and "tells us as much about the dinosaurs as it does about the kids who encounter them." DinoSapien is also being produced by Alberta Filmworks' Tom Cox and Jordy Randall. Ed Waller 17 Jul 2006 © C21 Media 2006 
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