2009 marks both the bicentenary of Charles Darwin's birth and the 150th anniversary of the publication of his book On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection. To mark the occasion, Life aims to show to the diversity of the natural world and unusual animal behaviour which has enabled species to survive. Sequences filmed include flocking red knots and horseshoe crabs in Delaware Bay, USA, cheetah in northern Kenya collaborating to hunt an unusual prey species - ostrich and a group of twenty Komodo dragons attacking a buffalo at a watering hole on the island of Rinca, Indonesia. Eagles and reindeer were also filmed in the Kasivarsi Wilderness Area in Finnish Lapland.

Life is the latest wildlife epic from the BBCs award-winning Natural History Unit. It has the revelation, cinematic style, sense of place and emotionally involving individual sequences that that were the hallmark of The Blue Planet and Planet Earth, with all the scope, detail and content of an Attenborough epic, and the addition of close-up, intensely dramatic new behaviours all captured by the worlds top wildlife photographers with the aid of the most cutting-edge and sophisticated filming techniques. This ten-part natural history blockbuster, shot in HD, is the definitive exploration of the diversity of life on Earth, revealing the most spectacular and fascinating behaviour driven by the endless struggle to survive. Life stars a cast of 'box-office' wildlife characters, filmed on every continent and in every habitat across the world, with each drama-filled episode entirely dedicated to one of the planet's ten most important wildlife groups. The series has the revelation, sense of place, cinematic style and emotionally involving individual sequences perfected in programmes such as The Blue Planet and Planet Earth, but with the addition of close-up, intensely dramatic new behaviour - where the animals are the stars.

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